¿A EEUU le espera un futuro quebeco?

Tremendo:

In many respects, the U.S. appears to be heading toward the same terminus ad quem as Quebec — California is just about there. The culture wars between liberals and conservatives, left and right, resemble the language wars in my home province. The distressing sense that a national fracture may be looming, a premonition of possible break-up, is common to both polities. The growing deficit and Atlas-like debt load is a shared phenomenon, as is the hamstringing of business and industry, one half of the population supporting the other half through taxes and financial redistribution, and the movement of individuals and families from high-taxed or depressed regions to more favored locales.

When we take into account the notable venality and profiteering in the construction industry (for which Quebec is nationally infamous), our decaying infrastructure (overpasses collapse, bridges disintegrate, roads are pitted with potholes), the unseemly strength and bullying tactics of the labor unions which hold the economy hostage, and the swelling public sector living off the back of the dwindling private sector, with ever more government beadles and administrative functionaries enjoying secure salaries and comparatively lavish pension plans, the analogy between Quebec and the U.S. becomes progressively instructive.