Posted on 03/10/2010 5:17:44 PM PST by COBOL2Java
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's General Assembly became the first in the nation Wednesday to approve legislation that bucks any attempt by President Barack Obama and Congress to implement a national health care overhaul in individual states.
The Republican-ruled House of Delegates, with wide Democratic support, voted 80-17 without debate for the largely symbolic step aimed at the Democratic-backed reforms pushed by Obama and stalled in Congress. The vote sends the measure to Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell who intends to sign it.
Thirty-four other state legislatures have either filed or proposed similar measures — statutes or constitutional amendments — rejecting health insurance mandates, according to the American Legislative Exchange Council.
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You mean it’s illegal for a man or woman who lives in Virginia to be forced into a contract that they do not enter knowingly, willingly, and voluntarily?
Who’d a thunk it.
Hell. they don’t need guns.
All they need do is for one single month, stop sending Social Security checks to Virginia.
That’s all.
Richmond would be burned to the ground by geezers with molotov cocktails. Or geezerettes, more likely.
The health care freedom act just passed to Mo House last week, and it enjoyed bipartisan support, but not as overwhelming as Virginia.
The Senate majority is also Republican. It will be on the ballot as a constitutional amendment in 2010 general election.
And who is going to enforce it outside the beltway? For that matter, who would notice outside the beltway?
If every state just decided to ignore DC totally, what would happen? I mean, other than things getting better all over?
The healthcare “reform” bill has taxes from the git go, but benefits are deferred until several years down the road. So no matter what everyone is taxed without benefit.
“The healthcare “reform” bill has taxes from the git go, but benefits are deferred until several years down the road. So no matter what everyone is taxed without benefit.”
And what’s going to happen with those taxes for the first years when there are no benefits to go along with them. Is there a lock box for those years of taxes? Will those taxes even be there for Obamacare by the time the “benefits” are supposed to kick in. Or will the Obama Admin and his gang of thugs and special interests eat through all of that tax money for the next 4 years so that there isn’t any available for benefits when they allegedly will finally kick in. Crooks are running our gov’t. Obama’s health care plan is being set up by the equivalent of Bernie Madoff. It’s a Ponzi scheme from the gitgo. Don’t bank on our tax money even being there; it will all be redistributed long before it is needed. Suckers we are, one and all.
And it's 'way too negative.
Deer season in the US amounts to live-fire live-target real-world sniper training for 18,000,000 citizens.
I really do not think being the President of the United States is BO's ultimate goal. I think what he wants to preside over is the downfall of America as we know it.
Someone needed to fire the first shot. Barry might get it shoved through Congress but, that’s only his first hurdle.
The real issue and question is what the sheeple in mushy middle and the so called moderates see the mask fall off the beast. We have seen the Global Warming Hoax exposed, we have seen the democrat culture of corruption exposed [plz Rahm put on a towel!!], we have seen both the War on Terror vindicated in Iraq and Sarah Palin as well. The sheeple will probably need more convincing (I.e. $8 gallon gas, $5 a can coke and mandatory sensitivity training at a state run re-education camp)
Remember what Zero said:
“We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded...”
Statement from RPV Chair Pat Mullins:
For Immediate Release
March 11, 2010
Statement of RPV Chairman Pat Mullins on final passage of Health Care Freedom Act
Contact:
Garren Shipley
(540) 686-1138
RPV Chairman Pat Mullins issued the following statement:
“This week’s bipartisan votes to send the Health Care Freedom Act to Governor McDonnell’s desk are a major victory for all Virginians,” Mullins said. “The Governor and General Assembly are united in their effort to keep Democrats in Washington from levying an unprecedented tax on citizens for simply being alive.”
“Democrat leaders in Congress have made it known that they’re looking for three members from Virginia in particular — Rep. Tom Perriello, Rep. Glenn Nye, and Rep. Rick Boucher — to join Speaker Pelosi’s misguided minority and vote for President Obama’s massive federal health care takeover,” Mullins said. “Washington should take note: the overwhelming majority of Senators and Delegates from those three Congressional Districts, Republicans and Democrats, voted against health care mandates from federal government.”
“These votes send a clear message to the local Congressmen: the people back home in your district don’t want Washington bureaucrats in charge of their health care. They also don’t want the Commonwealth on the hook for one of the largest unfunded mandates in history,” he said.
“Voters in these three districts have made it clear to their state Senators and Delegates,” Mullins said. “Now it’s up to Congressmen Boucher, Nye, and Perriello to listen the people who sent you to Washington instead of Nancy Pelosi and her gang of arm-twisters.”
Support for the Health Care Freedom Act by Congressional District
9th Congressional District
Sen. Phil Puckett, D-38th
Sen. William Wampler, R-40th
Del. Morgan Griffith, R-8th, House Majority Leader
Del. Ward Armstrong, D-10th, House Minority Leader
Del. Clarence “Bud” Phillips, D-2nd
Del. Joseph Johnson, D-4th
Del. Terry Kilgore, R-1st
Del. James Morefield, R-3rd
Del. Charles Carrico, R-5th
Del. Anne Crockett-Stark, R-6th
Del. David Nutter, R-7th
5th Congressional District
Sen. Roscoe Reynolds, D-38th
Sen. Robert Hurt, R-19th
Sen. Frank Ruff, R-15th
Sen. Stephen Newman, R-23
Del. Daniel Marshall, R-14th
Del. Kathy Byron, R-22nd
Del. Donald Merricks, R-16th
Del. Watkins Abbit, I-59th
Del. James Edmunds, R-60th
Del. Thomas Wright, R-61st
Del. Robert Bell, R-58th
2nd Congressional District
Sen. Jeffrey McWaters, R-8th
Sen. Harry Blevins, R-14th
Del. Lynwood Lewis, D-100th
Del. Barry Knight, R-81st
Del. Harry Purkey, R-82
Del. Chistopher Stoller, R-83rd
Del. Robert Tata, R-85th
Del. Ron Villanueva, R-21st
Del. Salvatore Iaquinto, R-84th
Rebellion could be the only way to deal with the Administration.
Thank you!
Har! Even used car salesmen have some degree of honor; odinga on the other hand...
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