Looks like some Governors are acting to protect their people from this monstrosity or at least starting to. Let us hope this start grows and expands.
FYI -
New Hampshire legislature already outlawed the forming of this health exchange here, so add NH as another state in this battle.
I’m glad I think all the governors should refuse to implement the OBAMATAX too...
It is great to see the states refusing to set up exchanges. The exchanges are a Potemkin village to give the uninformed the belief that they are buying traditional health insurance.
It is all very slick brand marketing using the insurance companies people are familiar with to introduce socialized medicine. In reality all components of “health plans” will be regulated by HHS and kenyancare is totally unsustainable.
These corporations like Blue Cross will stick around but they won’t be insurance companies. They will be more like sales companies taking a skim off the top.
I pray they hold steady on this and don’t crumble.
But we (and I am sure, they,) are very aware of Obama and his Chicago style politics.
EMAIL From Gov Perry :
After yesterday’s 5-4 decision by the United States Supreme Court, I am more concerned than ever about the direction of our country. The Court’s decision, dressed up in legalese, is simply a betrayal of our constitutional liberties.
Yesterday, they said Congress and the Executive could tax you for not purchasing an insurance product. In other words, you can be fined for exercising freedom.
If you’re mad, please know I share your anger. But I have always believed that the wholesale repeal of ObamaCare would not happen in the courtroom, but at the ballot box.
Yesterday the Supreme Court reminded us how important voting is. They gave deference to a law that would have never passed had the Republican brand not become so tarnished by 12 years of excess spending and scandal.
Yesterday, we paid the highest price yet for surrendering our majority for a few short years.
Well, I say it’s time to take our country back. If you agree, I ask for a contribution of $250, $100, $50 or $25.
I’m not on the ballot this November, but I will be campaigning like I am because we can’t afford four more years of a president who wants to abridge our freedom on the altar of bureaucracy.
We will not suffer silently in the face of federal encroachment. We will re-double our efforts to take our country back, to repeal every last word of ObamaCare, and to re-institute both a love and respect for the 10th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Now, more than ever, we need to elect conservatives who abide by these words:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
God Bless,
Rick Perry
Called a local radio station today in south Florida that reported RS was “back pedaling” on a promise to implement OBAMACARE if the court ruled for it.
The young punk insisted the court did rule for Obama care and that it didn’t matter that states could opt out of expanding Medicaid, he thought Scott was still backpedaling. I told the little moron Scott’s position was consistent with the Court’s ruling.
Too bad Rick Perry doesn’t oppose the federal No Child Left Behind.
"I do not think it for the interest of the General Government itself, and still less of the Union at large, that the State governments should be so little respected as they have been. However, I dare say that in time all these as well as their central government, like the planets revolving round their common sun, acting and acted upon according to their respective weights and distances, will produce that beautiful equilibrium on which our Constitution is founded, and which I believe it will exhibit to the world in a degree of perfection, unexampled but in the planetary system itself. The enlightened statesman, therefore, will endeavor to preserve the weight and influence of every part, as too much given any member of it would destroy the general equilibrium." --Thomas Jefferson to Peregrine Fitzhugh, 1798. ME 10:3"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:278
"If Caesar had been as virtuous as he was daring and sagacious, what could he, even in the plenitude of his usurped power, have done to lead his fellow citizens into good government?... If their people indeed had been, like ourselves, enlightened, peaceable, and really free, the answer would be obvious. 'Restore independence to all your foreign conquests, relieve Italy from the government of the rabble of Rome, consult it as a nation entitled to self-government, and do its will.' But steeped in corruption, vice and venality, as the whole nation was,... what could even Cicero, Cato, Brutus have done, had it been referred to them to establish a good government for their country?... No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and their people were so demoralized and depraved as to be incapable of exercising a wholesome control. Their reformation then was to be taken up ab incunabulis. Their minds were to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and deterred from those of vice by the dread of punishments proportioned, indeed, but irremissible; in all cases, to follow truth as the only safe guide, and to eschew error, which bewilders us in one false consequence after another in endless succession. These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure of order and good government. . . . --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1819. ME 15:233
"An enlightened people, and an energetic public opinion... will control and enchain the aristocratic spirit of the government." --Thomas Jefferson to Chevalier de Ouis, 1814. ME 14:130
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820.
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787.
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789.
"Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, the people, if well informed, may be relied on to set them to rights." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789.
From James Madison:
"Although all men are born free, and all nations might be so, yet too true it is, that slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant – they have been cheated; asleep – they have been surprised; divided – the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson?... The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it."
"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court even can do much to help it." - Judge Learned Hand