Perry: Texas May Fight National Health Care if Approved

WOAI ^ | 6/24/09 | Jim Forsyth

[laotzu]

Governor Rick Perry suggested today that if President Obama's health care reform plan is approved by Congress, Texas may refuse to participate in it, 1200 WOAI news reports.

"My hope and prayer is that it will not occur," Perry said of a potential Texas challenge to national health care. "But states need to stand up and say, listen, we best know how to run our state. I think you'll hear states and governors standing up and saying no to this type of encroachment on states and their health care. I am certainly ready and willing for the fight, if this adminsitration continues to try to fight their very expansionist philosophy down our throat."

"It really is a state issue, and if there was ever an argument for the Tenth Amendment and for letting states find the solutions to their problems, this may be at the top of the class," Perry told conservative talk show host Mark Davis, a frequent fill-in for Rush Limbaugh, according to audio released by WBAP-AM radio.

"A government run health care system is financially unstable, it's not the solution, and states need to be flexible. The idea that what we do in Texas nees to be like what they do in Pennsylvania or Minnesota is ludicrous."

It's the latest in a series of comments that Perry has made opposing federal government interviention in state activities.

Following a 'tea party' event in Austin in April, Perry suggested that 'secession' may be a possiblity, and he has frequently involved the Tenth Amendment, which guarantees that powers not specifically granted to the federal government by the Constitution be granted to the 'states, respectively, or to the people.'

Texas has the largest number, and the largest percentage, of uninsured residents in the country.

Perry has repeatedly raised the spectre of states rights and the Tenth Amendment this year, over the stimulus plan, and specifically over the federal unemployment benefit fund in the February Stimulus bill.

Perry refused to accept some $550 million in unemployment compensation funds because taking the money would have required the state to expand its benefits to cover people who are laid off from part time jobs or who quit voluntarily in some cases, something Perry said would increase taxes on small business.

Perry also brought up the topic of Texas seceding from the union in an interview following the Austin Tea Party in April.

"There has never been in my lifetime, an Administration that tried more to get in and take over the private sector than this adminsitration," Perry said. "If you go back and read about the Great Depression and the New Deal that came out of that, it is eerily similar. And the New Deal exacerbated the problem, it was World War Two that got us out of that massive depression we were in."

"I don't think that anybody who cares about this state would vote for Obamacare, whether you're a Dmeocrat or a Republican," Perry said. "This Obamacare would be disasterous to Texas. Any Texas Representative or Senator who votes for Obamacare, they might ought to consider representing some other state, because they're not representing Texas."

[laotzu]

God Bless Texas!!
(I know, its redundant)

[MNSlim]

I’m just hoping one of the usual curmudgeons doesn’t stop by to dismiss Perry as a “RINO” like they do every other elected Pubbie. This is why we need GOP reps in government.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Get those calls in to Perry so he shows some backbone.

[Arthur McGowan]

Perry is exactly correct.

In fact, he should take this course of action regardless of ANY of the specifics in the Death to America “Healthcare” Bill, precisely because, whether it results in euthanasia and abortion (which it will) it WILL help put more nails in the coffin of the Constitution.

Once governors take back their legitimate powers under the Tenth Amendment, they should recognize that those legitimate powers include nullifying USSC decisions in which the Court has usurped authority. First on the governors’ “docket” should be Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.

[unixfox]

All I can say is this better not be another ploy to get re-elected. If it is, we WILL throw his ass out next election.

[Clara Lou]

Well, Perry has hardly been consistent, so he earned some jabs. However, he’s come up in my standing with this stand. SOMEBODY needs to remind those screw-ups in DC that there’s something called the Constitution.

[kittymyrib]

“Texas has the largest number, and the largest percentage, of uninsured residents in the country.”

That’s because we have a great portion of Mexico’s citizens living in Texas, whom we are already educating, medicating and incarcerating. We do not need the magnet of free health care to draw even more Mexicans to Texas.

And there are many young Texans who do not choose to have health care because they don’t need it. BO can’t stand that freedom thing. It must be stamped out because the young should be made to pay for the old, as they already do by having Social Security taxes confiscated from their paychecks. If the federal government stopped taxing individuals and families so much, they could afford their own health care...but then they wouldn’t be dependent on Democrats, would they.

