"The Case for Vermont's Secession," by Frank Bryan, was published in Vermont Commons in 2005. Its arguments could just as well apply to Ohio's secession (in some particulars even more so: Vermont gets $1.15 from the Feds for every dollar sent, Ohio only gets $1.03). And nobody will call a nation of 11.5 million people a "cute little republic". (Ohio's population is comparable to Chile and Hungary). We might need more military than Vermont to cover a larger, flatter land area; but for self-defense, we will need much less than Washington would have us believe.
Read it for its logic, and for its faithfulness to what we have traditionally prized about America.
2 comments:
Harold Thomas,
Good post. I've always been leery of the "gifts" from DC. You give them a dollar, they give you back $1.15 or whatever change, WITH all sorts of limitations on how you spend the money. DC also requires State spending to match or equal the funds it "gives" you, driving up the real costs of DC's expenditures.
PLUS - there's now a huge debt associated with the project since Federal spending is financed through world T-bill sales, especially with the Chinese (who ain't dumb, nor altruistic).
Some deal.
Michael:
Excellent points (welcome to our space, by the way).
One of the greatest needs of the American secessionist movement is to develop research methodology to prove what we are saying here. When ordinary Americans see just what the Feds are doing to their wallets at both the Federal and State levels, and are satisfied that it's not being made up by some right-wing crazies, it just might wake them up.
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