RE NYT EDITORIAL BAILING OUT NEW JERSEY AND THINKING BIG AND THE EDUCATIONAL ROLE OF THE MEDIA

Interesting editorial.

Re 'thinking big':

WHY A 'NEW JERSEY', AT ALL,

NOWADAYS, AT THIS LATE POLITICAL DATE?

Why not, for example, just roll New Jersey into New York City, or into New York State, along with a few other small states thereabouts, as well, for consistency?

See also: State and Local Politics, The Great Entanglement, by the late Robert S. Lorch, 1st Ed. gray panels, and especially Ch. 3 Federalism, gray panel entitled "Why An Iowa?"

Indeed, Why Iowa?

To paraphrase, and update, Lorch's only partly rhetorical question,

"Why 50 different struggling, antiquated, behemoths?"

Unfortunately, many of the same people who rightly question 'why so many lawyers', on the other hand are vehement for their own state's rights, including its unique set of laws.

50 different states, plus DC, and each their innumerable local governments, all separately regulate the professions, the trades, and many other matters, in their own voluminously peculiar ways. The federal government piles in on top.

Thus, "Why ________?"

You fill in your favorite entity.

See also: State and Local Politics, The Great Entanglement, 1st Ed. gray panels, and especially Ch. 1 INTRODUCTION, gray panel entitled

"How Interesting Is A State?"