The Republicans tell us that President Obama is attempting to adopt European socialism in the USA. However they are actually trying to establish European separatism as an alternative.  Let's face it; Europe is an amalgam of over 20 separate countries with few mechanisms for coordinated Fiscal Policy. Monetary Policy is centralized through the European Central Bank in the same manner that our Monetary Policy is centralized through the Federal Reserve System. However, Europe does not have a strong central government to design and implement fiscal policy. As a result, even the Europeans have doubts about their ability to recover. Each country is pretty much on its own regarding stimulus issues. That means if Italy tries to increase spending and create jobs the result could be that the new spending ends up creating jobs outside of Italy. This would happen if France decided not to stimulate its economy. As a result wages, and therefore, prices would be lower in France and the Italians who were hired under the stimulus would buy French goods. This would result in sporadic growth in Europe and a prolonged recession.

American governors who refuse the stimulus money would be placing our country in the same boat a Europe. The lack of spending in their own states would lead people to relocate to states where the stimulus money is working. The result would be a continued recession in their own states and a delayed recovery in the country as a whole as unemployed workers cross state lines.  The only reason to seek this type of scenario is to be able to say: "See the stimulus didn't work so vote Republican."  The Republicans are willing to see the country suffer so that they can regain power. It is this selfish approach which can threaten the state of the Union. The Republican Governors are traitors who have stronger loyalties to their party than to the country.