Christopher Ketcham thinks a little downsizing is in order… for the United States of America.
Increasingly, I have no fealty to the U.S. government. This has nothing to do with George Bush, bogeyman of the Left, the war in Iraq, or Halliburton, and everything to do with the reasonable assessment that the United States is too big for its own good. Too big in its 300 million people to be represented by 550 mostly millionaire men (not women) in a far-off swamp called Washington, D.C. I therefore have stopped calling myself a U.S. citizen.
This is actually quite a fascinating article, and outlines how the United States could possibly be split into smaller, easier to govern, entities.
Interestingly, a similar sort of idea comes up from time to time in Australia, whereby more states be created.
Ian Johnston lives in a flat in Hornsby but his heart lies in a great state called New England. The 56-year-old former public servant has even designed a flag for this new political entity that would be carved out of northern NSW.
Personally, and I don’t know how popular I’ll be, I think there are too many Australian states as is. They should be done away with completely and the functions of the state governments redistributed between the Federal government and the municipal councils.
Moving right along…
