They are there to support the States, not control them or demand that they do something on a federal level or risk losing funding for the States infrastructures.

They are there to protect us from foreign invasion or attack. To ensure that our Constitutional rights and Bill of rights are upheld by each of the states. The government is NOT there to settle a dispute between a LOCAL police officer who was doing his job and a Black Professor who claims the was mistreated due to his race. They are NOT there to provide health care to the masses, this is an individuals option to make it so or not. It is NOT up to the government to decide weather or not a State can have a seat belt law or not. It is NOT up to the goverment to FORCE a State to take Federal monies for something they do not want. Example... Alaska, Texas, Montana, and a few others who did not want to take any bail out money.
Is is NOT up to the government to bail out PRIVATE industry and make the citizens of this country pay for their failures. It is NOT the responsibility to bail out Kalifornia and make the other States and people of this country pay for their FAILED immigration policies, green energy bullshit or anything else. Kalifornia is the poster child State for running your State into the ground. NOT our responsibility!

There is no time to say when to take up arms and demand that those who have been elected from office be removed. It's more of a breaking point and I think this debate has been had on every forum and every watering hole you can think of millions of time. But I can tell you this. The talk of such an action is growing and people will only talk so much before they break.

Right now is not the time, the call for action is protest, emails, letters and calls to your representatives to profess dislike of the current environment and actions. When the majority of the people of this country out way the liberal mindset then things will either change or break.

This country has weakened from the days of past and will take a lot more to reach a breaking point.

That's just my .02