> The majority of latinos suffer from HIV virus,

What does this assumption have to do with Texas breaking apart from the USA?
Addiction to drugs, and abuse of alcohol have a weight on that possibility as well? In a positive or in a negative way?

BTW, addiction to illegal drugs I understand is higher in an ethnic group other than the Latino one.

HIV and addiction to drugs come both from ignorance, being irresponsable and careless about the own body.
So both social scourges, along with the ehtnic groups they are most related to, should have the same influence on the allegedly independence of Texas.

Still don’t see the relation though.

> latinos that I know voted for Obama in the hopes of free everything.

As I see it, every American that voted for Obama did it because they believe in the handouts, “spread the wealth” and that line of thought.
So any Obama supporter regardless the ethnic group they belong to, somehow likes the idea of a Big Government.

When I saw Obama’s speech on Chicago the night of November 4, among the crowd celebrating his victory I saw more white people -moved to tears- than latino or even black people (which was kind of interesting, by the way.)

I bet all of them have the hopes of free everything as well, just as those Latinos you know.

> they never heard of the McCain Kennedy bill.

I completely agree with you.

I hope you have plenty of Pepcid-AC and Alka Seltzer on hand because I have a feeling the bailouts are going to continue until we experience the painful consequences of a hyperinflationary collapse. You are going to need a strong stomach or a powerful remedy for chronic indigestion.

I agree that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish the government and institute new government. However with the current anti-capitalisitic, nihilistic mentality of most of our citizens I would hate to see what new form of government would be instituted. How do you spell totalitarianism or dictatorship?

I think our only hope is an ideological revolution–one with Libertarian philosophy as its driving force.

I pray every night that they will let the employers of the union go down in flames so that Michigan can get a huge reality check. I love my state and I want to put an end to the dependence on the auto industry.

I don’t really see us breaking up. We just have to figure out how to get people to realize that nanny government is the problem, not the solution.

I sincerely hope that Texas does seperate from the rest of the US. I think this state is a refuge for common sense thinking and conservative values, I’m not naive enough to think that there are no liberal idiots here because there surely are, but they are enough of a minority that I hope they will leave for either coast if it does happen.

Craig Barton
Arlington, TX

That reminds me of a conversation I witnessed last week in a convinience store gas station. While the cashier was supposed to be working, she was on the phone with social services. Before saying hello, she said “Yeah, I lost my food card, so I need to get another one.” When they apparently told her that wasn’t going to happen, she said “Last time I lost it they gave me another one!”. When they apparently said no again, she said , sounding very exasperated, “Can I talk to my case worker?” While she was on hold, she took the Lord’s name in vain, and then said “They are sooooo stupid around there!” The whole conversation made me lose my appetite for my frozen yogurt. It’s pretty sickening to think that my tax dollars enable that type of behavior.

I have never seen a case where welfare helps people out of their situation. All the welfare recipients I have had contact with simply learn to work the system, and milk it for all it’s worth. I know one family who lives in Section 8 (meaning the government pays their rent) housing, both parents are on disability, and they sit around and get wasted all day and neglect the kids. They recently decided their weren’t enough “opportunites” here, so they have moved to Oregon (sigh).

My least favorite welfare recipients were some tenants of mine, who did $5000 dollars damage to a 3 year old condo, and then expected me to return their deposit. Actually, their deposit was paid by the state, so when I talked to the social worker, he said just go ahead and give it back to them, the state would “gift” it to them. I made it very clear that no tax payer money was going to be “gifted” to to these people. Don’t ask me how I rented to these people in the first place. I’d rather forget the lies and manipulation that got me into the situation!

“To paraphrase the signers of that long-ago-forgotten document: It is the right of the people to alter or abolish the government and institute new government. It is not only their right, but their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.”

To add to the above quote Thomas Jefferson also said that he figured a good revolution should take place about every 20 years. (Okay, that was also paraphrased, but that was the essence of it.) I sure hope it doesn’t ever come to that, but I don’t know how much longer I can sit by and watch this continual string of “bailouts”. Heaven help us!

If, Quebec did not see economic disadvantages in seceding from the Confederation, here in Canada, they would long have been gone.