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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (122503)	5/7/2010 9:49:42 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 132070

Obama sure loves BP monies, I see he's not returning any of it.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (122503)	5/7/2010 9:56:52 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, >>Meanwhile, Governor Jindl of Louisiana seems to be waffling from his concept that states' rights mean the Fed leaves them alone to take care of their problems the way they want. He is asking for unprecedented monies from the Feds. States' rights only work during prosperous times when there are no problems. In other times it's "Send in the Marines! Now!"<< I think most people that support state rights think there are some rare occasions when the Federal government has a role. When an oil spill threatens "multiple" states and the federal government has the means to help, it would be foolish to not use them. What would be foolish is using the federal government to bail out some of these states and then allowing them to continue doing the same exact stupid things. We don't want large numbers of people living in hurricane zones, earthquake zones, below sea level so when levies break they get flooded, or doing unsafe drilling off shore etc... We want to encourage them to move to places and behave in ways that make these disasters less likely to occur etc... If you keep bailing these imbeciles out and allowing things to continue as they were you are making the entire country responsible for the foolishness of a few with a kind of federal government backstop insurance. That's doubly foolish.