States should be allowed to secede from our nation
letter to the editor
States should be allowed to secede from our nation
To the Editor:
We recently had a reader submit an editorial criticizing the growing movement of California to leaving the Union. This is something historic and something that we all should embrace. We are at the point of no return; we have almost nothing in common between the sharp divisions in which we find ourselves. People from different regions of the country have as much in common as with people from a different planet. Most of us find these cultural wars as something that resembles the brutal fighting on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. There are no prisoners taken, no Geneva Accord recognized, only brutality and extermination. This resembles the political climate that we all live in now. It is like trying to keep a marriage together with two people who can’t even look at each other without fits of rage and hatred that boil to the top.
We must encourage these movements and allow any and all states to peacefully secede from our nation. We better grab onto this notion before the left regains political power the next time around. If the state wants to create its own version of the People’s Republic of California it must be allowed and encouraged. If the people in California really and sincerely believe that it should emulate what Chavez has done to Venezuela, then we better step aside and allow them to commit their own destruction.
If California were ever on its own, within a year or two of its “independence” it would be unable to function at even a survival level. Though it boasts the sixth largest economy in the world, there is no economy big enough to keep a Marxist country afloat. This has been demonstrated time and again in such failed nations as Venezuela, Cuba, the Soviet Union and every country that has experimented with socialism or communism in any of its hideous forms. There have been several cities in California who have already gone through bankruptcy by putting in place reckless, out of control public sector promises. The recent budget in the state shows a $2 billion dollar deficit and this is on top of a state that has a state income tax rate up to 13.3 percent upon itself and still can’t pay its bills. The more money that is received, the more vote buying welfare schemes it concocts.
If California, according to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, adopted the discount rate and expected rate of return that private pensions have to follow, the state would have nearly $1 trillion dollar deficit, that is a tab of $93,000 per inhabitant of the state. According to the Reason Foundation, California spends 4.7 times as much per mile of state-controlled highways as the national average. More specifically, for every $1 Texas spends on its highways, California spends $5.80. California ranks 47th for highway conditions, Texas ranks 11th. Regardless whether right, left or libertarian self-determination and Brexit should be encouraged and fostered.
Eric Rudorfer
Strongsville
To the Editor:
We recently had a reader submit an editorial criticizing the growing movement of California to leaving the Union. This is something historic and something that we all should embrace. We are at the point of no return; we have almost nothing in common between the sharp divisions in which we find ourselves. People from different regions of the country have as much in common as with people from a different planet. Most of us find these cultural wars as something that resembles the brutal fighting on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. There are no prisoners taken, no Geneva Accord recognized, only brutality and extermination. This resembles the political climate that we all live in now. It is like trying to keep a marriage together with two people who can’t even look at each other without fits of rage and hatred that boil to the top.
We must encourage these movements and allow any and all states to peacefully secede from our nation. We better grab onto this notion before the left regains political power the next time around. If the state wants to create its own version of the People’s Republic of California it must be allowed and encouraged. If the people in California really and sincerely believe that it should emulate what Chavez has done to Venezuela, then we better step aside and allow them to commit their own destruction.
If California were ever on its own, within a year or two of its “independence” it would be unable to function at even a survival level. Though it boasts the sixth largest economy in the world, there is no economy big enough to keep a Marxist country afloat. This has been demonstrated time and again in such failed nations as Venezuela, Cuba, the Soviet Union and every country that has experimented with socialism or communism in any of its hideous forms. There have been several cities in California who have already gone through bankruptcy by putting in place reckless, out of control public sector promises. The recent budget in the state shows a $2 billion dollar deficit and this is on top of a state that has a state income tax rate up to 13.3 percent upon itself and still can’t pay its bills. The more money that is received, the more vote buying welfare schemes it concocts.
If California, according to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, adopted the discount rate and expected rate of return that private pensions have to follow, the state would have nearly $1 trillion dollar deficit, that is a tab of $93,000 per inhabitant of the state. According to the Reason Foundation, California spends 4.7 times as much per mile of state-controlled highways as the national average. More specifically, for every $1 Texas spends on its highways, California spends $5.80. California ranks 47th for highway conditions, Texas ranks 11th. Regardless whether right, left or libertarian self-determination and Brexit should be encouraged and fostered.
Eric Rudorfer
Strongsville
