World Unity 22

 We are in the habit of calling our government in Washington a national government  but its actions are almost never purely national and most are national-international combined or else are particular actions that benefit only certain groups or individuals. Washington’s sovereign power over the military is used almost exclusively internationally. Its sovereign power over diplomacy has produced an array of diplomatic buildings all over the globe whose size and staffing show they are not used exclusively in the interest of individual US citizens. The commerce power of the Congress can be used directly for the economic benefit of all Americans but it rarely is. The Social Security Act of 1935 is not funded by federal taxes. President Obama’s healthcare plan is the first direct aid to all the American people that is national. It uses federal taxes to directly benefit Americans but many federal and state politicians oppose it and want to get rid of it. We Americans simply do not have a national government that is exclusively national. We fund the Federal Government but our Constitution sets up a government with powers that do not need to be used only nationally. And for the most part, they are not.

Washington’s actions benefit our 50 states and states throughout the world indirectly. Washington acts mainly as an international government and this is how it should act. When we argue that foreign states should join our union, we claim that they would join a union whose central government is already international.

Daniel McNeill usoftheworld.com

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