A word on Secession

I know it's horrifyingly tempting to grab those petitions signed by all those Texans and Alabamans and excise these ignorant whiners from our nation, but we have to restrain ourselves if only because it would cost us billions in what would become foreign aid to these impoverished islands of idiocy.
The purportedly more intelligent of the secessionists keep citing the 10th Amendment, which I always had the impression was a "if we forgot to add anything, blahblahblah" amendment, but which apparently now means "everything the federal government does that we don't like is prohibited by this amendment" amendment.
The 10th Amendment reads (in part): "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Somehow, these secessionists have gotten into their heads that the majority of voters who decidedly reelected Barack Obama (and his Affordable Care Act) and/or the Supreme Court who decided that the federal government has a right to tax Americans who choose not to purchase health insurance are all wrong. That "the people" in the 10th Amendment who have, in the voting booth, delegated this power to our government don't count.
Heaven forbid the government do anything to promote the health and well-being of the nation while trying to keep the costs of that health from skyrocketing. That would be overstepping the Constitutional mandate.
On the other hand, if you want to marry someone of the same gender or terminate an unwanted pregnancy, THEN the government has all kinds of rights to step in.