With Texas facing a potential $18 billion dollar revenue shortfall, unsecure borders, and federal regulation that threatens to kill key East Texas industries, it is time to rekindle the spirit of the Alamo and “draw a line in the sand.”
Nullify Nationalized Health Care.
I applaud the efforts by Attorney General Greg Abbott to challenge the constitutionality of Obama Care.
However, the state legislature is the true voice of the people and it must immediately pass legislation that protects Texans from nationalized health care. We need health care reform that addresses costs and ensures access.
Obama Care does not do this. It adds more to the national debt and spends money that our children have not even earned.
Among the fifty states, Texas is the one economic bright spot and Obama Care threatens to dampen it. It will add at least $2.5 billion to our state budget, which will restrict how we will provide for public education, public safety, and the health care for deserving Texas citizens.
Nationalized health care will impose burdensome regulations on our medical professions and exacerbate the shortage of doctors in East Texas.
Eventually, Obama Care will become an unfunded mandate on local governments that are currently experiencing budget challenges. Texas needs to draw a line.
Nullify the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Takeover of Refinery Permitting.
Blatant politics and contempt for the Constitution has resulted in the EPA disregarding state regulatory agencies and taking over the refinery permitting process in Texas.
The state legislature must quickly pass legislation that nullifies any attempt by the Obama Administration to destroy Texas’ economy in order to elect more Democrats to Austin and Washington.
Our refinery industry is one example of how Texas has achieved a dual set of ends: a strong economy and clean environment. Before this power grab by the EPA, Texas’ refineries were operating under legally enforceable permits issued by Texas Commission on Environmental Quality under the guidance of EPA.
Since 1985, emissions of nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, and carbon monoxide in Texas have decreased significantly. From 2000-2010, Texas has achieved a 22 percent reduction in ozone and a 46 percent reduction in NOX emissions.
Texas needs to draw a line in the sand. We don’t want our Texas refineries regulated in the same manner the Federal Government has executed the oil clean up in the Gulf.
Enforce the Constitution and Stop Illegal Immigration. The national government has a constitutional responsibility to secure our international borders and encourage legal and healthy immigration to our country.
Our nation is exposed to daily terrorists’ threats on our soil. The federal government continues to procrastinate and state and local governments are left to fend for themselves.
When Arizona attempted to come up with a solution that simply enforces existing national law, it did not spur a sense of urgency from the federal government. Instead, the national government will sue Arizona.
Texas is a border state that is very familiar with drug cartel violence. Safety first. Constitutionally, the state of Texas cannot be concerned with being sued by the national government. It must secure the border first and not encourage illegal behavior by requiring local governments to provide Medicaid and welfare benefits to people that have disregarded the laws of the United States and the state of Texas.
Texas needs to draw a line in the sand.
