Broader Confederate States wrote:Adamede wrote:Yah it is better together than apart. What you want would just impoverish msot people.You say that like most people aren't already impoverished. You also say that like there isn't any threat of oil reaching $300 per barrel -- in spite of recent events. But oil is forecasted to have reached the point where the RoEI hits zero around 2060, well within the lifetimes of the both of us. If we do nothing and S. 4242 doesn't pass, it's a guarantee that we're going to fall into poverty; by leaving, it isn't a guarantee, but it makes the odds better.Adamede wrote:Yah we saw how the at turned out 1861-1865Are you drunk, young, or just a few screws short of a well oiled machine? A war started by South Carolina paranoiedly shelling Union ships isn't comparable to Congress agreeing amiably to states becoming independent and there simply being no international conflict. In fact, they're pretty much diametrically opposed situations. The court case regarding it afterward had this to say:Chief Justice S. P. Chase; Texas v. White, 1869 wrote:There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States.
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