To: Sonny M
[Still, 17 lawmakers have signed on as co-sponsors, and other legislators said they might be willing to consider such a bill if not for the loss of federal money.]
Aside from the drinking issue, this blackmailing of states by the Federal government is worrisome to me.
To: spinestein
It was worrisome to a lot of us when Reagan let the authoritarians talk him into it in the first place. Now it's standard federal practice to blackmail states with highway funds.
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04/13/2005 3:27:56 PM PDT by
LibertarianInExile
(The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
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