-=> Bob Ackley wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> OK. But, where would you make the national capitol? You said
 DD> "Washington should pull out of the US".

 BA> My personal preference is to convene a Constitutional convention and
 BA> dissolve the United States.  Most if not all of the states have
 BA> economies larger than most other recognized nations. 

 BA> IMO the US is a failed experiment and has been for half a century.

 BA> Individual states and groups of states would, of ocurse, be perfectly
 BA> free to merge or form alliances.

Uuuuuhhhhh, didn't they try that back in 1861? I'm pretty sure it was in all
the media of the time. 

People who don't like the system as currently obtains are, of course, invited
to work to change it from within. Or to pack their bags and move to a locale
where a system that they *DO* like is. Or find a bit of land and build their
own country ... land, that is, that is not already owned/claimed - except by
"natives" with backward technology from whom can be a territory which the
victors can evolve into whatever they may.

IOW - ain't gonna happen.

There are a lot of things "wrong" with the system we now have.
It's really not
all that fair. Nor efficient. It's pretty horrid, when you get right down to
it. Except, of course, for all the other systems of governance. Which are
orse.

If I didn't believe in this system I'd not have volunteered to put my arse on
the line to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against
all enemies, foreign and domestic".

ENJOY!!!

From Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
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