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To: KLP who wrote (219159)	2/18/2007 3:43:21 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The big problem with World Government is that people automatically think it has to be a Big Brother USSR Stalinist type government. Constitutions can be as limited as agreeing to meet once a year to swap business cards, or down to any level of commonality to which everyone agrees, such as how many tufts toothbrushes should have. A federal system, doesn't mean all or nothing. The European Union for example has a common currency and a bunch of other agreed items. But they are still very much individual countries. The USA federal system is more closely integrated and the POTUS is a very big cheese, though Congress wields a lot of power and runs the show in a way. The Big Boss of the European Union is not somebody I can even name [now that I think of it]. The Big Boss of the UN is a bureaucratic time server without even a currency with which to go shopping. The Big Boss of Australia's federal system is much more of a Big Boss in Oz, than POTUS is the Big Boss of the USA. Howard can really order people around. The Big Boss of NZ's system is a democratic dictator [we don't even have a constitution other than a generally agreed kind of sort of one and it's not written down]. I wouldn't advocate NZ's system for a World Government. Though I'm sure Helen Clark would consider it an excellent idea with her as boss and she's angling in that direction, now going gung ho on climate disruption and carbon neutrality [shocking even the Greens with the idea]. Australia's is too busy-body too, as is the USA's and Europe's, though a common currency would be a good thing and I am working on one to replace all the state-run fiat currencies which are disasters waiting to happen [and maybe sooner rather than later]. Start with a constitution which is unintrusive and work from there. Something limited to commons protection and allocation for example, such as spectrum, Antarctica, ocean pollution, air pollution. Voting would be of one's own money, not a vote to "redistribute" OPM. One vote per currency unit contributed. Ownership of assets per amount contributed. So, one might even make a profit if assets are profitable. Maybe World Citizenships could be tradable items, which one could buy and sell, unlike the usual serf-style citizenships under which we all live at present [including Americans, who mistakenly think they are "free"; think of conscription, price control, and eminent domain]. If one chose to quit being a World Citizen and reverted to being merely a NZ citizen, one could sell one's WC on the open market and buy a NZ one on the open market [if NZ introduced such a good idea], or go back to being just a citizen of whatever country one was originally. A WC would be very convenient. People like WCs. Especially when visiting foreign countries. Mqurice