Unfortunately, people would not stand for it. They want their fed money, because they pay fed taxes. Recently when one of the more conservative governors said he would not accept stimulus money, there was such an uproar that he had to relent.
Everybody wants to maintain their place at the trough. They want the other guy to give up his. This is why we are on the spending train to destruction.
Yep. You can’t have your freedom and feed at the government trough at the same time. It’s not just the “welfare queens.” As you mentioned in the example of the governors wanting to resist Porkulus money -— in S.C., I think, the legislature even sued the Gov for the money -— it seems like everyone has lost the basic idea that you actually can just walk away from the money.
Sort of like refusing to take a bailout from your parents -— because you know it comes with strings you don’t want to be tied by. How many kids do that?