States around the United States are facing tremendous difficulties as the economy slowly recovers. The states are finding their budgets bloated and incapable of being reduced to match the lower earnings that the states are taking in during the times of high unemployment.
There could have been several alternative titles to this article including – “Guess Who’s (Not) Coming To Dinner,” a spoof on an old movie title, or it could have been “What If The Federal Government Passed A Law And Nobody Cared?” I never thought this country could get to this point but consider the following “not so united” instances from just our recent past:
Considered the longest non-engagement war of contemporary history, the Cold War was an open conflict between the two world super powers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The term Cold War also includes the respective allies of both sides–the US lead NATO in the western part of Europe and Warsaw Pact countries led by USSR on the other side. This conflict started in 1945 until the downfall of USSR in 1991. The word “cold” here is used to denote the absence of actual military engagement by both sides although shots were actually fired during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.