Archive for the ‘10th Amendment/State’s Rights’ Category

I just recently found out Ken Buck supports repealing the 17th Amendment.  Or at least he did at the time of this video, 6/17/2009.   I too support repealing the 17th Amendment.  Do you?  Would anyone who is for State’s Rights, the 10th Amendment movement, a limited federal government or frankly just for putting an end to the corruption and overreaching power in Washington DC not support a repeal of the 17th Amendment?

(Ken Buck is the Weld County, Colorado District Attorney.  He ran on the Republican ticket in the 2010 U.S. Senate race in Colorado, against Democrat challenger Michael Bennet)

South Florida Congressman Allen West branded the runaway state senators of Wisconsin a bunch of “cowards,” comparable to Army deserters.

Allen West

“What kind of representative democracy have we become when elected officials run from executing their prescribed duties?” West said in a weekly newsletter to constituents and fans that begins, “Dear Patriot.”

“In the military we have General Order number one: `I shall not leave my appointed place of duty or post until properly relieved,’” said West, a retired Army lieutenant colonel. “If a leader takes off, we call it `desertion.’ What manner of person runs and hides instead of making a stand, making a decision?”

The blunt-spoken Republican from Plantation, a favorite of the tea party movement, sees the standoff in Wisconsin as part of a wider ideological battle.

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Obama offers to let Governor’s propose alternative health care laws … click HERE to read article.

Obama’s going to “let” Governors propose  alternative health care laws.  How generous of him, allowing Governor’s to weigh in on something that belongs is their jurisdiction, not in the hands of the Feds.  Kremlin Care was passed against the will of the people, by an absurd constitutional maneuver called Reconciliation, when nothing else worked to get enough votes to pass the bill.  Once again Obama is sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong… in State’s Rights.  Have you heard of a thing called the 10th Amendment?  LEAVE US ALONE.  I wonder if any of my Liberal friends who think Obama is doing such a wonderful job, have ever even heard of the 10th Amendment.

The Tenth Amendment explicitly states the Constitution’s principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government nor prohibited to the states by the Constitution are reserved to the states or the people.

February 19, 2011

By Patrick McIlheran

Somewhere, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is grinning past his cigarette holder at Wisconsin’s governor. They are on the same page regarding government unions.

Except that Scott Walker — Republican cheapskate, his visage Hitlerized on signs waved by beet-faced union crowds besieging the Capitol — is kind of a liberal squish compared to FDR. He’s OK with some collective bargaining.

Walker, you might have heard, wants some changes in how Wisconsin deals with unions. He wants state employees to pay 5.8% of their salaries toward their pensions (they pay almost nothing now) and he wants them to cover 12.6% of their health care premiums (their share would go up from $79 a month to about $200; the average private-sector sap pays about $330).

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Gallery

Wisconsin budget battle: Protesters rally against anti-union bill

An estimated 25,000 protesters gathered at the Capitol building in Madison to protest Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s legislation to cut public employees’ benefits and eliminate most of their collective bargaining rights.

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By Richard Cohen

Monday, February 21, 2011; 8:00 PM

In New York City, the No. 2 guy in the fire department retired on a pension worth $242,000 a year. In New York State, a single official holding two jobs and one pension took in $641,000. A lieutenant with the Port Authority police retired with an annual pension of $196,767, and 738 of the city’s teachers, principals and such have pensions worth more than $100,000 a year.

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