America is beginning to fail. [View all]

[TXPaganBanker]

This administration is beginning to achieve something that wouldn’t have sounded possible a mere three years ago: the dissolution of the United States. Today, a fourth state collective was announced to deal with the challenges of the Corona virus, including personal protective equipment acquisition and distribution, and the process of safely reopening parts of their states. It’s being handled in a way to purposefully not inform the federal government of movement of necessary medical supplies. Bluntly, if the federal government is aware of the equipment, they may seize it and redirect it to undisclosed locations without informing anyone where it will be distributed. The states are also using a more science-based regional approach to determining what businesses should be considered essential, and when public services like schools should reopen. These decisions are being made at a state level specifically because involvement from the Federal Government is not only not helpful, it’s actively detrimental to the states.

In addition, the roll back of federal regulations on environmental policy (over 74 major pieces voided which states have tried to piecemeal back together on a state level), stark disagreements on immigration (sanctuary cities versus holding camps), major policy disagreements on subjects like medical marijuana (state tax revenue versus federal raids), and the recent spat between Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Gov. Cuomo from New York on “blue-state bailouts” show states are at least willing to threaten to go at it alone. There have been roll backs on inspections from the FDA when we need to protect our food supply the most. A study on Coronavirus tests that were rushed to market after being greenlit by the USDA showed that most of them are wildly inaccurate and useless. The Federal government is all but telling the states “Don’t trust us.”

The current administration is failing in so many ways that very few federal services are relevant to the states as a collective. There is a desire at the federal level to do away with many of these as well. The president and Congress have threatened to either withhold assistance funds or allow the United States Postal Service to fail, in favor of private businesses. The Interstate Highway Fund is massively underfunded, and no major infrastructure bill has passed in over a decade. The only “service” the United States Federal government is providing is protection through our military. However, the military can provide protection to a collective of smaller nations just as well as they are doing now. The American dream has gone on for over two and a half centuries. The dream may be over.