The States Can Stop Washington DC
by Sheriff Richard Mack
By now we have all heard the cliches and seen the posters from the “Tea Parties” espousing freedom, less government, and perhaps most of all, how the federal government had better back off trying to shove their national healthcare down our otherwise healthy throats. The truth of the matter is all the slogans of “Don’t Tread On Me” or “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” or “We’re Mad As Hell And We’re Not Taking It Anymore,” don’t mean a thing when compared to reality; the real and actual answer to all the protests, marches, and outrage. The answer is in our own backyards!
The States can stop every bit of it! That’s right, the individual States can stop “Obamacare” and all other forms of out-of-control federal government mandates and “big brother” tactics. If Arizona, Hawaii, New Hamshire, Texas, etc. want nothing to do with National Healthcare as proposed by Barack Obama or Congress, then all they have to do is say “No!”
For you skeptics who think the States could no more do this than fly to the moon, let’s look at the law. First, the U.S. Constitution is the ultimate and supreme law of the land. More specifically, the Bill of Rights was established, because some of our Founding Fathers, feared that the Constitution did not go far enough in restricting or limiting the central government. Hamilton was one of a select few who wanted a bigger and powerful federal government. However, several key states and powerful delegates such as Patrick Henry, said they would not support the formation of a new government if the Constitution did not contain a Bill of Rights, a supreme law to establish basic and fundamental human rights that could never, for all future American generations, be violated, altered or encroached upon by government. So the Framers of our Constitution came up with ten; ten God-given freedoms that would forever be held inviolable by our own governments.
The last of these basic foundational principles was the one to protect the power, sovereignty, and the autonomy of the States; the Tenth Amendment. This amendment and law underscores the entire purpose of the Constitution to limit government and forbids the federal government from becoming more powerful than the “creator.” Let’s be very clear here; the States in this case were the creator. They formed the federal government, not the other way around. Does anyone believe rationally that the States intended to form a new central government to control and command the States at will?
Nothing could be further from the truth. Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution details what duties the federal government will be responsible for under our new system of “balanced power.” Anything not mentioned in Article 1, Sec. 8, is “reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” (Tenth Amendment) Hence, the federal government was not allowed creativity or carte blanche to expand or assume power wherever and whenever they felt like it. The feds had only discrete and enumerated and very limited powers. Omnipotency was the last thing the Founding Fathers intended to award the newly formed federal government. They had just fought the Revolutionary War to stop such from Britain and their main concern was to prevent a recurrence here in America.
In perhaps the most recent and powerful Tenth Amendment decision in modern history, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Mack/Printz v U.S. that “States are not subject to federal direction.” But today’s federal Tories argue that the “supremacy clause” of the U.S. Constitution says that the federal government is supreme and thus, trumps the States in all matters. Wrong! The supremacy clause is dealt with in Mack/Printz, in which the Supreme Court stated once and for all that the only thing “supreme” is the constitution itself. Our constitutional system of checks and balances certainly did not make the federal government king over the states, counties, and cities.
Justice Scalia opined for the majority in Mack/Printz, that “Our citizens would have two political capacities, one state and one federal, each protected from incursion by the other.” So yes, it is the duty of the State to stop the Obamacare “incursion.” To emphasize this principle Scalia quotes James Madison, “The local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the Supremacy, no more subject within their respective spheres, to the general authority than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere.” The point to remember here is; where do we define the “sphere” of the federal government? That’s right; in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution and anything not found within this section belongs to the States or to the People. So where does health care belong? The last place it belongs is with the President or Congress. It is NOT their responsiblity and the States need to make sure that Obama does not overstep his authority.
Just in case there is any doubt as to what the Supreme Court meant, let’s take one more look at Mack/Printz. “This separation of the two spheres is one of the Constitution’s structural protections of liberty. Hence, a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other…” What? The Constitution, the supreme law of the land, has as a “structural protection of liberty” that States will keep the federal government in check? No wonder it was called a system of “checks and balances.” The States (and Counties) are to maintain the balance of power by keeping the feds within their proper sphere.
So do the States have to take the bullying of the federal government? Not hardly! The States do not have to take or support or pay for Obamacare or anything else from Washington DC. The States are not subject to federal direction. They are sovereign and “The Constitution protects us from our own best intentions.” (Mack/Printz) Which means the States can tell national healthcare proposals or laws to take a flying leap off the Washington monument. We are not subject to federal direction!
In the final order pursuant to the Mack/Printz ruling Scalia warned, “The federal government may neither, issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program. Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.” It is rather obvious that nationalized healthcare definitely qualifies as a “federal regulatory program.”
Thus, the marching on Washington and pleas and protests to our DC politicians are misdirected. Such actions are “pie in the sky” dreaming that somehow expects the tyrants who created the tyranny, will miraculously put a stop to it. Throughout the history of the world such has never been the case. Tyrants have never stopped their own corrupt ways. However, in our system of “dual sovereignty,” the States can do it. If we are to take back America and keep this process peaceful, then state and local officials will have to step up to the plate. Doing so is what States’ Rights and State Sovereignty are all about.
Sheriff Richard Mack posted on Nullify Now.com
Monday, February 27, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Property Rights
It was good to see DHA getting back to its job, being a watchdog to represent the interest of the 13 thousand plus Dunwoody homeowners who usually vote. The problem they will encounter is that the City of Dunwoody Master Plan is riddled with U.N. Agenda 21 concepts that are foreign to U.S. citizens and will result in violations of the Constitutional rights of property owners.
Thomas Jefferson originally wrote that the federal government would exist to ensure citizens’ rights to Life, Liberty and Property. He later changed Property to “Pursuit of Happiness” , some say, because of the slavery issue. That was a mistake. He should have used his original draft and said “Life, Liberty and Property (except the slavery thing).” The “Pursuit of Happiness” is less confining language than it should be. Our Congress has perpetrated countless scams over 200 years in the name of “Happiness” to limit our Liberty. They were sure we wouldn’t mind sacrificing a little liberty for someone else’s happiness.
There is a businessman in Roswell who sold a large parcel land for a major mall development, all except 5 acres, that is. The EPA showed up and declared his left-over 5 acres, once valued at $1 million per acre as a “wetland”. Now he is stuck paying the taxes on a $5 million property he can’t sell or build anything on. No wonder private investors have taken to the hills.
The owner of the PVC Farm is the City of Dunwoody. Why should anybody but the City Council have anything to say about what they do with the property ? Furthermore, why should the City Council have anything to say about what strip mall property owners do with their property ?
Zoning was invented to prevent clowns from operating a pig farm, junkyard or landfill in the middle of town. Neighbors of clowns should have some protection from clowns and legal expense, so zoning came to be entrusted to local government. Even having a Master Plan goes way too far.
If the City pays off the property (with its surpluses), it will be able to zone it single family residential and sell it to whoever they want to sell it to, unless they made up their own rules forcing them to take the highest bid.
The real problem with the PVC Farm is its original cost of $5 million for 16 acres or $312 thousand per acre. Dunwoody residential property is closer to $100 thousand per acre. Can a developer make a profit developing overpriced land ? If so, let the City sell it. The city should not offer to put any taxpayer money at risk on the deal, just sell it and put the $5 million in the reserve fund.
I know the original intent for buying the PVC Farm was to keep it from becoming apartments. I also know that the City Council said it would become a park, but that was before we voted down the park bonds. Now it appears the City might be able to return the land to productive use.
