Texas: Mandatory meningitis shots for all newly enrolling college students
This was not some statement he made in a surge of emotion, an impulsive, knee-jerk; this was an edict he published - and instead of thinking “Why do the people resent this?”; he tried to force it down their throats.
If not for the Texas Legislature - this WOULD have been forced down the citizen’s throats. And that is my point.
Socrates wrote “Power corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absoltely”. Perry had a taste of power; and what I saw frankly frightens me. Here is a man, who will cease power and force his (belevolent) will upon another. What will he do when given the powers of the POTUS?
A ‘reasonable’ man would have retracted the Executive Order long before the Legislature reached a super-majority vote to reject it. A ‘reasonable’ man would have made this vaccine available as an option; and been lauded a ‘hero’.
Texas: Mandatory meningitis shots for all newly enrolling college students
My good friend, emotion against the scourge of cancer and when so easily prevented through a vaccine, was acting in tandem with the too-quick decision to mandate such a vaccination program.
They were both in play. A false choice to say it was either one or the other.
There isn’t anything remotely threatening there. Your fear is misplaced. This is a man who has been a legislator, who has been a Lt. Gov. who works in tandem with the legislature, and a Gov. who in the end had to bow to the will of the people.
It is Obama who will not bow to the will of the people. It is Obama who is a would be dictator a la Chavez in Venezuela.
Perry is stubborn. The old saying, “be sure you’re right, then go ahead” is what Perry is like.
He didn’t spend enough careful thought about how Texans would take this, but instead moved to the “solution” phase too thoughtlessly.
There is no denying - none - that had that program through the schools been carried out, it would have been the most effective way to prevent cervical cancer. Nothing else is even a distant second place compared to the effectiveness. That’s clearly what he aimed for.
But it was not worth it if the people of Texas did not want it, and they did not.
He obviously thought they would want it. I ask you, common sensewise, if he had known that the people would bombard the legislature against it, would he have still done it? Of course not, of course not, wake up.
No dictator, he. Just look what Obama does. There’s your dictator. Takes delight in ignoring the people’s will. Literally takes delight in it. Sick.
Nobody else but yourself can stop the false, useless fear of Rick Perry that your brain harbors. I advise you to dump it, it’s a no-brainer that Rick Perry is no threat as a would-be dictator.
But if you want to cling to that, so be it.