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Should Secession be an option?
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<blockquote data-quote="SnowCal" data-source="post: 61964376" data-attributes="member: 300913"><p>One of the biggest differences between American and European politics is that Americans have a distinctly federal view. We view ourselves as Americans, not Greeks or Germans or Dutch who happen to live in the EU. And that creates a great irony in American politics. Democratic politics causes money to be taken from Democratic states and given to Republican ones. Republican politics opposes this transfer of wealth to Republican states. It's a fantastic paradox.</p><p></p><p>But at the end of the day, when you hear suggestions from Americans that you probably need to bail out the PIIGS, it's because that's what we've been doing here for a long time and it's worked out well enough for us.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Most of the states wanting to secede share a lot in common with the European periphery. Absent our well-developed federal system they would also share a lot of similar problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SnowCal, post: 61964376, member: 300913"] One of the biggest differences between American and European politics is that Americans have a distinctly federal view. We view ourselves as Americans, not Greeks or Germans or Dutch who happen to live in the EU. And that creates a great irony in American politics. Democratic politics causes money to be taken from Democratic states and given to Republican ones. Republican politics opposes this transfer of wealth to Republican states. It's a fantastic paradox. But at the end of the day, when you hear suggestions from Americans that you probably need to bail out the PIIGS, it's because that's what we've been doing here for a long time and it's worked out well enough for us. Most of the states wanting to secede share a lot in common with the European periphery. Absent our well-developed federal system they would also share a lot of similar problems. [/QUOTE]
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