Author Mark Steyn was the guest host for Rush Thursday. Although I always miss him when he is away, I enjoy a fresh perspective. And if Rush is willing to risk his career with this guy, then he can't be bad.
Steyn brought up an interesting point on large versus small countries. There are small wealthy nations such as Luxembourg and Norway. Many large countries in past and present history have been unsuccessful and split up. For example USSR, Czechoslovakia. The exception is the United States of America. We have a de-centralized government, or at least we used to. Everyday management is left to the states where bureaucracies are (for the most part) smaller, and the federal government handles the national security and disputes between the states. That was the original plan of the Founding Fathers. The states were very independent before the Constitution was written, and it took a very restricting Bill of Rights to convince the states to sign it.
If America had been set up as a centralized country like France, we would have split up by now.
About 100 years ago, our country started shifting towards a centralized government, brought on by crisis and people forgetting their roots. The federal government started adding bureaucracies and taking away the rights of the states to govern themselves. The NANNY STATE is growing and the MILITARY is shrinking. The very opposite direction of our origins. What is happening to our great nation? Are we doomed to the same fate - splitting up - as other large countries that got too big for their britches?
Check out Mark Steyn at http://www.steynonline.com
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