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TAM, as much as I'd like to read the article tonight, I'm afraid I might have to grab my hatchet, find the first wooden crate of tea I could find, smash it and throw it into the Trinity River.

mojo84 wrote: In light of this, I would highly recommend everyone listen to this.

Listen to Money And Politics - Peter Schweizer by Hillsdale College #np on #SoundCloud

Phew. Not what I was expecting. I just now had the time to listen to all of it, and glad I did. thanks for posting mojo84.

Peter Schweizer does an excellent job of stating how rampant corruption is in D.C. Influence peddling to foreign countries, how campaign contributions are one vehicle politicians use to raise their personal standard of living, politics used as a vehicle for wealth accumulation as a first priority(at the expense of the American people's). Talk about filthy dirty!

Like Peter says at the end of the lecture, we need a Fist Full of Dollars type guy(played by Clint Eastwood) to come in and clean house in D.C.

If Clinton gets to the White House, then the debate, based on the thread title, may become more realistic.

Bitter Clinger wrote:This has suddenly become a very hot topic apparently:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... cceed.html

Fascinating read! Thanks for posting Bitter Clinger!

Tracker wrote:I'd like to see a serious threat to secede to rein in the Federal Gov, Oklahoma is more conservative than Texas. Every county in OK voted republican in last two elections.

The richest countries in the US are Silicon Valley and around DC. Power and money flows to Washington.

I'd like to see the 17th Amendment recended. Senators original purpose was to act as lobbyists for the state governments. Now senators are being lobbied to and can thumb their nose at the state legislatures. The 17th undermined states' influence at the Federal level

Not quite I can agree to that but wow! What an interesting sidebar to the topic! I agree that California has a higher GNP than Texas, but not Maryland, or D.C. for that matter. Texas comes in at # 2 behind California in GNP. Next is New York.

BUT, want to look at something really interesting in terms of States GNP as compared to other countries GNP? This is REALLY interesting!....

Texas' GNP is on par with the entire country of Spain. California's GNP is on par with the entire country of Italy. New York....Mexico. Louisiana on par with Israel. Fascinating:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... n_2012.jpg

Wow! I just went back and looked at the 2014 Republican Party of Texas Platform. It speaks on almost every topic we talk about every day. Very reassuring. Please take a good read. I focused on p.34.

https://www.texasgop.org/wp-content/upl ... -Final.pdf

Mrs. joe817 sent me this article from the Washington Post this morning . There's absolutely no chance that ANY kind of action will be taken IMO. But thought this is an interesting article. And no, I'm not advocating this in any size, shape or fashion.

"When Texas Republicans assemble for their state convention next month, it’s possible they will debate whether Texas should secede from the United States.

There’s almost no chance Texas Republicans will actually vote in favor of seceding, mind you — not least because most of the party wants nothing to do with this — but the fact we’re even mentioning secession and the Texas GOP convention in the same sentence suggests that the once-fringe movement has become a priority for at least some conservative grass-roots Texans."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... f-serious/