I can see a time coming very soon where we may not have a choice BUT to break up the union as we know it today. As the deficit gets higher and foreign governments buy up our national and personal debts at a break neck pace eventually, those governments, such as China, will want to collect. The only way to get out of it and not become a foreign controlled colony would then be to disband. Whether it would be into a peaceful confederacy of smaller sovereign states that have centralized governments that band together to form a military or a warring factions of states each wanting their own country recognized.
Just to make sure people understand I do not mean "states" as they appear today but groupings of current states into larger "states". Such as the region of the Northeast (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and so on perhaps even upstate New York, parts of Pennsylvania, forming one regional state.)
I do not think with our current fiscal problems and some truly philosophical differences that we can maintain a strong federal government unless some changes and partisan compromises are achieved.
This will take time but at our current rate I believe we will definately see it within the next generation. If not the breakup at least a severe restructuring of the current US. I donot believe our grandchildren will raise their children in a country recognizeable to us at this present time.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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