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To: ManyMoose who wrote (67540)	5/21/2008 9:41:10 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) of 542715

I didn't say anything about a watchman state. My apologies, MM. I was thinking about something else as I typed that and didn't explain it well enough. There is a political theory of what a proper state should do called the Night watchman state. en.wikipedia.org. Your list of things the state should do fit fairly closely with that theory so I used the term as a shorthand. You apparently want cities to call the shots. I don't. No, but I would like to do something about the lack of resources given to cities. An illustration. You may recall the several initial waves of homeland security including funding for states and locales which had no threat basis. The power of small states. That power appears, disproportionately in the electoral college as well as the Senate. Freedom in cities sucks. I stay away from them for that reason. One of the reasons, of course, why I love them.

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