Based Texas
https://www.yahoo.com/news/official-texas-forego-federal-funds-over-lgbt-policy-152404674.html
>"We will not be blackmailed by the president's 30 pieces of silver," Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said. "The people of Texas and the Legislature will find a way to find as much of that money as we can if we are forced to."
>>73911374
Why did Obongo do this during an election year? He must really not like his "legacy" so far.
This is why I'm against public schooling.
>he doesn't live in the United State of Texas
>mfw
>>73911374
We are succeeding in a few years unless trump wins and makes usa GOAT again. Texans could stop paying 210 billion a year in federal taxes and put it back in our state (we pay 90 billion in state) or just let us keep the fucking money and export oil like a mother fucker
We would be the wealthiest place on earth
Www.TNM.com
Texas nationalist movement is real bros
Texas should separate, it's the Quebec and Newfoundland of USA..always getting screwed.
Texas will never secede. We've been talking about it for like 120 years and never did. There was a reason we became a state in the first place. It's just like people who always say they'll move to Canada but no one ever does
>>73912436
Please don't compare us to Quebec
>>73912492
We havnt had a strong incentive to in some time.
The country could be socialist in 20 years And oil and gas is getting close to banned by them.
We Will leave done worry.
Btw being a California faggot in Austin doesn't count, pls leave
Some facts about Texas that concern secession:
Economy:
$1.414 trillion GDP, 9% of total US GDP #2 in US, #10 in the world
54 Fortune 500 companies, #2 in US
$238.38 billion in manufacturing output, 11% of US total #2 in US
$219.5 billion in federal tax revenue, 9% of US total #2 in US
Port Arthur Refinery and Baytown Refinery #1 and #2 in US, #8 and #9 in world
Port of Houston 229,246,833 tons of cargo #2 in US, #15 in the world
26.96 million people, 8% of US population #2 in US, #49 in the world
268,820 square miles of land, 7% of US total #2 in US, #74 in the world
Military:
124,796 total armed forces, #42 in the world
80,830 Army active duty, 15% of US Army #1 in US
33,878 Air Force active duty, 10% of USAF #1 in US
Pantex is only nuclear weapons assembly facility in US, in charge of nuclear stockpile maintenance
Johnson Space Center is an important NASA site, home of Mission Control, Astronaut Corps, training and research
texan here. can't wait for the tears from my liberal friends tonight at the bar HAHAHAHAHA MOVE TO OKLAHOMA FAGS
FUCK YEAH
https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/730968042281144320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw