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Government Power Devolution

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Well, that's one aspect of whats called reducing government and modifying government. To be more precise, another aspect of it what's called the devolution, reducing and moving governmental power from federal to the state level. And that has a kind of rational if you hear all over the time, place, for example, it was not a couple of weeks ago in New York Times by John Cochrane who were student at Stanford, who has pointed out what he call that the philosophical issue that divides the democrats and republicans. The philosophical issue is that Democrats believe in the big government and big entitlement. The republicans believe in getting powered down closer to the people, to the states because they are kind of popular states. Well it takes about maybe three seconds thought, to realize that moving power down to the states, in the funding and zones just moving it away from the people for perfectly elementary reason. There's a hidden part of the system for the power system, that you are not supposed to know about and think about and that's private power.

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Well, that's one aspect of whats called reducing government and modifying government. To be more precise, another aspect of it what's called the devolution, reducing and moving governmental power from federal to the state level. And that has a kind of rational if you hear all over the time, place, for example, it was not a couple of weeks ago in New York Times by John Cochrane who were student at Stanford, who has pointed out what he call that the philosophical issue that divides the democrats and republicans. The philosophical issue is that Democrats believe in the big government and big entitlement. The republicans believe in getting powered down closer to the people, to the states because they are kind of popular states. Well it takes about maybe three seconds thought, to realize that moving power down to the states, in the funding and zones just moving it away from the people for perfectly elementary reason. There's a hidden part of the system for the power system, that you are not supposed to know about and think about and that's private power.
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