The Weekly Activist
Upcoming Events
Monday, July 23 –
CAUTION meets from 6:00 to 7:30 at the Dilworth Neighborhood Grille with a social hour in advance. CAUTION member Jack Brosch officially kicks off his 12th District Congressional campaign with the group this evening.
The following is a schedule of the Property Tax Revaluation public meetings:
The County has posted the following schedule of public meetings with Pearson Associates, the consulting company performing the Review. There is no further information available, but based on the Pearson proposal; citizens will have 2 minutes to present their information. I strongly recommend you attend, as they need to hear from you what happened to you during the Revaluation. I would bring documents to leave with them to support your claim. When more information becomes available, I will let you know.
DATE TIME LOCATION BOCC District
July 30, 2012 7pm – 9pm Matthews Town Hall 232 Matthews Station St. – Chambers 6
July 31, 2012 7pm – 9pm Cornelius Town Hall 1
August 2, 2012 7pm – 9pm Beatties Ford Library Large conference rm. 2412 Beatties Ford Rd. 3
August 6, 2012 7pm – 9pm Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center Room 267 4
August 9, 2012 7pm – 9pm First Baptist Church West (Activity Room) 1801 Oaklawn Ave. 2
August 9, 2012 – Screening of 2012: They Come to America
CAUTION (Common Americans United to Inspire Our Nation), in conjunction with Stand Up North Carolina, will be hosting film maker Dennis Michael Lynch in Mooresville, NC on August 9th to unveil his explosive new documentary on illegal immigration entitled 2012: They Come To America. The free screening will take place at 6:45pm at the Charles Mack Citizen Center Auditorium (Joe Knox theater) in downtown Mooresville.
The film is being shown in Mooresville before it is unveiled nationally during the Republican National Convention in Tampa on August 30. Dennis Michael Lynch will be in attendance to discuss with the audience the making of the film and engage in a Q & A after the showing.
A meet and greet with the film maker will also be held from 5-6:15pm at the Epic Chophouse at 104 South Main Street, Mooresville before the event. Media and all interested are welcome.
“We are thrilled with the opportunity to partner with another Tea Party organization to bring Mr. Lynch to North Carolina,” said Dennis Peterson, President of CAUTION. “Illegal immigration is an important issue facing our state and nation. We hope this project will give a greater understanding of the issue to those in attendance with us.”
For more information on the film and to view trailers, visit: www.theycometoamerica.com
Legislative Report
A note from NC Senator Phil Berger:
One day the animals of the field gathered to determine which among them deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number of offspring. They rushed to the lioness to ask her to settle the dispute. “And you,” they said. “How many sons did you have at birth?” The lioness laughed and said, “I have only one; but that one is a lion.”
As Aesop’s fable shows, the animals were asking the wrong question. Value should not be looked at in terms of how many or how much, but by the quality of the outcome created. Sadly, over the course of the century that North Carolina’s state government was controlled by Democrats, the legislature also began asking the wrong questions.
How much are we spending? How much more money can we put into education? How high can we raise taxes? How many regulations can we pass? How many more programs can we create?
And in the course of all that asking, the most important question was forgotten – are North Carolinians getting the best outcome possible for the amount of money the government spends and the taxes it collects? When Republicans assumed leadership in January 2011, we found the answer to that question was a resounding no.
During the two-year session that recently concluded we balanced a bipartisan budget that reduced government spending by more than $1 billion, returned nearly $1 billion to the pockets of North Carolinians by eliminating the “temporary” sales tax hike that Governor Perdue and legislative Democrats implemented and enacted a $50,000 income tax exemption for job creating businesses.
Changing the culture in Raleigh wasn’t just about reining in excessive spending; it was about making sure that every dollar we spent was spent wisely. That’s why the legislature complemented the restoration of hundreds of millions of state dollars to public education with real reform. The improvements made will strengthen student literacy, improve graduation rates, reward effective teachers, and give parents tools to make better-informed decisions about their education.
But educating the workforce of tomorrow is insufficient if there are no jobs available for our graduates. To spur economic growth, we passed a series of bold reforms to draw private investment and jobs to our state.
In addition to the small business tax cut, the General Assembly made sweeping changes to the state’s onerous regulatory environment. In just the last decade, more than 15,000 new or amended regulations have hit the books, causing uncertainty for our job creators and representing a huge cost for our businesses. The legislature cleared out the regulatory thicket, eliminating rules that no longer made sense and simplifying those that were overly burdensome.
We also took steps to foster the creation of a vibrant new energy jobs sector capable of heating and cooling our homes, fueling our vehicles, and powering our state’s job creation engine for years to come. Tapping in to North Carolina’s natural shale gas resources is a potential game-changer that can put more money into workers pockets while generating more revenue for our state.
For all the positive reforms we achieved during the two-year session (and this is but a small snapshot), there are some who seek to drag us back to the past. They denounce the balanced budget for failing to raise taxes. They rail against efforts to improve student and teacher performance, and instead simply demand more money. And they fuss and fulminate over the elimination of job-destroying regulations.
Like Aesop’s animals of the field, they continue to look on in wonderment, asking why not more taxes? More spending? Or more regulation? And in doing so, they altogether fail to see the economic lion Republicans are creating. As the legislature pursues its new philosophy of quality, not quantity, North Carolinians can look forward to our state once again learning how to roar.
Promises Made, Promises Kept?
Continuing to highlight the broken promises of President Obama…
Obama promised seven times during his campaign to create 7 Million New Jobs:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/7-times-in-2008-obama-promised-to-create-7-million
Results?
Unemployment rate when Obama took office: 7.8%
Current unemployment rate? 8.2%
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