Let me start the new year by clearly stating the reasons I am pressing for Ohio’s independence from the United States. This is only a high-level overview, but this entire blog is its commentary:
1. We are experiencing potentially severe environmental changes affecting our weather, our wildlife, and the quality of our air and water. Far from preparing us to deal with these issues, the position of the Federal Government has been to ignore them entirely.
2. The U.S. economy is dependent on foreign oil. Oil is now past peak production and in the hands of increasingly unstable régimes. The Federal Government has chosen not to take any constructive action, either to stabilize the price of oil, or to significantly reduce even long-term consumption. This poses a serious economic and national security risk.
3. The Federal Government is sacrificing the lives of Americans in a war that cannot be justified on the basis of national security.
4. As the mortgage crisis has shown, personal debt has reached intolerable levels; aggravated by continuing Federal budget deficits. The deficits are being financed by a collapsing Social Security system and by foreign investors. This dependence upon foreign investors poses serious economic and national security risks.
5. Federal tax, energy, and environmental policy has favored global corporations at the expense of small business and the people. Indeed, we can argue that the Federal Government is not a democracy, but a kleptocracy that no longer governs by consent of the governed.
6. The Federal Government, since at least 1913, has exhibited a steady pattern of curtailing the rights and freedoms of individuals. I am planning a series to show just how the Constitution has been slowly eradicated by Federal legislation and bureaucratic activity.
7. States’ rights, once a vital check on the expanding power of the Federal Government, have been nearly abolished altogether. The problem is that “one size fits all” solutions really do not fit anyone very well. One result is that the Federal bureaucracy now impose mandates that have to be funded from State resources.
8. For all of the hoopla surrounding Ohio’s role in electing the President in 2000 and 2004, there is no evidence that Ohio has experienced any political benefit whatsoever; except perhaps that Ohio is breaking even between Federal tax collections and Federal disbursements. When we consider the costs of maintaining the administration in Washington, Ohio still is not getting fair value per dollar sent.
I maintain that Ohio’s taxpayers will better served by a Republic of their own, even after taking into consideration the costs of a national defense, diplomatic service, and some regulatory tasks. It will be 26 times more responsive to the will of our people, eliminate layers of bureaucracy required to interpret and enforce Federal rules, and will limit its military activity to true defense.
4 comments:
However hard I find it to believe you're actually saying all these things, it's never going to happen. Ever. Ever. Not in 100 years. It didn't work last time.
Anonymous:
Why not?
The Civil War? Might makes right, hmm?
Texas v. White? A decision made in the heat of Reconstruction. If the Supreme Court never changed its mind, schools would still be segregated (see Plessy v. Ferguson c.1890).
U.S. military power? You saw how the Red Army saved the Soviet Union in 1991, didn't you?
Or did I miss your point?
"We are experiencing potentially severe environmental changes affecting our weather, our wildlife, and the quality of our air and water."
We need to stop environmental problems to make them appear that the environment is something separate from humans.
The reality is that we derive our economic wealth and our ability to survive on this planet from our environment.
Threats to the environment are more than just dirtying the air and water, affecting animal habitats, etc. They threaten our economy and even more importantly, our survival as a species.
sorry, I meant to say "we need to stop 'phrasing' environmental problems...
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