Health care disaster, new platform issues

Dear Friends,
As you know, we had a disaster happen yesterday in DC, the Obamination health care bill passed. I believe this is the absolute wrong thing to do for our country, and I have my own plan of action.

Virginia will file suit tomorrow to contest the bill on several legal grounds and over 30 states are considering passing laws to prohibit the feds from forcing people to buy insurance. Several Constitutional challenges are possible on several different legal grounds.

However, Texas is not currently one of those states! We need to get moving, so I am adding to my campaign platform the following topics -

1. Create a law similar to Virginia which forbids the feds from forcing state residents to purchase any goods or services. Ask the TX Attorney General to also file suit against the feds on the same grounds as Virginia does.

2. While we are at it, lets also continue the trend toward freedom by amending another very troubling law - the law of Eminent Domain. This has always bothered me. The state should not have the right to take anyone's property for any reason whatsoever, INCLUDING eminent domain. If they cannot purchase it outright, it should not be taken. This would stop all the nonsense about creating a cross Texas rail system which no one will use and a fiscal boondoggle for all the real estate developers and lawyers. I know I will not make many friends with this law, but we need to stand up for what is right.

Both of these ideas center on the power of the government to take your private property without your consent, and I say, enough is enough. Let out state lead the way toward true freedom...

If you think this is not important, well... a short history lesson.

read the book - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. The synopsis is that all the government bureaucrats conspire to take over the society and take control away from the "creators", or the so called wealthy, all their assets. They go on strike, retreat in a hideaway in the mountains and start their own society which flourishes. All the while the "takers" try to run the factories and do a terrible job, running them into the ground and society crumbles. This book was written 50 years ago. Its lessons still hold true.

We are on that precipice now. In Texas, you may think that we are all conservative, but that would be a dangerous assumption. Many Tea Party loyalists are focused on national elections, which is fine - but DON"T forget about TEXAS! Local and State laws also matter. I know that we are experiencing an influx of people from other states north moving into our state. This may dramatically change the liberal bias in future elections. Ask any Republican or Libertarian official. I welcome newcomers, I was one of them some 25 years ago. But I do not want them to take our state into a liberal bias. I cannot expect them to adopt conservative values. So I encourage all of you to consider my proposals before we look at each other someday and wonder - "Where is the Texas I used to know?"