For Many Hard-Liners, Debt Default Is the Goal

[JDPriestly]

15. Sounds like that Republican really wants the US to be foreclosed.

The Republicans are stopping science. Physical and biological scientists rely on government data from the NIH, NASA, the Agriculture Dept., the EPA., even the military. Social scientists and economists rely on data from all sorts of government agencies. Republicans are lost in the past. They don't care whether America continues to be a leader in the world.

The Republican Party relies on ignorance to keep it going. Americans take for granted that we have satellites in space, that we track so many important agricultural, weather, etc. data. They don't even know these things are being done because our scientists work carefully and quietly behind the scenes.

It's very sad. Football makes the headlines. Studies of the toxicity of new chemicals and the functioning of new materials do not. Therefore to the ignoramuses in the Republican Party like Rush Limbaugh they don't exist and are of no importance.

Frankly if the Southern, primarily Republicans decided to secede into the ignorant potholes they call their states at this point, I would say good riddance and invite their scientists to the North -- New York, Massachusetts, California and Oregon in particular. Charge Texas a huge fee to transport Canadian tar sands through Northern states or don't allow them to do it at all. We could focus on alternative energy up here where people are educated and want to live well.

The Republican states would soon follow. We could allow a few in the North to stay with us. Let Texas and Alabama make their states into slums. Let's keep our environment healthy. We can tax whatever they bring into our states. I'm not pushing anyone out of the US, but if they want to go, I say we should let them.