Real GOP Goal Is SEND ALL Federal Authority To States & Privatize/Contract Federal Employees.

[TheMastersNemesis]

The Reagan devolution strategy still exists and the goal of the GOP is to dismantle most federal responsibilities by sending most the federal government operations to the states as block grants and make their operations voluntary. The only federal agencies we need in their eyes are DOD and Homeland Security. Other than that all other agencies can be run at the state level. That means that agencies like the EPA, HHS, DOT, VA et al can be run by the states. That would mean that we would have 50 state EPA's, HHS's, DOT's, VA's et al.

Such ideas means that public health would also be fragmented into 50 parts. The Center For Disease Control would also be abolished at the federal level. Plus the states would also be able to CONTRACT OUT ALL SERVICES.

The new cabinet is the first step in dismantling the federal government as we know it today. People wanted change and what I describe has been on the GOP's hidden agenda all along.

[Binkie The Clown]

1. Give all the power to the states and there won't be a "United" States.

Just a loose collection of separate mini-countries with conflicting agendas.

Then the Oregonians will start blowing up the bridges on the California side of the border to keep the enemy out, and Alabama will build a wall to keep everybody out. Heavens only knows what North Carolina will do, but be prepared to have your genitals inspected at the border checkpoint.

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. The Devolution Model Started In 1981 And Has Never Gone Away.

It has been the goal of the GOP since Reagan to pretty much end public employees entirely and contract out ALL government operations.

[kimbutgar]

3. Well now they can do what they have dreamed about

Sadly a lot of people will suffer.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Frankly, it's a continuation of the Civil War...

the Union won, but the South never admitted it, and they've infected far too many other states.

[Blaukraut]

5. Then maybe the blue states shouldn't be forced to subsidize the red states anymore

This states rights business should cut both ways.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. This is what the modern

GOP wants.

[ElkeH]

7. Conservatives can be very hypocritical

They like to champion states' rights when it suits their agenda, but I think they would also gladly use the power of the federal government to suppress the will of the more progressive states. The GOP used to voice its support for a Constitutional amendment that would effectively ban same-sex marriage throughout the country, and it did not become a states' rights issue for conservatives until the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal everywhere.

Likewise, if they had a choice between letting individual states decide on abortion and having the federal government ban abortion throughout the country, they would happily go with the federal option and trample on the rights of the states that want to keep abortion legal.

[pansypoo53219]

8. media blinders. local is all but invisible to the sheeple.