SC Republican:“If at first you don’t secede, try again.”

[RandySF]

Continuing a pattern of attempts to assert South Carolina’s independence from the federal government, State Sen. Lee Bright, R-Roebuck, has introduced legislation that backs the creation of a new state currency that could protect the financial stability of the Palmetto State in the event of a breakdown of the Federal Reserve System.

Bright’s joint resolution calls for the creation of an eight-member joint subcommittee to study the proposal and submit a report to the General Assembly by Nov. 1.

The Federal Reserve System has come under ever-increasing strain during the last several years and will be exposed to ever-increasing and predictably debilitating strain in the years to come, according to the legislation.


http://www.goupstate.com/article/20110212/ARTICLES/102121020/1001/sports02?p=1&tc=pg

[Kingofalldems]

1. Good. Close Fort Jackson and all military bases.

[JoePhilly]

3. great minds!!!

[Kingofalldems]

4. Down to the minute--maybe second!!

[JoePhilly]

12. #$%#@# .... You beat me by 6 seconds!!!!

And so, I now hate you, and must now put you on my ignore list so that the next time you beat me by 6 seconds, I won't have to know!!

:rofl:

[MadMaddie]

10. Stop all Federal monies from going to the state

Let them have their own special currency, and they won't be able to spend it outside their borders. Any foreign business doing busines in the state will stop.

By the way Repugs, "Where are the jobs"?

[GoCubsGo]

28. And, the state's biggest employer...

Shut down the Savannah River Site.

[JoePhilly]

2. Pull all US military funding out of SC, now. Problem solved.

[friendly_iconoclast]

5. All US funding, period. They'll fold faster than Superman on laundry day.

If there's one thing Republicans love more than ahem, *cough* *cough*, "principles", it's money.

[coalition_unwilling]

22. And send the 82nd Airborne in to take over and occupy the state government in

Columbia. They obviously have not learned their lesson from the time when W.T Sherman and his boys tore up the town.

[hlthe2b]

6. Let 'em go.... Sorry SC Duers...

But if the teabaggers are determined to have their little experiment or the RW fundies want to try their hand at a theocracy, I say let 'em fail on a single state basis. SC would seem a good choice, since we could pull all US Federal facilities and bases, yet SC would have ports and the ability to fly out without disturbing the airspace of the rest of the US. They would thus be easy to "section" off.

[GoCubsGo]

29. I agree.

And, I live here, unfortunately. Wish I could get out.

[bobbolink]

7. Bye bye. No need to return.

[Kingofalldems]

8. And take that godawful South of the Border place with you

[unhappycamper]

24. You mean this one?

My son works for Verizon up heah in the Boston area. I picked up some plastic pink flamingos for him 5 or 6 years ago.

[aaaaaa5a]

9. I'm sure donor states

(most of which are blue) would be happy to let SC go. South Carolina has lived off the Federal Government long enough. How long are the tax payers of big blue states like Mass. NY and CA suppose to subsidize South Carolina and the Confederacy?

[white_wolf]

11. Article 1 section 10 of the Constitution.

"No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.?

[roamer65]

13. The Confederacy tried its own currency.

It ended in hyperinflation. Good luck, SC.

[beyurslf]

14. We should repatriate any citizen who wishes to leave their little country

and of course, pay to send anyone in other states there. Once we are done, we need build a very tall wall around their new country and ban travel between us.

[Robb]

15. Flaming moat. If we can put men on the moon, surely we can do this. (nt)

[scarletwoman]

16. A moat filled with sharks with lasers on their heads! (nt)

[beyurslf]

17. Excellent suggestion.

[a la izquierda]

26. coffee meet laptop.

haha!

[beyurslf]

18. And maybe an electric current running through it.

[white_wolf]

19. But wouldn't that kill the sharks?

Thus defeating the whole purpose of putting laser beams on their heads? Unless we can raise them from the dead to create Zombie laser sharks.

[scarletwoman]

20. Zombie laser sharks! This just gets better and better! (nt)

[beyurslf]

23. let's see Sarah Palin try to shoot one of those!

[rocktivity]

21. Here's Keith's analysis of what would happen if Texas seceded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InABbwq8TOk

:headbang:
rocktivity

[B Calm]

25. LOL

[tanyev]

27. "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."

[CanonRay]

30. I can't wait to pay me debts off in South Carolina Wacko-Bucks!

I'm sure B of A will welcome them with open arms!

[Renew Deal]

31. Why does Lee Bright hate America?

[RedCloud]

32. They may open up more than a can of worms!