In the Great NH GOP Degradation Derby...

where all the candidates for president vie with one another to depict themselves in the crudest most belligerent terms possible....Jeb Bush has come out for turning food stamps into a no-strings attached block grant to the States. Now normally I'd wax snarkily about Jeb's wealthy detached upbringing and La Famiglia Arbusto's sixty year record of poverty shaming....but for once I'm just gonna call this what it is, a power and revenue grab to the states nothing more. We are a Federalist System to be sure and always will be, but there is nothing in continental character of poverty that makes it especially vulnerable to Federalist Solutions. But the 10th Amendment has this whole cult on the small gummint right and what with being married to a Hispanic Immigrant Jeb had to grasp for bona fides where he could. Under this proposal what is to prevent a vengeful old falangist like Maine's Governor LePage from using the "Right to Rise Grants" to deputize an armed auxiliary of Poverty Shamers? Nothing so far as I can see....When you give revenue sans stipulations you grant power, and people like Scott Walker and Paul LePage already have too much power thank you very much....