I prefer single residential zoning to be the dominant zoning category in Dunwoody. I also prefer subdivision owned and managed swim and tennis clubs as our primary “open space” strategy. I think PCID is the only part of Dunwoody that will benefit from “open space” and their own public schools. So far, mixed use developments are failures, so I wouldn’t want any. Also, Tax Authorizing Districts and Private Public Partnerships don’t work. I would oppose any City funds, bonds or backing for private development. Also, all transit (trains and buses) should be private.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Thomas Jefferson originally wrote that the federal government would exist to ensure citizens’ rights to Life, Liberty and Property. He later changed Property to “Pursuit of Happiness” , some say, because of the slavery issue. That was a mistake. He should have used his original draft and said “Life, Liberty and Property (except the slavery thing).” The “Pursuit of Happiness” is less confining language than it should be. Our Congress has perpetrated countless scams over 200 years in the name of “Happiness” to limit our Liberty. They were sure we wouldn’t mind sacrificing a little liberty for someone else’s happiness.
There is a businessman in Roswell who sold a large parcel land for a major mall development, all except 5 acres, that is. The EPA showed up and declared his left-over 5 acres, once valued at $1 million per acre as a “wetland”. Now he is stuck paying the taxes on a $5 million property he can’t sell or build anything on. No wonder private investors have taken to the hills.
The owner of the PVC Farm is the City of Dunwoody. Why should anybody but the City Council have anything to say about what they do with the property ? Furthermore, why should the City Council have anything to say about what strip mall property owners do with their property ?
Zoning was invented to prevent clowns from operating a pig farm, junkyard or landfill in the middle of town. Neighbors of clowns should have some protection from clowns and legal expense, so zoning came to be entrusted to local government. Even having a Master Plan goes way too far.
If the City pays off the property (with its surpluses), it will be able to zone it single family residential and sell it to whoever they want to sell it to, unless they made up their own rules forcing them to take the highest bid.
The real problem with the PVC Farm is its original cost of $5 million for 16 acres or $312 thousand per acre. Dunwoody residential property is closer to $100 thousand per acre. Can a developer make a profit developing overpriced land ? If so, let the City sell it. The city should not offer to put any taxpayer money at risk on the deal, just sell it and put the $5 million in the reserve fund.
I know the original intent for buying the PVC Farm was to keep it from becoming apartments. I also know that the City Council said it would become a park, but that was before we voted down the park bonds. Now it appears the City might be able to return the land to productive use.
I prefer single residential zoning to be the dominant zoning category in Dunwoody. I also prefer subdivision owned and managed swim and tennis clubs as our primary “open space” strategy. I think PCID is the only part of Dunwoody that will benefit from “open space” and their own public schools. So far, mixed use developments are failures, so I wouldn’t want any. Also, Tax Authorizing Districts and Private Public Partnerships don’t work. I would oppose any City funds, bonds or backing for private development. Also, all transit (trains and buses) should be private.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The “Don’t Argue with Me” Story
The “Don’t Argue with Me” Story from the Valdosta Tea Party Now for the story. Our County Commission Chairman, who is on our Regional Roundtable, told this to Nolen last month.
An assistant to the GDOT Director of Planning told our County Commission Chairman to put the value of $16 million for a certain road project. Our Commissioner, who is a contractor himself, replied that he had just built a road just like that for $7 million the year before, so the cost would certainly have only gone up to a little over $7 million at this time. The GDOT man said to our Commissioner, “DON’T ARGUE WITH ME.” Any comments? Diane Cox, Valdosta Tea Party, 2-19-12
So, GDOT projected costs have doubled in one year. I wonder what kind of fees they are collecting for the T-SPLOST projects ? Georgia Regional Association Centers, 16 of them, (think Propaganda) got $50,000 each to promote this boondoggle.
Many of us have questioned the posted project costs for Regional T-SPLOST, City grant assisted and GDOT transportation projects. The Dunwoody T-SPLOST calls for $12 million to re-do a 3.5 mile section of Mt Vernon Road. The Dunwoody Transportation Master Plan calls for $2.4 million to re-do the half mile long Dunwoody Village Parkway, using $1 million federal grant money. That’s $14.4 million for 4 miles of road. That’s $3.6 million per mile. My internet tells me that road milling and resurfacing costs $100 thousand per mile.
The federal cash transportation infusion (think bribe) Obama has showered on Georgia (for our silence and cooperation) has driven the cost of road re-dos up 4 times higher than they ever were. It also looks like GDOT is planning to use the T-SPLOST funds as a slush fund for other projects. How did this level of corruption get past the geniuses we have running the State of Georgia ? How did all of our City Council and County Commission Reps miss the fact that the Transportation Investment Act of 2010 (TIA) takes away all of their responsibility for roads and gives it to the GDOT ?
How is it that our oceans have been cooling for the past few years and nobody suggested that man made global warming is no longer a problem ? Why are unincorporated areas forming Cities immediately after the Transportation Investment Act of 2010 made City Councils powerless and irrelevant ?
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
An assistant to the GDOT Director of Planning told our County Commission Chairman to put the value of $16 million for a certain road project. Our Commissioner, who is a contractor himself, replied that he had just built a road just like that for $7 million the year before, so the cost would certainly have only gone up to a little over $7 million at this time. The GDOT man said to our Commissioner, “DON’T ARGUE WITH ME.” Any comments? Diane Cox, Valdosta Tea Party, 2-19-12
So, GDOT projected costs have doubled in one year. I wonder what kind of fees they are collecting for the T-SPLOST projects ? Georgia Regional Association Centers, 16 of them, (think Propaganda) got $50,000 each to promote this boondoggle.
Many of us have questioned the posted project costs for Regional T-SPLOST, City grant assisted and GDOT transportation projects. The Dunwoody T-SPLOST calls for $12 million to re-do a 3.5 mile section of Mt Vernon Road. The Dunwoody Transportation Master Plan calls for $2.4 million to re-do the half mile long Dunwoody Village Parkway, using $1 million federal grant money. That’s $14.4 million for 4 miles of road. That’s $3.6 million per mile. My internet tells me that road milling and resurfacing costs $100 thousand per mile.
The federal cash transportation infusion (think bribe) Obama has showered on Georgia (for our silence and cooperation) has driven the cost of road re-dos up 4 times higher than they ever were. It also looks like GDOT is planning to use the T-SPLOST funds as a slush fund for other projects. How did this level of corruption get past the geniuses we have running the State of Georgia ? How did all of our City Council and County Commission Reps miss the fact that the Transportation Investment Act of 2010 (TIA) takes away all of their responsibility for roads and gives it to the GDOT ?
How is it that our oceans have been cooling for the past few years and nobody suggested that man made global warming is no longer a problem ? Why are unincorporated areas forming Cities immediately after the Transportation Investment Act of 2010 made City Councils powerless and irrelevant ?
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Feds Purposely Keeping U.S. Borders Wide Open
Under the guise of environmentalism, various federal agencies and departments are blocking Border Patrol agents’ access to critical areas while contributing to widespread lawlessness along the U.S. border, according to experts. Criminals, meanwhile, are taking full advantage of the rapidly deteriorating situation.
Despite claims by the Obama administration that the American border is “safer” or “more secure” than ever, sources with knowledge of the reality on the ground say that is simply not true. In fact, as Mexico spirals deeper into chaos, conditions along the border are only getting worse — rapidly.
“Far from contained and secure, the Arizona Border remains a terribly dangerous sieve from which not only illegals enter America, but drug cartels operating as organized crime syndicates and even as terrorist cells are coming to and from across America’s supposed secure border,” noted private-sector intelligence analyst and border expert Lyle Rapacki with Sentinel Intelligence Services in an e-mailed briefing obtained by The New American.
And according to experts, the federal government itself is a major contributor to the problem. Its public-lands policies, for example, have essentially created vast “no-go” zones where the Border Patrol is barred from meaningful operations while criminals and traffickers run wild.
