P@triot
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Streamline" what process?!? The illegal, unconstitutional flow of federal dollars to a state, for state projects??? Do you understand that people in Vermont, Florida, Georgia, and Texas should not be paying for a high speed rail train in California?
I really don't understand. What the hell is the point in having a 'United States' if the wealth and infrastructure is not shared between them. How on earth is the country supposed to progress? People in Vermont, Florida, Georgia and Texas have already paid for infrastructure in California, just like the people of other states probably paid for the highway you drive on. You seem to be advocating that California becomes a seperate country and manages its own affairs. Am I right? I guess you'll say I'm wrong.
Frank - I'm not being condescending here, I'm being honest - you really need to read the Constitution. The limitations of government are spelled out, and the federal government has no authority to spend money for state highways. That is a STATE issue. If the people of California cannot afford to repair their highways, that is there problem. They have mismanaged their own state, they have fucked up, and they need to figure it out.
We are 50 individual states who are "united" under the 18 enumerated powers in the Constitution. Those 18 enumerated powers aside, each state is intended to be a sovereign entity for the express purpose of preventing a situation like California from pulling down the entire nation.
The beauty of a system of 50 individual sovereign states is that each of us has an escape. If you are a conservative tired of the California Socialism and collapse, you can move to Texas. If you are a liberal who hates personal responsibility and wants to be taken care of by the government, you can move to California and live your Socialist utopia.
Now I must echo your question back to you. I really don't understand. How is taking money from the successful states and filtering it over to the failed states "progress"? That is punishing the successful and rewarding the failures. That would be like spaning your oldest child for a 4.0 report card and then buying your youngest child a pony dropping out of school and getting arrested for cocaine.
Don't punish the entire nation because California ran itself into the ground with Communism/Marxism/Socialism (as those policies always do). Don't allow that one state to run the entire nation into the ground. If those people don't like it, they can move the hell out to better run states. Otherwise, they need to fix the fucking mess they created by themselves.
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