Slightly delayed...

This is my slightly delayed blog post from last week. I wanted to comment on Chelsea's choice essay presentation topic, but I seemed to have forgotten until just now. Oops.

Anyway, for those of you in the other class, Chelsea's article was about the state of Texas, and how their governor is threatening to take themselves out of the United States and become their own country. How exactly would this work? It would be odd to see Texas split up into small states within itself. Not to mention, it screws up our whole "Fifty Nifty United States" song that we sang back in fifth grade.

There's also the fact that I don't think Texas is either large enough or powerful enough to survive on their own. They don't have the resources to keep themselves stocked with everything they need. And it wouldn't be a surprise to me if all of the other states in America started charging them more for anything they buy from the U.S., if they were to separate themselves from us.

An overwhelming number of Texans think it would be a good idea for them to separate from the U.S. What are they basing this idea off of? Do they realize that their resources would be incredibly small? Heaven forbid anyone tried to go to war with them, they would get absolutely demolished. There's no way a single state can turn itself into a country and be successful against a larger force such as Russia, the U.S., or any other large country in the world.

To me, this idea is simply absurd. The people of Texas need to get over themselves and learn how to get along with the rest of the country. Taxes are going to go up no matter what, and splitting off from the U.S. is not going to solve their problems, it is only going to create different ones.