Splitting of the USA

In his previous round, Pro has provided an enlightening vision of the dystopian nightmare which he dreams of and calls “Dixie”. His delusions of grandeur become all the more curious when we consider that on some level he seems to genuinely believe that his ideas have merit and are worthy of not just of consideration, but of adoption.The Following is Only A Fraction of the Policy Problems I have provided numerical evidence and cited sources to back up my claim that the Southern economy could not support a military spending increase to 30% of GDP without raising taxes and/or increasing debt. My opponent assures us that cutting expenses is enough, but provides no evidence of his own. This is not surprising because he is obviously lying, either to himself and to us, or just to us. When current government expenses amount to only 22.8% of GDP, even if he cut funding to everything else, there is still a 7.2% GDP gap which much be paid for either by higher taxes or increased debt in order to get to his 30% defense benchmark. My opponent seems unable to do basic math, and yet wants to lead a nation. In cutting other government spending to make way for increases in defense spending, Pro demonstrates not just that he is in favor of bigger government, but that he wishes for more heartless and stagnant government. With his cuts, he would let elderly citizens starve and freeze in the cold rather than pay them the social security benefits that they have contributed to for their whole working lives. He would refuse them medical treatment which they obviously could not pay for. He would end infrastructure construction projects like road building that is key to businesses prosperity and job creation. Research and development sponsored by the government would end, and since key technology centers like Silicon Valley are mostly located outside the South, technology would become stagnant, quickly allowing other countries to surpass “Dixie” in every meaningful way. On trade, he remains preoccupied with the problem of imports, and ignores the benefit of having those imports. For example, it is clearly better to have imported cars and computers available to consumers if the quality of these goods is higher than what is produced by domestic companies. Moreover, Pro dismisses the value created by having exports, which would also be lost if we dropped out of NAFTA. Many Southern jobs depend on exporting goods to other countries, and his policies would cost those people their jobs. The South’s population is not large enough to replace all the lost demand, so contrary to his claims, those goods and services would not go to Southerners instead. That’s simply not how economics works. Economists universally agree that free trade is one of the keys to prosperity. [1]On education, this is perhaps the one point I can remotely agree with Pro on, in that students today are often required to learn complex skills for which they will likely have no use at all for. In today’s competitive world, wastefulness gets punished. My opponent is superfluous with regards to educational adaptation, however. It is already taking place within the structure of our democracy. Florida, for example, has recently made provisions for two tracks to be offered to high school students seeking a diploma, one vocational and one that is college preparatory. [2] Possible Psychopath Pro tells us all manner of policy ideas with details as to how they could be implemented, but never once cites a source which would support his claims that these policies would produce beneficial results. I suppose with Pro as our king commander, that would free him from having to prove anything, because we wouldn’t really have much choice in the matter as to whether these awful policies should be enacted, now would we? Thankfully, that day is not likely to come to our reality and he will never be a king, unless he plays a computer game like Civilization or Starcraft in order to fulfill his fantasies (and I recommend he should). At any rate, Pro has the audacity to somehow assert that by denying the people our right to make decisions for ourselves, he somehow manages to make us more free. He promises to be a benevolent monarch. We’ve heard that before, from countless dictators, despots, and tyrants, and we would be fools to trust his unjustified claim to have good intentions. Indeed, Pro’s lack of empathy with regards to his fellow human clearly reveals the opposite: he is highly unethical, narcissistic, bigoted, and unfit for high office. Pro’s mental state seems to border on psychopathy, although I am admittedly not a specialist with the credentials to make an official diagnosis. The self-destructive cruelty with which he would treat fellow human beings is telling. He wishes to threaten, and presumably use, all manner of high tech weaponry on any immigrant who wants to enter his hypothetical “Dixie.” Even if such an immigrant comes with a special skill set, such as an Arabic doctor who seeks a better life by earning a living by saving the lives of Southerners, for example, my opponent would rather gun such a person down in cold blood than an immigrant such as him step foot on his beloved “Dixie.” Moreover, he hopes for there to be a war between his nation, and resource rich Arab countries so that he can “bomb them, enslave them, and force them to drill for oil that we would sell on the world market and domestically.” In short, he shamelessly admits to a deep seated desire to commit crimes against humanity, theft on a grand scale, and reinstitute a form of slavery, which he previously lied about and said he did not want to do. Pro very likely needs mental health counseling before he causes harm to himself or others. 1) http://www.fee.org... 2) http://www.nbcmiami.com...