Federalism, enshrined in that pesky, pesky Constitution of ours, ensures that individual states have the power to make up their own minds about things, thus preventing the tyranny of centralized rule. Its the insurance we have to prevent a Totalitarian regime. No wonder Chairman Zero finds the Constitution "fundamentally flawed!"
Now he's joined by the New Yorker magazine:
If you came up with a list of obstacles to economic recovery in this country, it would include all the usual suspects—our still weak banking system, falling house prices, overindebted consumers, cautious companies. But here are fifty culprits you might not have thought of: the states. Federalism, often described as one of the great strengths of the American system, has become a serious impediment to reversing the downturn.
Oh but it gets better. Remember how The One has insisted that we are citizens of the world, over and above being citizens of the United States?
...fiscal policy is undermined if the federal government is doing one thing and the states are doing another. It’s a global economy. It would be helpful to have a genuinely national government.
In other words, it would be helpful to trash the Constitution.
I'm sure it would be for them.
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