It’s hard not to laugh at Texas. I mean, look at their governor! What a moron that man is. To think that Texas will let 1.5 million residents go without access to health care just to spite the president is just humorous. So what if it costs the state’s hospitals seven billion dollars? Who’s counting?
Maybe the other 49 states can split up Texas’s highway money, too. Idiots.
(shrug) as always, electorates get, what electorates vote for.
i wish the confederates well on this attempt at slow-motion-secession.
Not the only idiotic news coming out of Texas this weekend.
Texas lawmakers okay law to allow college kids to bring guns on campus
Faculty will need to exercise caution while grading…
I keep waiting for the NRA to argue that the solution to airplane terrorism is for all passengers to be allowed to bring their weapons on board.
Archie Bunker actually proposed that in an All In The Family episode! I don’t doubt that many thought was right!
I wish I could join you in laughter, but I live here.
It’s a good thing we’re going to get the politics of this place flipped in the next ten years.
And when you don’t, keep working at it.
Poor Texan here and I don’t think it’s very funny. I assure you that there isn’t a ton of overlap between Perry voters and the poor folks who won’t have access to healthcare.
Not a Texan but I’ve spent a great deal of time here over the last 15 years, my kids go to school here — and I still don’t get it. Except my impression is that Texas, at least in public, is WAY over-inflated with its own self-image as a place to which the natural laws of the rest of the universe simply do not apply. Cause ya see, son, we’re talkin’ about TEXAS.
My daughter attended college there, then graduate school and then taught and married there. During the years she was there, I got much the same impression that you have. Texans are all wrapped up in how special their state is and are in need of a good dose of humility and open mindedness. Then we might see an electorate which votes for progressive ideas and representatives.
This is a special state, but most of those who spend their time bragging about it have no idea why it’s special. But that’s a separate discussion for another time.
What’s not special about Texas is its insistence on functioning as a third world fascist state. The stench of authoritarianism here is so strong that most of the population doesn’t even notice it anymore. But it’s all around us, from TV ads promising to put us in prison if we break traffic laws, to healthcare policy designed to keep the poor sick, out of work, and (most of all) still poor. There are strong progressive voices here and there always have been, and the great demographic shift away from white oligarchy is getting too close for anyone with a clue (even Republicans) to ignore. So there is hope. But honestly, the nearly 20 years since Shrub defeated Ann Richards have been hell. Total hell.
Texas, at least in public, is WAY over-inflated with its own self-image
I see “Don’t MESS with TEXAS” bumper stickers all the time. Funny, I don’t remember seeing a “Don’t mess with Vermont” sticker or “Don’t mess with Hawaii” or any other state for that matter.
Ok, I know that this was an anti-litter campaign slogan – but the intense popularity of the stickers relative to, well, any other anti-litter campaign anywhere tells me that the appeal was way beyond the anti-litter message.
Yep, a lot of Texans really think their state is the best ever – which is super-striking when you contrast that with how well their state does compared to others in almost any measure except oil tax revenue.
Maybe the coming demographic change will result in some improvements ….
A now deceased good friend who was born in Texas, moved to Michigan, then Illinois, then back to Texas told me this,”If you ask a Texan for the shirt off his back, he may well give it to you. If you demand it, he may very well shoot you.” That pretty well sums up my own experiences with the most polite and most independent people I have ever met. Don’t go Jersey in Texas, Booman. Lead will fly. I’m not saying it’s right. I’m saying it’s true.
I have a feeling that there is going to be a mass migration of the population from states that do not have turned down the federal funding to states that have accepted the new funding.
As such, these states should make it illegal to move from a non-healthcare state to a a healthcare state.
Anyone caught moving into these areas would therefore be an illegal and immediately deported back to the state that they came from.
People that want to relocated into one of these states should have to apply for a visa, and then go through a background check. They should be able to prove that they have jobs or a source of income and not just be a burden on the state they are moving to.
In fact, I think the states with healthcare should build walls to help keep these people out.
Yes, even Texans have contempt for the stupidity of their lamebrain guv’nor. But here he is not the decider—the imbecile Texas legislature refused the funds and refused to allow state participation in the hated Obammycare. Of course the dimwit Perry agrees and does as he is told. He certainly has no concerns about the health of low income Texans, that’s obvious.
Texass Repubs know that they are costing the state billions, but the American “conservative” movement is committed to making sure that Obammy’s New Welfare fails and is not successfully implemented. This is why “Justice” Roberts demanded the state opt-out as the price for his vote holding Obamacare constitutional–it was his backdoor method of wrecking the program.
It is crucial for Repubs to ensure that many large states do not participate in Obamacare, so that millions of uninsured remain outside the universal coverage “system”. This will cause the various statistical projections that the insurance programs rely on to fail, and ensure that costs rise more than projected revenue. It will also make insuring pre-existing conditions impossible, as prohibitively expensive.
Repubs will also ensure that no needed tweaks to the legislation can ever be enacted and that alone may wreck the operation of the system, since every large new federal program will have unexpected legislative glitches that need to be corrected. They will refuse the smallest corrective legislation, which may cause big problems.
And even if the average elected “conservative” does not understand anything about health care insurance or the theory of the ACA, they know that refusing to let Obamacare be set up in large sections of the country continues the “fight” and they will fight it to the death, whatever the cost. It’s a sign or Repub “strength”. Since a strong majority of Texans think that the fight should be continued to the death, it’s difficult to see how this hurts Texass Repubs politically. And to the extent that refusing Obamacare drives low income people out of Tex-ass in into neighboring states to live, most Texans certainly support that.
Does any DC Dem ever say one word about the Repubs coordinated attempts to kill Obamacare by refusing to set the program up?
Dear Governor Perry,
You will never be president. Seriously. It ain’t happenin’. Take the fuckin’ money.
I wonder how many Texas are thinking “Now if only we could let them die…”
I suppose it might correlate with annual income.
Just sad for Texas residents, though.
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You can add Indiana to the health care stupid list as well.
And there are people who want to move there. Low state taxes. Gun rights. Repeat after me. “Idiot, idiot, idiot.”