The way a republican government works is that the government is an extension of the people, meaning that the people in office are the ones we have entrusted (consented) to run the government so we can go on with our daily lives. So if we truly are a republican government (I don't believe we are but a majority of people think we do so I am assuming) then the government is us, therefore we have nukes.
2 days might be a hyperbole, it might not be. They were GPS devices purchased from Radioshack and from what I have read and heard they died shortly after implementation. And a lot of the GPS devices were removed by the cartel members, real quality job.