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This will be a good chance for state governments to show how well they function and coordinate absent federal guidance. Maybe they will form their own federati
by basch 7y ago
This will be a good chance for state governments to show how well they function and coordinate absent federal guidance.
Maybe they will form their own federation to circumvent the current federations ineffectiveness.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-09/governors-consider-supply-consortium-to-skirt-fema-dysfunction https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-09/governors...
That's at least one emergent non-California nation state coming to be. Maybe we could call it the Great States. Toronto can come too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Megalopolis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Megalopolis
Culturally; North Central, The North, Midland, St Louis Cooridor, Inland North, W. Pa.; make a nice package.
https://www.wbez.org/stories/_/9054d7a4-f876-4c53-8ce1-08adae048d28 https://www.wbez.org/stories/_/9054d7a4-f876-4c53-8ce1-08ada...
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- frockington1 7y agoStates shouldn't need federal guidance and should prefer not to receive it. Without federal oversight, states and municipalities can tailor policy to their own area
- basch 7y agoI don't disagree, absent a well stocked National Stockpile, the Great States should build their own emergency reserve for Natural Disaster and Pandemic. Each state building its own stockpiles of some things that don't hit all areas equally could be wasteful. Keep close relationships with manufacturing firms who are prepared to be ready on short notice. This is as much a failure of planlessness as it is policy.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoAlthough it should be noted that many states did have adequate stockpiles and haven't had their health care systems overloaded.
- davidw 7y agoHaving some states do the right things and others not doing so is kind of like having a pool with a peeing section.
- vonmoltke 7y agoThe same is true for nations. Any argument for forcing the states to be subordinate to the federal government is also an argument for forcing the federal government, and all other national governments, to be subordinate to a single supra-national entity.
- davidw 7y agoExcept that it's easier to temporarily close national borders or institute things like temperature checks or quaranting arrivals than it is state borders in the US, as far as I can tell.