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Texas was its own nation before joining the United States, and 
many jokes have been made about some Texans still not 
recognizing that �other government� with which it now is 
affiliated.

But lawmakers there are drawing attention by considering a law 
that would have Texas review how it would respond should the 
U.S. government no longer be there to send federal tax revenue 
back to the state.

The proposal would set up a committee to study what the state 
gets from Washington, �the effects on the state budget if 
federal fiscal policy necessitates a significant reduction in or 
elimination of federal funding� and �a plan to address the loss 
of federal money.�

The plan, HB 568, has been introduced by Rep. James White, who 
said in a statement Texas Self-Sufficiency Act �creates a select 
committee to evaluate the effects of a possible reduction in or 
elimination of federal funding on the state budget due to 
federal fiscal policy.�

�Due to the fiscal dysfunction of Washington, D.C., and the fact 
that more than a third of our state�s budget revenue comes from 
the federal government, Texas needs to study what it would mean 
if the federal government couldn�t meet its obligations,� he 
said.

The plan directs the governor, lieutenant governor and other 
officials to assemble a committee �to analyze not only our 
state�s dependence on federal funds, but the impact of federal 
funding on Texas� economy.�

Said White: �My district in South East Texas, for example, has a 
higher proportion of seniors compared to the state overall 
percentage. What would happen in the event the federal 
government eliminated the funds normally allocated to them? In 
the current economic climate, exacerbated by out of control 
spending in Washington, Texas needs to study possible responses 
to federal financial turmoil, and our readiness to adjust to 
such an event. Texans must govern Texas and Texans need to be 
concerned about Texas.�

On the website for the state GOP, David Bellow blogged about the 
idea.

�State Rep. James White has proposed a bill that will require 
the leaders of Texas to start crunching the numbers and figure 
out what Texas would look like if it had to be self sufficient � 
limited or no federal support � OUR OWN COUNTRY�. oops, I am 
getting a little ahead of myself, haha. Hey, I didn�t say 
secession but that certainly comes to mind when thinking about 
the federal government having a financial meltdown and cutting 
off most or all support to the states.�

Bellow asked: �What would Texas do in the event that the United 
States of America defaulted? It is a very real possibility that 
one day the massive U.S. debt will become so large and 
unsustainable that it causes a financial meltdown. Texas, and 
pretty much everyone else, would all of a sudden be faced with 
no more federal funds (which is really just Texas tax dollars 
given to the feds which is then given back to Texas). Yes, Texas 
is already a sovereign state, but what would we do if faced with 
complete sovereignty and no federal money?�

He explained: �State Representative James White is thinking 
ahead. He does not want to have to wait until Texas gets cut off 
from the federal government to determine how Texas will manage 
on our own. White wants to start planning now.�

WND previously reported the response of hundreds of thousands of 
Americans when Obama was re-elected in November.

They launched petitions expressing their desire to have their 
states secede from the U.S.

The move began with a petition on the White House website from 
Louisianans anxious to properly withdraw their state from the 
union. In just days, residents of all 50 states had launched 
similar petitions, gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures.

The petitions were ignored by the White House until Jon Carson, 
director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, replied.

�As much as we value a healthy debate,� he wrote, �we don�t let 
that debate tear us apart.�

WND was first to report when a Louisiana man began a petition on 
the White House�s �We the People� website, asking permission for 
his state to peacefully secede.

The Louisiana petition quoted from the Declaration of 
Independence: ��Governments are instituted among Men, deriving 
their just powers from the consent of the governed, that 
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these 
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and 
institute new Government.��

According to the guidelines of the �We the People� website, when 
a petition reaches 25,000 signatures, the White House must put 
the petition in a queue for response.

Louisiana�s petition quickly reached that threshold and was 
followed by similar petitions from all 50 states, several of 
which also topped the 25,000 mark. Texas� petition got the 
signatures of tens of thousands.

�Our founding fathers established the Constitution of the United 
States �in order to form a more perfect union� through the hard 
and frustrating but necessary work of self-government,� the 
White House said. �They enshrined in that document the right to 
change our national government through the power of the ballot � 
a right that generations of Americans have fought to secure for 
all. But they did not provide a right to walk away from it.

�As President Abraham Lincoln explained in his first inaugural 
address in 1861, �in contemplation of universal law and of the 
Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual,�� the 
response continued. �In the years that followed, more than 
600,000 Americans died in a long and bloody civil war that 
vindicated the principle that the Constitution establishes a 
permanent union between the States. And shortly after the Civil 
War ended, the Supreme Court confirmed that �[t]he Constitution, 
in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed 
of indestructible States.��

However, WND columnists Walter E. Williams and Alan Keyes have 
both argued secession is constitutional. A column by Williams 
cites historical evidence from both the Founding Fathers and the 
Civil War era. Keyes� argues God-given rights cannot be trumped 
by man-made law, Supreme Court decisions or civil war.

An online Texas history recounts Texas� rebellion and separation 
from Mexico to form its own nation, with its own president, 
secretary of state and foreign policy, before ultimately joining 
the U.S.

�In a ceremony [in 1846] in front of the Capitol, President 
Jones gave a valedictory address, the flag of the republic was 
lowered, and the flag of the United States was raised.�

http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/texas-preps-for-going-it-alone/

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