A Good Idea For Sunday Morning: The Greenland Solution

Greenland's people saw the writing on the wall in the 1980's:

Mene, mene, tekel, upharsim--or words to that effect...

Being translated: If we hitch our wagon to the clown show in Brussels, they'll screw us.

So, they left. In 1985.

Fast forward twenty-five years. They're solvent and prosperous, and Europe is broke.

They're free, and increasingly, Europe isn't.

Alex Singleton of The Telegraph calmly explains:

If you think that leaving the EU would be catastrophic, take a look at Greenland. By rights its people ought to be poor. Their island is isolated, suffers from freezing weather, has a workforce of only 28,000 and relies on fish for 82 per cent of its exports. But it turns out that since leaving the EU, Greenland has been so freed of EU red tape and of the destruction of the Common Fisheries Policy, that the average income of the islanders today is higher than those living in Britain, Germany and France.

Actually, OS deliberately listed things in the wrong order: They are free, therefore they are solvent and prosperous.

So, why should a grumpy guy from Tennessee be scribbling about this? Well, ya'll, look at the US map. The bluest states of the US, the ones that drank the socialist Kool-Aid the longest and deepest are...insolvent and increasingly impoverished. They are also chaotic and crime-ridden. (New York, Illinois, Kuhlifornia, Michigan top that list.)

The state least affected by the Great Recession is (May I have the envelope, please!) North Dakota, a traditional butt of jokes by our elites. They farm, they allow their oil resources to be developed, they don't tax everything that moves. The government maintains order, maintains the roads, and otherwise leaves people alone.

What a concept.

As the Great Recession deepens (and it will, when the cheap money runs out), and the heavy hand of HopeyChangey is increasingly felt in the land (and it will, cuz that who He is), it may be time for the states of the union to rethink their relationship with Washington. This year's travails in Louisiana, where most of the real damage was done by HopeyChangey, not BP, should be a warning to us all.

They probably can't leave like Greenland did, but they can certainly distance themselves, and set up firewalls.