Posted by
darrel on Monday, March 22, 2010 11:28:21 AM
The foot is in the doorway, the nose of the camel is under the tent flap, the first shoe has dropped, or any other metaphor you want to use. Congress has passed Obamacare. Now what are we to do?
“Oh”, you say, “It will be overturned by the next president, and Obama has no chance of getting re-elected.” Wrong on both counts. How many of us thought that Bill Clinton or even George W. Bush would get re-elected? And…..even if Obama is rejected by the people in 2012, why would any sane minded person think that the next president will overturn or in any other way, throw out Obamacare?
While it was still in its infancy we didn’t see a new president toss out Social Security or Medicare. Even one of our finest presidents, Dwight Eisenhower, did not do anything to stop Social Security from growing into what it has become today. It has become bankrupt and is bankrupting America, as will Obamacare. It will live on as Social Security has lived on; as Medicare has lived on; and as the Department of Education has lived on in spite of repeated promises by Republicans to dismantle it.
Let’s face facts, folks. We are destined to live the rest of our lives with Socialism unless we as individual states assert our constitutional powers to not only ignore unconstitutional legislation, but to throw out any previous unconstitutional legislation that has been imposed upon us.
The Democrat controlled congress has been emboldened by their passage of the health care bill. They will now take on Cap and Trade, throwing the final shovel of dirt into the grave that America is buried in. We didn’t do enough to stop what has happened, but we can do what needs to be done to keep these unconstitutional measures from taking us under with the rest of America.
The tenth amendment states quite clearly that the powers not granted to the United States (under article 1, section 8) by the Constitution, are to be the premise of the states respectively, or the people. Not the states and the people, but the states or the people. That means that either we the people, or our state legislatures and governors, can refuse to follow unconstitutional laws, and there is absolutely no doubt that this legislation is unconstitutional. We do not have to wait until our state legislature passes some sort of law in order to exercise our constitutional rights as the people. It would be good if those we elected to Austin did speak in our behalf, but it is not an absolute necessity that they do. If our leadership in Austin fails to tell DC that we in Texas will not adhere to any legislation that flies in the face of the Constitution, then it is up to us to band together and act on our own, in spite of both DC and Austin.
Write to your state senator and tell him or her that you expect action on enforcement of the tenth amendment. We have to work within the system until it proves that the system will no longer work. We then will have to find a way to unite the people and draw that new line in the sand.