There are many important issues facing Americans these days; health care, gas prices, employment, the 2012 election, education, wage equality. With so many real and legitimate concerns, it\u2019s surprising that Wyoming has chosen to create legislature planning for the complete economic or political collapse of the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

House Bill 85<\/a> (which local newspapers lovingly referred to as the \u201cDoomsday Bill\u201d) was introduced and narrowly voted down the last week of February. At first glance the bill doesn\u2019t seem so bad. It would enable a state run community task force to study and prepare for disaster. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that. \u00a0The recent bout of tornadoes in the Midwest shows us that local governments have to deal with crisis all the time. Where the bill starts straying into crazy territory is when you look at the sort of things it would start studying like creating an alternate currency for Wyoming, buying an aircraft carrier, and giving the state the power to start a draft and create a standing army.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s anyone in this room today what would come up here and say that this country is in good shape, that the world is stable and in good shape \u2014 because that is clearly not the case,\u201d state Rep. Lorraine Quarberg, R-Thermopolis, said. \u201cTo put your head in the sand and think that nothing bad\u2019s going to happen, and that we have no obligation to the citizens of the state of Wyoming to at least have the discussion, is not healthy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No other state in the country has a committee dealing with what happens when the government collapses. Why do you suppose that is? Could it be that most Americans worry more about surviving the day to day stuff then worrying about the apocalypse? Maybe there are not enough doomsday lobbyists for ALEC to write bills<\/a> about it yet. Surely it\u2019s not because Wyoming (population 568,000) has nothing better to do.<\/p>\n

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