The Presidential candidates are taking credit for plans to take "federal monies" and send it to the states for "our benefit". This brings up a critical issue in the way that the state governments interact with the Federal Gov. The Fed is taking YOUR hard earned money, skimming some off the top and then returning a small piece of that money to the state for (**name your federal funding reason**). The fed should never tax you and me to turn around and give money to the state. The State should (and does) tax it's citizens for the monies it needs to operate, even in an emergency. The Federal government is too big and wasteful to operate any more!