Alright you guys, I think we might have to start worrying about Wyoming.....
They established this
task force to look into things in case the Federal US government failed.
I shit you not, they are looking into buying an aircraft carrier....
Let's be perfectly clear here, this is Wyoming:
Not exactly a whole lot of water. They're landlocked really.... The largest lake appears to be Yellowstone Lake....
This thing is the brainchild of this dude:
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/LegislatorSummary/LegDetail.aspx?LegID=882 He has voted the bill forward.I dunno if Wyoming is going to succeed from the Union or not, and it's kind of an unhealthy thing to obcess over. Not to worry Rep. Lorraine Quarberg is here to tell you what's healthy and what ain't:
"I don’t think there’s anyone in this room today what [sic] would come up here and say that this country is in good shape, that the world is stable and in good shape — because that is clearly not the case," state Rep. Lorraine Quarberg, R-Thermopolis, said. "To put your head in the sand and think that nothing bad’s going to happen, and that we have no obligation to the citizens of the state of Wyoming to at least have the discussion, is not healthy."
Granted, we aren't in especially good shape right now, and something bad is going to happen, sooner or later. Maybe in November. But Wyoming's concerns still seem a little apocalyptic. The task force is to study the potential impacts of a variety of potential federal disruptions, including (but not limited to) a rapid decline of the dollar, a disruption in food or energy distribution, an unspecified "constitutional crisis," or, even more ominously, the "potential effects of a situation in which the federal government has no effective power or authority over the people of the United States."
Hm. Not sure what they're getting at there. If the federal government had no power (and so presumably little if any authority), that'd mean things were pretty damn bad. If it had no authority, but did have power, there'd be those what would say that calls for secession.Is Wyoming planning to secede? If so, it'd probably need some armed forces, like a freaking aircraft carrier in a landlocked state...?
That amendment I told you about (which was adopted) was requiring the task force also to look into the "conditions under which the state of Wyoming should implement a draft, raise a standing army, marine corps, navy and air force and acquire strike aircraft and an
aircraft carrier."
Surely, I thought, this means that at least somebody has a sense of humor about this project. Even if Wyoming were going to be independent, either by choice or because the other 49 states just quit inviting it to things, it's not very likely to need an aircraft carrier. Is the whole project (or at least the amendment) just intended to call attention to Wyoming's displeasure with the federal government? Or does Wyoming really need a navy with strike capability? And is that even possible? [see map above].
This is either one of the funnier things I've seen and a hilarious joke or there's some batshit crazy floating around the legislature in Wyoming.
Edit: I'm sorry I didn't see you there Descan, but I mean Wyoming might buy a freaking aircraft carrier.
[hug]