This Week in the Mercury
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Politics A Big Storm Requires Big Government
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Does Mr. Romney really believe that financially strapped states would do a better job than a properly functioning federal agency? Who would make decisions about where to send federal aid? Or perhaps there would be no federal aid, and every state would bear the burden of billions of dollars in damages.
Required reading from the New York Times editorial page.
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