Memo for the Blue States (very long)

[svxcess]

My sister, a proud hardcore Texan, sent me this. It is a long read, but you may find it enlightening and quite humorous at times.


For all you non-Texans... if you are nice, you won't need a passport to visit us. It's got my vote!

Texans are not whining about the elections.

Okay folks, Texas has given you complainers plenty of time to get used to the election results. After listening to all the whiners after the election, some folks from Real Texas have decided that we might just take matters into our f Defense. After that is all said and done, we wish Mr. Obama well. We really do.

We expect one of Perot's first acts as President of the Republic will be to tear down the border wall and erect a 10' wall around Austin to keep the "Austin Weird" folks in and away from the rest of us. If they will just pipe their Texas music out over the wall, it will keep the rest of us happy. (Just kidding, my Austin relatives on that one.) However, Willie will be Secretary of Agriculture and Music. We wonder what he will grow?


So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic? Here are a few things to be aware of:

Texas is the 11th largest economy on the planet.
We are bigger than Spain and right behind Great Britain. We are also bigger than Russia. We are an economic force to be reckoned with. We have a constitutional amendment to balance our budget… and we do it. We also have a multi-billion dollar budget surplus this year. We are so big, we have our own power grid. Yes, that's true.

What else? NASA is in Houston. (we will also control the space industry).

Defense Industry?
We have over 65% of it.

Oil? We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States. The term "Don't mess with Texas," will take on a whole new meaning.
Oil?... we can supply all the oil the Republic of Texas will need for the next 300 years. The Obama states? Sorry about that. As David Werst said, "We like ya'll, we just don't want to be like ya'll."

You can buy oil (pronounced like ya'll) from us instead of terrorist countries that hate you. We will love you for paying so much to us instead of Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Kuwait and others. You don't want to 'drill baby drill' or put up with those nasty oil wells? Well, we do and we know how to do it without polluting the land, air, and sea. BTW-We have our own ports and shipping lanes. We're also not "waiting on our FEMA check" to rebuild Galveston. We are doing it right now as we speak.

Natural Gas?
Again we have all we need and again, it's just too bad about you blue Obama states who don't want drilling. We've been driving around with those big tanks in the backs of our pickups for years now.

We'll switch over to compressed natural gas. Obama will figure a way to keep ya'll warm... according to your need. Or, you could use ocean waves, or make friends with Hugo Chavez or what's his name in Iran.

Computer Industry?
We currently lead the nation in producing computer chips and communications: Small places like Texas Instruments, Dell, EDS, Raytheon, Motorola, Intel, Austin Technology Centers, etc, etc. The list goes on and on.

Health Centers?
We have the largest research centers for Cancer research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world, and other large health centers.

Higher Education?
We have enough colleges to keep us going: UT, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Texas State University, Rice, SMU, TCU, University of Houston, Baylor,UNT, Texas Women's University, etc. Ivy grows better in the South anyway. We have a ready supply of workers (just open the border when we need some more).

We won't have an illegal immigration problem. Former Texas Governor candidate Kinky Friedman solved that. He proposed we pay 5 Mexican Generals a million a year to control illegal immigration-folks coming from Mexico to Texas illegally. For every illegal that slips through, we deduct $10,000. Wonder how many will get across the border into Texas? We won't need a Border Patrol.

We like tourism. Come stay a while. Enjoy a Cowboys game or go to Six Flags over Texas...then go home. We don't need any more Californians coming here and messing things up. Or, they could live in Austin where we can keep an eye on 'em.

We have control of the paper industry, plastics, insurance, etc. In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. We don't have an army but since everybody down here is heavily armed and has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an army in 6 hours if we need it. That's the Texas way. When the "tower sniper" started shooting in Austin a few years back, citizens piled out of their cars and pickups and started returning fire within 2 minutes. Our citizens are licensed to carry handguns on their person.

We have a saying down here: "If you mess with the bull, you're gonna get the horn."

And an even more remarkable finding from the past.
Average Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Bush: 0.1 of one percent.
Average Murder per 100,000 residents in counties won by Gore: 13.2.

In Texas, even some of our school teachers carry guns. We won't surrender our kids to nuts and terrorists without a fight. Don't even think about messing with us. If you want the sticker, click on it.

If the situation really gets bad, we can always call the Texas DPS and ask them to send over a couple of Texas Rangers. We are totally self sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs and vegetable produce and everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good. Don't need any food.

Arts? Bob Wills is still the king, but we also like different types of music, Country... and...Western. We even have our own beer. Lone Star, The National Beer of Texas. This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic of Texas in good shape. There isn't a thing out there that we need and don't have. Just keep on reading David Werst's
RealTexas Blog http://realtexasblog.com for more details on how to be a RealTexan.

Now to the rest of the United States under President Obama: Since you won't have the refineries to get gas for your cars, We'll sell you gas too. We'll call the gas company Texasco or something like that. Happy to do it. You won't have any TV as the space center in Houston will cut off your communications or ask you to pay for the signal. It will be Texas Direct TV.

Hank Jr. will move here and be in charge of programming. Did you know we don't even have an income tax? We have all we need here in God's country and like I've already said, if we don't have it, we don't need it. We will have cheap, plentiful energy. The new Texas Secretary of Energy, T. Boone Pickens, will be putting up thousands of wind generators all over the west Texas plains and since everybody else thinks Texas is full of hot air, we might as well take advantage of it.

Good luck. Ya'll are gonna need it.

Signed, The People of Real Texas




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[dcarrb]

I'll vouch for the gasoline thing. Supplies here have only recently gotten completely back to normal after the hurricane disruptions of months ago. My usual station had no premium for many weeks. As regards fuel, Texas has the entire southeastern U.S. by the shorts.

dcb

[Royal Tiger]

I miss living in Texas.....

[odepaj]

We've got everything anybody would ever want.

Snow in the north, sand dunes in the west, awesome beaches in the south.

Oh, did I mention the ladies?

Theres nothing in the world like a good ol' Texan girl


Random bit of info; We are the only state that can fly its flag as high as the US flag. All because we used to be our own country.



Dustin

[LetItSnow]

They even have hockey in Texas. I'll have to talk with the wife tonight; maybe we can get there before they secede...

[Royal Tiger]

California was also it's own country, along with Texas. The only 2 states with that distinction.