Libertarian Party Of Santa Cruz
contact:
Patrick Dugan
Email: Patrick.Dugan@lpsantacruz.com
4310 Capitola Road
Capitola, CA 95010
Phone:  831.476.3600

167460

Californians For A Part-time Legislature

Initiative Measure To Be Submitted Directly To Voters
The Attorney General of California has prepared the following title and summary of the chief purpose and points of the proposed measure:

Reduces Legislative Session And Pay By At Least 50%. Initiative Constitutional amendment. Reduces the Legislature’s regular session by more than 50% to no more than ninety-five days. Directs the Legislature to convene in January for up to thirty days and again in May for up to sixty days. Allows the Legislature to reconvene for up to five additional days to reconsider bills vetoed by the Governor. Requires that legislators’ salaries be cut by at least 50%, regardless of the amount of work legislators perform. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analystand Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: Potential reduction in state costs of tens of millions of dollars per year, including over $5.7 million in reduced annual costs for legislator salaries. Actual reduction, if any, would depend on future actions of the Legislature and the Governor. (09-0031.)

Download PDF that has instructions for signing patition here

Yours in liberty.................Mark Hinkle,
Candidate for LP Chair
Tel: 408-779-7922

ObamaCare Would Not Be Improved By Including Alternative Health Care

      We think that ObamaCare is currently an even greater threat to an unusually long healthy life than the FDA — and we have spent a large fortune of our own money suing the FDA on health freedom issues.

      We are dismayed that some of those who believe they support freedom of choice in their health decisions would be willing to support ObamaCare — the exact opposite of freedom of choice — if it were altered to include (e.g., to pay for) alternative health care, including dietary supplements and herbal supplements.

      What those folks don’t realize is that adding alternative health care to the ObamaCare healthcare takeover would mean that alternative medicine would also be taken over. No more would there be a relatively free market in dietary and herbal supplements, where companies can offer a large diversity of different products, allowing even small groups of consumers to buy what they prefer. No more would there be frequent new life enhancing and life saving products and alternative medical procedures.

      The government would decide on a one-size-fits-all basis what can be offered (e.g., what ObamaCare will pay for) and, thus, determine the contents and dosages of those relatively few supplements they would allow you to get under ObamaCare. This may benefit a few very large companies (such as those of Big Pharma) that will be delighted to take taxpayers’ money from the government to supply government stipulated supplements. But to the vast majority of consumers of dietary and herbal supplements, as well as to most (perhaps all) small, medium, and even large sized supplement companies and alternative medical practices, it will spell the end of alternative medicine as we have known it.

      Do not be fooled. ObamaCare is going to have a very negative impact on the development and availability of conventional medicines, and the same would be true for alternative medicine, including dietary and herbal supplements if they were to be included in ObamaCare. ObamaCare will make you an offer that you can’t refuse . . .

      If Obamacare includes alternative medicine and supplements, any alternative medical practice or product that does not obtain government approval will be deemed felony health care fraud.

Your fellow freedom fighters,
Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw

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