People have a false sense of comfort and will not stand-up until they get kick in the ass. To be kick in the bulls one have to have one and the only bulls I saw was the one hinging from a "bull wagon" ( trailer that transport a bulls to slotter house).

The federal government, under the rule of whatever party, has overstepped both the boundaries and the responsibilities defined for it in the Constitution. Period. It's high time for it to be reigned in, and who will do it if not the states and the people of those states? Does anyone thing they're going to police themselves or stop growing and controlling whatever it can get it's hands on? No. I only hope this reminder and refocusing happens the right way and is successful. It's really very simple...it's already defined! So we just say "Federal government, you are responsible for X,Y, and Z, now go focus on that, do it well, don't stretch yourself too thin or drill your tentacles into that which they do not belong in and leave the rest to us." Our state reps and governors need reminding of their roles too, and where the lines are drawn. This is a federal constitutional republic...and every citizen of this nation need to be reminded of what that is and what that means...loud and clear.



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Its about damn time! Welcome my brothers and sisters to the south. It's good to have you on board!!

Good somebody needs to tell them to STAND DOWN!!!! They are getting way to big and are out of control.

Can anyone please tell me the link to legislation for this in Michigan, or where I can find the name of the bill? I remember in a previous board on this--someone had a list of all the states with legislation similar to this proposed--and they were linked to the state's websites.

The reason I am asking is because I work in the newsroom at an NPR radio station in Michigan, and this is something I'd like to get out there...because no one else is doing it.

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Go Texas! It's about time we started telling the federal government who's actually in charge.

Can't let the other states show us up either.

Alright folks, can someone please point out how this resolution has any legs to get anything accomplished. It is nothing but a feel good resolution and will not resolve anything or stop the fed from being a bully to the states. I see nothing to get happy about.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I'm a Texan and I've been waiting to see this for awhile.

Dang one more thing to make me wish I was back in Texas.

But anyway...
The current state constitution of Texas says in article 1 section 1..."Texas is a free and independent state. Subject to only the CONSTITUTION of the United States" It doesn't say it is subject to the president, congress or the rest of the U.S.

The Texas state constitution also says: All political power is inherent of the people. they have at all times an inalienable right to alter their government in such matter as they might see proper.

Now from the declaratioin of Independence:
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Sometimes it pays to be a civil war buff. Scary isn't it when Obama is such a fan of Lincoln. All these people out there that think Lincoln was what is taught about him in the public school system. All I can say is bless their hearts.


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