Why not just give it all back?

Starting with Vermont, where despite the US government’s obstinate stance on granting tribal recognition to the Abenaki groups, the state government has been signing one by one as they go through the state legal system, recognition of the different Abenaki bands.

The US government doesn’t recognize them because they never signed a treaty with the US government—and they’d have to give them back most of Vermont!

Approximately 35% of the territory claimed by the US was never ceded by treaties.  And the part ceded by treaties should be returned because the US never kept any of the treaties signed with native groups—NOR, for that matter, did it keep the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which is signed with Mexico in 1848!

The US bought Alaska from Russia—but Alaska would be much better off under indigenous management—which would significantly reduce the risk of more Arctic drilling.

It is absolutely amazing that the U.S.ever stayed together at all when you consider that we embrace everything from Vermont to Florida in degrees of intelligence, common sense and education—or lack of. You’d think that, recognizing this obvious fact, the Federal government would do everything humanly possible to “level up” the standards.  But No. Cling-ing to the torn skirts of an outworn theory of “States Rights”, both the Feds and Wall Street seem to be more willing to lose the unity than to preserve the nation.
  It is clear that the country’s sheer size and variety makes it extremely difficult to govern—and yet—I don’t much relish the idea of it breaking off into 50 different pieces, with Florida floating off toward Cuba and Alaska hooking up with Russia in Sarah Palin’s backyard.