Liberals will accept states rights if they see it as a way to get rid of those pesky right-wingers that are always preventing them from achieving a socialist Utopia.
Posted on 04/24/2010 3:19:30 PM PDT by pissant
Only hours after the Florida House and Senate voted to “opt out” of the new federal health law, the top U.S. health official said Thursday night that will not be permitted.
Without mentioning any particular state or going into detail, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that state and local officials can vent all they want about a so-called “federal takeover” of health care. But they cannot deny their citizens access to its benefits or requirements, she told the Association of Health Care Journalists.
“They may want to opt out, but they don’t get to opt out all of their citizens who want and need health care,” Sebelius said.
Florida has an estimated 4 million uninsured, most of whom will be covered when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) takes full effect in 2014.
At least 30 states have passed state constitutional amendment legislation similar to that approved by the Florida Legislature, according to theNational Conference of State Legislatures.
Sebelius said the backlash against the ACA has been ginned up by “misinformation,” much of it deliberate. Thus HHS will be setting up an Internet site to answer frequent questions and a toll-free helpline, similar to that operated for Medicare beneficiaries. HHS staff members present at the conference said they hope to have the Internet site up by July 1 and the help desk soon after.
(Excerpt) Read more at healthnewsflorida.org ...
Britain did build the USS Alabama, which was the most deadly ship deadly ship of the war. It was said that it left a crimson sea of red in its wake. Many years ago I read that that is why Alabama is called the Crimson Tide. Of course you never see that in print anymore.
Well, maybe I should have said an “1861 Re-do beginning”. From there it comes out completely different.
I’m reminded of a “house divided against itself cannot stand”. This “house” is about as divided as it can get.
Liberals will accept states rights if they see it as a way to get rid of those pesky right-wingers that are always preventing them from achieving a socialist Utopia.
>>> how do you explain my state joining the confederacy when my state never had slavery when we joined plus the north did
I imagine geography had a lot to do with that.
Alberta is a red state?
The Fuhrer, his Gestapo Thugs, and this Congress have declared war upon We The People. November 2nd, We The People will take back our Congress.
We sure will.
The Fuhrer, his Gestapo Thugs, and this Congress have declared war upon We The People. November 2nd, We The People will take back our Congress.
That’s exactly right! They’ve betrayed us; and now we will treat them as the vermin they are.
I smell a lawsuit...a BIG lawsuit.
I smell another Civil War.
You are wrong...
The Civil War was about human rights! Not states rights.
No, you are wrong.
Prepare. Know your target, freeze it, obliterate it.
Know your target, freeze it, obliterate it.
Been there, will do it again.
That really is a good idea.
She knows what the Constitution says!
She doesn't care what the Constitution says. Neither does her boss.
What stupidbelius does not know is that we will have Mario the Great as a U.S. Senator representing us and probably a majority in the Senate. With any luck none of her crap will even be funded by 2014—zerocare is a myth and over.
If we take over either house NOv. zero care is dead.
I keep hoping it won’t come down to a war.
And maybe it won’t.
But we try peaceful means first. When or if those don’t work, we fight. It’s our sacred duty.
The right of the states to conduct their internal affairs as their citizens saw fit was the primary cause of the war. When it became apparent to southerners that their agrarian society was being threatened by their "rulers in the north" they chose to secede, but the Federal gumbint refused to recognize the right to secession. Many unconstitutional acts by the Federal gumbint, such as the suspension of Habeas corpus followed. No state would have ever joined the union if they thought that they couldn't secede if and when the far off Federal gubmint got too big for their britches. There were many southerners who despised slavery just as much as northerners, but the mostly rural southerners were very accustomed to doing for themselves without Uncle Sugar intervening. This is still true to this very day. We see it in every election. Northerners tend to favor large gubmint. Southerners tend to want to be left alone. There were many other factors besides slavery that brought on the "war of northern aggression" including, but not limited to taxation, societal differences between the industrialized north and the agrarian south, and, of course, primary reason of the southern states believing (rightfully so) that they had the right to conduct their affairs under their own laws without interference from the Federal gubmint. The notion of limited Federal gubmint was something people in the south of that time truly believed in. Remember, it had only been a little over 70 years since the Revolutionary War and the principles that founded this nation were still very fresh in people's minds, especially in the south because many of the final battles of the Revolutionary War were fought in the south. Slavery was certainly part of the equation, but it was by no means the only cause of the war, although revisionist historians would love to have you believe that as fact, especially revisionist historians who are sympathetic to a large centralized gubmint.....
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We also have some up and coming guys as well. They just don't seem to grab the limelight like pubbie gals do.
Newt is great as well but only 70% of the time, the rest of the time,when he's off of his conservative meds, he can be really scary.
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