State of the Union and a standardized approach

In the SOTU, President Obama outlined that government was totally disorganized (who knew?), citing that salmon in salt water was a different agency from salmon in fresh water.

The last reorg of government was a long time ago - lets think even bigger toward a standardized approach - reorg the federal government and then also reorg the states into 6 economic groupings!  This would eliminate 44 disparate goverments, lay the groundwork for further reorganizing the county, parish, rural and urban landscapes into a 21st century structure - leveraging off each other instead of having a byzantine set of laws, processes, redundant positions, radios and systems that don't communicate and more.

It would be a major shift, but one that would stimulate the thinking of the entire country in how to accomplish it.  We already have the Northwest, the Northeast and other "zones" identified, take the best of the governments that exist and move it forward.