[Clara Lou]

Yeah— but in the meantime.... (As I said above, Perry isn’t consistently good in what he chooses to do. And I just have an idea he wants to run for POTUS. And, up to this point, he’d certainly be a less controversial candidate than Palin.)

[SouthDixie]

Wouldn't it be grand if Texas secedes, I'm proud to have them for a neighbour.

[Tomato lover]

Will Texas also reject any ACORN workers?

[PhiKapMom]

Exactly! A Republican doesn’t do 100% of what they want and he becomes a RINO no matter how conservative he has governed.

Personally don’t think a lot of people using the word “RINO” over and over again are even Republican. I will take a Rick Perry a 100 times over the RAT Doofus Henry we have as OK Governor. Henry, the Obama lover, vetoed the voter ID bill but we have it on the ballot so his veto meant ZERO.

[Arrowhead1952]

TX ping - screw obambicare again

[Jeff Head]

Here is a link to the full House Democrat Health Care Plan in PDF. In Section 1233 E & F, pages 426-433, you find the part about mandatory end-of-life counseling for anyone over 65 years of age. Section 152 Page 50: All healthcare services will be provided without regard to "personal characteristcs" which is not defined within the document but is understood to include immigration status.

A lot more provisions now being documented at that site.

HOUSE DEMOCRAT HEALTH CARE PLAN - http://www.jeffhead.com/DemHealthCare.htm

Also, here's a large image of the Democratic (Obama) Health Plan chart-another Obama empty promise. This is the one the House democrats are censuring. Email these links or the image to everyone you know.

Decmocrat (Obama) Health Plan
http://www.jeffhead.com/DemHealthCare.htm

Obama and all those pushing his radical agenda are abject marxist ideologues. Their "fundamental; change" is nothing more than a destruction of the American free market and fundamental republican principle.

A PETITION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

A 4TH OF JULY TEA PARTY SPEECH

UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA - A SONG
By Ron and Kay Rivoli

...and on the lighter side, take your mind off the Obamanation for a few minutes and enjoy some beautiful Western US scenery slideshows.

JEFF HEAD'S WESTERN US SCENERY SLIDE SHOWS

[MrB]

One thing about this policy, if 0bamacare does pass, and Texas refuses to participate,

those “uninsured” will leave the state for the “free” medical insurance in other states.

This could be a good thing. Get the entitlement crowd to voluntarily emigrate.

[lonestar]

Wouldn't it be grand if Texas secedes

I think so....and I live here!!!

[laotzu]

don’t think a lot of people using the word “RINO” over and over again are even Republican

When they are all 'RINOs', the word ceases to have any meaning. They are simply 'Republicans'.

However; it does prove your point in that I am not a Republican.

[chuckles]

I like what he has been saying lately, but that’s just it. He crawls out of the woodwork around election time and sounds like a Governor, but where was he the last few years? I just want to watch and listen a little longer before I believe this is the real deal.

[M203M4]

A Tenth Amendment battle is long overdue.

The unfortunate thing is that 2000-2006 was our golden opportunity. BDS in the media (combined with a nominally R-controlled Congress) could have been leveraged to our advantage in the 10A fight - initiating the battle now makes it easy to paint our motives as being a noxious combination of partisanship, covert racism, poor-loserism, and whatever else the MSM wishes to ascribe to our side in the hopes of propping up ObaMessiah and other Democrat colleagues.

Better late than never, don’t get me wrong. I just foresee that any nascent 10A movement will quickly be painted as some “xenophobic, populist drive of a bunch of apocalyptic birther lunatics awaiting the second coming who want to anoint Queen Palin as President and kick Obama back to Kenya” turning off 99.999% of the fraction of people who would otherwise back a devolution of power to the states.

We basically wasted an opportunity for the media narrative to be defined in terms less unfavorable to our cause. IMO, if we are ever to succeed, it has to be during the term of an unpopular Republican president, preferably one who at least the Left (again) sees as an enemy of civil liberties, etc.

[LearsFool]

Well said!

[Clara Lou]

I’m sure they’ll be welcomed in liberal Austin.