Richer Days Ahead For Citizens of the US

It is so, so simple! Every time Congress admits a new state to our union of states, Washington increases its income from taxes. With 15 new states, its income would go way up and yet it would need less money because the world would be safer protected by the US military stationed in US states worldwide. The elected representatives from 65 US states in Congress could easily reduce federal taxes. Every employed citizen would pay less federal taxes and take home more money for the same work. With 65 states, Washington would be less involved in regulating states and states would have more power. As federal taxes decrease, states could increase taxes and use all their income only on direct benefits to their citizens. As we go forward, the robotization of industry and of life in general will make a democratic state devoted only to the welfare of its citizens the most essential thing. It is so, so simple! Congress has the right to admit new states according to Article lV Section 3 of the US Constitution! If the US had a 100 states, Washington’s present military budget could be decreased and still be enough to protect a much more peaceful world. There would be more peace and democracy in the world and more wealth for US citizens living worldwide. So,so simple!

Daniel McNeill

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American Relevancy Is Becoming Irrelevant

American domestic policy is free capitalistic economic development in a democratic union of states where none of its thousands of governments are fully sovereign. American foreign policy is the opposite. It promotes worldwide the existence of sovereign independent nation-states and uses its military and diplomatic power to influence them to be democracies open to free capitalistic development. This foreign policy has now run its course and failed. Worldwide we have mostly independent states ruled by dictators who steal the wealth created by global capitalism for themselves. Worse still, some of these states are big bull states with dictators who use the worldwide economy created by American policy to steal and control the wealth of their states and to use their easy access to massive amounts of capital to invest widely in foreign economies to profit from the global capitalistic system created and maintained by American power. America no longer directs the actions of global capitalism. It cannot thrive without American financial and military influence globally but the global economy that America created is now developed enough to function without its direction. American influence is now taken for granted. American relevancy is becoming irrelevant. Democracy worldwide is dying. Bull states like China and Russia are  powerful and relevant and big states like Turkey, India, and Iran are promoting nationalism without democracy to become bull states too. Dictators in less powerful states, whether elected or not, protect the rape of their state's wealth by imitating the big bull states. Running with the bulls is in. Ruling the nation-states of the world democratically is out. America has a weapon possessed by no other state that it has never used. Washington is the center of a union of states and obligated by its Constitution to force every one of its states to govern themselves only as democracies. Democracy no longer works in nation- states. America can become much more  relevant worldwide by admitting new states to its union rather than trying to maintain its relevancy by dropping bombs on them.

Daniel McNeill

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The Theater of the Impossible

The night sky over Kenmore Square shines with a strange
light that is not much less fascinating when we see high in the airthe steel poles capped with big electric lamps that radiate a
manufactured sunlight over Fenway Park, the home field of the
Boston Red Sox. We are in an immense crowd of people walking
along together as though in harmony with some secret rhythm
that sends out an odd murmur. The loud, blurred sounds of
thousands of words speak, without any language that can be
understood, about a precise excitement. We are all leaving the
same place to go together to a space that calls with a mysterious
voice understood by everyone. We have only to follow along. The sidewalk is unable to hold all of us; some must walk in the street that is crammed with cars. We don’t look particularly to see anything significant in the thousands of faces around us because the present business of walking seems so powerfully controlled by a strong desire to discover something absent rather than to seek anything in one another. The crowd has a touch of the nervous energy of buyers and sellers on the floor of a stock exchange who seem deaf to the noise of their own cries and forgetful of themselves because they have so completely surrendered their individual identity to a foreign reality indicated by fluctuating numbers on a board which seem at the same time to delight them and to torment them. But the energy of this crowd is the kind that has left for once the bewitching power of money in order to probe the veins of another kind of magic. The night sky over Fenway Park has no longer any night. We are on our way to a festival where nothing is for sale except the incorporation of ourselves in the eternal business of baseball.
Daniel McNeill
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Trump's Crazy Bombardment in Syria

Trump’s bombardment in Syria was crazy because it had no good political purpose. No head of any government should commit willy nilly an act of war against a sovereign state.  President Trump blew up an airfield in Syria for the abstract moral reason that a legally-elected dictator  was continuing to kill his own citizens in a civil war and now every Syrian citizen is fully justified morally in waging war against America and Americans. For what reason did he put us in this position and how do we respond to our Syrian enemies when they attack us? Can we say that we bombed their airfield for them?  If that was the purpose, then we are committed morally to invading Syria and changing its political leader as we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. If President Trump does not conduct all out war against Syria to remove its leader, then his bombardment was simply crazy. If he does go to war, he risks war with Russia since it has military forces in Syria allied with it. A crazy act could have a crazy and deadly development.

   Instead of shooting bombs for no good reason at sovereign states, President Trump should start acting sanely and send them democracy. Instead of risking war with Russia, he should get rid of the economic sanctions against it. More globalism and free capitalistic activities in Russia will weaken its dictator’s power. Trump and his Republican majority in Congress have the right under Article IV Section 3 of the Constitution to admit new states to out American union of 50 states. Offer American statehood to Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia and to any other former Russian colonies that wish it. Offer it to Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan too and to any other states worldwide that want it. The only goal that is both sane and good for American foreign diplomacy is worldwide democracy and universal human rights guaranteed in every state anywhere. They would be much more powerful bombs than the ones President Trump delivered to Syria for no rational purpose.

