Posted on 08/12/2010 9:12:55 PM PDT by Innovative
“Well, the simple - and correct - response to this is for Texas to tell the Feds to keep their money.
Only when states are willing to do this, will they begin to break free from the ever-increasing tentacles of federal control.”
The best way is for the states to pass a law requiring all federal payroll money to go to the state until the feds have a change of heart.
“Actually, the amendment in question was authored a Texas Democrat.”
Is the traitor being properly condemned as a traitor imposing his will upon the people of Texas?
what a jerk Obama is.
Time to secede! Im done. My state would be so much better off on it’s own. Time to light up the phones in Austin.
It’s hard to turn away fed funds when federal money comes from the pockets of texans to begin with.
I say turn away the money and don’t fund the Feds.
Obama didn't have to sign it...as a "Constitutional scholar" he should have known it's a bad bill.
The Constitution does not grant the Federal government the right to affect the citizens of any single state differently than the citizens of all the other states.
Singling out a state based on a criterion of performance is different from singling out a state by name. This goes well beyond the scope of what Rehnquist gave the nod to. Remember how ACORN managed to get their defunding overturned? This is the goose which shares sauce with that gander.
The Feds do it all the time if you don't spend fed money on projects you get no more fed money It's where they have the states over the barrel on welfare,housing, abortion and even road construction ... even though road construction is part of the feds job in certain cases they still hold out till the states ask for cash then they start barking on deals
I know it happens here in Ohio every 2 or 3 years maybe even more now that so many are unemployed through Terd Strickland's idiocy
Tecnicaly Perry can do what perry does best and tell a little
The good news is the Texas legislator did successfully divert the money taxed from Texas to sure up the State’s finances last year and this is why the fascist Rep Lloyd Alton Doggett of Austin should be condemned all around the State of Texas as a Traitor!
Perry should do what he does best tell the Feds what they want to hear so he can grab the money and run. Then Texas can then spend the money on the more prudent task of shoring up State government funding to enable and maintain tax cuts.
FYI nullification of unconstitutional Federal domestic policy intrusions.
...the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, withholding 10% of Federal-Aid Highway Act funds from statesthat did not adopt a minimum legal age of 21 for the purchase and possession of alcohol.
Applied equally to all states, not SD by name.
“Time to secede”
I think that’s what he wants to gin up with this thing.
Unconstitutional bill of attainer...
When did that ever stop a liberal?
To hell with the O-hole. Texas needs to be a Republic again.
Obama&Co. are the Mafia look how they operate.
The tricky SOb’s snuck nazi education initiatives crap into a jobs bill?
So Gov. Perry...Obama must not have read your letter...?
Think about it.......it's padding the pockets of lawyers on the taxpayers dime. Another form of redistribution from the middle class.
Obama is “over the top” in several areas now.
Looking forward to the day some real men in Texas sign a bill telling “bammy where to put it....
WRONG! We need a CONSERVATIVE President! Wake up!
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