Good points. As for the Federal Reserve being ended, yes, indeed. Not going to happen. As for the Federal Government allowing the State Governments more control, yes, it should happen, Again, its not going to happen any time soon. Why won't either of these things happen ? Outside influence. By outside, I mean outside of the US. Israel has such an unreasonable, and Illegal, control over the country that changes can not occur until Israel releases (either voluntary or by force) its grip on the US.

I agree. Whoever does actually run the country, it sure isn't the institutions that are supposed to be running things. So much is wrong. So many unanswered questions. Too much of the wrong things and not enough of the right things. Too much concentration of wealth. Too much unemployment. Too many constitutional laws ignored. Too much Military. All of these things are tied together, but to explain it is not easy,

Yes. But if you remember, when the Occupy movement tried that the system came down unreasonably hard on the protestors. Meaning that for your suggestion to work, a lot more than 50,000 people have to be involved.

Lets hope that happens...soon.

You represent the People's Front of Judea? I'm with the Judean People's Front! Splitter!

Less, people; less problems. After a decade of bargaining, thinking, weighing... this is my conclusion.
Or limit all nation-states to five million inhabitants, limit all corporations to the borders of those states. And this one never will happen, as mimimimi free market or mimimimi cooperation between states is necessary or mimimi [fill in the blank].

If you want democracy or an agreeable environment, then we got to limit the monsters. The mass is incompatible with democracy.

Yes, but there is still a difference between a small federated 5-10mio. state and a whole continent.

http://www.famousquotessite.com/famous-quotes-6934-alexander-fraser-tyler-cycle-of-democracy-1770.html

Exactly. Lol I think were are in dependency and approaching bondage.

Alexander Fraser Tytler.

/r/agorism is our best bet. Once the state is obsoleted and its incomes and levies dried up, what's left?

Chaos ? Rule of the fist ? Feudalism, tribalism ? Greater power for charismatic religious leaders who can mobilize their masses ? Starvation for those who become poor through laziness, misfortune, illness, or accident ?

I can still see a problem with states competing. Maybe to the point where one state absorbs another, and another, and another. Until, we have one state, or maybe two or three. Could even start civil war in 200 years or so. I personally think humanity HAS grown too large, and our solution is going to be an extremely complex road to real freedom for all.

Well put. We the people need to focus more on the attainable change, not the larger ideological differences we all have.

I believe in order to push the federal government back to a more manageable scale, we must focus on re-empowering the states. I always wonder why like-minded states don't do more to band together and push back collectively. Liberty-loving states should make it a primary focus to ween themselves completely off the federal teet.

Seems to me that a weaker union would just make USA weaker relative to strongly-unified countries such as China, Germany, etc. On trade, military, etc they'd be able to play off one state against another. Decision-making would be slower.

Ending the Federal Reserve is a red herring. Some govt entity has to control the money supply. The govt always will find some way to manipulate the money supply. If you end the Federal Reserve, some new entity equivalent to it would be created.

Unless we go to the gold standard or something. Which won't happen.

And blaming much of our problems on the Federal Reserve also is a red herring. We had plenty of booms and crashes well before the Fed was created. We had robber-barons then, too, as well as now. Much of our debt and other problems today are due to our massive overspending (on the military, agriculture subsidies, energy subsidies, as well as welfare). Some are due to our assumption (after WW II) that we would always be top dog, so it was a big shock when globalization meant other people could out-compete us on production. Some problems are due to automation eliminating jobs, and education being poor so people can't find new jobs.

The first one is ending the Federal Reserve.

If you're going to talk about ending the Fed, you need to begin with what your short, medium, and long-term plans would be to deal with the almost guaranteed global financial meltdown that would result (much worse than what we saw in 2008). I'm not saying I support what the Fed does, but our economy as it's currently constructed would pretty much implode if there wasn't an orderly plan in place to deal with the aftermath of dissolving the Fed. Would the USD be pegged to gold or another hard asset? Would banks like JP Morgan be allowed to print JPM dollars? What happens if China, Japan, and Europe decide to dump treasuries in unison as a result?

The second thing is states rights.

The problem you'd run into here would be social issues. Not too long ago, states rights meant that black people had to use separate water fountains. Obviously an extreme example, but liberals would surely be worried about the tyranny of the majority in states that were staunchly conservative and vice versa. I'm not too sold on the "move to whichever state matches your values" because of the financial costs associated with people being forced to quit their jobs and move their families to another state.

I think the main solution is getting money out of politics. Everyone agrees on this (except the .001% that funds our elections of course) and it's an issue that the media has thus far been unable to divide the population on.

I don't see how states-rights is relevant to our big problems, which are:

• massive govt overspending, much of it on the military

• consumer overspending

• govt subsidies for fossil energy and big agriculture

• failure to deal with climate change (related to previous item)

• failure to regulate Wall Street and the big banks and corporations

• much of workforce unable or unwilling to compete in a global economy

• crumbling infrastructure

Most of these things are related; for example, too much spending on military shorts spending on education, including infrastructure such as schools.

Some solutions:

• cut military/intel/security budget to 1/3 of current levels. Stop invading countries, stop building new carrier groups, stop building new WW III fighter planes, stop building/upgrading nukes.

• eliminate energy and agriculture subsidies. Enact a carbon-emission tax. Let energy types fight it out in a fair marketplace.

• constitutional amendment to allow taxing of paid political speech, including lobbying. Needed to help get regulation of Wall Street, reduce power of defense contractors, etc.

• change from federal income tax to a federal progressive sales tax (with exemptions for necessities, extra taxes on luxuries). We should encourage income and (somewhat) discourage consumption.

• go to single-payer universal healthcare. Works well in just about all other developed countries.

How would more states-rights mean less military spending ? Lower subsidies to fossil energy or big agriculture ? I don't see it.

Consumer overspending has led to consumer debt and lack of retirement spending. Big problems for the country.

Yes. But if you remember, when the Occupy movement tried that the system came down unreasonably hard on the protestors. Meaning that for your suggestion to work, a lot more than 50,000 people have to be involved.