Daniel McNeill

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Washington Politicians Do a Healthy Business

If the United States were a nation, it would not be just sick. It would be near death. Everything appears out of control or bad. The gap in wealth between rich and poor is atrocious. Criminals at all social levels seem bolder than ever. No one knows what the government in Washington is up to and we see daily on the media piddling politicians doing piddling things clumsily and stupidly. President Trump has done all he can to grab much more power than his office allows and has failed. The Congress and the Senate have republican majorities and seem to be without goals. The most amazing sickness is the malady in our American heads that forces us to believe the government in Washington is actually our national government. What does it govern? What does it do? What national projects does it plan and execute?  It seems powerless to solve problems that are evident to all of us and yet it has more power than any other government in the world. Paul Ryan, the third man in line for the presidency in case of deaths, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, just tried to pass a new health bill that would have deprived 24 million low-income Americans of health-care insurance. Is this his idea of carrying out some national policy? How many of us would he have killed if he had succeeded in passing his bill? Any number is sickening even if it were just one and logic puts the number at least into the thousands. What a confused time! Where are we going? How did we get so sick and is there a cure?

   No cure is necessary. Everything is working fine as long as we protect ourselves from the sickness that comes over us when we think of Washington as a national government run by national politicians. The real government we Americans live under is represented by the boss where we work and by the incredibly complex financial and legal system that backs up our boss, our  corporations, our world-class economy and the worldwide economy. The government in Washington works perfectly well doing the business of managing the spending of trillions of dollars of American tax money and the money it borrows from foreigners. The Congress in Washington is not split between Democrats and Republicans when it comes down to spending our tax money. They get together. They pass bills quickly. They make deals. None of us Americans complain about Washington bigwigs being national and international high rollers and wheeler-dealers, especially since our economic security and that of all foreigners depends on the sophisticated money deals they make behind closed doors. When politicians in Washington are spending other people’s money they do a healthy business. Their behavior seems sickly to us only when they pretend publicly that they are politicians governing a nation.

Daniel McNeill

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The United States Stopped Admitting New States After 1959

The foreign policy of the United Kingdom at the end of the Second World War was determined by world conditions and self interest. The British Empire had to be dismantled and the military and economic power of the UK had to be increased. The overriding logic behind dealing with the  new worldwide conditions dictated that former colonies and territories must be freed to become independent states and that it was precisely their new status as nation-states that made them ripe for domination and economic exploitation by London and its ally Washington. The war had joined the United States and the British Empire militarily and politically and the union continued afterwards because the two power centers agreed to continue to keep their military and secret-service institutions united. The Anglo-American bloc uniting all the English-speaking countries adopted one and the same foreign policy: create and support nation-states worldwide and exploit any and all wealth within them by making them secure for rich investors and corporations by dominating them with diplomatic, financial and military power.

 The foreign policy of the United States in 1959 which included the admission of Hawaii as the 50th state might have continued freeing emerging new nation-states from foreign domination by admitting them also as new states in its union. But Washington went along with London. It gave up admitting new states and instead supported and dominated nation-states worldwide for its selfish interests instead of continuing to join new  states to its union of sovereign states as it had been doing from 1790 up until 1959. But now world conditions have changed. Nation-states need to reform their structures to benefit from the global economy by joining a worldwide union of states. Washington needs to become the central government of not 50 states but of hundreds of states to assure democracy and prosperity for peoples worldwide. Washington should begin again admitting new states to its union.

Daniel McNeill

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A Good Radical Change For the World

Why can we Americans not see that our central government in Washington does not want to govern us, is unable to govern us even if it wished to do so, and that, although it was set up by the Constitution with enough jurisdiction over us to unify us, it was not established to govern us? Why do we expect that Washington change and do things that it is unable to do?  Washington already does things very well that are vital for our own security and for the security of the world. Why can we Americans not bring about change  by supporting what Washington does well and by urging Washington politicians to use their power and influence to convince states in the world to join the union of our fifty states? What political change could possibly be greater and more profitable for us Americans than the admittance by Congress of even just one new state? If it were in Africa, would it not be great for thousands and thousands of Americans to find exciting careers teaching there? Could not our technologically advanced farmers  turn any new  American state located in a new state with a great deal of land into an agricultural powerhouse that would be profitable for both old Americans and the new Americans in the new state? Look at Cuba. If the government of Cuba agreed to allow Cubans to vote in a referendum either yes or no to petition Congress for admission as the fifty-first state, a majority would vote yes and admission would enrich Cuba with hundreds of advanced businesses and federal government agencies that would guarantee democracy and prosperity in Cuba so radically and so powerfully that the present “revolutionary” leaders of the island would appear no more revolutionary than spinster retired elementary school teachers. Everyone knows that there are billions in dollars or in other currencies worldwide that would eagerly and enthusiastically be invested in any new American state. It would be secured by its own local judicial and financial institutions backed up by the American military and by the judicial and financial institutions of the American federal government. We Americans don’t need to spend our lives hanging around Boston or Topeka drinking a latte and dreaming of change. Washington has the means right now to change the world radically for good without changing itself and such a change in the world will also change us for good.

Daniel McNeill

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