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buck
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I was disappointed to read that Councilwomen Wendy Greuel and Jan Perry passed the buck and blamed the Department of Water and Power for the energy emergency in Los Angeles.
They have, like Pilate, washed their hands and passed the buck to "the states," despite the fact that our national welfare system was devised because all too many states were doing an abysmal job of addressing the desperate poverty in which some of their citizens lived.
He's never passed the buck when he could have," she says.
 
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