More federal involvement into the state will threaten secession

More federal involvement into the state will threaten secession

According to the Austin-American Statesman, “state lawmakers plugged a hole in the 2010-2011 budget by using $12 billion in federal stimulus money” while Texas’ rainy day fund which is estimated at over $9 billion remains intact. Democrats in the Texas Legislature and the U.S. Congress “have fumed, saying the $3.2 billion in education money from the federal stimulus should have gone directly to the school districts, instead of to bailing the state out of its budget jam.”? Not acting in accordance with the federal government’s terms for the ARRA could lead to the loss of future stimulus funding. A recent article on dallasnews.com reports that Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin “accused Perry and state GOP budget writers of creating an artificial shortfall in Texas’ education budget, then trying to fill it with federal stimulus money . . . [which] won’t create jobs or extra resources meant for local schools.”? Governor Perry heeds the conservative electorate’s call for secession and a sovereign republic free from the interference of the federal government. Yet, he is more than willing to risk the outcome of educational funding in Texas to keep cash under the mattress. His criticism of Washington’s high spending and “Orwellian” control over the economy is adding fuel to the fire.? Those who are not from Texas may not be familiar with the “secession movement”. There is a network of organizations that raises support for states’ secession from the union based on our “loss” of rights due to government control. While there is nothing that suggests Governor Perry or any other Texas politicians are members of this movement, the mere mention of secession can have dire implications.? TexasSecede.org published a fact sheet about Texas secession on their website. They claim that Texas and other confederate states during the civil war “withdrew from the Union lawfully, civilly, and peacefully, after enduring several decades of excessive and inequitable federal tariffs heavily prejudiced against Southern commerce. Refusing to recognize the Confederate secession, Lincoln called it a ‘rebellion’ and a ‘threat’ to ‘the government’ . . . and acted outside the lawfully defined scope of either the office of president or the U.S. government in general, to coerce the South back into subjugation to Northern control.”

More Government actions will lead to secession

Roberts 12 Diane Roberts Guardian Staff Writer Healthcare and the new Confederates' secessionist fantasies 7/4/12 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/04/healthcare-new-confederates-secessionist-fantasies

It might help if Scott and the other nullifiers would actually bother to get the healthcare bill's provisions right. It is not, as Rush Limbaugh squawked, "the largest tax increase in the history of the world". It's not even as large as Ronald Reagan's 1982 tax increase. Most people won't pay anything, but they'll still get preventive care for free, and poorer people will qualify for insurance subsidies. Scott's been claiming that expanding Medicaid would cost Florida an extra $1.9bn a year, though the real number is more like $500m or less (no wonder his company got busted for over-billing!). And that cost won't kick in for eight years: the feds pay for almost all of it until 2020.? Scott can't even get the ACA's simplest rules straight: he told Fox News presenter Greta Van Susteren that the proprietor of a small business had come up to him and said:? "Governor, is this really going to become the law? Because if it does, we're out of business. We know we won't be able to buy any health care for anybody."? That small business proprietor, Jamshaid Mohyuddin, owns a Dairy Queen in Tallahassee, Florida, and employs 16 people. Scott told him to work for Mitt Romney's election in November, since the architect of Romneycare would ditch the plan he'd once pushed on his first day in office. What Scott failed to tell Mohyuddin was that businesses with 20 or fewer employees are exempt from fines for not buying insurance. Moreover, he might qualify for a tax credit under ACA.? When a Tampa Bay Times reporter pointed out these rather substantive errors, Scott's press flack sidestepped the whole thing. Jamshaid Mohyuddin, on the other hand, was delighted to learn that destitution was not in his immediate future.? It's become impossible to separate conservatives' loathing of Barack Obama in particular with their loathing of government in general. They hark back to a repeatedly-discredited notion of states' rights, insisting that the US constitution's tenth amendment gives each state the right to run its own show and shun the feds, though this logic never seems to apply to highways, or to disasters like the wildfires, hurricanes or tornadoes. But in truth, we settled the states' rights issue in 1865.? It's not just Obamacare, either. When the Environmental Protection Agency told Florida to clean up its dirty water in 2010, several state legislators threatened secession. In Justice Antonin Scalia's scathing dissent in the case of Arizona's hateful immigration law, he sees the states as 50 little sovereign countries, pointing out that "in the first 100 years of the republic, the states enacted numerous laws restricting the immigration of certain classes of aliens, including convicted criminals, indigents, persons with contagious diseases, and (in southern states) freed blacks." And Texas Governor Rick Perry has said more than once that if the Obama administration continues its headlong rush into "socialism", the Lone Star state might consider leaving the Union.

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