further news from the fall of Rome

[rm]

You've gotta love Vermont:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2007/06/03/in_vermont_nascent_secession_movement_gains_traction/

Comments

[kiji-kat.livejournal.com]

Was that sarcasm or genuine admiration? Being from Ohio, I don't know what the rest of New England thinks of Vermont.

We only know that Ben and Jerry's ice cream is produced there before it is pulled into our gravitational vortex and permanently adheres itself to our tummies, thighs, butts, hips and so on.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

LOL.

If anyplace could do it, it would be Vermont.

They have the raw materials and land to provide for and feed themselves.

(Unlike say, New York City, whose potential secession I made into an entire multimedia project in College.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Genuine admiration from me. Probably sarcasm from others. I love Vermont, because it's got a real hardcore sort of brutality to fit alongside some of its hippydippyness.

[kiji-kat.livejournal.com]

I imagine they'd have to in order to survive those winters. I can't imagine they're anything less than brutal.

I've always wanted to visit Vermont. What's up there?

[rm.livejournal.com]

The smallest largest city in America! Burlington. Which I love, love love.

[kiji-kat.livejournal.com]

It sounds cool already!

Man, I wish I could get an opportunity to meet you. You're beyond cool.

[sociallyawkrd.livejournal.com]

Oh sweet baby jesus. I am positive, POSITIVE that there are freaky Libertarians behind this idea. They are behind every hairbrained scheme that would never work

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Ha. I grew up in a town in NY about 5-10 miles from the VT border (right at the line between MA and VT, actually, so it was half an hour to either other state).
They're weird in Vermont.
Also, they drive real bad.

And they used to send bandits over to plunder New Yorkers' farms. Dang Green Mountain Boys...

If anyone can do it, they can.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well thank you very much. If we're evern in the same locale, holler.

*hotbutton*

[baronalejandro.livejournal.com]

Let me an' my entire ____in' culture (black AND white) from th' last hunnert years ____in' take a li'l stroll up there an' give them a little _____in' insight on why 'secedin' from th' Union' usually ain't taken very ____in' well.

p.s. - hope you feel better soon.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

hmmm. *bookmarks for reference*

Also, I think the one major kink in their plan (aside from the lack of replacements for federal services, which is what will, at this point, take down any nascent secessionist government) is all of these people who will flock to the "Switzerland of North America", where are they going to live?

Because (if I remember correctly) Vermont has some of the toughest anti-development laws on the books.

They're also lacking direct access to the sea, which could lead to some trade difficulties, unless they could broker a deal with the Canadians and use the St. Lawrence seaway.