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Feb. 29, 2012 7:48am Billy Hallowell

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (The Blaze/AP) — Earlier this week, The Blaze told you about a unique bill aimed at helping Wyoming citizens in the event of economic or political collapse. Now, the state’s lawmakers have shot down the so-called doomsday bill, a proposal that would have resulted in a task force and plan of action in case of a federal meltdown.

Trib.com has more about the vote that just missed the mark for advancing the preparatory bill:

The Wyoming House of Representatives on Tuesday narrowly voted down legislation to launch a study into what the state should do in the event of a complete economic or political collapse in the United States.

House Bill 85, which has received national media attention in recent days, was rejected 30-27 in a final House vote.

According to State Rep. Dan Zwonitzer (R-Cheyenne) lawmakers did not spend any time debating the bill before they voted upon it.

“There was no discussion on it today,” he said in an interview with The Huffington Post. “It went up and we voted.”

The bill would have set up an exploratory team to create a strategy for securing energy, potentially replacing state currency in the event that the U.S. dollar collapsed and a military, complete with an aircraft carrier for the landlocked state. The military amendment was a tongue-in-cheek addition from an opponent who thought the rest of the measure was a waste of time.

Republican state Rep. Kermit Brown says the aircraft carrier plan injected “a little bit of humor into the bill.”

The absurdist provision brought enough attention that the bill’s sponsor, Republican state Rep. David Miller, thinks it killed the proposal.

Miller says the risk of catastrophic government failure is real given the present course in Washington D.C. and Europe, although he has said in the past that he doesn’t anticipate anything happening on a massive scale in the near future.

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tmplarnite
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:20am
Typical lilly livered lawmakers…forgo sanity for insanity…$99 TRILLION unfunded….$15 Trillion…in yearly debt payments…our GNP…Great Britain just they’re broke…we are broke…and yet our stupid white house is still borrowing money to waste it by giving it to the world’s bozos…Now they are going to give aid to North Korea…too! WAKE UP…they selling us out and into slavery!

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- WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges12
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 4:07pm
  “The military amendment was a tongue-in-cheek addition from an opponent who thought the rest of the measure was a waste of time.”
  
  And WHO was that “opponent” that mocked preparedness? The “Aircraft Carrier Amendment” should carry his name! Come on, Wyoming and TheBlaze … CALL HIM OUT!
  
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- Locked
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 4:50pm
  “And WHO was that “opponent” that mocked preparedness? The “Aircraft Carrier Amendment” should carry his name! Come on, Wyoming and TheBlaze … CALL HIM OUT!”
  
  Perhaps it wasn’t clear to you when posted in the article?
  
  “Republican state Rep. Kermit Brown says the aircraft carrier plan injected “a little bit of humor into the bill.”
  
  If you’re still not believing it, here’s the quote from the Seattle PI article:
  
  Rep. Kermit Brown, R-Laramie, a former Navy officer, proposed the aircraft carrier amendment last week, saying he couldn’t envision any possible scenario in which the state would have to fill the federal government’s role through things such as creating its own money.
  
  “It just didn’t seem like a good use of public funds at the moment,” Brown said Tuesday.
  
  Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Wyoming-lawmakers-shoot-down-doomsday-bill-3366883.php#ixzz1noHW5PYo
  
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robert
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:59am
“Miller says the risk of catastrophic government failure is real given the present course in Washington D.C. and Europe, although he has said in the past that he doesn’t anticipate anything happening on a massive scale in the near future.”

The threat is real and he admits to it. What he means by “near future” is up for interpretation, but top analysts are forecasting much turmoil ahead and eventual collapse.

Notice the respone to this proposal to just set up an inquiry?

The majority of these corrupt political hacks are terrified of a collapse, because it would nean a loss of power to them.

I’ve got news for them, though. States ARE contemplating printing their own money and communities ARE beginning to set in place barter systems right this very minute.

And militias ARE continuing to form with a new one forming almost every month. That trend will accelerate as conditions continue to deteriorate.

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338_LM
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:56am
No big deal. As a 23-year resident of WY, I can vouch for my brethren. We take care of ourselves, and care not one whit what our legislators do (or don’t do, in this case). So long as people are laughing at us and calling us nuts, they’re not moving here.