“Federal agencies are using environmental laws to keep agents from having unfettered access to the border and to pursue criminals on federal public land once the criminals have crossed,” Vice Chairman Zack Taylor of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO — symbolic badge shown above) told The New American. “The criminals have destroyed the federal public land and it makes no sense to keep Border Patrol off because it simply causes more damage.”
According to Taylor and other experts, the Department of Interior and the Department of Agriculture are the main culprits responsible for creating the dangerous situation. “It is a ploy of the open borders advocates to keep Border Patrol out and let the illegal aliens and drugs in,” he explained. “They are using the environmental protection laws to do that. That simple.”
And by restricting Border Patrol access to huge areas of public land — from Arizona and New Mexico to Montana and Idaho — the federal government is giving criminals the advantage. And they are using it to wreak havoc within America.
“If the agents cannot access the border area, they cannot patrol it,” Taylor noted. “The criminals then have an advantage and make good use of the advantage by smuggling drugs and aliens into the United States.”
Taylor said criminals occupy and monitor the vast off-limits areas to increase the chances of success in their smuggling operations. In some cases, traffickers’ networks of surveillance and communication can keep a constant view of corridors stretching from the Mexican border to Phoenix, he explained. And that makes bringing in drugs, illegal immigrants, and terrorists much simpler.
Of course, it is not just border states that are threatened. Hundreds of American cities now have active foreign-based criminal networks that operate with impunity. And very little is being done to stop it, experts say.
The press, meanwhile, has largely remained silent. “It is as if the administration has placed a gag order on them,” Taylor said. “They just won’t talk about it, much less report it.”
The state of Arizona has attempted to adopt some measures aimed at protecting citizens, but the Obama administration has responded with lawsuits and harassment. Lawmakers in the state, however, know that something must be done.
“Arizona is losing control of her sovereign land,” noted State Senator Sylvia Allen, chairman of the Arizona Senate Committee on Border Security. “Arizona is in a State of Emergency. If we want to protect our national and state sovereignty, we must secure our border and enforce our laws.”
Sen. Allen’s committee has heard testimony from citizens along the border area who reported home invasions, vandalism, theft, and a host of other criminal activities. Clearly, the state is facing a monumental crisis that needs to be addressed, she said. Yet, instead of helping, the federal government is making matters worse, according to a statement issued by Sen. Allen late last year. And the problems created by the executive branch are hardly isolated incidents.
“Why is the apparent official policy of the United States to ridicule and silence those who are trying to protect our state of Arizona? Why are the cartels protected?” she wondered. “Why do official U.S. government departments, sworn to protect American citizens, extend protection to gangs working with the drug cartels, and even to terrorists entering our nation from various border entry points?”
Sen. Allen and numerous other experts believe they know the answer — or at least part of it. The disastrous federal border policies, according to Allen, are connected to the emerging “North American Union” — a plan to essentially “merge” the United States with Mexico and Canada that is regularly and openly discussed by top officials including former Mexican President Vicente Fox, who told CNN that the merger is “inevitable.”
“There is a concerted, deliberate, and sophisticated program under way to erase our national boundaries and create a North American Union,” Sen. Allen explained. “The gift of sovereignty handed to us by our Forefathers would be extinguished, and we would become subjects, no longer free.”
Other critics of U.S. policies have noted the futility — insanity, perhaps — of fighting a multi-trillion-dollar terror war around the world and using the armed forces to secure land borders in Asia even as America’s own borders remain wide open for potential terrorists. Homeland Security, meanwhile, has been too busy hyping the threat of "right-wing extremism" to properly control the border. And the apparent lunacy does not end there.
The federal government is also shoveling billions of American tax dollars into the coffers of corrupt Latin American governments — purportedly to fight the “drug war” — even as narcotics flow virtually unhindered across wide swaths of the U.S. border. And if recent reports and statements by experts are to be believed, the problem goes even deeper than that.
The Obama administration is currently being investigated by Congress for trafficking thousands of high-powered weapons to Mexican drug cartels under Operation Fast and Furious. Some of those guns were later tied to the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
Meanwhile, lawmakers are also probing the administration’s money laundering activities through the DEAafter a front page story in the New York Times exposed the scheme. According to sources and reports, the federal government may even be directly involved in fomenting the chaos south of the border: More than a few drug kingpins and some American officials have even said the U.S. government was purposefully providing weapons and protection to the criminal empires.
Another controversial policy that experts say is related to the overall plan is the President’s effort to provide covert “amnesty” for millions of illegal immigrants without even obtaining approval from Congress. “We have been betrayed by our leaders in a way that I just did not think was possible,” NAFBPO [National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers] Chairman and former Assistant Chief Patrol Agent Kent Lundgren explained in an exclusive interview with the Liberty News Network.
Critics of the policies — including lawmakers nationwide, NAFBPO, and countless other concerned groups — believe it is past time to rein in the administration and put an end to the lawlessness. But as Mexico descends into a bloody civil war that is seeping across the border, the time for action may be running out.
Alex Newman, posted on New American Feb 20, 2012
Despite claims by the Obama administration that the American border is “safer” or “more secure” than ever, sources with knowledge of the reality on the ground say that is simply not true. In fact, as Mexico spirals deeper into chaos, conditions along the border are only getting worse — rapidly.
“Far from contained and secure, the Arizona Border remains a terribly dangerous sieve from which not only illegals enter America, but drug cartels operating as organized crime syndicates and even as terrorist cells are coming to and from across America’s supposed secure border,” noted private-sector intelligence analyst and border expert Lyle Rapacki with Sentinel Intelligence Services in an e-mailed briefing obtained by The New American.
And according to experts, the federal government itself is a major contributor to the problem. Its public-lands policies, for example, have essentially created vast “no-go” zones where the Border Patrol is barred from meaningful operations while criminals and traffickers run wild.
“Federal agencies are using environmental laws to keep agents from having unfettered access to the border and to pursue criminals on federal public land once the criminals have crossed,” Vice Chairman Zack Taylor of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO — symbolic badge shown above) told The New American. “The criminals have destroyed the federal public land and it makes no sense to keep Border Patrol off because it simply causes more damage.”
According to Taylor and other experts, the Department of Interior and the Department of Agriculture are the main culprits responsible for creating the dangerous situation. “It is a ploy of the open borders advocates to keep Border Patrol out and let the illegal aliens and drugs in,” he explained. “They are using the environmental protection laws to do that. That simple.”
And by restricting Border Patrol access to huge areas of public land — from Arizona and New Mexico to Montana and Idaho — the federal government is giving criminals the advantage. And they are using it to wreak havoc within America.
“If the agents cannot access the border area, they cannot patrol it,” Taylor noted. “The criminals then have an advantage and make good use of the advantage by smuggling drugs and aliens into the United States.”
Taylor said criminals occupy and monitor the vast off-limits areas to increase the chances of success in their smuggling operations. In some cases, traffickers’ networks of surveillance and communication can keep a constant view of corridors stretching from the Mexican border to Phoenix, he explained. And that makes bringing in drugs, illegal immigrants, and terrorists much simpler.
Of course, it is not just border states that are threatened. Hundreds of American cities now have active foreign-based criminal networks that operate with impunity. And very little is being done to stop it, experts say.
The press, meanwhile, has largely remained silent. “It is as if the administration has placed a gag order on them,” Taylor said. “They just won’t talk about it, much less report it.”
The state of Arizona has attempted to adopt some measures aimed at protecting citizens, but the Obama administration has responded with lawsuits and harassment. Lawmakers in the state, however, know that something must be done.
“Arizona is losing control of her sovereign land,” noted State Senator Sylvia Allen, chairman of the Arizona Senate Committee on Border Security. “Arizona is in a State of Emergency. If we want to protect our national and state sovereignty, we must secure our border and enforce our laws.”
