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Interesting thing about the majority of the states she won in is they are the worst at allowing illegal immigrants in and have the biggest sanctuary cities.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: Christosterone
Regarding CA's alleged desire for succession, not that I believe it will happen (or even close), but let's go with that for a moment. Only a foolish person would believe if this were to take place there would be no downsides to it. There most certainly would. (personally, I think if any of this were to gain momentum CA would likely split into two states, but I digress). Let's imagine for a moment CA, from SF and south succeded from the Union (forget the 'how' mechanics for a moment). The first negative impact America would feel is the loss of a MAJOR coastal entry Port. And, it would likely take trillions of dollars in infrastructure development (i.e. re-routing) to fix this thorny little problem. Now I'm sure some may be sharpening their fingertips to fire off a flaming response to this, but keep reading...
Sounds like an ugly problem, right? Well, maybe not as bad as we may think!
The next logical solutions for major seaports are Seattle and Vancouver and north to Alaska (Valdez and Anchorage). Rerouting our national infrastructure to support these ports would create millions of jobs in both the US and Canada, strengthen ties with Canada and create a much more competitive economic environment. There's also another not so obvious benefit. The shift would place a bottleneck on Chinese imports entering the US, in essence creating countless opportunities for American businesses to fill the void. Yes, it would be painful at first, but eventually competition within the US market would return (and not be subjected to cheap imports).
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: Christosterone
Here's an interesting thought...
Regarding CA's alleged desire for succession... The first negative impact America would feel is the loss of a MAJOR coastal entry Port. And, it would likely take trillions of dollars in infrastructure development (i.e. re-routing) to fix this thorny little problem. Now I'm sure some may be sharpening their fingertips to fire off a flaming response to this, but keep reading...
The shift would place a bottleneck on Chinese imports entering the US, in essence creating countless opportunities for American businesses to fill the void. Yes, it would be painful at first, but eventually competition within the US market would return (and not be subjected to cheap imports).
The United States is the world's largest national economy in nominal terms and second largest according to purchasing power parity (PPP), representing 22% of nominal global GDP and 17% of gross world product (GWP).[4] The United States' GDP was estimated to be $17.914 trillion as of Q2 2015.[4][32]