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Babies, puppies, kittens, and old people will die!!!
The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats, living together! Mass hysteria!
There would be no money to implement it or to enforce it.
It’s a half step, but one in the right direction. If it is illegal to smoke pot, but the police don’t enforce it, it is basically legal.
Same idea here. There is a law on the books, but no one to enforce it.
“...what does “defund Obamacare” really MEAN?!”
No money can be spent on implementing the nuts and bolts of the law. No money for “Navigators,” additional IRS Agents, Exchanges, additional HHS bureaucrats, etc. Even the printing office cannot spend a dime on making copies of the regulations, and no staffers to write them.
The Congress passed the SECURE BORDER ACT of 2006... they were to build a security fence all along our southern border... the fence was never built... the demonrats refused to fund it... understand now?
It means: WWW.DONTFUNDOBAMACARE.COM!!! Sign and endorse the Lee/Cruz Defund Obamacare Petition....right now....TODAY!!!
That is why it was incumbent on Boehner to listen to his House GOP, who desired to proceed with this.
What conservative members propose to do, is to proceed to fund other aspects of government spending (all of this without a budget,) by Social Security, Defense, VA benefits, keeping parks open, etc. just NOT funding anything having to do with Obamacare!
Liberals will tell you, certainly the White House, that this cannot be done!
Balderdash. The House of Representatives alone determine which programs to fund and has seen the largest rise in government spending by going ahead and funding various "make-work" programs, that once in the budget, get an automatic 10 percent increase each and every year, even though they have long ago gone away, i.e. "Rural electrification" program established under FDR to run electricity into every rural area.
That's what first brought Newt to my mind as a leader who proposed, once he became Speaker of the House, to have "roll back Tuesdays," which would essentially roll back those programs that had long since gone away! Unfortunately, we got so deep into the Clintons and Whitewater, that everything ran off the tracks (not actually a bad idea for Clinton as nothing much happened but "Roll Back Tuesdays" became only a pipe dream!)
I know I've gone on way too into the weeds here but basically, unless the House funds it, it doesn't get funded and NO Obama doesn't get to pick and choose which programs HE wants to fund! Ronald Reagan would have dearly LOVED that idea but it never occurred to him NOT to follow the Constitution!
I think it’s the same concept as “defunding the Viet Nam War”....
I wish it would mean, kill it, burn it to the ground, erase all memory of it.