That is the trouble with American thinking now. We find deficits okay. Why? I wouldn't run a deficit in my own house.. so why pay into a government that can't keep their **** straight?
If invention and innovations means 1T+ deficits, then you can keep em.
Left to their own devices, the only states that wouldn't make it in today's world is the utmost northern... only because they no longer have the land to produce food with.. that is the southern states primary economy force.
It was the people with degree's that knew better than the common working man that the Community Reinvestment Act was good for us... see where that got us? And the Wall street people with degree's who bet on the CRA failing miserably... yet another step in the right direction. We got away from hard work, and now people feel to high and mighty to get their hands dirty. (Oh, and yes I have and advanced degree
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I am not for the states leaving the union.. but they do have the right to make their voice heard that the direction of the this country is not on a sustainable course, and given the electoral college landscape, only two real states control elections.. of which are the biggest drain on our national economy and produce the most national debt.