A strong national government is a very necessary and important because they are the one that has the final say in our everyday lives. The national government also deals with other countries and needs to have the power to be able to deal with any foreign affairs. The state government does need some power to be able to in force the different laws that those states have.
As the country was dealing with the great depression the national government and presidents during that time felt they needed to create programs and other decisions to help the country grow and prosper once again. During the Reagan years he said "Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem" showing how he had felt that less government was important to put more power in the states hands to let them determine what moneys they received where important and not the national government. The move to allowing more power in the states hands I believe was a good move, because it allowed the state and local government to have more control over its own people.
The education is an important part of our countries stability and should be controlled by both state and national government. I believe that any money that is given to a state by our government should have some type of stipulation on it to know that that money is getting results. If states where allotted money by our national government to help our children and others receive an education than there has to be some type of guarantee that this money is not wasted.
I like your viewp point of education-giving both the national and state government some control. And I agree that there has to be some type of guarantee that the money is not wasted.
ReplyDeleteI didn't even think of how the individual states would deal with foreign affairs if we had no strong national government. That could leave us very vulnerable. We're pretty fortunate to have the government that we do.
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