It seemed optional to me.
I thought Ron Paul even said it was clearly optional.
As in the case of all other vaccines, Perry’s executive order merely stated that the vaccine is “recommended,” From The Daily Paul
Do you disagree with Ron Paul?
Bull hockey. It was a big government mandate.
If you wanted to opt out, YOU had to do the work of finding the right forms, and filing them in the right office, within the prescribed time limit, yada yada yada, big government red tape usurpation of Americans' natural right to be left alone.
If it had only been a "recommendation", you would have never seen the tsunami of outrage that swept this state. The whole reason that the legislature overturned Perry's executive order, was because it WAS a mandate.
If Ron Paul thinks that it was "optional", then he really is the loon that some folks say he is.
Yes, on just about everything he says and does. He's like the broken clock though, correct two times.
Yes, Ron Paul is wrong on that. (Not the first time, or the last.) Check Michelle Malkin’s column on the subject, which I linked. The “opt out” was a fig leaf. But that is one of numerous issues on which Perry has completely flip-flopped. He has to do the same tightrope walk on immigration that Romney has to do on healthcare.