[TheRealThing]

The federal government borrows about 40 percent more money that it collects in taxes. Just because a state gets more so-called "federal" money, does not mean that money came from other states. Money is fungible and you could just as easily say that Kentuckians are taking money that came from Beijing. The redistribution of taxes is a poor excuse for the federal government's imposition of unconstitutional mandates upon the states.

More pertinent to this thread, is the fact that the way taxes are collected and redistributed by the federal government does not create a new constitutional power for Washington to require states to sanction gay marriage.

If you and other gay advocates want gay marriage to become the law in all 50 states, then you should mount a campaign for a constitutional amendment.

Exactly, if the states allow federal money to dictate terms the way RV is suggesting, there would no longer be anything to stop Washington liberals from total domination. They already worked out a way to thwart the checks and balances that are supposed to exist among the three federal co-equally powerful branches of government. And, you can thank folks like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi for helping to make it happen. Reid for gridlocking the US Congress by not fulfilling his sworn duty to take up legislation coming up out of the House. That's why we don't have a federal budget. And, that's why we keep running up against these fiscal cliffs. Pelosi is just a liberal cheer leader who does what she is told.

If you take state sovereignty out of the equation, you've got only one state, the federal state. I admit freedom is under attack but, I'm not quite ready to wave the flag of defeat just yet. Like I said, we have another chance to slow the national slide into a liberal abyss in the coming mid-terms of 2014. Obama used a tweeked version of an old campaign slogan to get elected. Remember the "Time for a Change" slogan? He said Hope and Change. I say it's time for a :flush: and my hand will be on the flush lever. :rockon: