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John H[_2_]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:34:59 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:22:15 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

States rights...a concept that should have been discarded generations
ago. And why don't you tell us what percentage of a state's National
Guard funding and materiel comes from the federal government?

That is one of the founding tenets of the Constitution. The framers
had a fear that big urban states would try to impose their will on
smaller rural states and that is why every state gets 2 senators and
why they have that representation in the Electoral College.
It is natural that those urban residents resent it.
Nobody is forcing people to live in Oklahoma, Mississippi or Alabama.
They can move to California or New York if they want and many have.

Most of them have much better sense.

John H. -- Hope you're having a great day!