"One of the Great Frankenstein Experiments in American History"

Rick Perry, one of a very small number of successful governors said this recently about Obamacare:

"To me, this is one of the great Frankenstein experimentations in American history. We've seen that movie before. It was from 1932 to 1940."

..."I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office," he recalls. "I had a very parochial view of the world."

The Wall Street Journal continues the interview:

He became an Air Force pilot and went off to countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran and Italy, returning to Paint Creek in 1977—only to grow restless on the family farm. He sought a political outlet.

In 1985, Mr. Perry represented a rural West Texas district in the state legislature; in 1990, he was elected state commissioner of agriculture; in 1998, he was elected lieutenant governor under then-Gov. George W. Bush. He became governor when Mr. Bush won the presidency in 2000, and Mr. Perry was chosen by the voters themselves in 2002 and 2006.

Mr. Perry now has the distinction of being the longest-serving governor in Texas history...

When I ask him if Mr. Obama's policies would send this country down the same path as California, Mr. Perry lunges forward, "If you want to know what this guy's policies are doing, it's been written about before."

"Read that book. Read this book," he says, gesturing toward the nearby table. ..."The Road to Serfdom" by Frederick Hayek and "The 5000 Year Leap" by W. Cleon Skousen. "Read Amity Shlaes's 'The Forgotten Man.' Amity's book is very eye-opening—scary—for me."

To the governor, one of the scariest policies is the national health-care bill. "I think it'll die. I think Americans are catching on. That's the reason that Rahm Emanuel and his guys were trying to push it through so fast, because they know [that once] Americans see what this is going to do—limiting their access to health care, costing them more—they're going to oppose it. And interestingly, you know who's against this more than anybody? The elderly. They figured this bill out...(Read at WSJ)

A Recipe Obama Should Use For America-Fiscal Responsibility and Staying Out of Our Lives

I heard a VERY interesting interview of Texas governor Rick Perry on PJTV today. Glen Reynolds interviewed the governor who talked about what the Texas legislature accomplished for the state of Texas - and they are going in the exact opposite direction that Obama is going. It's more freedom and less taxes vs less freedom and more taxes - It's as simple as that.

1. The Texas legislature convenes for 140 days every other year. Then they go home and go about their own private lives and live under the laws they just passed.
2. Under Governor Perry they cut taxes for 40,000 additional small businesses in Texas.
3. There's a budget surplus of 9 billion dollars for the rainy day fund.
4. Texas passed a powerful eminent domain bill to "spit in the face of the Supreme Court" - regarding the Kelo decision about taking private property.

Rick Perry recommends fiscal and political responsibility for other states as well as Washington:

DON'T SPEND ALL YOUR MONEY
CREATE AN ACCOUNTABLE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
CREATE A LEGAL SYSTEM THAT DOESN'T ALLOW OVER-SUING
KEEP YOUR REGULATORY SYSTEM FAIR AND PREDICTABLE
KEEP A SKILLED WORK FORCE IN PLACE

Governor Perry summed everything up in the tenth amendment which says:

"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."

In other words he's saying to Obama stay out of Texas. Perry listed the qualities of a true leader: Principled, disciplined and courageous. These are not qualities I would use in describing our current President.

"I think you’ll hear states and governors standing up and saying 'no’ to this type of encroachment on the states with their health care," Perry said. "So my hope is that we never have to have that stand-up. But I’m certainly willing and ready for the fight if this administration continues to try to force their very expansive government philosophy down our collective throats."

"It really is a state issue, and if there was ever an argument for the 10th Amendment and for letting the states find a solution to their problems, this may be at the top of the class," Perry said. "A government-run health care system is financially unstable. It’s not the solution." (Read here) (Listen to Governor Perry here).