Sen. Allen’s committee has heard testimony from citizens along the border area who reported home invasions, vandalism, theft, and a host of other criminal activities. Clearly, the state is facing a monumental crisis that needs to be addressed, she said. Yet, instead of helping, the federal government is making matters worse, according to a statement issued by Sen. Allen late last year. And the problems created by the executive branch are hardly isolated incidents.
“Why is the apparent official policy of the United States to ridicule and silence those who are trying to protect our state of Arizona? Why are the cartels protected?” she wondered. “Why do official U.S. government departments, sworn to protect American citizens, extend protection to gangs working with the drug cartels, and even to terrorists entering our nation from various border entry points?”
Sen. Allen and numerous other experts believe they know the answer — or at least part of it. The disastrous federal border policies, according to Allen, are connected to the emerging “North American Union” — a plan to essentially “merge” the United States with Mexico and Canada that is regularly and openly discussed by top officials including former Mexican President Vicente Fox, who told CNN that the merger is “inevitable.”
“There is a concerted, deliberate, and sophisticated program under way to erase our national boundaries and create a North American Union,” Sen. Allen explained. “The gift of sovereignty handed to us by our Forefathers would be extinguished, and we would become subjects, no longer free.”
Other critics of U.S. policies have noted the futility — insanity, perhaps — of fighting a multi-trillion-dollar terror war around the world and using the armed forces to secure land borders in Asia even as America’s own borders remain wide open for potential terrorists. Homeland Security, meanwhile, has been too busy hyping the threat of "right-wing extremism" to properly control the border. And the apparent lunacy does not end there.
The federal government is also shoveling billions of American tax dollars into the coffers of corrupt Latin American governments — purportedly to fight the “drug war” — even as narcotics flow virtually unhindered across wide swaths of the U.S. border. And if recent reports and statements by experts are to be believed, the problem goes even deeper than that.
The Obama administration is currently being investigated by Congress for trafficking thousands of high-powered weapons to Mexican drug cartels under Operation Fast and Furious. Some of those guns were later tied to the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
Meanwhile, lawmakers are also probing the administration’s money laundering activities through the DEAafter a front page story in the New York Times exposed the scheme. According to sources and reports, the federal government may even be directly involved in fomenting the chaos south of the border: More than a few drug kingpins and some American officials have even said the U.S. government was purposefully providing weapons and protection to the criminal empires.
Another controversial policy that experts say is related to the overall plan is the President’s effort to provide covert “amnesty” for millions of illegal immigrants without even obtaining approval from Congress. “We have been betrayed by our leaders in a way that I just did not think was possible,” NAFBPO [National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers] Chairman and former Assistant Chief Patrol Agent Kent Lundgren explained in an exclusive interview with the Liberty News Network.
Critics of the policies — including lawmakers nationwide, NAFBPO, and countless other concerned groups — believe it is past time to rein in the administration and put an end to the lawlessness. But as Mexico descends into a bloody civil war that is seeping across the border, the time for action may be running out.
Alex Newman, posted on New American Feb 20, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
DeKalb County NAACP Against T-SPLOST
DeKalb County NAACP urges members to reject transportation tax
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Since last year, DeKalb County NAACP President John Evans has told elected officials that he'd help block a 1-cent sales tax to fund new roads and transit if an extension of MARTA rail along I-20 wasn't among the selected projects. Well, the long-awaited rail line, which would have reached Stonecrest Mall, didn't make the cut. (The roundtable did, however, agree to earmark $225 million to build park n' ride lots and operate bus service along the line).
Evans is now keeping his promise. In a letter dated Feb. 6 but which was posted yesterday on the organization's website, he writes:
The I-20 rail line will strengthen South and Central DeKalb's transportation infrastructure. This will act as a strong economic stimulus to the southern portion of the county. South DeKalb County is rapidly falling further behind its northern counterparts in the growth of new businesses and job creation. In addition, the projects earmarked for DeKalb County will have no impact on improving traffic congestion in South DeKalb County.
The financial sacrifice made by South DeKalb Citizens should have been rewarded by including the extension of the Indian Creek rail to Stonecrest Mall. It was made clear to the entire Atlanta Regional Commission that in order to get the support of South DeKalb voters, the rail line had to be on the final project list. The request was ignored. Now, South DeKalb County voters are asked to pay an extra 1 cent for the next ten years for such a small return on a large investment. Less than 12% of the $6.14 billion project list will be spent in South DeKalb County. This is not good.
Citizens, the NAACP is asking that you vote "No" on T-SPLOST, (Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax Referendum)
Not the kind of thing you want to read if you're one of the ballot measure's supporters — especially when you consider that Fulton and DeKalb were, according to some folks, vital to the referendum's passage.
Thomas Wheatley, DeKalb County NAACP
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Since last year, DeKalb County NAACP President John Evans has told elected officials that he'd help block a 1-cent sales tax to fund new roads and transit if an extension of MARTA rail along I-20 wasn't among the selected projects. Well, the long-awaited rail line, which would have reached Stonecrest Mall, didn't make the cut. (The roundtable did, however, agree to earmark $225 million to build park n' ride lots and operate bus service along the line).
Evans is now keeping his promise. In a letter dated Feb. 6 but which was posted yesterday on the organization's website, he writes:
The I-20 rail line will strengthen South and Central DeKalb's transportation infrastructure. This will act as a strong economic stimulus to the southern portion of the county. South DeKalb County is rapidly falling further behind its northern counterparts in the growth of new businesses and job creation. In addition, the projects earmarked for DeKalb County will have no impact on improving traffic congestion in South DeKalb County.
The financial sacrifice made by South DeKalb Citizens should have been rewarded by including the extension of the Indian Creek rail to Stonecrest Mall. It was made clear to the entire Atlanta Regional Commission that in order to get the support of South DeKalb voters, the rail line had to be on the final project list. The request was ignored. Now, South DeKalb County voters are asked to pay an extra 1 cent for the next ten years for such a small return on a large investment. Less than 12% of the $6.14 billion project list will be spent in South DeKalb County. This is not good.
Citizens, the NAACP is asking that you vote "No" on T-SPLOST, (Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax Referendum)
Not the kind of thing you want to read if you're one of the ballot measure's supporters — especially when you consider that Fulton and DeKalb were, according to some folks, vital to the referendum's passage.
Thomas Wheatley, DeKalb County NAACP
SR 730 Opposes UN Agenda 21 in Georgia
S. R. 730 Senate Resolution 730 By: Senators Rogers of the 21st, Mullis of the 53rd, Gooch of the 51st, Tippins of the 37th, Albers of the 56th and others
A RESOLUTION Recognizing the destructive and insidious nature of the United Nations Agenda 21; and for other purposes.
WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control that was initiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992; and
WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is being covertly pushed into local communities throughout the United States of America through the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) through local "sustainable development" policies, such as Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, and other "Green" or "Alternative" projects; and
WHEREAS, this plan of radical so-called "sustainable development" views the American way of life of private property ownership, single-family homes, private car ownership and individual travel choices, and privately owned farms all as destructive to the environment; and
WHEREAS, according to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy, social justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people to benefit equally from the resources afforded by society and the environment which would be accomplished by socialists and communist redistribution of wealth; and
WHEREAS, according to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy, national sovereignty is deemed a social injustice.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that the members of this body recognize the destructive and insidious nature of the United Nations Agenda 21, endorse12 LC 93 0246 rejection of its radical policies and of any grant monies attached to it, and recommend exposing to the public and public policymakers the dangerous intent of the plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the public and the press.
A RESOLUTION Recognizing the destructive and insidious nature of the United Nations Agenda 21; and for other purposes.
WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control that was initiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992; and
WHEREAS, the United Nations Agenda 21 is being covertly pushed into local communities throughout the United States of America through the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) through local "sustainable development" policies, such as Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, and other "Green" or "Alternative" projects; and
WHEREAS, this plan of radical so-called "sustainable development" views the American way of life of private property ownership, single-family homes, private car ownership and individual travel choices, and privately owned farms all as destructive to the environment; and
WHEREAS, according to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy, social justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people to benefit equally from the resources afforded by society and the environment which would be accomplished by socialists and communist redistribution of wealth; and
WHEREAS, according to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy, national sovereignty is deemed a social injustice.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that the members of this body recognize the destructive and insidious nature of the United Nations Agenda 21, endorse12 LC 93 0246 rejection of its radical policies and of any grant monies attached to it, and recommend exposing to the public and public policymakers the dangerous intent of the plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the public and the press.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Debt Slows our Economy
Can the economy grow without debt?
By Bill Wilson —
In high-brow business seminars as well as casual conversations and in every form of discourse in between, there is a strong sense of foreboding; a nagging sensation that something is fundamentally wrong.
There is, of course, no end to the partisan and ideological warriors claiming to know the answer and offering solutions. And, to some degree, this missive must fall into that category.
But I offer no solutions because I am not sure there are any. There is, however, a set of relationships that I believe explain our collective dread. Simply put, the economic, fiscal, and monetary system that has been in place since the end of World War II just doesn’t work anymore. What we expect is not happening. Let’s examine the numbers.
(See chart comparing total debt to GDP at NetRightDaily.com: http://netrightdaily.com/2012/02/can-the-economy-grow-without-debt/#ixzz1mUxjoIos)
This table is alarming for several reasons, but first we need to study the relationship between total outstanding credit nationwide and the economy to understand them.
Beginning in 1945, the growth in total debt — government, corporate and household — has had a direct relationship to the growth in the overall economy. For 25 years up to 1970, the relationship of total debt to GDP remained relatively constant. True, there were variations. But the relationship remained inside a narrow range of 140 percent to 160 percent.
There was another relationship that was pretty constant as well. For every additional unit of debt we incurred, we saw an equal or greater expansion of GDP — as debt grew the underlying economy grew at an equal or greater amount.
From 1945-1950, GDP grew at 31 percent versus a credit expansion of 20 percent. From 1950- 1955, the economy grew 42 percent and credit 37 percent. And from 1965-1970, GDP expanded 56 percent while credit at 44 percent. During those days, credit expansion was predicated on economic growth.
All’s good. Credit, otherwise known as debt, expanded at varying rates but always related to underlying value. Then, with the stroke of a pen, these basic relationships were changed.
End of the gold standard
In 1971 Richard Nixon ended all ties of the dollar to a gold standard. What this did was sever all ties of credit and debt expansion to an underlying value. Debt could, in theory, be expanded as greatly as a politician wanted, there was no limit. And from that point on, we were off to the races. Yes, there were periods of time when the economy grew faster than debt, but they were all before 1971.
Once the dollar lost its anchor in true value in 1971, the following decades saw the most unprecedented expansion in our history. Credit exploded in the period that immediately followed, growing at a rate of 63 percent from 1970-1975, 80 percent from 1975-1980, 82 percent from 1980-1985, and 60 percent from 1985-1990.
Since 1970, we have gone from a debt to GDP ratio of 155 percent — 155 units of debt for every 100 units of economic activity — to 367 percent in 2010. This huge debt overhang would, in and of itself, be cause for concern. But the way that debt impacts the economy is of far more concern.
Ever since cutting all ties to a gold standard — or any other form of hard fixed valuation — the fundamental relationship in the economy has been inverted; where before growth determined the amount of debt expansion, not debt expansion determined growth. And over time, an ever-greater amount of credit expansion has become required to yield the same amount of economic growth. In the 2000’s, credit expansion outpaced economic growth nearly 2 to 1.
The highest that ratio had ever been was 1.61 to 1 from 1960-1965. It peaked during other periods, too, and then came back down. But the increased need for greater debt to produce even a modest amount of growth has been the hard reality of the past dozen years. That makes the 2000’s by far the least effective period of credit expansion in the entire 65 years examined.
Credit expansion stops, so will growth, too?
Since the financial crisis in 2008, credit expansion in the U.S. economy has ground to a halt. And unless it picks up in the coming years, it is safe to assume that the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) rosy economic projections over the next ten years are almost certainly wrong.
The numbers are clear. In 2008, outstanding credit — all debts public and private — in the U.S. was $53.293 trillion. In 2011 as of the third quarter, it has only risen to $53.824 trillion. That’s just an expansion of $531 billion in three years. This relatively tiny number, even in the face of zero percent interest and every “stimulus” scheme imaginable, tells the real story of what has become known as the “lackluster recovery.” There is no recovery because the Keynesian formula of debt yields growth simply is not working and can’t work with government debt alone. Without corporate and households taking a risk — a private sector risk — there is no growth.
Whereas for 25 years we got 1 unit of growth for 1 unit of debt, today, we get 1 unit of growth for 2 units of debt. Since 2000, debt has grown as double the rate of the underlying economy. And that is where the danger and fear come in.
If this relationship continues, we will have to have debt increases on a mind-numbing scale just to meet modest growth projections. And with a growing population we have to grow.
The Obama Administration is projecting the GDP to reach $18.448 trillion in 2015, and $23.659 trillion by 2020. For that to be true, based on the relationship analyzed above in the post-gold standard period, credit will need to expand greatly this decade. That could be by $33 trillion if credit and GDP grow at exactly the same pace we see in 2010 or better. But, that is something that has not happened once since we came off the gold standard.
Therefore, the more likely credit expansion required for Obama’s rosy projections to come true is probably between $41 trillion to $64 trillion. It will need to grow at a pace of about $4.5 trillion to $7 trillion a year from here on in to reach that level.
But in 2011, outstanding credit grew at a pace of less than $1 trillion. That explains why the Administration’s projection of 2.5 percent economic growth in 2011 was wrong — it was just 1.7 percent, and is likely to be revised downward as more data comes in. If credit continues to remain flat, do not expect the 3 percent growth in 2012 the Administration is projecting to materialize either.
When Barack Obama took office, it was with a promise that if the government went on a borrowing and spending spree, it would jump start the economy. But there appears to be a cycle of diminishing returns on debt creation. If ever more debt and credit expansion leads to less and less growth, what gets us out of the trap we find ourselves? If strict austerity ensures an economic contraction and more debt simply leaves us in a zombie state, is there a third way? Is there a formula that allows us to stop the debt expansion.
With the $15.3 trillion national debt now surpassing the economy in size, the search for solutions continues. It is becoming increasingly clear that we must return to a sound money system, but how to get there is anyone’s guess.
So, under these unfavorable conditions, nobody in Washington, D.C. dares to seriously and aggressively propose really cutting spending, let alone suggest a return of the gold standard. Better to float along in the near-death state until someone figures this out. That is what passes for political “wisdom” today. But the truth cannot be denied, there is something fundamentally wrong with our economy. We are flying right off the cliff, and it looks like it will take something shocking to get the politicians to take notice and start an honest discussion of how to get out of this box.
Bill Wilson is the President of Americans for Limited Government.
By Bill Wilson —
In high-brow business seminars as well as casual conversations and in every form of discourse in between, there is a strong sense of foreboding; a nagging sensation that something is fundamentally wrong.
There is, of course, no end to the partisan and ideological warriors claiming to know the answer and offering solutions. And, to some degree, this missive must fall into that category.
But I offer no solutions because I am not sure there are any. There is, however, a set of relationships that I believe explain our collective dread. Simply put, the economic, fiscal, and monetary system that has been in place since the end of World War II just doesn’t work anymore. What we expect is not happening. Let’s examine the numbers.
