I mean, they technically have their own independent power grid, so whether they are their own country or a state, Texans freezing to death would be left to fate, anyway…
I wonder how they would manage imports and exports, for two examples. Or the visa system for visiting the US and its territories? Their own WIC and other (currently federal) social service programs, or are they planning to discontinue them in typical forced-birth fashion? I would really like to see them do it and see if they want what they get.
But they aren’t left to that fate because every time the wind blows to hard and their power grid fails they come crawling for federal disaster relief hand outs to fix it.
That’s my point–because they cut themselves off from the rest of the country electrically, it doesn’t matter what their status is: when that underfunded and unsupported network fails, people will die. It happens every time.
And, would disaster relief be much different? Maybe the asking as a sovereign nation would take longer and have to be approved by Congress (?), but I’ve never heard of a state or nation every paying back US aid. If this has happened, please educate me. Seriously.
I mean, they technically have their own independent power grid, so whether they are their own country or a state, Texans freezing to death would be left to fate, anyway…
I wonder how they would manage imports and exports, for two examples. Or the visa system for visiting the US and its territories? Their own WIC and other (currently federal) social service programs, or are they planning to discontinue them in typical forced-birth fashion? I would really like to see them do it and see if they want what they get.
But they aren’t left to that fate because every time the wind blows to hard and their power grid fails they come crawling for federal disaster relief hand outs to fix it.
That’s my point–because they cut themselves off from the rest of the country electrically, it doesn’t matter what their status is: when that underfunded and unsupported network fails, people will die. It happens every time.
And, would disaster relief be much different? Maybe the asking as a sovereign nation would take longer and have to be approved by Congress (?), but I’ve never heard of a state or nation every paying back US aid. If this has happened, please educate me. Seriously.