Italy The Fifty-first State?

Italy needs to modernize its economy to compete better globally but the truth it must face is that no state can solve its economic problems and create for itself a dynamic new prosperity by remaining a sovereign nation. Nations are set up to solve problems top-down and within national borders but postmodern solutions require also a transnational approach. The Italian auto company Fiat stopped acting nationally within Italy and in the European Union and boldly bought Chrysler which gave it the right to do business also across the borders of 50 American states. It is now a political and economic player in the EU and in the US as well as in Italy. Fiat has boldly freed itself from economic slavery within the national borders of Italy. It operates freely without interstate tariffs in 78 states worldwide. Why not solve the serious economic problems of Italians by giving each the political right to operate like Fiat outside of their national borders? 
    The American Constitution reads in Article IV, Section 3, “New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union.” Italy the fifty-first state? Unthinkable! Absolute total nonsense! Just imagine Italy accepted by the American Congress so that 61 million Italians, who have now the right to work where they wish in 28 European states, would gain the legal right to live and to work and to vote and to run for public office and to become citizens in any one of 51 states in North America and on the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as well as in Italy merely by taking up residence in one of them! Why is such a state thinkable for Corporations like Fiat but unthinkable for Italians? It would be a revolution! It would begin to shake up national structures in the postmodern world on a scale like the conquest of Gaul by Caesar in the ancient world. But it would be a secure revolution. Investment money would flow into Italy from investors worldwide because they would know that Italy as a US state is a secure democracy backed by the US Federal Government’s military, judicial and economic powers. Italians affected badly by their Jobs Act would be free to move to fifty new states to seek opportunities not found in Europe or in Italy. All it requires is a referendum in Italy. If Italians vote yes and the American Congress passes a bill admitting Italy as a state, a new world will be born with the city of Rome again a grand presence in a vast territory of united peoples.
Daniel Mcneill
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