Ed Boyle has a heartfelt rant, on DK current post, parts of which I liked very much.
He does, however, favor devolution of federal government responsibility onto the states, which I don't:
"...2 trillion deficits in Trump's first year to force elimination of all social, military programs, farm subsidies, would be a start to decentralization of federal powers, devolution to states, withdrawal from global military policing. Withdrawal from trade agreements would allow local manufacturing revival with accompanying engineering skills. ."
I like withdrawal from military policing, and withdrawal from trade agreements, but that would not be enough to do much to get much local manufacturing revived I am afraid.
In connection with this point, unfortunately, he also, in the same comment, shares my skepticism for the structural and moral ability of any particular state to do anything well in such a direction:
"In America corruption at state and local level for cops,, fire fighters, teachers, etc. seems to give them incredible pensions. Only a few elected reps get such pensions in Europe...."
He further mentions here, in passing, some of the practical economic and financial effects of long globalization here, which would get in the way of attempted repatriated state or local industry or commerce in any devolution from federalism back to the states under current globalization:
"America is a military power with banking control whose citizenry lives from waiter, cleaning jobs and buy cheap foreign goods from economic colonies made at slave wages. The beneficiaries are .1%."
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