Wednesday, October 25, 2017

World Unity 18

 Sovereign states manage the actions of their subjects and try to direct them towards good behavior but whoever has power in a sovereign state can act in his own interest. The evil actions of individuals are punished by states but a state is not subject to punishment for its evil acts against its own citizens or against citizens of foreign states if it is sovereign. Why is it that we Americans do not realize that we alone of all people in the world live in states where sovereignty is limited? We enjoy in our union of states the benefits and freedoms that result from limiting state sovereignty. We should be shouting to the world that the right to live and work in any one of 50 states and to enjoy full citizenship in any democratic state of our union by simply taking up residence in it is the ultimate human political blessing. We should be passionate about extending our benefits to foreign states by admitting them as new states in our union. But for some reason we seem blind ourselves to the extraordinary benefits of our system and we have no interest in adding new states to our union even though since it began over 200 years ago we have admitted 37 new states.
    A third of Americans live in poverty or struggle to remain not far above poverty. The majority of people outside the United States and other developed countries live in poverty. Poor people in the world have no capital to invest in their economies to produce jobs. In some poor countries the only avenues to wealth are politics and corruption. Plenty of capital and know-how is available worldwide to create jobs, but poor sovereign states ruled by tyrants are not attractive to investors. The best way to develop them is to invite them to become states in our union of states. Then they will draw in investments from investors worldwide looking for totally secure opportunities. And we Americans would have new states in our union needing development where we could use our skills securely and profitably creating wealth for the world's poor and for ourselves.
   But we are blind to our condition. And we are blind to the immense possibilities for good that our political system could do for ourselves and the world. We do not see who we are and where we should be headed.

Daniel McNeill usoftheworld.com
The United States of the World, The Theater of the Impossible, The End of All Beginnings, books by Daniel McNeill, are for sale at:amazon.com/author/graceisall 

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