Yep, my mom told me about this a week ago and thought to myself “Arizona is a good place to live - and we have Sheriff Joe running the jails and kicking out illegal immigrants”
Come to Arizona! We left California in 1996 and haven’t looked back!
Wow, you have narrowed down my choices for retirement living. I know that here in Michigan this will never happen and we need to escape.
In time there might be a few states willing to opt of the entire US of Obama permanently....
I’m sure Texas, Oklahoma and Alaska will add their names to this list.
Looked forward to seeing Florida on the short list. Alas, I remembered Charlie Crist is the governor.
Crap, I live in NJ.
Haven’t got a chance.
Except, my husband is in a union, and I am not.
I wonder, would it be beneficial to drop my coverage and go under his.
Interestly enough, we both work for the same company.
Isn’t that a hoot.
Now, if these states will simply stick to their guns and follow through, this will be good. And frankly, this is the way that all of us must respond to this Administration; resistance and refusal.
As I understand it, the US program would be funded and administered from Washington. This is a prescription for disaster.
Just the name says it all. Marxist monsters in the Democratic Party and going to break up the Union.
Every state should do this!
This opt out law would be totally ineffective.
This administration has no desire whatso ever of providing a level playing field so they could over subsidize the public plan to levels never sustainable for the first few years to force conversions then when reality catches up, it will be too late and the mess will be irreversable and folks will just have to figure how to make it actually work.. in a worse situation than it would have been because of the excess spending to force conversion.. then its soilent green time.. I expect.
Voters? You mean there are politicians in Arizona who give a rats behind about the rights/wishes of the voters? Evidently McCain has been thrown out?
Here in Indiana Mitch is doing a good job. He will not bow down to bo!!!
Just sent the link to my state senator here in Pa.
Unless the economy collapses and puts the federal government “out of business”, the time is fast approaching when the individual States will have no choice but to call a constitutional convention.
And though the conventional wisdom is that it could be disastrous, the truth of the matter is that first of all, there will be no other reasonable choice, the issue will be forced; and second, that because 3/4ths of the States must ratify the new constitution, the changes will be limited and to the point.
Unlike the loss of State power with the 17th Amendment, the direct election of Senators, delegates to a constitutional convention will not be elected, but selected, by each State legislature. Thus the emphasis will not be on the political left or right, but on States rights vs. federal power.
Likely, a constitutional convention would be held on a major military base, to protect it from a legion of outsiders who would desperately try to influence it. Delegates would be sequestered, and only allowed to communicate with the leadership of their State legislature. And the military personnel designated to protect them would likely be sworn to a second, special oath, and themselves be restricted to post.
The federal government would be in solely a caretaker role during the course of the convention, precluded from passing any law that might influence the course of the convention.
The Feds still have everybody by the nads. Individual states can opt out of getting Federal health care but the IRS will still demand that their citizens pay for it.
We have an excellent conservative state senate here in Arizona.
I know several doctors, and they have expressed that they are worried about what is going to become of them and thier practice if BHO gets his way.
Indiana? really? cooool! i like mitch better and better all the time!