ObamaCare Brings “Nullification Acts” from Sovereign States in America
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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If you are as old as I am you probably remember those old “Rest Homes.” For those of you who are not as old as me, basically, some of them gave the impression they were nothing more than warehouses where Americans stored old people waiting their turn to die. Some were really bad - smelling of urine, feces, disinfectant, and death. Well, guess what? Under Obamacare something, which seems very like them, is on the way back onto the American scene… only this time they will be called “Medical Homes.” Oh, and don’t worry about the doctors there. There won’t be any. They will be run by nurses and nurse practioners. You can learn more about the proposed Medical Homes HERE.
If you are as old as I am you probably remember those old “Rest Homes.” For those of you who are not as old as me, basically, they were warehouses where Americans stored old people waiting their turn to die. They smelled of urine, feces, disinfectant, and death. Well, guess what? Under Obamacare they’re on the way back onto the American scene… only this time they will be called “Medical Homes.” Oh, and don’t worry about the doctors there. There won’t be any. They will be run by nurses and nurse practioners. You can learn more about the proposed Medical Homes HERE.
Back before the War for Southern Independence, Americans understood the power of the tenth amendment to the US Constitution. They understood the people of the states had the power to nullify actions of a US Congress which did not represent the people of the United States as they had been sworn to do… you know, sorta like the crowd we have in the US Congress today.
It was bound to happen. Americans are beginning to consider attacking the ObamaCare HealthCare Overhaul, sometimes referred to as: Nationalized Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, and Public Option Healthcare. (They’ll call it anything but what it is: Socialized Medicine!) through nullification acts of the states.
Yeah, you heard correctly… nullification Now, that’s a word we haven’t heard tossed around much since the days just prior to the “Late Unpleasantness.”
See, this is what happens when the American people feel they have a government that is NOT REPRESENTING THEM! And frankly, not since the early to mid 1800’s have I read of a US government less inclined to listen to the people it purportedly represents than the current crowd we have taking up space in Washington DC.
Back to Nullification!
Nullification is an American tradition... dating as far back as the late 1700’s. Some of the states are looking at it for protection from the US Congress and the current presidential administration. What has them fired up? Plainly put it is ObamaCare, or “socialized medicine.” They don’t want it in their states. And, they do not want the federal government forcing it on them.
In Florida, State Senator Carey Baker and State Representative Scott Plakon, this week, filed a proposed State Constitutional Amendment (HJR37) as a means to prevent Floridians from being affected by any Federal Health Care Legislation. If approved by the legislature, Florida residents could be voting on it as early as 2010.
The bill includes the following:
(1) A law or rule shall not compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system
If you are as old as I am you probably remember those old “Rest Homes.” For those of you who are not as old as me, basically, they were warehouses where Americans stored old people waiting their turn to die. They smelled of urine, feces, disinfectant, and death. Well, guess what? Under Obamacare they’re on the way back onto the American scene… only this time they will be called “Medical Homes.” Oh, and don’t worry about the doctors there. There won’t be any. They will be run by nurses and nurse practioners. You can learn more about the proposed Medical Homes HERE.
Back before the War for Southern Independence, Americans understood the power of the tenth amendment to the US Constitution. They understood the people of the states had the power to nullify actions of a US Congress which did not represent the people of the United States as they had been sworn to do… you know, sorta like the crowd we have in the US Congress today.
It was bound to happen. Americans are beginning to consider attacking the ObamaCare HealthCare Overhaul, sometimes referred to as: Nationalized Healthcare, Universal Healthcare, and Public Option Healthcare. (They’ll call it anything but what it is: Socialized Medicine!) through nullification acts of the states.
Yeah, you heard correctly… nullification Now, that’s a word we haven’t heard tossed around much since the days just prior to the “Late Unpleasantness.”
See, this is what happens when the American people feel they have a government that is NOT REPRESENTING THEM! And frankly, not since the early to mid 1800’s have I read of a US government less inclined to listen to the people it purportedly represents than the current crowd we have taking up space in Washington DC.
Back to Nullification!
Nullification is an American tradition... dating as far back as the late 1700’s. Some of the states are looking at it for protection from the US Congress and the current presidential administration. What has them fired up? Plainly put it is ObamaCare, or “socialized medicine.” They don’t want it in their states. And, they do not want the federal government forcing it on them.
In Florida, State Senator Carey Baker and State Representative Scott Plakon, this week, filed a proposed State Constitutional Amendment (HJR37) as a means to prevent Floridians from being affected by any Federal Health Care Legislation. If approved by the legislature, Florida residents could be voting on it as early as 2010.
The bill includes the following:
(1) A law or rule shall not compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system
(2) A person or employer may pay directly for lawful health care services and shall not be required to pay penalties or fines for paying directly for lawful health care services. A health care provider may accept direct payment for lawful health care services and shall not be required to pay penalties or fines for accepting direct payment from a person or employer for lawful health care services.
Out in Arizona they have ALREADY passed a piece of legislation titled The Healthcare Freedom Act and there are reports that at least ten other states are expecting to have similar legislation introduced in their coming legislatures.
What is happening here is… the American people are questioning the legality of the Federal Government to force this socialized medicine on the people of the country. They say the tenth amendment denies the federal government that power. They may well be correct. Here’s the text of the tent amendment:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
So, when a state nullifies a law passed by the federal government that state is saying that that particular law has no effect within the boundaries of that state. They nullify that law.
These nullification acts date all the way back to James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. These two National Forefathers drew-up the first nullification acts both in Virginia and in Kentucky. It was thought then - and is still thought by many today - that states are sovereign entities and that the sates have the constitutional power to make a decision for themselves as to whether the federal government has exceeded it’s authority under the terms of the US Constitution. If the states decided that the federal government had, in fact, overstepped, then the states had/have the power two simply refuse to obey those laws passed by the federal government that were/are outside the constitutional boundaries set by our forefathers.
We warned over and over again that socialism would tear this country apart. Now that our federal government has decided that socialism is the way to take the country, even though socialism has a proven record of failure time and time and time again, the US has begun to disassemble itself. State legislatures have already begun to reassert themselves as sovereign states and have now begun to nullify federal laws within their states. It is going to get a lot uglier, dear reader, when the federal government decides it must use force to motivate the states to obey those laws the states say are unconstitutional. But, just as we warned in 2007 and 2008, THIS is what a nation gets when it opts for socialism and elects a socialist as President and hands over the reins of the Congress to socialists as well.
Welcome to the Socialist States of America.
J. D. Longstreet
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