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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Glad I was sitting down....
	Date:	1/8/2013 7:59:36 PM (updated 1/8/2013 8:02:13 PM)

I'm glad as well.....hate to see you fall over and hurt yourself. :-)

Look, here's the deal with individual states that don't do what their electorate wants, either vote them out and get the govt you want or if the majority wants poorly funded and/or administered programs like Medicaid you can always move to a state that has the kind of social programs you like. But if its the federal govt then you have no alternative other than leaving the country. That is what I like about grants, not to mention it solves the basic problem of a program headed toward insolvency (if its not already there).

You are absolutely right that some states will not do much more than use the block grant funding and will not provide any more services than those funds will pay for. But there will be other states that raise their taxes to provide more services and those states will attract people that want those services and those people that are willing to pay for them. And that is the definition of federalism.

But here's what I expect will happen and we are already seeing it. States like CA, MA, IL, NY and others will see a flight of taxpayers and an infusion of those demanding those services and they will crash and burn because unlike the federal govt they can't print money. That's why they oppose block grants....they don't want to pay the price for their poor decisions. I believe that this is the only way to find the right balance of costs and services. I think that is one of the fundamental differences between liberals and conservatives. Liberals want life to be fair for everyone, but life isn't fair, never was and never will be. And conservatives are willing to accept that fundamental unfairness in the hopes that a reasonable balance occurs over time.

By the way, I had understood that Alabama will not establish an exchange under Obamacare and will leave the nightmare to the feds. Did I miss something on that because I live in Georgia and haven't been paying attention to Alabama as much.