Health Care And Cap & Tax Resolutions Adopted By The St. Johns County REC
At the regular monthly meeting of the Republican Executive Committee in August, the following resolution regarding HR 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. After due consideration and discussion, the Resolution was adopted on a voice vote of the Committee.
Resolution
Topic – H.R. 3200 – America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County, recognizing the relationship of caregiver and patient is a special relationship requiring mutual trust and respect and said special relationship is necessary for the maximum benefit to the patient in the most trying and difficult times facing an individual suffering from a life threatening or life altering illness.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County, recognizing the exceptional status of the Health Care System of the United States in delivering the finest care available, care sought out by peoples all over the world and delivering life saving technology and procedures that then enrich the lives of others throughout the world, rich or poor.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County recognizing that free markets have given us medical technology and human capital unequaled throughout the world leading to a gain in life expectancy from 49 years at the beginning of the 20th Century to over 77 years at the turn of the 21st Century.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County recognizes that all Government Run medical systems in the United States and Europe and Canada exhibit a growing degree of rationing of care, declining quality of care and an unmistakable and growing tendency towards insolvency.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County recognizing that Medical Professionals have invested long and toiled hard to invest not only in themselves but in their communities to obtain the skills necessary to serve their communities with exceptional dedication and talent to the mutual benefit of not only themselves, their patients and the community at large, and that destruction of that investment at the whims of a Government Commission would be detrimental to the community at large, the individuals who have toiled so hard and those that need their exceptional skills and talents to grow healthy and prosper for themselves and the community.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County believes that HR 3200 fails to address the medical malpractice tort reform issue given credible evidence that the current system directly and indirectly is wasting in the magnitude of hundreds of billions of dollars. Such savings could be used to provide medical care for the uninsured poor citizens of our nation.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County believes it immoral to force individuals to provide services that lead to the destruction of life and to promote that destruction of life with taxpayers funds against the will of the majority of the community.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County, being deeply concerned that terminating treatment for people in order to correct fiscal abuses by the body politic over the last several decades is immoral, illegal and dangerous to the survival of the Republic.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County recognizes that is immoral, illegal and unconstitutional to exclude the legally elected representatives of 48% of the electorate in the most recent election from offering amendments and participating in a full, open and thorough debate and a is violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County believes that the transaction of medical care between private individuals is a personal, local transaction occurring within the bounds of a sovereign state and thus is not critical to interstate commerce and is by its very special and private nature beyond the enumerated powers of Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States and any interference therein by the Federal Government is a violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County believes that the creation of a new welfare entitlement, paid by citizens to the benefit of non-citizens as is created under HR 3200 is unconstitutional.
Whereas - The Republican Party of St. Johns County believes that legislators creating a separate and not-equal system of health care to which they themselves will not be subject is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee to equal protection.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County declares that any Representative, having not read or been fully briefed on the contents of critical legislation, without adequate time to consider said legislation in its entirety is violating his or her oath of office to “well and faithfully discharge the duties” of his office and is thus guilty of a breach of his duty to the electorate and citizenry.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County declares that any attempt to utilize “reconciliation” to force the passage of this bill, contrary to growing, certified public opposition and contrary to the stated uses of reconciliation stated in Senate Rules to be an act as egregious as any committed by the King of England in the taxation of his subjects absent their full, legal and natural right to representation.
Whereas – The Republican Party of St. Johns County declares that Government interference in the relationship between a patient (a private consenting individual) and his or her physician ( a private and consenting individual) is a violation of Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.
Therefore, Be It Resolved – That the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of St. Johns County declares that the the only acceptable vote for H.R. 3200 – America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 would be in the negative.
Be It Further Resolved – That the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of St. Johns County urges the Republican Party of Florida and national committee of the Republican Party to withdraw any and all financial, legal and in-kind support to any Republican Representative that votes contrary to this resolution.
Be It Further Resolved – That the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of St. Johns County announces its intent to work diligently for the election of new candidates to replace any current candidate whom ignores his fiduciary duty to the electorate and votes contrary to the stated positions of this resolution.
H.R.2454 – American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009
In addition to the resolution on HR 3200, the Committee also considered the following resolution on HR 2454, “American Choices for Energy Security” . The bill is more commonly referred to as Cap & Trade and implements the largest tax increase in American History.
Resolution- Cap and Trade
H.R.2454 – American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009
Whereas the United States House of Representatives voted on June 26th, 2009 to pass HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act otherwise known as the “Cap and Trade” legislation.
Whereas 219 members of the House who voted “aye” could not possibly have read the 1200+ page piece of legislation in the less than 24 hours they were given to consider this bill.
Whereas this “Cap and Trade” legislation will result in higher utility costs, higher fuel prices, higher prices for goods and services and increased regulation and costs for businesses. Resulting in many U.S. manufacturing jobs moving overseas creating greater unemployment in an economic downturn here in the United States.
Whereas looking to Spain as an indicator of how “Green jobs” will affect our economy, we see that for every 1 “green job” created, 2 other jobs are lost.
Whereas most of the revenue to the government from this legislation will not go towards the production of green energy and green jobs as promised but to pay for unemployment compensation to the workers who will lose their jobs because of this legislation, health care benefits for those workers, job training and to fund a huge new Federal bureaucracy.
Whereas it seems that our elected officials have developed a total disregard for the American people and are only concerned with being re-elected, pleasing special interest groups who fund their campaigns and for appearing to be “Bi-partisan”.
Be it resolved that the Republican Party of St. Johns County calls on Florida’s two United States Senators, Mel Martinez and Bill Nelson, to vote no on the Cap and Trade legislation.
Be it resolved that the Republican Party of St. Johns County does not support the Cap and Trade legislation in any way shape or form.
Be it Resolved that the Republican Party of St. Johns County rejects that the issue of Man Made Global Warming has been determined as scientific fact. That Global Warming is irrelevant in that there is no determined “perfect” temperature, therefore any legislation based on this premise is resolutely rejected in the absence of established science based on norms of scientific research.
Be it Resolved that the Republican Party of St. Johns County specifically rejects any law, which will divert any of the revenues collected through Cap and Trade to the control of any entity outside the United States government or one of its 50 sovereign states and declared territories as an unconstitutional levy of taxes in benefit of an entity not specifically entitled to same under Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution.
Be it Resolved that the Republican Party of St. Johns County rejects the establishment of any tax, not fixed in levy, not specifically enumerated as to its burden on the individual transaction that it may rest upon.
Be it resolved further that the Republican Party of St. Johns County supports the election of officials who will read and understand the legislation before them, fight to defend the Constitution of the United States, act to protect our country and the people of it, reduce the size of the Federal Government and lower taxes.
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