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freshwest

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2. I don't see this as a new move at all. It's funding existing laws on the books.
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 11:54 PM
Apr 2013

The GOP has learned well that the way to stop laws being effective is to cut the funding for enforcement. We've seen this across the board and every state.

Legislators and citizens who are active put in thousands hours to organize, educate and get laws passed for civil rights of all kinds, and maintaining systems to make those dreams and needs a reality. All the GOP has to do is cut the funding to make all those hours mean nothing.

That's why the GOP is against taxes, they want to hollow out any government act that will get in their way. They've done an great job convincing Americans the government is corrupt and representatives don't work in their interests.

All the bills written, all the laws passed, mean nothing without enforcement. That takes taxes. The more they spew conspiracy or promote cynicism, the less people of good will get involved. The only ones they can use effectively are the zealots like the fundies or the libertarians to get in office and their intent is to eliminate the government and establish their version of utopia, which shuns democratic process.

This is the danger we are faced with and those who want to get very excited about gun grabbers and confiscation on a mass scale are only feeding their vision from two different sides.

The state of California is making headway in reversing defunding government to make a safer state.

IMHO.

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