I can tell you that Austin is a completel different world from Huntsville or Houston or El Paso, so it's a thought.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Texas has a $1.245 trillion economy and a population of 24 million. >> > >> > 8.9 % of the economy >> > >> > 8% of the population >> > >> > that's a bad deal for the rest of us.... >> >> Actually, I'm really not that anti-secession. A regional secession >> movement has long been part of the bubbling background here in the >> Northwest. I'd honestly be curious to see Texas give it a try. >> > > > > I've been thinking about what seems to be a big issue for a lot of Americans > these days - that the federal government is way out of sync with what people > in their neck of the woods believe. I really like the idea of breaking down > the House to have a far more representative level of Representative - e.g. > the 30,000:1 ratio that we had when the US was founded. But that still > leaves the Senate and the Presidency, which clearly has become a job for an > entire team of people rather than one person. > > From a Senate point of view, it makes far more sense for a big state like > New York, Texas or California to break up into two or three smaller states > and so have more overall votes in the Senate, votes that could represent > different regions better. I don't know if that's a good idea or a bad idea, > but I believe the place we are now with representation at the federal level > is totally different than the place we started in 1791. > > Practically, I think it would be near impossible to break up bigger states, > or even change the House to make it more directly representative of > individual localities, but I don't know. People are sick of the federal > government not listening. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296200 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
