They are more of the latte, chai, Volvo driving liberals than the old hippy types that started this movement many years ago. The problem is that the new age materilistic liberals are now the ones in charge in Vermont.
Nothing a one-way ticket to Seattle wouldn't fix.
2) Banking: Become the Switzerland or Cayman Islands of North America.
and
But that's a nonsense scenario. It won't happen because none of the business or government leaders around the world want to see a dollar collapse.
Either of those scenarios only require the people with the real money to make
that decision. If they determine Vermont is to be such a haven, then it's
done and they will be left alone. If some local state group decides to do
this without the appropriate outside blessing, they will be crushed.
A USD collapse, devaluation, and depreciation are all different things. The
$$$'s in your pocket are becoming worth less. We could argue as to the
cause and if there's a conscious direction to it, but it's still happening
nonetheless.
Unless you have a willingness to let a territory go, the seceders will need to make sure that military power can't be used. We're approaching this point. The army is stretched thin, with worn out equipment. We're spending billions overseas. In a few years, D.C. probably wouldn't be capable of fighting a civil war. There's also the fact that there's a risk that troops won't take up arms against other Americans.
and
The federal government, with all their alphabet organizations, have way too much power to just allow a state to secede.
Normally, the central gov't has just run the "printing press" and paid for
everything to maintain this control with their near-perpetual IOUs. It's hard
to tell where globalization is going to take this country, but at some point
things like our domestic growth, standard of living, etc are going to have to
hit a certain balance with the rest of the world. At some point, people will
see that those IOUs are going to have an expiration date in their useful
application. Again, this might be an outside decision to force certain changes
within the US, or it might be a time when pure uncontrolled real world economics
take over --despite the domestic PPT. Just keep an eye on China.
I would be more concerned about the federal government's short-term response
regarding
gun control should there be an increased potential for break-up
or the real risk of an economic smack-down on the Middle Class....actually,
one of those is beginning to happen
right now and lo and behold, what
are we hearing discussion of yet again on the Hill?
