RE: Texas looks to follow UK's example
June 27, 2016 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2016 at 5:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 27, 2016 at 4:27 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: GDP doesn't paint the whole picture - there's a lot of intangibles associated with being part of our republic.
I suspect on this we are in agreement.
Absolutely, in context (as simple as I've made it) I'm only using GDP as a measure of brute economic potential. I found a fun little map that might help explain to some™ of our posters how foolhardy the decision to leave is by putting world economies into the context our our union - a union which most people can immediately identify as the sort of union you don't want to leave.
It only takes -one- wealthy US state to reach parity with the UK. With texas as an example, we could throw in florida to meet the numbers. That's how great, Great Britain is in context of the EU...and also, conveniently, how great the idea to leave the EU is. If california, or texas and florida..left the US, it wouldn't be the US that shouldered the brunt of the subsequent misery, and California (or texas and florida) wouldn't benefit from such a split. If I saw successionist californians talking about how they'd recover..and are better off without us, I'd laugh in their impoverished faces and ask if they missed the smell of money - and I'm from the Ukraine on that map...lol.
![[Image: 350px-Comparison_between_U.S._states_and...n_2012.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Comparison_between_U.S._states_and_countries_by_GDP_in_2012.jpg/350px-Comparison_between_U.S._states_and_countries_by_GDP_in_2012.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison..._(nominal)
US 17.9
EU 16.2
California 2.4
UK 2.8
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