Your Area Or Mine?

Here is an interesting development, one that shows you how divided America is.

Everyone knows the definition of a recession. It's when your neighbor loses his or her job. It only becomes a depression when you lose yours.

Texas, which has taken in more refugees than any state in the nation over the past year, is threatening to leave the federal refugee program if the Obama administration does not meet its security demands.

The dispute comes as the Obama administration has announced a new goal of resettling 110,000 refugees in the United States in the coming year, including an unspecified increase in the number from Syria.

 Without an agreement, Texas would join Kansas and New Jersey in withdrawing state participation in the refugee program over the federal government's vetting procedures to screen out potential terrorists.

chron.com/news/politics/article/Texas-threatens-to-exit-the-federal-refugee-9236722.php 

Obama is a lame duck president. These are in-your-face retaliatory actions. There are peaceful ways to express your objections. This is clearly a local versus central debate. At which point do the citizens and residents of a particular state have the ultimate right to decide their fate and that of the off spring? It's the same question wrapped in different wrapping paper as to when do the taxpayers of one state have the right not to send off their tax dollars to the centralized government just to be rerouted to those in another state to buoy programs you neither like nor support.

Another question here, who gets to decide how many are enough, the residents of the area who will have to contend with the change these things impose or some distant bureaucrat? Despite what others will say, this is a good thing to come just before this election. It's healthy. They are giving you the chance to express your vote on this and many other issues. Whichever side you are on, the choices could not be more clear. There ought to be no name calling here. Vote your vote.

And if you think it can't happen to you and your area, keep chomping on those mushrooms you have stored in your refrigerator. It can happen to any of us in a second. That's what elitism is about. This is hardly an issue many will want to trust the court system to decide. Everything has its history. Elitism is no exception.