City Commission wants Florida divided into two states

Hawaii, Wisconsin and... South Florida? Furious at what they call no respect from state leaders when it comes to collecting and spending their own money, the North Lauderdale City Commission passed a resolution ...

[minor threat]

Go suck an egg Tallahassee!
~a south florida resident

[Native Floridian]

Are you kidding me? With all the problems we are having with taxes, education, etc, these moronic people are suggesting this. Get a fr*ggin life.

[Charlie Tuna]

It does send out a good message. The squeeky wheel does indeed get the oil. What would the flag look like?

[red]

does this mean that the South will rise again?

[Not a bad idea]

Let South Florida stop over supporting Northern Florida.

[ABC]

LOL

[Otis]

First it will be a new state then they will want to secede from the union as a spanish speaking country.

[Interesting]

Might work, except for the fact that it probably violates Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution.

[get a life]

Native Floridian wrote:

Are you kidding me? With all the problems we are having with taxes, education, etc, these moronic people are suggesting this. Get a fr*ggin life.

You really don't understand the root of the problem, do you...

[Old Gator]

Sounds good to me. We ship out far more of our tax money than we get back from Tallahassee, then have to listen to the upstate hicks bellyache that their taxes are going to pay for projects down here and kill all sorts of public works programs we need in this region. I'd be fine with financing a road project in the panhandle if the panhandlers would just shut up for a change about the greater needs of this far more populous region. But since their sense of community extends only so far as some indeterminable point north of Orlando, fine, let's secede and take care of our own. When the **** find themselves scrambling to make up out of their own pockets all the lost southern revenue on which they've been gorging for the better part of a century, perhaps we could negotiate a reunification on more egalitarian terms.

[tommy]

Approved! Approved! Please take the denziens of NY/NJ transplants, drug traffickers, and other assorted happy campers with you. Better yet, declare independence and become your own country. We could gate off the Turnpike and I-95 and require you to pay a customs duty. Don't like it? Take it up with the U.N.

[the X-man]

I think we been ignor for too long is time to divide. We make the bulk of the money for the state and get nothing in return. The northern floridian don't care anything about us here in the south.

[blame game]

A pretty good chunk of Miami-Dade wouldn't want any part of this nor would Collier and Lee counties to our west. So the thought is we should divide ourselves because we think differently and have different needs? Look at NYC and Chicago. These cities drive their respective state politics even though the rest of the state sees things much differently. When Key West wanted to "seceed", the nation laughed. We seem to continue to give the nation fodder for amusement.

[Rebate]

Does that mean that I will not get my federal rebates check next week? I have to buy a playstation 3.

[Partyguy]

Another conch republic? Banana republic? Hurry Jimmy Buffet write us a song!

[Native who cares]

Approved. Let those rednecks try and fend for themselves.

[TaxpayersScrewed Again]

Native Floridian wrote:

Are you kidding me? With all the problems we are having with taxes, education, etc, these moronic people are suggesting this. Get a fr*ggin life.

I agree wholeheartedly. So they'd have to create another gigantic Government Bureaucracy which would necessitate HUGE tax increases! Knuckleheads!!! Tighten your belts like the rest of us do!

[Shanghailil]

I don't know about two states, but a good start would be to saw it off at the Dade-Broward line and let all the third world people who live in Miami float back to wherever it is they came from. There's South Florida, then there's Miami!!

[Rebate]

minor threat wrote:

Go suck an egg Tallahassee!
~a south florida resident

Does that mean I won't get my rebate check next week. I want to buy a playstation

[Deshawn]

Shizel my nizle bizel.. me all likes dis plan on da hand wit my baggy leg jackets all da blaz'n YEAT! I says crunk-juice be our state drink yall YEAT!