Questions and Facts from Video

Questions

1. What are some conflicts that exist between the federal and state governments?
2. In this situtation, who do you think should decide whether or not a specific animal stays in a state?
3. How does the Idaho wolf problem show the state vs. federal government conflict over power?
4. Do you think endangered species should have special regulations and protections put on them?
5. Should drunk driving standards vary from state to state?
6. Do you think driving regulations in general should be a state or national responsibility?
7. Should welfare be a state or federal issue?
8. Does the welfare program improve by moving it to state and local governments?
9. How are people abusing the welfare system?
10. What other programs do you think would benefit if they were moved from federal to state government?

Facts:

1.  If states didn't pass a .08 drunk driving limit, they would receive less money from the government.
2. The care for people in poverty became a federal issue during the Great Depression.
3.  In 1996, Bill Clinton passed a bill that made welfare more of a state issue than a federal issue.
4. Poorer states, such as Mississippi, provide only minimal care for impoverished people.
5. South Carolina refused to have the drunk driving standard be .08.
6. Welfare programs differ from state to state.
7. Wolves were reintroduced into the wilderness of Idaho.
8. The number of single parents were increasing in the 1990's
9. Mississippi only supports one third of the people who acutally needs welfare.
10. Each state wanted a different standard for being drunk so it was set to .08 for the whole nation.