Texas to Secede from the Union

On November 6, 2012 Barak Obama was re-elected President of the United States.  Many people in this country have very strong opinions on how the government should be run and after the re-election many members of the Republican Party were furious, writing letters and posting online about their opinions.  Some 100,000 Texans however had a different idea on how to respond.

These 100,000 Texans formed a group called the Texas National Movement with the primary goal of Texas seceding from the union.  The group formed an online petition with 125,746 signatures and sent it off to Washington.  Along with that petition, many Texas residents personally sent letters to the White House calling for secession. 

To many this may seem extremely radical but look at the facts for a minute.  Texas’ economy is so large that if Texas were to become its own country, its economy would be the 14^th largest in the world.  Suddenly this extremely radical idea doesn’t seem so radical anymore, does it?  From the perspective of a Texas resident secession seems like a great idea; but looking at it from the government’s perspective it seems like economical suicide.

The facts tell you how large the Texas economy is, so just imagine if that large chunk of what is now the US economy just went away.  The already failing economy would take yet another nose-dive into a never-ending abyss that it would never be able to recover from.  We cannot allow this to happen to our nation.  If one state is allowed to secede, another will follow, and another and it will keep going until we are in the same position as we were during the civil war.  More wars and more violence is the last thing we need right now.  The bottom line: we cannot allow our country to be torn apart, especially if it means the collapse of the economy and life as we know it.