http://www.debate.org/debates/?order=1&sort=&member=George%2EHollsinger Customize this RSS feed by going to http://www.debate.org/rss/ en-us 2013-05-23T08:51:43-08:00 2013-05-23T08:51:43-08:00 http://www.debate.org/debates/Would-the-Gulf-States-Work-More-Efficiently-as-a-Separate-Nation/1/ (Voting Period) With recent developments, such as the oil spill, it's a wonder there hasn't been one word about the gulf states(Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida) from succeeding from the U.S.. Texas even has the legal right to do so. It's obvious that the rest of the nation has anything but completely forgotten the spill. It was not even mentioned in President Obama's State of the Union. It is clearly evident that the oil is not gone. When you make something smaller and disperse it over a larger area it does not go away. Hence the term "dispersant". The oil is now at a molecular level working it's way up the food chain and most locals have stopped eating fish caught in our area. Meanwhile the process of snatching a claim from BPs iron clasp has made it impossible for many people to get a fraction of what they are owed. To top it off the U.S. government decided to hand it's air tanker contracts to a company well known for fraud instead of s http://www.debate.org/debates/Would-the-Gulf-States-Work-More-Efficiently-as-a-Separate-Nation/1/comments/ 2011-03-26T19:32:19-08:00