Fred, Thanks for the reply and your optomism. I hope your right. My optomism is more cautious. I became intimately familiar with the fed plan to improve education (G2000) and watched as the true reformers were "Delphied" out of the sweep. What was left were a bunch of local tyrants who jumped to the crack of the fed whip. Local control was along the design of the fed model; and the money that came with the submission to the plan was frittered away on a gaggle of carpet-bagging "experts" that came and went, who advocated the psycho-normative, socialist, dumbed-down, curriculum. ( OTOH, the silver lining to the mess was that I was forced to educate my own kids; and I've no regrets there). The damage done to our pockets and the minds of a generation of public school students is permanent, and a continuing danger to the health of the States United : who among this generation will vote for a president or party that requires they feed and fend for themselves? Heck, half of the highschool graduates foisted from the public schools in the last two decades are functionally illeriterate! I know this: after having schooled our own kids, my wife and I have made a hobby of teaching young adults to read and cypher. Not easy undoing the damage.
If George's plan recognizes the jurisdiction of the States and operates under the proper idea of co-sovereignty, than I'm bully; but I fear that the command structure will be lifted out of some pre-existing FEMA plan, and the statist pols, bureaucrats, and citizens within my state--tails wagging, desirous of a piece of federal power and imprimatur--will further suborn their allegence to the state in favor of becoming fed actors.
I love my state; I hate to see it "dissed". The FEDGUV acts with great force and alacrity, but the result of their labors, within the realm of non-delegated powers, is most often a sub-standard product, to wit: federally subsidized housing--a thing bleak, at best.
Allegiance....manual spell-check.