Ummm...for clarity, I don't get what you are saying vis what I posted.
You started your post with the following words which were in my post:
“For one thing, as hurricane Katrina has glaringly shown, the Federal government is a clumsy, bureaucratic, politicized, and insensitive instrument...and states and localities that give themselves over to depending on it are in real trouble.”
I just wanted to clarify that those were not my words, but something I took from the linked article in the original post.
I don’t have any problem with the rest of you post.