South Dakota Resisting Govt Health Care With Three Bills in Legislature

Socialists in congress and in the White House may be intent on forcing government health care on the people of America, but the states are no longer the door mats our despotic federal government has become accustomed to.

Fox News reports more than 2/3 of the 50 states are moving to protect citizens from federal health care mandates:

Lawmakers in 34 states now have filed or proposed amendments to their state constitutions or statutes rejecting health insurance mandates, according to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a nonprofit group that promotes limited government that is helping coordinate the efforts. Many of those proposals are targeted for the November ballot, assuring that health care remains a hot topic as hundreds of federal and state lawmakers face reelection.

Legislative committees in Idaho and Virginia endorsed their measures this past week. Supporters held a rally at the Pennsylvania Capitol. And hearings on the proposed constitutional amendments were held in Georgia and Missouri. The Missouri hearing drew overflow crowds the day after Obama urged federal lawmakers during his State of the Union address to keep pressing to pass a health care bill. The Nebraska Legislature plans a hearing on a measure this coming week.

Any sane person would realize there is something seriously wrong with a proposal when 68% of the states move to negate it!

The federal government is a creation of the sovereign states and exists to serve the states and the people; the states are not extensions of the federal government, put in place to implement federal edicts and take care of the “small stuff” the federal government couldn’t be bothered to deal with.

Some people don’t believe state efforts to assert their sovereignty under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments will succeed, for they are used to the states standing meekly by as the federal government runs roughshod over them. But those days are over, Matilda! A corrupt congress may pass such unconstitutional laws, and a tyrannical federal court system may cover its eyes and claim it is legal, but if the sovereign states tell the federal government to stick it, then they’re left to find a way to enforce their despotic “laws.” The feds may find that much harder than they’ve become accustomed to; people are awake now.

South Dakota is definitely on the march for freedom. In the South Dakota Legislature right now, there are no less than three bills on the table to preserve the freedom of the people and the states from federal imposition of a government health care system... Continue Reading