Good governance doesn't scale to hundreds of millions
Antonio D'souza
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The USA used to be one of the best governed nations in the world. I don't think most people would argue that it remains so, given the shambles that Congress has been fo the past few years. I propose that the problem is one of scale and that the solution is to split it up into 3 smaller countries: North-East, South-East, West. The Midwest could be split from the West but then it wouldn't have any coastline and that seems unduly harsh.
They could all continue using the greenback, although the NorthEast (home to the original 13 colonies and DC) would retain control over it. Borders would be porus, much like Schengen. The National debt would be split up according to population.
Antonio D'souza Sun 21 Jul 2013 10:38AM
Yeah, that'd be a 2 way split. It'd be something, although I think Texas has enough oil money to do just fine. It's the other Southern states that'd be screwed.
Sylvain G. · Sat 20 Jul 2013 6:23PM
Journalists have been arguing lately that with the right-wing/Republican craziness going on in the southern states that those places are generally a drain on the rest of the country. They're socially backward and tend to take a great deal more Federal social funding then they return. So why not just cut them loose? Let Texas become the next Bangladesh/China and let progressive northern states follow a more European model. :)