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well kyle, you and i know that the south was right.
again if the states controled the feds instead of the
other way around, this too would not be happening.
--- "Cleveland, Kyle E." <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Mike-
>
> There is incredible accountability at the state and
> local level for
> reception of federal funds. Not good
> accountability, but lots of it
> (e.g.,huge oversight bureaucracies for school
> funding, highways, Medicare,
> etc.). States are hurting more from unfunded
> federal mandates than from any
> other common (to all states) financial burden. The
> U.S. does not have a
> constitutional mandate for a balanced federal
> budget. Most states have such
> a mandate in their constitutions. Washington signs
> a federal mandate into
> law, yet expects the idividual states to ante up.
> It would be funny if it
> weren't so heartbreaking at the local gov't level.
>
> KC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael H Collis
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 4:13 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: civil war, was re. earthquake
>
> <snip> In
> effect, the advocates for states rights now make the
> states into little
> nations with little accountability to Washington as
> to the handling of
> federal funds or otherissues.
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