LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't disagree, and I'm coming to think we need to have another > constitutional convention. > > That's a pretty scary concept though.
Yeah ... I'm completely a state's right (even city rights) guy, but you can't avoid the notion that that worked great when our economy was mostly internal: defend the borders, provide some basic infrastructure, let the states compete with each other to find the best path and thus enrich all. Now that the USA must compete globally, that won't work anymore; we have to compete as a team since China and India and everyone else certainly will. Europe is going through this same crisis with their major problem being that they've essentially selected the Gold Standard: monetary union without fiscal union. That no workie. Anyway, I think that's the US's largest issue for the next century: how are we going to compete and what federal infrastructure do we need to do it? BTW - Puerto Rico voted to become a state! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_status_referendum,_2012 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:358214 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
