It would be wild. The Texas government can’t even maintain a power grid. How the hell do they think they would do without help from the federal government and with a brain drain!
We should let them. Then, in a year, when they declare bankruptcy and everyone is freezing because there’s no power, we’ll just buy them. We can let Puerto Rico be the 50th state, and Texas can become that weird thing where they’re part of the country, but have no voting rights.
I was thinking something similar. They’d go bust in a heartbeat, and perhaps at that point it would be cheaper to just invade and make them a tributary state.
Company Exec: We need more engineers to run our infrastructure, but 90% of the qualified people have TURNED TRAITOR and ran to the states.
Politician: it’s fine, we control the regulations now so we’ll just pass a bunch of engineers through school and it’ll be taken care of sits back in solid gold chair puffing on Cuban cigar
CE: perfect! Genius! Problem solved forever! Didn’t need a DemonRat for THAT!
6 months later
CE, looking haggard and with singed hair: well this has been a disaster. The engineers were just pushed through and graduated without learning anything! Nobody knows how to do the jobs we need done! My house caught fire because a power surge overloaded my entire block! Half the state is dark!
P, from behind a platinum, diamond-encrusted desk, in a gold-trimmed silk suit: well I haven’t seen any evidence of this, my house is perfectly fine! The spotlights and private security do a great job of keeping the looters out. But that has nothing to do with this. Get back to work.
I think that last line would rather read: “That sounds like communism. You are not communist, are you? Now get the problem with that one nuclear plant fixed, or you might find yourself and your family sent to Guantalag labor camp, tovarisch.”
Let’s do the latter part of your statement. I’m ok with that outcome.
It would be wild. The Texas government can’t even maintain a power grid. How the hell do they think they would do without help from the federal government and with a brain drain!
We should let them. Then, in a year, when they declare bankruptcy and everyone is freezing because there’s no power, we’ll just buy them. We can let Puerto Rico be the 50th state, and Texas can become that weird thing where they’re part of the country, but have no voting rights.
Damn, I like this idea!
I was thinking something similar. They’d go bust in a heartbeat, and perhaps at that point it would be cheaper to just invade and make them a tributary state.
Sometime in the future:
Company Exec: We need more engineers to run our infrastructure, but 90% of the qualified people have TURNED TRAITOR and ran to the states.
Politician: it’s fine, we control the regulations now so we’ll just pass a bunch of engineers through school and it’ll be taken care of sits back in solid gold chair puffing on Cuban cigar
CE: perfect! Genius! Problem solved forever! Didn’t need a DemonRat for THAT!
6 months later
CE, looking haggard and with singed hair: well this has been a disaster. The engineers were just pushed through and graduated without learning anything! Nobody knows how to do the jobs we need done! My house caught fire because a power surge overloaded my entire block! Half the state is dark!
P, from behind a platinum, diamond-encrusted desk, in a gold-trimmed silk suit: well I haven’t seen any evidence of this, my house is perfectly fine! The spotlights and private security do a great job of keeping the looters out. But that has nothing to do with this. Get back to work.
I think that last line would rather read: “That sounds like communism. You are not communist, are you? Now get the problem with that one nuclear plant fixed, or you might find yourself and your family sent to Guantalag labor camp, tovarisch.”