Should the US be split into three countries?

[morganist]

Interesting no one so far thinks it should remain one country.

 

[jeb9999]

Quote from Covertibility:


10 States Where An Absurd Percentage Of The Population Works For The Government - Basically red states - no surprise.

You need to know how they count government workers. Are military counted? Are postal workers counted?

Here is a better set of data with explanations:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/141785/gov-employment-ranges-ohio.aspx

 

[jeb9999]

I don't think that 2 or 3 countries are enough.

I think it will take 5. One for each of the following groups:

far left
left
center
right
far right

With modern technology it can be decided at the county level which of the 5 countries you want to belong to. Then let the fun begin.

 

[trefoil]

Quote from Kassz007:

So you would have a one-government authoritarian rule in each of the three seperate countries?

On that subject:

from George Washington's Farewell Address:

But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole.

The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South, in the same intercourse, benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the North, it finds its particular navigation invigorated; and, while it contributes, in different ways, to nourish and increase the general mass of the national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maritime strength, to which itself is unequally adapted. The East, in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water, will more and more find a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad, or manufactures at home. The West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort, and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence, and the future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.

While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves, which so frequently afflict neighboring countries not tied together by the same governments, which their own rival ships alone would be sufficient to produce, but which opposite foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate and embitter. Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.

Just thinking about who would get access to the Mississippi - thinking about how much of the country is tied up in its system of tributaries - is enough to make your head hurt.

 

[JamesL]

Quote from Covertibility:


10 States Where An Absurd Percentage Of The Population Works For The Government - Basically red states - no surprise.

10: Nebraska - toss up (purple)

9: NY - blue

8: Idaho - red

7: Kansas - red

6: West Virginia - blue

5: North Dakota - toss up

4: Mississippi - red

3: New Mexico - blue

2: Alaska - toss up

1: Wyoming - red

3 blue states, 3 toss ups (purple) and 4 blue - I wouldn't go so far to call it "basically red states"

as per 112th Congress:

 

[Covertibility]

Past 2 elections, ND, AK, NE and WV went red. 8 red, 2 blue.

I'll try and find the sales figures for SKOAL to make it more definitive.

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from morganist:

Interesting no one so far thinks it should remain one country.

As I'm sure you well know, the US was originally "a bunch of more-or-less sovereign and separate states... and the Federal government was small and with limited powers... which was a good thing. (If you didn't like a state's policies, you could move to a more favorable one.)

But since the Federal Government has become all powerful... and the citizens failed to protest and prevent that growth in power.... the "state" matters little any more. America has become an oligarchy... all the dancing around elections and personal freedoms are mostly just theater.

 

[bearice]

Just deport or send Obama supporters out of USA. Problem solved.

Also send Obama back to Kenya where he came from.

 

[the1]

The "other handers" better have a lot of money to fund the police force

Quote from Scataphagos:

Not 3.. rather, 2.

On the one hand.... "Tit-sucking parasites"... who depend upon government largess for their living.

On the other hand... Those who take full responsibility for themselves and their lives.

The "other handers" would love it... no more subsiding the incompetent, lazy and indigent.

The "one handers" would soon die out. If there is no one to bleed for a living, they won't be sustained and will perish.

Soon, we'll be left with only "other handers"... just as when the country was founded.

Yeah, I'm for it.

 

[TheGoonior]

So in this case would we be on the loonie and peso, or would forex traders be wheeling and dealing in the newly formed TEX/EUR cross?