At this budget meeting, the crackup of America was right at the surface

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At this budget meeting, the crackup of America was right at the surface

Some of the purported King’s subjects gathered in downtown Seattle the other day, to object, as disgruntled Americans have been known to do, to a self-proclaimed King’s latest decrees.The big question was: What if the King cuts us off?This was actually a routine committee hearing at the Metropolitan King County Council. The topic was bland-sounding enough: “Federal Funding Update.” But in the air was the prospect that a fundamental break with the United States government may be in the offing.“We’re waiting for a federal government that doesn’t exist anymore,” testified the county’s budget director, Dwight Dively. “We may be in ..