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Ironeagle
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:36am
This initiative is not dead, it will rise again.

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BobtheMoron
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:31am
Good. Not the Government’s job to spend millions planning and partying and ******* away more money. If they want to plan they already have the governmental infrastructure to do all the planning necessary. Don’t need another commission or more laws. Every state should already be working on such plans as necessary to do what it can to mitigate whatever disaster that might befall its citizens.

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Guitar Master
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:20am
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THE REPORTER’S View
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This bill failed because it was logical, reasonable and what was best for the people of Wyoming.

You gotta love it !!

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Guitar Master
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:18am
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From THE REPOERTER
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This bill would have passed if it gave allowances for lavish parties, hotel expense, travel, frivolous expenditures and higher taxes.

It failed because it was logical, reasonable and simply the right thing to do. It doesn’t get any better !!

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nosharia
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:08am
For a minute there it looked like Wyoming was ahead of the curve. Imagine a power outage that lasted 6 weeks.

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Longslide7
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:07am
Those Wyoming Representatives who voted down this study, may not win reelection if there is a economic or political meltdown. Use your vote; while you still can.

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eddw2112
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:43am
Now they too can sit on their roofs and wait on FEMA. Morons.

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- SoupSandwich
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:05am
  95% are way to self sufficient for that happy crap. Wy doesn’t really have what Ray Nagan called a chocolate city awaiting checks and buses and food and shelter and phones and WIC and Planned Parenthood, I digress. Telling that they would even talk about it in session, that should speak to the new wave of immigrants to Wy from areas of liberal and choco speak. Detroit has proffered up gas stations having to hire guards…to try and change 2 generations of lib choco doctrine. Lets check back on that huh?
  
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SamIamTwo
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:43am
I really hate politicians with a passion. Playing games.

I bet by federal law each bloody state is suppose to have contingency plans. EOS It’s not like this is the first time we’ve done this dance.

I bet they have no ideal what laws and plans they have in their library…As a DoD employee of 33 years the only thing that changed were EOs and we would all vibrate in place awaiting the presidential EOs…Many laws are not backed up by funding…but Obama is reallocating funds to those laws, which is miss-appropriations of tax payers funds.

Based on what I heard on GBTV yesterday, pretty sure the whistle-blowers that I keep on trying to call out are too scared to say boo about squat…talk about heading down the proverbial road to destruction. That flushing sound in the background is getting louder and louder.

Thanks GB for pointing that out…seriously much appreciated that you folks took the time to dig into the whistle-blower problem.

It is sickening what Obama is doing and he knew he could do it…any president has those overreaching powers…but Obama is the first one in a long time to be putting federal employees in jail for speaking out against his screwed up policies that are sucking the life out of all taxpayers….and yes the poor will pay more, and so will the sheep that are his followers. They have no ideal, and they are the first to fall victim to the all encompassing welfare system…and next is the middle class that pays taxes to keep the system

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lynnissmart
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:39am
Oh how sad….a bill that would prepare the people for what is about to happen…..probably orders from the King to squash the bill because the “truth” hurts…..OMG

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- hoopsgulch
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:49am
  The people of Wyoming will take care of one another. They always do.
  
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Joisey
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:32am
Their loss, and ours too.

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CROCK-HANDLER
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:08am
The opposition to the bill treat it like a joke to put it down . But it should have been seriously discussed by forward thinking representatives. Wyoming could have led the way to repairing the country.

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- SnowKalBebes
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 12:15pm
  “it should have been discussed by forward thinking representatives” you mean it should have been discussed by progressives…the irony is great isn’t it.
  
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kentuckypatriot
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:04am
My guess is the oponents to the bill want to wait for the gubment to help them in case of an emergency. Yea, like that’s gonna happen!

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- Darla_K
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:18am
  The good people need to vote the politicians out and get some in there that has the peoples best interest in mind.
  
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obxned
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:00am
The possibility that the Titanic could sink was so extremely, extremely unlikely that the designers and owners included only a token number of lifeboats.

We all know how that worked out.

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- madvlad
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:57pm
  Good analogy.
  
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MBA
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:58am
I liked the idea of the doomsday bill. In fact, I think Utah should have one–at least we have a place to put our air craft carrier (at least until it rusts out)!

