GEORGIA AS ITS OWN INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC

Is it possible for Georgia to exist independent of the United States? First we will look at what seems to be on everyone’s mind, that is, the economic meltdown. Then we will look at the political question wrapped around the moral question of size and scale. Then a brief look at our culture. And I’ll wrap up with a look at what Georgia would lose if we left the Union.

Could Georgia exist as a country economically?

Each person in Georgia spends approximately $1,800.00 a year for food. Let’s multiply that $1,800.00 figure by Georgia’s current population of 9.7 million (2010 Census); the resulting figure would be $17,460,000,000. And that is just one element of the many dollars spent every year by each individual.

Imagine what that would do for the economy of Georgia if all that money was spent on locally-raised food products.

According to 2010 World Bank statistics, Georgia has a gross domestic product of $404,600,000,000. That’s $41,711 per capita. That’s higher than the United States per capita figure which is only $38,000. And keep in mind that we were, and are still, in a recession when this figure was produced. This figure puts Georgia ahead of most countries in the world.

I’ll use the figure of 192 countries ranked by the World Bank in 2010. That places Georgia 18th in per capita GDP. This puts us ahead of very successful countries like Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Greece, Norway, Portugal and many others.

We have two very vibrant ports with which world trade can be accomplished. We have one of the largest airports in the world and a modern highway and rail system. We have abundant natural resources and a huge population. Georgia shares a border with five other states with which we can trade. Our domestic product output is such that we would be sought out as trading partners. We could produce most of what we need to exist here in Georgia, and, we could open our ports in true “free trade” for those things that other countries have which we do not produce: oil, sugar, rice, cars and trucks, and electronics, to name a few.

The political question

In 1789 many of the Founding Fathers looked at the geographic size of most states and decided that they were just too vast to be governed in Republican form. That’s why areas of the original states seceded from the mother states. In 1789, when the Constitution for the united States of America was finally ratified by nine States, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia claimed the size of their respective states to extend all the way to the Mississippi River.

• Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan were all carved out of Virginia because the leaders in Virginia knew that republican form could not exist in such a vast territory.
• Tennessee was carved out of North Carolina.
• The states of Alabama and Mississippi were carved out of Georgia.
• Maine seceded from Massachusetts.

As the state populations expanded, somewhat rapidly, different states broke off from the mother state and formed their own republics.

Size and scale matters when you’re talking about republican form of government. All of the classical republics were small in size, and political representation was close to the people.

And they all survived quite nicely until they decided to get larger, and in some cases create empires.

What we live in today is the modern-day U.S. Empire.

Georgia encompasses 59,441 square miles. That puts Georgia 92nd in the world in geographic size. It puts us ahead of countries like Greece, Nicaragua, Austria, Honduras, Bulgaria, Cuba, Iceland, South Korea, Hungary, Portugal, the country of Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, and on and on. There are 100 countries in the world smaller than our home state of Georgia.

Conclusion

What would Georgia lose if it separated from the U.S.?

That’s a good question. Let me lay out a few things that we would not have the benefit of if we decided not to go down with the U.S.S. Titanic:

• The IRS
• The Supreme Court
• The National Debt
• The BATF
• Janet Napolitano
• Barak Obama
• Harry Reid
• The theft of our money and resources
• The lives of our young men (and now women) in endless “bankers’ wars”
• The United Nations
• The Department of Education
• Barney Frank
• Nancy Pelosi
• Joe Biden
• Abortion on demand
• Homosexuals in the Military
• All of those tiny little federal taxes (can’t be counted)
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Senate
• The Pentagon

We could go on all day and use up a lot of ink and paper just to say this:

There is no downside to a Free, Sovereign, and Independent Georgia.