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Originally Posted by Typhoid
Keep in mind I have had a few beers at this point, but I would just like to state:
Well, the fact they are the government/essential "ruler" of the country sort of gives them the right.
Anyways, my two cents:
I agree with both sides here.
The fact that they are saying "Here, take X amount of dollars, but make sure that 100/X goes towards ____ or else you don't get X dollars" is entirely wrong. It's wrong in the sense they're saying they have to spend a certain amount, nomatter how small on something. However, they are the overall government, which does technically overrule state power.
On the other hand, it is only 1% of the fund they are giving, so no - realistically, it's not a huge deal. If they were saying 60% has to go towards ____, then yes, I could see why it's a big uproar.
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60% would definently be an outrage. Its hard to draw a line though, because it just means if the government tosses a state enough extra money they can get the state to change any little thing they want. Potentially... which is what Strangler is scared of.
I can see how 1% is an annoyance to prof also, but the fact that they could be pulling for a lot more and only asked for one little thing is reassuring in a way. If they really wanted to abuse their power they could, and nobody could stop them.
Some people just chose not to trust the government and make wild assumptions about what will happen. Honestly, I don't trust the govt much, but I'm not gonna sit there and cry about what they could possibly do. Get mad when they actually pull more stunts and don't show contraint. I'm mad at the first bail out package, biggest waste of money ever.
For all I know the first bail out bush made was just done so that future bail outs would come with some more rules attached to them, and people would have to accept them. Who knows? We can't really control what is coming.