Thanks for this thread. For almost 80 years we have been saddled with the failed Keynesian Economic System. It has bankrupted the US Federal Government.
The derivatives of the WW2 Wage and Price Control Dictates are as follows: Medicare, Medicaid, Romney”care” and Obama”care.”
There will be additional calls for State Constitutional Conventions if the Republicans try to preserve or retain ANY of Obama or Romney”care.”
Obama”care” is the Death Knell for America. It must be ABOLISHED FOREVER if America is to survive.
If Obama”care” does survive, then I favor Regional Areas of the former United States of America. I think the States that the XL Pipeline will run through makes excellent sense for one Region, called The Texas Region. The Mississippi Region would be those States that the Mississippi River runs through. Pacific and Atlantic Regions are obvious, as are the Rocky Mountain States.
In this way people could vote with their feet and move to a greater or lesser degree of personal Liberty.
The Great Experiment of forcing the United States of America back into the European Feudal System began with FDR’s Social Security System and will end with Obama”care.”
No need for armed conflict, as we have already tried that with our bloody Civil War.
Just hold State Constitutional Conventions, split up into multi State Regions, and hold Fourth of July “Remember When Days” once a year, as we thank our lucky Stars that we in NO WAy are like Europe.
I have been scouring my files - but could not find :-( - a file about some Russian in the 90's who predicted the US would do just that by [now, I think].
Generally I have been a supporter of Keynesian economics - on a very moderate scale. We could never have produced so much wealth since WWII if we had stayed on the gold standard. I think where we went wrong with Keynes is, simply, greed. Trillions of $$$ on margins [of as little as a few %] and away too much debt on all sides has sunk Keynes - for good I hope. :-|
The rest of the crack-pottery aside we haven’t had a “Keynesian” system. Keynes never suggested anything as one-sided as what we have where the spending never stops. Nor did he ever suggest massive government expenditure during periods of prosperity.