I'm delighted to report that Prof. Peter Spiro (Temple) will be guest-blogging here this week. Prof. Spiro has written extensively on constitutional law and international law, for instance in Treaties, International Law and Constitutional Rights, 55 Stanford Law Review 1999 (2003), and Globalization and the (Foreign Affairs) Constitution, 63 Ohio State Law Journal 649 (2002). His new book, Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization, has just been published by the Oxford University Press; Prof. Spiro will be blogging mostly about the matters he discusses in this book.
I expect there'll be much in his posts with which I'll disagree (see here, for instance, for a hint of some of the differences between Prof. Spiro's worldview and mine). But I'm sure the posts will be very interesting, both to me and to our readers.
Globalization will never succeed in the U.S.A. unless:
(1) all goods and services are provided union-only;
(2) employee unions are global in all respects.
It is not rocket science to figure-out a middle-class will NOT exist when "outsourcing" gets the job done non-union at less than poverty wages w/no benefits whatsoever.
In a nutshell, absent a middle-class, there is no U.S.A., only chaos beyond anything you could ever remotely comprehend.
As it stands, the economy is already tanked, foreclosure rates seem circa-1930 and abrupt climate change may well result in mass migration of humanity to higher, arid ground the moment the polar ice breaks away, melts and causes the sea-level to rise.
Here's a plan:
(1) revert to 91% taxation on America's highest earners;
(2) revert to import taxes to a level American consumers will choose to buy cameras made in Rochester and shoes made in Boston;
(3) rebuild America's critical infracture in a manner deleting oil from the equation altogether;
(4) discontine learning/teaching/testing to A/B/C/D;
(5) require Article III players to undergo neuro-psychological testing prior to appointment and during tenure.