Personally, I feel I know very well what "states rights" means, and it's very very clear from when people pull it out of their pocket what they mean. It doesn't mean states rights at all. It means the right is throwing a tantrum when an election, or policy, doesn't go their way. Race and/or civil rights are usually involved. Why is that? Fear, I think. Fear that somebody's gonna take something away from you or fear you won't get what you want. Nothing more. Let's see, when do you pull this crap? A short history?
Nullification and Civil Disobedience - Civil Rights - Racism - Martin Luther King - States Rights - Interposition - Slavery - Thomas Jefferson - secession | SwiftEconomics.com
"When one thinks of nullification, a few things may come to mind: the nullification crisis of 1832, John Calhoun and slavery, Brown v. Board of Education as well as the struggle for civil rights in the 1960’s. While the nullification crisis of 1832 was a dispute over the “tariff of abomination,” the threat of nullification was also seen a preemptive measure in case the federal government ever tried to interfere with slavery. John Calhoun, who saw slavery as “instead of an evil, a good, a positive good,” was a major supporter of nullification and was instrumental in laying the intellectual groundwork for the secession that lead to the Civil War. There was talk of nullification for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And actual attempts were made after the Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education, which persuaded President Eisenhower to call in federal troops to escort the “Little Rock 9” to class in what was formerly an all-white school. Nullification, as with interposition and secession, has without question been used to deny civil rights to minorities in this country."
"It’s thereby not surprising that Princeton professor Sean Wilentz refers to the doctrine of nullification as “the essence of anarchy” and “neo-Confederate dogma” while Chris Mathews described it as the “terms of Jim Crow.” A whole host of other bloggers and political commentators have referred to it as a “code word for racism.” Among most on the left, nullification, and states’ rights in general, are simply an affront to civil rights."
The clue is when it is used, and it's NEVER used when a conservative is in power, even though a president like Reagan grew gov 185% and left a deficit we're still struggling with. Why do folks ignore the long term consequences of their short term policies? Yup, you got wealthy real quick in the eighties then lost it all in S&L scandals and Enron-type debacles. See, in the long run, those policies cost millions of Americans everything they worked their entire lives for. Middle class Americans, all so a very few of you could get wealthy.
Dude, the last administration gave you tax cuts galore and lost 800,000 jobs over 8 years, compared to Clinton's 26 million created and a budget surplus. Yet you still cling to your policies.
I don't know where you get your information but it makes you look foolish, GW Bush inherited a recession and left us in a recession and still created 6.5 million jobs. Obama has lost four million in two years still blaming on Bush while ignoring his own policies. the rest of your post is typical of picking and choosing what you want out of history.
Please get an education because the actual non partisan facts paint a different picture.
BLS link, create own chart
Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National)
Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
BEA links GDP and Receipts/Expense
U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Economic Analysis
You have a very selective view of history, one through a partisan prism. I learned a long time ago to trust but verify any rhetoric from both sides. You seem to ignore actual facts.
Series Id: LNS12000000
Seasonally Adjusted
Series title: (Seas) Employment Level
Labor force status: Employed
Type of data: Number in thousands
Age: 16 years and over
Years: 1980 to 2010
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2000 136559 136598 136701 137270 136630 136940 136531 136662 136893 137088 137322 137614
2001 137778 137612 137783 137299 137092 136873 137071 136241 136846 136392 136238 136047
2002 135701 136438 136177 136126 136539 136415 136413 136705 137302 137008 136521 136426
2003 137417 137482 137434 137633 137544 137790 137474 137549 137609 137984 138424 138411
2004 138472 138542 138453 138680 138852 139174 139556 139573 139487 139732 140231 140125
2005 140245 140385 140654 141254 141609 141714 142026 142434 142401 142548 142499 142752
2006 143142 143444 143765 143794 144108 144370 144229 144631 144797 145292 145477 145914
2007 146032 146043 146368 145686 145952 146079 145926 145685 146193 145885 146483 146173
2008 146421 146165 146173 146306 146023 145768 145515 145187 145021 144677 143907 143188
2009 142221 141687 140854 140902 140438 140038 139817 139433 138768 138242 138381 137792
2010 138333 138641 138905 139455 139420 139119 138960 139250 139391 139061 138888