Reclaiming the Tenth Amendment

TPPF Policy Orientation panel:

Reclaiming the Tenth Amendment

Mario Loyola (TPPF); Rep. Matt Krause (R - Tarrant County); Rep. Steve Toth (R - Ft. Bend County); Adam Berry (Indiana Gov Mike Pence's office)

Matt Krause:

• We've already become slaves to blood money from Washington D.C., we're just negotiating price.

• If the federal govt wants to do something unconstitutional in Texas, make them execute and enforce it.

• We've got to stop taking money from the federal government if we want independence.

Steve Toth:

• The reason he won is that Texans want government by the people, not the special interests.

• "It pains me" that measures that would push back against the Feds can't get a vote in the Texas House

• 15 years ago, Medicaid was 2.5% of the state budget; today its 25%.
• The more $ we spend on Medicaid, the more the Feds send to Texas

Adam Berry:

•  Special interest groups are a lot louder than the general public.

Mario Loyola:

• The progressive and New Deal movement didn't ruin the Constitution for the heck of it; they did it to form cartels that serve as centers of power.
• Textbook Alinsky
• By getting a government official on board, all of a sudden you're safe from anti-trust prosecution.
• You can't have state based cartels in a system of competing states

• Federal government is supposed to have exclusive domain under the enumerated powers, states have everything else.

• The federal government would rather implement their policies through the states than on their own.

• Give the states $$ to bloat their budgets, then they have to do what you say.
• ie. Blackmail

• You HAVE to separate state and federal functions
• Anytime you don't do that, you make the states deputies of the feds.

• 'Coercive federalism' allows states to spend 40% more than they take in.

• Progressives are brilliant at hiding the cost side of their schemes.

Bottom Line: Creating economic dynamism in the states that don't buy into federal overreach will create the counter constituency to overwhelm the progressive constituency.

On Richard Lugar and Psalm 146

"Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help." Psalm 146:3


"If I were the Devil....the old, I would teach to pray. I would teach them to say after me: 'Our Father, which art in Washington' . . ." Paul Harvey, 1965


"Heaven help us, because Mourdock (*) won't." Political Ad, Republican Primary, U.S. Senate -- Indiana


* Richard Mourdock is the Tea Party challenger to 36-year Republican Incumbent Richard Lugar

It's rare that an example of the misplaced priorities of our political class is this clear.  In the political ad shown above, a frightened elderly lady worries that she'll have to turn to God in the event that changes come to Social Security.  Senator Lugar, the sponsor of the ad, fails to understand that that's EXACTLY THE POINT!!!

In the movie Monumental, Kirk Cameron makes the point that we need leaders with a strong Judeo-Christian foundation; this ad is a textbook example of why.  We're SUPPOSED to put our faith in God NOT Washington D.C. What Senator Lugar fails to understand is that substituting Washington D.C. for God is the reason we're broke in the first place.

If you denigrate prayer and elevate Washington D.C., you don't belong in the United States Senate in the first place.  I'll address this notion of substituting Washington D.C. for God in much more detail soon, but, for now, I just want to point out that the guy who came up with that idea has a hockey team in New Jersey....