01-20-2011, 10:35 AM
(01-20-2011, 10:23 AM)Misguided Wrote: Hmmmm.Where do you start to change this, Dick.
Local level Politicians?Can they make a difference?
My guess is that the change would in this day and age have to be made at the federal level, the state and local governments depend on the fed for too much funding to buck very hard, do you remember when the national 55 mile per hour speed limit was imposed? do you remember how the fed forced compliance by taking away federal money for roads if a state wanted to exclude themselves from the federal speed limit law?
it's the same thing only on a much grander scale , because it would be drug interdiction money, LEO funding,crime and gang violence funding, federal medical programs,as well as roads and many other federally funded programs which the states now depend on. these sources filter to the local level and therein lay the problem, the feds have sucessfully usurped the states power through money and programs we as a state are a mere shell of what the Constitution guarnateed us as a REPUBLIC.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
John Adams