(See chart comparing total debt to GDP at NetRightDaily.com: http://netrightdaily.com/2012/02/can-the-economy-grow-without-debt/#ixzz1mUxjoIos)
This table is alarming for several reasons, but first we need to study the relationship between total outstanding credit nationwide and the economy to understand them.
Beginning in 1945, the growth in total debt — government, corporate and household — has had a direct relationship to the growth in the overall economy. For 25 years up to 1970, the relationship of total debt to GDP remained relatively constant. True, there were variations. But the relationship remained inside a narrow range of 140 percent to 160 percent.
There was another relationship that was pretty constant as well. For every additional unit of debt we incurred, we saw an equal or greater expansion of GDP — as debt grew the underlying economy grew at an equal or greater amount.
From 1945-1950, GDP grew at 31 percent versus a credit expansion of 20 percent. From 1950- 1955, the economy grew 42 percent and credit 37 percent. And from 1965-1970, GDP expanded 56 percent while credit at 44 percent. During those days, credit expansion was predicated on economic growth.
All’s good. Credit, otherwise known as debt, expanded at varying rates but always related to underlying value. Then, with the stroke of a pen, these basic relationships were changed.
End of the gold standard
In 1971 Richard Nixon ended all ties of the dollar to a gold standard. What this did was sever all ties of credit and debt expansion to an underlying value. Debt could, in theory, be expanded as greatly as a politician wanted, there was no limit. And from that point on, we were off to the races. Yes, there were periods of time when the economy grew faster than debt, but they were all before 1971.
Once the dollar lost its anchor in true value in 1971, the following decades saw the most unprecedented expansion in our history. Credit exploded in the period that immediately followed, growing at a rate of 63 percent from 1970-1975, 80 percent from 1975-1980, 82 percent from 1980-1985, and 60 percent from 1985-1990.
Since 1970, we have gone from a debt to GDP ratio of 155 percent — 155 units of debt for every 100 units of economic activity — to 367 percent in 2010. This huge debt overhang would, in and of itself, be cause for concern. But the way that debt impacts the economy is of far more concern.
Ever since cutting all ties to a gold standard — or any other form of hard fixed valuation — the fundamental relationship in the economy has been inverted; where before growth determined the amount of debt expansion, not debt expansion determined growth. And over time, an ever-greater amount of credit expansion has become required to yield the same amount of economic growth. In the 2000’s, credit expansion outpaced economic growth nearly 2 to 1.
The highest that ratio had ever been was 1.61 to 1 from 1960-1965. It peaked during other periods, too, and then came back down. But the increased need for greater debt to produce even a modest amount of growth has been the hard reality of the past dozen years. That makes the 2000’s by far the least effective period of credit expansion in the entire 65 years examined.
Credit expansion stops, so will growth, too?
Since the financial crisis in 2008, credit expansion in the U.S. economy has ground to a halt. And unless it picks up in the coming years, it is safe to assume that the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) rosy economic projections over the next ten years are almost certainly wrong.
The numbers are clear. In 2008, outstanding credit — all debts public and private — in the U.S. was $53.293 trillion. In 2011 as of the third quarter, it has only risen to $53.824 trillion. That’s just an expansion of $531 billion in three years. This relatively tiny number, even in the face of zero percent interest and every “stimulus” scheme imaginable, tells the real story of what has become known as the “lackluster recovery.” There is no recovery because the Keynesian formula of debt yields growth simply is not working and can’t work with government debt alone. Without corporate and households taking a risk — a private sector risk — there is no growth.
Whereas for 25 years we got 1 unit of growth for 1 unit of debt, today, we get 1 unit of growth for 2 units of debt. Since 2000, debt has grown as double the rate of the underlying economy. And that is where the danger and fear come in.
If this relationship continues, we will have to have debt increases on a mind-numbing scale just to meet modest growth projections. And with a growing population we have to grow.
The Obama Administration is projecting the GDP to reach $18.448 trillion in 2015, and $23.659 trillion by 2020. For that to be true, based on the relationship analyzed above in the post-gold standard period, credit will need to expand greatly this decade. That could be by $33 trillion if credit and GDP grow at exactly the same pace we see in 2010 or better. But, that is something that has not happened once since we came off the gold standard.
Therefore, the more likely credit expansion required for Obama’s rosy projections to come true is probably between $41 trillion to $64 trillion. It will need to grow at a pace of about $4.5 trillion to $7 trillion a year from here on in to reach that level.
But in 2011, outstanding credit grew at a pace of less than $1 trillion. That explains why the Administration’s projection of 2.5 percent economic growth in 2011 was wrong — it was just 1.7 percent, and is likely to be revised downward as more data comes in. If credit continues to remain flat, do not expect the 3 percent growth in 2012 the Administration is projecting to materialize either.
When Barack Obama took office, it was with a promise that if the government went on a borrowing and spending spree, it would jump start the economy. But there appears to be a cycle of diminishing returns on debt creation. If ever more debt and credit expansion leads to less and less growth, what gets us out of the trap we find ourselves? If strict austerity ensures an economic contraction and more debt simply leaves us in a zombie state, is there a third way? Is there a formula that allows us to stop the debt expansion.
With the $15.3 trillion national debt now surpassing the economy in size, the search for solutions continues. It is becoming increasingly clear that we must return to a sound money system, but how to get there is anyone’s guess.
So, under these unfavorable conditions, nobody in Washington, D.C. dares to seriously and aggressively propose really cutting spending, let alone suggest a return of the gold standard. Better to float along in the near-death state until someone figures this out. That is what passes for political “wisdom” today. But the truth cannot be denied, there is something fundamentally wrong with our economy. We are flying right off the cliff, and it looks like it will take something shocking to get the politicians to take notice and start an honest discussion of how to get out of this box.
Bill Wilson is the President of Americans for Limited Government.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Economic Recovery vs Agenda 21
Government at all levels is spending money it doesn’t have to take land “out of production”. The federal government owned one third of the U.S. land mass with national parks and desert areas in addition to Indian reservations. Then the “endangered” species act got government to force citizens to close mines, shut down wells and stop harvesting forests. After that we’ve had large, annual forest fires in the West and Southeast on “government” land.
Since George HW Bush’s approval of U.N. Agenda 21 in 1992, the federal government has stolen half of Florida and BIG chunks of many other states using “environmental protection” as the excuse. Clinton’s executive order put U.N. Agenda 21 into action and federal departments were ordered to change their goals to emphasize atmospheric carbon mitigation. George W Bush de-emphasized Agenda 21 implementation, but didn’t cancel the executive orders that kept it alive.
Despite the fact that our 100 year old sun spot driven global warming cycle ended in 1997, the man-made carbon hoax lives on in the mission statements of all of our federal departments and agencies. Our federal government can’t be that out-of-touch, so they must be evil LIARS, who want to enslave us.
Our federal government cabal passed NAFTA and several other bad trade deals under Clinton and exported all of our manufacturing jobs permanently. George W Bush added $5 trillion to the national debt and allowed the government to engineer the 2008 Meltdown along with a virtual shutdown of U.S. oil drilling.
Comrade Obama became Chairman of the USSA in 2009 and immediately started spending a full $ trillion more than the federal government has ever spent. Obama added $5 trillion to the national debt in less than 4 years and plans to add $5 trillion more as soon as possible. Obama has been squandering his extra trillion a year, first bailing out union and government employees in the states and later spending it on transportation grants to bribe states and local government to continue Agenda 21 implementation.
The end game for Agenda 21 is a world-wide, totalitarian communist government with 100% government property ownership and control over land, water, energy, food and travel. There would be one global currency and total control of finances by the central government. The U.N. wants to be that global government, with countries like the U.S. sending them over half of our GDP. They promise to redistribute it to less fortunate nations…sure… According to their map, 95% of the U.S. land mass would be off limits to regular citizens. The global population would need to be reduced from 6 billion to under 500 million in order to be “sustainable” to the environment.
