Merits of Supranationalism

This weeks blog post was on supranationalism. I found supranationalism to be a very interesting topic. In my own personal opinion I believe that seeing how we are already such a globalized world supranationalism is not too far away. The reason I think this way is because the merits of supranationalism far outweigh the negatives. If you take for example the problems we face daily here in the United States about border control then it is a good example of why we should go to this supranationalistic way of going about things. We as tax payers are paying money for the government to spend on protecting our borders. I looked it up and it is millions of dollars per year in many different sectors of border and immigration control that we are spending. People bring up the idea that with supranationalism, the people begin to loose their cultural identity and such, but saying that there is not borders does not mean that people cannot still have there cultural identity. What it means is that there will be less regulation. So say we have people that can now come over from Mexico legally. These people will most likely move into an area with a population that is similar to what they are. Therefore, the cultural identity is still very strong within that group of people. This idea of supranationalism is also good because we can have a better distribution of resources. If there are 5 major "countries" then the resources that would be in just one country, such as oil in the middle east area, would now be spread out over many countries in this supranationalistic region. Not only would this be one of the major pluses, but also the idea of joint military would be a good idea because now instead of having hundreds of militarys fighting against each other, we would be one large military. The best point that I saw in all of these was about the economies. If countries with smaller economies can come together to form one large one, then they will be able to compete with the larger ones.