Even More Condolences, Senator Carrico

From Virginia State Senator Bill Carrico (R-40):

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Senator Ryan T. McDougle (R-Hanover), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules, announced Tuesday that the Senate of Virginia would reconvene the 2018 Special Session at noon on Monday, May 14.

The Senate will convene to refer House Bills 5001 and 5002 (the "Caboose Budget" and "Budget Bill" respectively) to the Senate Committee on Finance, which will meet immediately upon recess of the Special Session to consider those measures.

“The schedule we are announcing today will give the Senate the best opportunity to have the most current and complete information on the Commonwealth’s fiscal outlook as we craft a final budget agreement,” noted Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment, Jr. (R-James City). “We anticipate Secretary Layne will be prepared to update the Committee with revised revenue projections as we begin our deliberations.

"Governor Northam and the House have advanced plans to extend Medicaid benefits to able-bodied adults under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. While their plans are embedded in their respective budget proposals, Senator Hanger and Senator Wagner have advanced outlines of expansion proposals that are markedly different from the Governor’s and the House’s.

“It is our intention to consider the implications of all proposals when the Senate Finance Committee meets. To ensure Committee staff has the opportunity to fully vet any proposals prior to our meeting, we are asking senators with alternative proposals to submit them by May 7. Senators with budget amendments unrelated to Medicaid expansion should submit them to the Committee by that date, as well.

“With complete information on the state’s revenue outlook, and with a full understanding of the implications and ramifications of each of the respective Medicaid expansion proposals, the Committee will be able to act in the best interests of Virginia.”

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Official comment: Bankrupting individual States is not the way to prevent the bankruptcy of the United States' federal budget. We need to repeal Obamacare, trim Medicaid, and focus on reducing unnecessary costs added to medical care (by allowing the insurance industry to run the medical care system for the insurance racket's own profit). Face reality, Democrats. Even if youall sincerely believe that entrapping people in welfare dependency and/or insurance gambling rackets is good, or pardonable, you can't seriously believe that dragging people into Richmond in May is a humanitarian act.

And, Virginia Republicans? Unfortunately our cities have been packed with people who may be in Virginia for the express purpose of exhausting our treasury, or may sincerely believe that exhausting the treasury and raising taxes is the only way they can help those other people. We are a "red state" but we need to acknowledge this infusion of alien "blue" in our voting public, and get to work educating them, using our Conservative Hearts. There's a lot of "conservative" thought in Spanish and Islamic culture. We need to start there. Think in self-defense-strategy terms, using hostile energy against the hostility. The way to "flip" the endless-immigration-and-overcrowding strategy is to stop rejecting foreigners, meet them with real Virginia hospitality, and show them that in fact we're the ones who are not exploiting them for bad purposes.