To accomplish this, Chairman Obama must crash the U.S. economy and crash the U.S. dollar. He is doing a superb job so far. He wants our energy and water bills to rise five-fold, so we will use less of everything. Then we will be willing to rent one of his small apartments in one of his “transit villages”. Of course, only government higher-ups would have access to cars.
If we fire Chairman Obama in November, we should immediately pull back useable land and water from government control and plant crops, harvest trees, manage forests to be productive, drill our oil and gas everywhere and allow pipelines to be built, cut the endangered species list in half, crank up our coal-fired electrical energy generating plants, remove obstructions to all permits. We should also cut corporate taxes drastically and raise import tariffs from 1.6% to 10% to give U.S. manufacturing a chance to recover.
Finally, we need to close federal departments and agencies including the EPA, HUD, HHS, FDA, USDA, Transportation, Commerce, Education, Energy, Labor, Interior and all other unconstitutional federal departments and agencies along with the administration of entitlement plans and move these responsibilities to the states. We need to quit the U.N. and end the Fed. We should close the border and suspend legal immigration until we return to full employment. If we do that, we will cut $1.6 trillion from the federal budget, so that federal spending is lower than revenue. The surplus goes to pay down the national debt. All previous Executive Orders should be cancelled.
States would need to be prepared to take over the functions transferred to them by the federal government. States should give counties responsibility for Education, Public Health, Welfare, roads and bridges. States would assume responsibility for the Interstate Highway system and would receive the 18 cents per gallon federal gasoline tax. All Transit, trains and buses, should be sold to private companies.
All Federal land should be given back to the States. States should sell this land to be put to productive use by the private sector. School boards would need to re-budget and reorganize public education to prepare for the end of federal and state financing. States would need to beef up the state EPA, FDA, USDA, Labor and other functions. States will pass their own regulations for their own citizens and businesses.
If we elect Ron Paul and a 10th Amendment oriented Congress, all this can be done in his first two terms. If we elect another RINO, it will take several terms to implement this plan. When the RNC starts backing politicians like Jim DeMint and Rand Paul for President, we’ll know we’re close to being able to return to the Constitution, as written. In the meantime, we will suffer, so get ready to suffer….Comrade.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Since George HW Bush’s approval of U.N. Agenda 21 in 1992, the federal government has stolen half of Florida and BIG chunks of many other states using “environmental protection” as the excuse. Clinton’s executive order put U.N. Agenda 21 into action and federal departments were ordered to change their goals to emphasize atmospheric carbon mitigation. George W Bush de-emphasized Agenda 21 implementation, but didn’t cancel the executive orders that kept it alive.
Despite the fact that our 100 year old sun spot driven global warming cycle ended in 1997, the man-made carbon hoax lives on in the mission statements of all of our federal departments and agencies. Our federal government can’t be that out-of-touch, so they must be evil LIARS, who want to enslave us.
Our federal government cabal passed NAFTA and several other bad trade deals under Clinton and exported all of our manufacturing jobs permanently. George W Bush added $5 trillion to the national debt and allowed the government to engineer the 2008 Meltdown along with a virtual shutdown of U.S. oil drilling.
Comrade Obama became Chairman of the USSA in 2009 and immediately started spending a full $ trillion more than the federal government has ever spent. Obama added $5 trillion to the national debt in less than 4 years and plans to add $5 trillion more as soon as possible. Obama has been squandering his extra trillion a year, first bailing out union and government employees in the states and later spending it on transportation grants to bribe states and local government to continue Agenda 21 implementation.
The end game for Agenda 21 is a world-wide, totalitarian communist government with 100% government property ownership and control over land, water, energy, food and travel. There would be one global currency and total control of finances by the central government. The U.N. wants to be that global government, with countries like the U.S. sending them over half of our GDP. They promise to redistribute it to less fortunate nations…sure… According to their map, 95% of the U.S. land mass would be off limits to regular citizens. The global population would need to be reduced from 6 billion to under 500 million in order to be “sustainable” to the environment.
To accomplish this, Chairman Obama must crash the U.S. economy and crash the U.S. dollar. He is doing a superb job so far. He wants our energy and water bills to rise five-fold, so we will use less of everything. Then we will be willing to rent one of his small apartments in one of his “transit villages”. Of course, only government higher-ups would have access to cars.
If we fire Chairman Obama in November, we should immediately pull back useable land and water from government control and plant crops, harvest trees, manage forests to be productive, drill our oil and gas everywhere and allow pipelines to be built, cut the endangered species list in half, crank up our coal-fired electrical energy generating plants, remove obstructions to all permits. We should also cut corporate taxes drastically and raise import tariffs from 1.6% to 10% to give U.S. manufacturing a chance to recover.
Finally, we need to close federal departments and agencies including the EPA, HUD, HHS, FDA, USDA, Transportation, Commerce, Education, Energy, Labor, Interior and all other unconstitutional federal departments and agencies along with the administration of entitlement plans and move these responsibilities to the states. We need to quit the U.N. and end the Fed. We should close the border and suspend legal immigration until we return to full employment. If we do that, we will cut $1.6 trillion from the federal budget, so that federal spending is lower than revenue. The surplus goes to pay down the national debt. All previous Executive Orders should be cancelled.
States would need to be prepared to take over the functions transferred to them by the federal government. States should give counties responsibility for Education, Public Health, Welfare, roads and bridges. States would assume responsibility for the Interstate Highway system and would receive the 18 cents per gallon federal gasoline tax. All Transit, trains and buses, should be sold to private companies.
All Federal land should be given back to the States. States should sell this land to be put to productive use by the private sector. School boards would need to re-budget and reorganize public education to prepare for the end of federal and state financing. States would need to beef up the state EPA, FDA, USDA, Labor and other functions. States will pass their own regulations for their own citizens and businesses.
If we elect Ron Paul and a 10th Amendment oriented Congress, all this can be done in his first two terms. If we elect another RINO, it will take several terms to implement this plan. When the RNC starts backing politicians like Jim DeMint and Rand Paul for President, we’ll know we’re close to being able to return to the Constitution, as written. In the meantime, we will suffer, so get ready to suffer….Comrade.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Monday, February 13, 2012
RINOs for T-SPLOST
The federal government is spending an extra trillion a year on global warming mitigation, but there is no global warming; there is now global cooling. So, carbon is the atmosphere warming the planet is probably a god thing for the next 40 years. So, why isn’t the federal government slowly retreating from their carbon war ? They are doing the head in the sand version of perpetuating the BIG LIE.
Our Socialist Federal Officials are dutifully continuing to implement U.N. Agenda 21 in the U.S. by sending out the EPA to seize your land by declaring it a “wetland” or shutting down your business because of some endangered species Commerce and Interior are slowing down drilling permits to ensure rising gasoline prices and Transportation is bribing State and Local Officials with federal grants, packed with unnecessary carbon reduction schemes, that include huge T-SPLOST tax increases on YOU.
Cartel Business Model.
The global warming scam is built on the drug cartel business model. The federal government is the drug dealer and Republican Governors are the users. Billions in federal grants to “go green” have been pouring out of D.C. for the past 4 years. Republican Governors like Sonny Perdue and Bad Deal cannot resist federal dollars, particularly when the music could stop in 2013. The rationale is that they need to grab all the money they can, while they can. If they don’t, the other States will get it.
The problem is that we Georgia taxpayers in the 10 county ARC Region will get stuck with a bill for $6.14 billion in taxes for misspent “transportation” projects over the next 10 years. The other problem is that “regular folks” don’t know how destructive T-SPLOST is.