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jackbauer
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:37am
I just want to know what it would take to wake up the ones that put the aircraft carrier into the bill. This country already has one foot in the grave and the other one is following. It’s as if their eyes/mind are closed just like unbelievers reading the scriptures.

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sawbuck
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:30am
Well what did they expect with a “aircraft carrier provision”
tucked between the pages..

This was just a mockery…should have called it the “sky is falling bill”.

I just wished Bamacare had something like a rationed-health-care-provision in that bill .
Then the law-makers in DC would have absolutely…shot it down.
Oh wait…?…That’s right………. They didn’t read it.

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PJL
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:18am
Idiots!

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ExpertShot
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:16am
So, use a play from the libs handbook, instead of passing the bill through the legislature, create the same committees & put them under the state EPA, as a disaster would definitely impact the environment.

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carbonyes
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:16am
Can’t say too much pro or con on the bill, but the numb nuts that added the air craft carrier amendment to shoot it down, obviously didn’t give the bill much thought.

However, the sponsor of the bill, Republican State Rep. David Miller, evidently is not as up on the state of things as he might like people to believe. This is quite evident by his statement that, “…. he doesn’t anticipate anything happening on a massive scale in the near future”.

Unfortunately with Obama, his administration and the paid lackeys in economics and the media, habitually claiming that things are turning around and on the upswing, when it is quite clear both from viewing the debacle in Europe as well as in our own country that the bucket is leaking like a sieve and the **** has more hole in it than 100 Dutch could plug, that paying the piper is right around the corner. instead of the dollar becoming worth less, which it daily is, it may well become worthless.

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- Ironeagle
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:34am
  I know the numb nuts that added that to the bill–she’s a lib-progressive leftist prof at the University of Wyoming, a real disgrace to the people of Wyoming (she belongs in CA or NY)
  
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hauschild
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:09am
Cross off Wyoming on my list of potential retirement states.

I thought the leaders of that state had a bit more sense and stones.

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- grandmaof5
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:24am
  Whatever happened to the sage old saying “Better safe than sorry”? I think these dems do this just to be jerks, and that is the only reason. Hopefully interested parties will get together and put a plan in place – then if “doomsday” does happen, they will be able to help their family, friends and neighbors. The “nays” are the grasshoppers, and the “ayes” are the ants, and we know which one was prepared in this fable – it wasn’t the grasshopper!
  
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- carbonyes
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:24am
  No backbone and no balls, sounds like our Republican controlled House of Representatives, and clueless John Boehner. Actually would not mind seeing him beaten by a Democrat in his own district. Then maybe the Republicans would wake up, smell the roses, or the manure(as their heads seem to be in their @sses), and start doing something constructive, like taking on the Impostor-in-Chief, who is absolutely destroying our country. it’s time to draw a line in the sand, and if the Republicans don’t have thew balls to take on the task, send them shameless, spineless wimps home.
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:00am
  @carbonyes
  
  You sort of get to my bigger point when you talk about not minding Cry Baby getting beaten. Well, that is how I feel about the next presidential election because just about any way you slice it now, we are going to have a RINO running. Do we really expect anything to change with a RINO calling the shots? You will get some minor short-term change, but nothing that matters because RINO’s have absolutely no stones. So, I often wonder whether it might not be better – long term – for Obama to get another 4 years to “transform” the country further; with the hopes that the sheeples will wake up.
  
  I’m just surprised that although quite a few people on “our” side understand what needs to be done, so few of them are willing to do it. How can we expect radical change if half the people on our side aren’t all in???
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:15am
  @Grandmaof5 – the saying is still quite appropriate even today; there will almost always be those who are the grasshoppers, playing and prancing about while the piper comes demaning his just due at the end of the day.They will be caught unprepared at the end; where I live at too many people are afraid of what is coming, and when I tell them to use the remaining time to get ready, they scoff.
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:59am
  And so shall it be as in the days of Noah when people were eating and drinking and suddenly, destruction!!!
  
  Make sure you’re lamps have a full tank …blessings
  
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lukerw
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:09am
Good intentions… resulting in a Sad response…

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Silversmith
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:58am
An aircraft carrier? That any process would allow the opposition to attach something as spurious and toxic to a bill says that reps there are getting too arrogant to do their jobs respectfully.

Shameful

Silversmith

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