21. On Monday, the U.S. Conference of Mayors voted in San Francisco to oppose the standards, saying they would create new burdens on cities. 22. Officials there say that some families who lost their food stamps have been pushed to the brink of hunger, placing new burdens on already stretched food pantries. 23. Older communities not putting new burdens on the construction of social capital should receive a lower millage rate than new communities requiring new schools and sewers. 24. On a financial level, the city does not have the necessary money to pick up the new burden. 25. That reaction reflected fears that Messier is about to take on a huge new burden and get little in return except for the glamour of becoming a Hollywood player. 26. The argument against the idea was that it imposed costly new burdens on state governments, overstepped the federal power to regulate state actions and invited voter fraud. 27. The five countries that border Afghanistan have closed their borders, fearing an influx of terrorists concealed among the refugees and new burdens on their own economies. 28. The new capacities it offers are in many ways also new burdens, new challenges that nothing has prepared the existing societies to confront. 29. There is also a unilateralist camp that sees a bigger NATO as bringing a new burden of obligations and constraints. 30. There are new burdens. |