Brexit Officially Starts

[Benton]

(03-29-2017, 05:24 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/in-historic-break-britain-gives-formal-notice-to-leave-eu/ar-BByZRIP?OCID=ansmsnnews11



I understand working together for greater benefit, but I never understood how unelected officials from another country deciding how your country should be ran was ever a good idea. I think when people see the UK not explode into a Mad Max-style apocalypse, and more terrorist attacks happen in the EU, more countries will be filing out. I think France and Poland have both made mentions about it, right?

The concept isn't too different from the U.S.

Multiple states with very different circumstances together with some general guidelines that are supposed to benefit everyone, some general laws that benefit everyone and a common currency that makes it easier to do business and travel. Of course, the U.S. has steadily moved away from that to where the central government (federal) is much stronger than the EU council.

And the arguments it creates aren't that much different than what having a central government here has done to states feeling they should have more say. Take the education debate. Several states want to do away with the federal department of education because it conflicts with personal beliefs. Like the great state of Kentucky where it's still state law that Biblical creation is supposed to be taught in classrooms alongside the "theory of change over time" (not evolution, because lawmakers here don't believe in it. Or Alabama, where it's state law that stickers are put over biology concepts that lawmakers (none of which I'm betting has a science degree) disagree with.

Personally, I'm happy England is pulling out. It's an insanely dumb move for their economy and country, and the EU, which helps the U.S.