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NYC_SKP

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6. If states rights are gone then you seem to be advocating for more centralized government.

Reply to Al Carroll (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 12, 2014, 08:19 PM

Sep 2014

That happens to be a step toward a one world government, for better or worse.

And the more centralized it is, the less respective of local differences and preferences.

Is that OK by you?

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