Exceptions

Hypocrisy runs rampant.

   The federal government should not interfere with the private sector and states' rights are paramount, so in this best of all possible worlds, private enterprise can resolve everything, and all things will turn out for the best. So, feds, keep your hands off.

   Except when we have our hands out.
   Like when handing out $40 million to GlaxoSmith-Kline to develop new drugs, totaling perhaps $200 million over five years.
   Like handing out millions to the State of Alaska to build a bridge to an island with only a few hundred resident.
   Like handing out more millions in disaster relief after storms hit places like New Orleans, Florida, Oklahoma, the Jersey Shore and Long Island.
   Like sending federal Forest Service workers to deal with fires.
   Like handing out federal money to provide health care for low-income American citizens. But some states righters refuse the money.
  Apparently, the poor have only themselves to blame for being poor.