Let us look into the future, after public vote and state decision
cause California to drop out of the United States of America and become
a new country. They will now be independent like a child who runs away
from home. Apparently no one who promotes the state to leave the American
union is looking ahead at the serious implications. Is this a case of
too much Sun exposure cooking away remaining common sense? What will happen
next?
ENERGY AND WATER
To keep this essay a reasonable length, for now we will make the assumption
they will continue to obtain electric power, natural gas, water and oil
from the same sources they have now. Much of the state's fresh water for
high population areas comes from the Colorado river. Unlike the past,
now this water will originate from a foreign country who can easily control
it at will to help American farmers the United States.
NEW DEFENSELESS COUNTRY
Consider liberalism, a country-wrecking disease that permeates California
like an incurable disease. (Consider what past decades of liberalism has
done to the United States.) Many people in California are unarmed and
don't want guns. Why was tiny Switzerland was not invaded by Hitler? Because
every citizen has been armed with machine guns and trained how to use
them to this very day. Hitler did not want to get involved in fighting
guerrilla warfare. California is unarmed and defenseless when compared
to Switzerland.
NEW BORDERS
On the day California declares independence, the state's borders instantly
become the borders of a new country. California is among a handful of
states on the Pacific ocean; across the Pacific is China and Russia. Every
country on Earth has their own army, navy, air force, etc... Any foreign
country can easily invade California along the several hundred miles of
coastline without violating American airspace or crossing American land.
California covers 163,696 square miles. Now they have NO protection from
invasion by China, Russia, Mexico or any other country with an army. With
no military, no defense and only state and local police departments ill
equipped nor trained for warfare, there is no effective resistance to
any invading military force. Can you imagine any foreign country obtaining
a foothold so close to the USA? China and Russia might get into a fight
over who gets to invade, like two dogs with one bone. You could stand
at the border with Arizona, Nevada or Oregon and throw a rock into the
foreign country of California. A stray bullet while innocently hunting
might be considered an act of war if it hit a foreign soldier.
COST OF BUILDING A NEW MILITARY FROM SCRATCH
According to a CBS television station in California, for every dollar
they send to Washington about seventy-eight cents comes back to California.
While the station is claiming Washington would be hurt most from the state
refusing to pay their federal taxes, is this really true in the final
analysis? California already has a severe deficit of more than a billion
dollars. Hollywood tax revenue is suffering as production of movies has
already moved to Canada, India and China and the Chinese have already
bought distributors and production companies. Illegals have poured in
straining welfare and school systems. There will be no money available
to build a new trillion dollar defense system from scratch. This makes
their seventy-eight cents on a dollar claim irrelevant.
Economy of scale in manufacturing states high volume reduces product
cost. With defense, the cost of defending America is spread out over 50
states using economy of scale. California will have no access to economy
of scale to build their new defense system.
RIOTING
We have hardly scratched the surface of the problems the new country would
have. If rioting breaks out today in any state, their governor picks up
the phone and calls in the National Guard to fix the problem. But after
leaving the USA, there will be NO national guard for California to call
on for help. With nothing more than local and state police departments
to keep order corruption, gangs, everyday crime and uncontrolled rioting
would quickly destroy the entire state.
California's problems will have a negative effect on surrounding states
when criminals and disease-laden illegals migrate. Those same federal
national guard troops who protected the state before succession will be
moved just outside California's border into the United States - with their
weapons now pointed toward California. US Army, Marines and Air Force
will probably be ordered to help with US border defense.
ILLEGAL ALIENS WILL FLOOD IN
Illegals of all kinds including human disease carriers and criminals will
flood into California from Mexico and become unstoppable. Illegals will
invade other US states over hundreds of miles of unprotected California/US
border. Homeland Security, NIH and CDC resources will not help; these
agencies belong to the US government.
There is little doubt that based on the above factors, it would be impossible
for California to survive as a independent nation. Within in a month its
leaders will go begging to Washington for protection.
I think we all know what president Trump will say to that.
Ted Twietmeyer
tedtw@frontiernet.net |