If you don’t like it here, move to the USA
Cook County voters supported Obama by mega margins. What this tells True is that we want change. What True knows is that no matter who succeeds the Bush Throne, change won’t come because a quarter century of right-wing policies exacerbated by wars of aggression have allowed the military and their rich backers to dictate policy. The Supreme Court no longer hears redress of grievances, from Kangaroo Court trials to spying on every American citizen 24/7.
True loves Obama, but there is no way he can reverse the right wing wars on the environment, worker safety, sovereign nations who have oil that the USA wants, and the transfer of an independent media to the new Unitary Executive. Our fall-back supports, the Supreme Court and Congress, cave at every turn. Wimps? Not. These guys buy in to the international-corporate-free trade-imperialist-bloody war fought by pawns-decimation of constitutional rights-global domination-torture apologists-environmental pirates that exploit child labor and kill union organizers…. Hmm, you get the picture.
Cook County is home to the sovereign nation of the Grand Portage Band of Chippewa. The casino and resort have brought jobs and prosperity to the tribe, who has shared generously with the rest of us.
So, here’s my idea: Let’s declare Cook County a new sovereign nation (except for the Portage Band). We won’t subscribe to the international policies of death and cruelty and we won’t be subjected to Big Brother spying and we won’t pay any state or federal taxes. We’ll follow the Monaco model: people will come here for luxurious vacations and spend tons of money. Or even the Texas model, the oil and gas companies subsidize the state and the people pay zilch in taxes.
We can “nationalize” our greatest assets, like the East Bay Condominiums, Bluefin Bay and the Lutsen Mountain complex that aspires to become a tourist Mecca using public funds while dumping wastes into the Poplar River. Let them pay for mitigation! They can afford it, and even after that we can use their profits to restore our wetlands and repair our aging infrastructure: wastewater treatment, roads, harbors and inland lakes. Or, if they don’t want to do that, tax them up the wazoo. They use up our natural resources without recompense now; the government of New Scandinavia will have a few words to say in its own behalf.
In our new land, we can declare that silent sports trump invasive noisy and gas-guzzling ATVs. Our ultra-rich patrons like the peaceful expanse of woods and water. They might fly in but they expect we will shelter the airport from their personal experience of wild beauty. We are sovereign. Spy satellites from the USA can be shot down. Say, what Border Patrol? We are the Border. We invite visitors, we welcome them. We don’t try to shoot them down or build barb-wire fences to keep them out. We are a neutral nation, no wars of aggression, ever.
Other assets, like the Grand Marais Harbor, Artist’s Point, the pool, the campground and many another beloved tourist site, await nationalization. These are resources owned by the New Scandinavia state.
We’ll be so sought after, so longed-for, by the ultra-rich who find their own playgrounds increasingly destroyed or polluted. Clean and green and we already know how to behave towards the Muggles.
Yes! Let’s do it. The West was in a big hurry to recognize Kosovo’s independence. So, why not recognize New Scandinavia’s independence? We don’t have oil but we do have the breathtaking beauty of our lakes and forests, the Lorelei lures to attract the ultra-rich who are by their nature limited in number.
Not that our old friends won’t be welcome. The Rich Bitches will subsidize their stays as well as our infrastructure that will protect us into the next century…
Hey, hey, what do you say?
New Scandinavia is here to stay!
True
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