Texas to out rsource the State

[johncoby2]

http://bayareahouston.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-low-will-we-go-china-to-buy-texas.html

Anything for a job:

State-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC is buying a multibillion-dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields, potentially testing the political waters for further expansion into U.S. energy reserves.

With the announcement Monday it would pay up to $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake Energy assets, CNOOC lays claim to a share of properties that eventually could produce up to half a million barrels a day of oil equivalent.

Instead of outsourcing jobs, Texas will just outsource the state.

[Greyhound]

1. Do you think they might just take the whole state in a straight trade for their bonds?

It would be interesting to see how the Chinese government would deal with them and their bizarre beliefs...

(Apologies in advance for the few sane people that are still there, but you could move)

[Uben]

2. Moving won't turn Texas blue

FYI, Texas has not always been red. Remember Ann Richards and the other Bill White? Yeah, there's a bunch of ignorant rednecks here, but most of them don't know squat about politics. You may be surprised this fall! We have been crawling closer to blue each year, and hopefully that trend will continue.

[Greyhound]

4. No, but trading it to the Chinese would rid us of a consistent pain in the ass

and turn it to a really red state. Let's see how tough and independent they are while looking down the barrel of an AK.

BTW, I'm currently in AZ, another formerly Democratic state turned into a shithole by the massive influx of people too stupid to notice that when you put criminals in charge, you get nothing but more crime on a much grander scale.

[Hannah Bell]

3. Boy, selling the state off to the Chi-Coms. How do they justify this to the teabagger crowd?

[ixion]

5. the teabaggers support this stuff, despite the conflict-of-interest

They call it "free enterprise"... of course, they're insane. ;)