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Kapic: RCSCW needs resident checks for balance

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In response to recent letter writers to the Independent, I believe we’d broadly agree that  we’ve lost our way and it will take us working together to find our way back. And so, where is ‘back?’

We should begin with our Nations origins: the Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. The First Amendment allows for free speech, not controlled or predetermined speech. Hate speech is free speech. Fact checkers are allowed to offer an opinion but not control speech.

In reality, ‘fact checkers’ are not experts but really just “single-source opinion gathers.” It is unconstitutional for the government to require you to do something that violates your rights  such as to be vaccinated or to wear a mask. A private business can, but the government cannot.

We, you and I, are the “experts” who assess and decide. The Founding Documents put all the  power in us to decide how large our representative federalist republic should be. We don’t  need fact checkers to tell us what to think; we have the God-given responsibility to research  and decide for ourselves through our rights given us from Divine Law, aka Nature’s God.

Our Founders established our basic and non-enumerated freedoms in the Founding

Documents and then, because we knew we would sin, we codified a few randomly in the Bill  of Rights. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments left all others up to us and our states.

We find today that we’ve enabled our Constitutional government to expand and exceed the  balance of control that we had initially given them. From their arrogance, the disease has  metastasized from DC down to local governments and NGO’s such as the RCSCW. In the same way, we also turn over a portion of our power to the RCSCW, through agreement contracts, and pay our fees to support operations in the faith and trust that we’ll receive good governance. We expect our representatives to one, execute the contract and two, at a reasonable cost. When neither of those occur, we are responsible to affect correction.

Particularly if we suspect we’re moving away from our original mission.

According to the original mission statement, we are a golf retirement and volunteer  community (I don’t play golf) and we should seriously review the RCSCW founding principles to determine if we’re on or off course. From what I can tell, it seems we’ve wavered off our original path.

I’m concerned by the fears given by folks from the community in the Sun City West Independent who understand how the board operates, spends our money and then decides the fee structure to support what might be a growing bureaucracy. Yes, lean management is a very good tool to measure and control value.

I believe the recall of Mr. Mancuso was a mistake and we should take a closer look at who’s representing us. Are they listening to us? Why did they continue to spend and tax during the pandemic while shutting most of our activities down? Are endeavors such as golf courses, the Foundation Store, club financial activities working well and to the benefit of members or to management, employees, and officers? Are we receiving equitable value for the board’s decisions?

I think we’d like to see folks stand up, show up, and speak up for the membership. Folks like

Lou Mancuso should run again, and Tom Slade has announced he would, too. I’m sure there are others who would also be good representatives. It would be nice if someone would put up a website for members and offer periodic meetings to begin the restoration of transparency for RCSCW members. The idea is not to encage us in bureaucrat jail but allow us the freedom to guide our retirement in Sun City West.

Mike Kapic

Sun City West