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When you read an article about local officials coming up with an idea on their own initiative -- they're lying.

Still, it's a great way for a Washington bureaucrat to float a trial balloon, and have a low level flunky take the heat...

[RogerFGay]

Still, it's a great way for a Washington bureaucrat to float a trial balloon, and have a low level flunky take the heat...

They've been doing it far too long now to think of any of it as trial balloons. One of the reasons these old ideas are presented locally is to give the impression that they're new ideas -- they're lying. They're also pretending that the Constitution is still in effect; like that our lives are not really controlled by central committees and "Great Architects" just like Stalins USSR and Mao's China.