I agree with Paul Opsommer, the Government in general expectantly the federal government is doing too much, it was never made to do this many things, and we the people simply cant afford this load.

There is one essential core function of government, and that is the protection of the rights of the people form usurpation by other people or governments. That means law enforcement and defense.

At this juncture however it is clear that the rights of the people are now being threaten by the federal government which correspondingly threatens the budget of the state thou its unconstitutional power grabs and mandates. Therefore the State must deal with the Federal government’s excesses if it is to have any long term hope of dealing with it’s own budget problems.
It’s got to stop the injury causing so much of the bleeding.
This is the most vital roll of the State government, while local government in most States actually most directly handles the law enforcement. The State Controls the state’s military defense assets. They must act to protect the rights of the people and their States from further Federal intrusion, and they must act in coordination with the other states. Or they will not be able to solve theses budget problems over the long run.

The thing about the federal government pushing it’s social welfare programs and cost onto the states with the actual power to do them, is that the same government has little to no considerations of the actual budgetary constraints of the same states to afford them, and so they keep pushing more and more endlessly.

This must stop, we cant afford to keep playing this careless carrot and stick spending game. Until the State deals with this matter and brings and end to it, the question budgetary balance is a losing battle.

The people cannot afford this weight of government even at present, we certainly can’t afford it’s non-stop growth anymore. You must bring a stop to it.

Reverse all changes made to the law in-order to gain federal money, then take control of the Federal Taxes, and deduct from that amount contributed the excess cost of their unconstitutional mandates.

The Federal Government has no right to be transfer funds from this State to other States just because we can’t afford to match their wreck-less spending, as to be “eledgeable” for a return of that which we payed to the Federal government in the first place.

The Unconstitutional stick must be broken, and our carrot must not be allowed to lead us into budgetary and legal doom.