Thank You!

This note was originally sent out to our members via Facebook on March 10, 2009 after our very first monthly meeting.

We appreciate the time of everyone who came to SCL’s first monthly meeting tonight. It was a productive event, and it was wonderful getting a chance to meet those of you who came in person. Here’s a quick rundown of what we discussed.

At the top of our agenda was defining the goals of SCL. Our goals are to network with other liberty-minded groups in the Sacramento region regardless of party affiliation. We will act as a facilitator between these groups in order to promote our unifying principles. These principles are:

• Freedom is an indivisible whole. It must include not only economic liberty but also civil liberties and privacy rights.

• Local self-government is superior to federal control.

• A free market is the most just, humane, and prosperous economic system.

• The U.S. should end involvement in the UN, IMF, and World Bank, which encroach on our nation’s sovereignty.

• The Federal Reserve, which has reduced the value of the dollar by 95 percent since it began in 1913, must be ended.

• Our nation must pursue a non-interventionist foreign policy.

Our stances on other issues can be deduced from these general principles.

We have two events coming up. First, there’s Recruiting Day. This is April 4, 10pm-4pm at the Galleria Mall in Roseville. You can read more about it and RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=71736885859 … Second, the Tax Day Tea Party is April 15, 3:30pm-6pm at the Greenback & Sunrise intersection in Citrus Heights. Information about that is here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=67421955151

We also discussed other future events. One event we are in the process of planning is a Town Hall meeting in Roseville with Congressman Tom McClintock. We will notify you if and when this is organized.

There was also an educational period during tonight’s meeting. The topic was the “Broken Window Fallacy” which was covered both by Frédéric Bastiat and Henry Hazlitt. This economic fallacy has directly influenced the supporters of Obama’s stimulus package and is very important for Americans to understand. We distributed an article by Lew Rockwell which discusses that fallacy in-depth but also in easy to grasp terms. You can read the article here: http://mises.org/story/2868

If you weren’t there tonight, we hope to see you at our next meeting. Since we have two events in April, our monthly meeting will likely be pushed back to May.

Remember to RSVP for April 4 and 15. In particular, we want to see you and your friends and family at the Tax Day Tea Party on April 15. If you have work or class, please try and get the day off so you can attend the Tea Party.