tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post6611384577461056619..comments2023-10-25T06:13:28.265-04:00Comments on The Conservative Wahoo: You Want It Bad? You'll Get It BadThe Conservative Wahoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818674434286683162noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-31780344043512435952009-08-01T10:05:04.895-04:002009-08-01T10:05:04.895-04:00Neither the 10th amendment nor states rights mean ...Neither the 10th amendment nor states rights mean a damned thing if "We the People" as in "government of the people, by the people, for the people" do nothing to ensure that the federal government is not allowed to ignore them.Smoothfurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141131580433212173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-76369868724713173982009-07-31T20:59:25.288-04:002009-07-31T20:59:25.288-04:00Greg - You raise a very good point...IF I had writ...Greg - You raise a very good point...IF I had written about the states failing to follow federal guidance. Regrettably, I did not do you that favor. Nor will I likely ever for I happen to embrace the concept of States rights, but only less so than individual rights. No, what I intended to convey was that as long as the CULTURE so prevalent in Government circles is one akin to our tax dollars being this limitless reservoir to be drawn upon before someone else does, we will continue to see decisions such as these which, ultimately, do very little to serve the public who gave the government employees that money in the first place. Coincidentally, this is also the 2 yr anniversary of the Minneapolis bridge collapse. I have no problem with states saying "these are my priorities" in serving my state citizenry. But I doubt very many state officials who sacrificed dilapidated roads, bridges, embankments, etc to gilding already polished examples of the same just because it was expedient, will be able to go to their citizens and say "look how well I served you." If I was over the top in praising my state officials, it is because I was refreshingly pleased at their behavior. It is one of the reasons I chose to live in the Commonwealth. And were it not for our Virginian forebearers in particular, we would not have had a 10th amendment. I happen to believe that those same forebearers also understood the responsibility that retaining that authority accompanied. I like to think that remnants of that culture still exist here today. And the decision to act more responsibily, as opposed to expediently, with the entire nation's tax burden, only reinforces that belief.Mudgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10106218895150473141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-55172885051941137562009-07-31T10:28:12.413-04:002009-07-31T10:28:12.413-04:0010th. Amendment: The powers not delegated to the U...10th. Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.<br />Enough said."The Hammer"https://www.blogger.com/profile/16342812251947807673noreply@blogger.com