You heard the story about how to catch wild pigs. Give them enough free food and they won't pay any attention to the fence you're putting up. Until it's too late.
Likewise, if the feds keep offering all these neat toys and resources and the grants to fund the city projects, what will the city allow them to do? What if the feds give the cities what they want? All of it. With one stipulation. Would it matter what that stipulation is? What, maybe 10% of the city population "leaves"? For my home that's only 15-18 people. In the neighboring town that'd be about 130. In the county seat that comes to 850. Good way to keep the city paychecks coming in. Who would care if 30% of the population disappeared? And out in the rural areas, accidents happen. Accidental gas explosion. Family wiped out by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Seriously. And when the town leaders are told of this offer, they'll get scared. Cooperate or else. Or else it happens anyway and they are merely an accidental casualty. Fear will make people do the craziest and stupidest **** sometimes.
So how far will these grants go? Money's gotta come from somewhere.
