The sad fact lost in the gab about debt ceilings and shared sacrifice is, the answer to the nation’s dillema is staring us right in the face.

Return power to the states. Devolve power away from DC, re-animate the process of experimentation and testing of civic models in a competitive arena that we used to call the “laboratory of the states.” Greatly curtail the flows of revenues to “the center” quite simply by obviating the center; when states, localities and families self-govern effectively, DC’s non-defense agenda (and thusly, the Left’s, too) will be rendered irrelevant.

The concept of competing entities vying to entice creative, productive residents to move to their states because they have empirically succeeded at innovating and delivering exceptional programs and services relative to thier neighboring states, is not a difficult concept to relay.

It’s a wonder the GOP hasn’t been more forthright in legislating to support this model. Outside of the context of education reform, or of support for the 2nd amendment, Conservatives’ representatives in the Legislature seem at times to have forgot the US’s key civic design feature, and to have traded it for a seat at the center-trough.