CCV GOALS AND PRIORITIES



CCV GOALS AND PRIORITY ISSUES

At our initial meeting early in 2010, the Concerned Coastal Voters developed the following major goals for our organization to pursue:

1. To publicly present conservative views in a professional, factual manner and to counter misinformation where appropriate.

2. To research topics of interest at the national and state levels, and share the information among members of our group.
3. To identify and pursue the most effective venues for disseminating factual information related to our priority issues.

4. To expand membership of our group to like-minded persons regardless of their political affiliation.


Some of the Issues We Care Most About:


1. Free Enterprise Economy (e.g., fiscal responsibility, tax policies that promote growth of businesses, jobs, and general prosperity, elimination of unnecessary bureaucracy and regulation)


2. Limited, responsible, and responsive government.


3. Strong national defense, including border security.


4. Adherence by politicians and the courts to the Constitution and the rights of the individual. (e.g., civil rights, freedom of expression, right to bear arms)


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Friday, February 4, 2011

UNCONSTITUTIONAL (Letter to Independent Coast Observer)

The recent Florida court decision declaring the individual mandate in ObamaCare unconstitutional is a step in the right direction, but it is only the latest in a stream of embarrassing revelations about the poorly-conceived law.

Recently we have learned that the administration has been quietly granting waivers to hundreds of organizations to prevent these groups from dropping their employee health care plans altogether. Ironically, a disproportionate number of these waivers will go to unions. Some of the more prominent are: the Service Employees International Union, the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund, and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, a California-based cooperative that provides low-cost minimal coverage to farm workers. Unions represent only 6.9% of the private work force, yet 40% of the workers covered by these waivers are union members. (IBD, 1/30/2011) 

This massive waiver revelation comes on top of an earlier “discovery” that the requirement for businesses to send a 1099 to the IRS for transactions over $600 will add unprecedented burdens and erode profit margins for thousands of small businesses. Furthermore, we’re just now obtaining candid admissions from government officials that the costs of ObamaCare will far exceed the projections and that you probably won’t be able to keep your current doctor and/or health care insurance as the law moves toward full implementation.

I don’t blame the unions for obtaining the waivers. Their role is to look out for their people. However, I do blame the administration for providing a train load of misinformation to American citizens about this health care bill, both in terms of its workability and its costs. The President would take a big step towards being re-elected if he would work with the new Congress to repeal ObamaCare and replace it with a less intrusive, more effective and fully constitutional system.
Jim Littlejohn