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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the toughest part would not be the constitutional process.  The balance sheet for the South is the problem.  The southern states would go almost immediately into default because they can't cover their expenditures with revenue, even if the new southern nation kept the current Federal tax schedule.  They are net dependents on northern revenue.[/quote]

It's scary that you're that clueless as to where your food comes from, not to mention the cotton in your tighty whittles.

You should give that Vermont milk and cheese diet a try for a month, ok, I'll let you have one apple a week too. [/quote]Since I am from a farm state I am not worried about starving. For one because eight of the top ten agricultural states are in the north you idiot, and because unless the south actually exports food, it is even more screwed.

God you people are impervious to fact. Does it ever occur to you to google  score you throw out an assumption like that ?  This isn't 1800, Virginia and south carolina aren't ag powerhouses anymore. [/quote]

I'd take the SC manufacturing resurgence any day. God bless Right to Work states. Enjoy your  grapes and soybeans. [/quote]

Yay, 46th in the nation for unemployment!  Take that, Nevada! Not much point in right to work for jobs that are done cheaper abroad, but what do you expect when the kids in school are staring at pictures of Jesus riding a dinosaur instead of learning to add and subtract.

In the odd hope that you are not one of those students, let me throw some math at you.  Over the last 20 years, SC taxpayer have put $302b into the Federal Government.  They have SPENT $495b dollars of federal money.  That means over that time period, they received $192b in aid from the rest of us.  The state GDP is only $159b.  So what that means is that SC effectively has a debt that is 120% of its GDP - and that's without being charged the interest on that debt!

That debt, absent the subsidies we pay to it, is worse than Greece.  Meanwhile the state of Illinois pays for 3.5 South Carolinas.  Good luck with that.
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