There has been a LOT of talk recently about Texas seceding from the United States. The general consensus is that it ain’t gonna work. I’m pretty sure that is correct, but of course the Texas Secessionists (hereafter ‘TS’) are loudly declaiming that they’ll be jes’ faine without the rest of us (sorry, my TS accent is lousy I know).
Well even if they actually succeed in seceding, I suggest the US government makes sure they don’t frigging benefit from it. There’s a fair amount of Federal property in Texas, and I’m guessing that the TS are assuming they’ll just walk in and take it all over as the effing Confederates did in 1861. Let’s make that a bad assumption. It isn’t their property. It doesn’t belong to Texas, it belongs to the United States. Let’s gut every Federal building in Texas, Strip it down to the bare walls, rip out every scrap of wiring and anything else of conceivable value. Then blow the building itself to dust and rubble. For good measure, maybe even sow the land with nuclear waste and build a big lead lined wall around it, so that the TS can NEVER make use of it again. Okay, maybe that’s going a bit too far, but the land itself does legally belong to the Federal Government and NOT the state.
All the Interstate highways? Same treatment. Blow it all up. If the TS want freeways, they can damn well build new ones and pay for them. Every. Single. Thing. Everything that belongs to the US government should be removed or rendered utterly useless. Independent Texas should get bupkis from the rest of us who aren’t f_____g traitors
All that of course would be in addition to the loss of Federal monies, Social Security benefits, Medicaid et hoc genus omne. I’m willing to bet there are a lot of TS over 65 who’ll still demand that monthly check from a government they claim to despise.
In short, make the TS rue the day they decided to mess with Uncle Sam.