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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (171615)	8/15/2001 2:53:29 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Implicit in GWB's campaign was the notion that "you local folks can better spend your tax money than some bureaucrat in Washington." Sometimes that's true; often it's not. An example: Money given to states to enforce environmental laws would be well-spent in some states and not well-spent in other states, in which environmental regulations are "voluntary." A previous discussion between myself and Bergh on the RWET brought up the fact, as you point out, that the South abandoned "states' rights" insofar as the Fugitive Slave Law was concerned. In fact, the decision by most Southern states to secede only came after a realization that the South's disproportionate hold on the reins of the three branches of the federal government was about to come to an end in 1861. Re: "Neither good nor bad, it is changing and evolving." That is a valid point of view. I have argued that the concept of "states' rights" can be used as effectively by the left as by the right. Historically, however, there is a reason why "states' rights" has become a pejorative.

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