Georgia Fumble
The real problem is that obstructionists like the EPA have used their “clean air act” to halt all road construction in Georgia for 30 years. State and local politicians didn’t fight this and here we are. Now that Obama wants to build “transit villages” to comply with Agenda 21, we are showered with printed and borrowed federal grant dollars. If adding lanes won’t help, why did all other cities add lanes and why don’t they have our congestion problems ?
Atlanta Solutions
We need a grid, not a circle. Our best cities have a highway grid. We would have one if we built another highway across the city to connect the top sections of I-285. This would be the I-20 of the northern half of the I-285 circle. The other thing we need is to extend U.S. 29 to connect with I-85 and I-75 south of Atlanta and offer it as an Atlanta Bypass. We need to get rid of all toll roads, HOV and HOT lanes and return these to general use. The GDOT should be tasked to do this; they should drop all other projects and let the counties and cities fix their own roads.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Our Socialist Federal Officials are dutifully continuing to implement U.N. Agenda 21 in the U.S. by sending out the EPA to seize your land by declaring it a “wetland” or shutting down your business because of some endangered species Commerce and Interior are slowing down drilling permits to ensure rising gasoline prices and Transportation is bribing State and Local Officials with federal grants, packed with unnecessary carbon reduction schemes, that include huge T-SPLOST tax increases on YOU.
Cartel Business Model.
The global warming scam is built on the drug cartel business model. The federal government is the drug dealer and Republican Governors are the users. Billions in federal grants to “go green” have been pouring out of D.C. for the past 4 years. Republican Governors like Sonny Perdue and Bad Deal cannot resist federal dollars, particularly when the music could stop in 2013. The rationale is that they need to grab all the money they can, while they can. If they don’t, the other States will get it.
The problem is that we Georgia taxpayers in the 10 county ARC Region will get stuck with a bill for $6.14 billion in taxes for misspent “transportation” projects over the next 10 years. The other problem is that “regular folks” don’t know how destructive T-SPLOST is.
Georgia Fumble
The real problem is that obstructionists like the EPA have used their “clean air act” to halt all road construction in Georgia for 30 years. State and local politicians didn’t fight this and here we are. Now that Obama wants to build “transit villages” to comply with Agenda 21, we are showered with printed and borrowed federal grant dollars. If adding lanes won’t help, why did all other cities add lanes and why don’t they have our congestion problems ?
Atlanta Solutions
We need a grid, not a circle. Our best cities have a highway grid. We would have one if we built another highway across the city to connect the top sections of I-285. This would be the I-20 of the northern half of the I-285 circle. The other thing we need is to extend U.S. 29 to connect with I-85 and I-75 south of Atlanta and offer it as an Atlanta Bypass. We need to get rid of all toll roads, HOV and HOT lanes and return these to general use. The GDOT should be tasked to do this; they should drop all other projects and let the counties and cities fix their own roads.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Global Cooling II
Global Cooling Begins and Global Warming Ends with Record Drop in Temperatures.
The Space and Science Research Center (SSRC) announces today that the most recent global temperature data through January 31, 2011 using NASA and NOAA weather satellites supports the previous forecast from the SSRC that a historic drop in global temperatures is under way and that the previously predicted climate change to one of a long and deep global cooling era has begun.
SSRC Director John L. Casey explains, “Based on the data from the AMSR-E instrument on board the NASA Aqua satellite, sea surface temperatures just posted this week showed their steepest decline since the satellite was made operational in 2002. This major drop from the warm temperature levels seen in 2010 is also echoed by a dramatic decline in atmospheric temperatures in the lower troposphere, where we live, with the data coming from NOAA satellites. At present rates of descent, both ocean and atmospheric temperatures are likely to soon surpass the temperature lows set in the 2007-2008 period.
Even with a small correction that is usually seen after such a rapid drop, there is no doubt that the Earth is entering a prolonged global cooling period and will soon set another record drop in temperatures by the November-December 2012 time frame as was forecast in the SSRC press release from May 10, 2010.”
As to the long term implications, of this significant drop in global temperatures, Director Casey clarifies by adding, “While we always see a reduction from a previous El Nino high, this time the decline is different, very different. What is happening now is the effect of the natural La Nina cooling is being overpowered and accelerated by a once every 206 year solar cycle that has entered its cold phase.
In 2007 after discovering this cycle, I was the first to announce to the White House, Congress, and the main stream media that this cycle would produce a “solar hibernation,” a major reduction in the output of the Sun which in turn would bring a new climate change to a cold era lasting 20-30 years. This hibernation also called a grand minimum was recently verified by NASA data using sunspot measurements and was announced in another SSRC press release January 25th of this year.
In quick succession here in early 2011 we have seen two of the strongest possible validations of the global cooling phase of the 206 year cycle and the “Relational Cycle Theory” of climate change which I developed to account for the pattern of alternating cold and warm periods that we have seen for over two hundred years now. Although we will continue to see highly variable weather, the punishing winters the world has seen the past few years including the on-going record setting winter of 2010-2011, are just a sample of what is to come.
Though the conclusions of my research and that of many others around the world has shown a new and potentially dangerous cold weather period is coming, the recent NASA data about the Sun going into hibernation and this week’s global temperature figures have provided critical evidence for our leaders and the public to finally see that the next cold climate era is here.
It is also important to recognize that there has been no effective growth in the Earth’s temperatures for twelve years now and according to my calculations, the statistical peak of the long term curve of the past Sun-caused global warming was probably between 2005 and 2007. Global temperatures have suddenly returned to the same level they were in 1980 and are expected to drop much further. Given the momentum of the solar hibernation, it is now unlikely that our generation or the next one will return to the level of global warming that we have just passed through. Again, global warming has ended. It was always caused by the Sun and not mankind. The global cooling era has begun.
The SSRC has a track record for accuracy in climate predictions that is among the best. It remains the only independent research organization in the US that has been consistently warning the US government, the media and the public that this new cold weather is upon us and that we need our people to prepare. As stated many times before, this solar hibernation will bring the worst cold in over 200 years and will likely cause substantial damage to the world’s agricultural systems. Here at the SSRC we will continue to post these releases with new updates so our citizens are well informed.”
The satellite temperature data is available through several NASA and NOAA sources including Remote Sensing Systems, (RSS) out of Santa Rosa, California (www.remss.com), with both sea and atmospheric temperature charts available from the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH) via the web site of UAH’s Dr. Roy Spencer. (www.drroyspencer.com) Friday, February 4, 2011
Source: Space and Science Research Center P. O. Box 607841 * Orlando, Fl 32860
www.spaceandscience.net
The Space and Science Research Center (SSRC) announces today that the most recent global temperature data through January 31, 2011 using NASA and NOAA weather satellites supports the previous forecast from the SSRC that a historic drop in global temperatures is under way and that the previously predicted climate change to one of a long and deep global cooling era has begun.
SSRC Director John L. Casey explains, “Based on the data from the AMSR-E instrument on board the NASA Aqua satellite, sea surface temperatures just posted this week showed their steepest decline since the satellite was made operational in 2002. This major drop from the warm temperature levels seen in 2010 is also echoed by a dramatic decline in atmospheric temperatures in the lower troposphere, where we live, with the data coming from NOAA satellites. At present rates of descent, both ocean and atmospheric temperatures are likely to soon surpass the temperature lows set in the 2007-2008 period.
Even with a small correction that is usually seen after such a rapid drop, there is no doubt that the Earth is entering a prolonged global cooling period and will soon set another record drop in temperatures by the November-December 2012 time frame as was forecast in the SSRC press release from May 10, 2010.”
As to the long term implications, of this significant drop in global temperatures, Director Casey clarifies by adding, “While we always see a reduction from a previous El Nino high, this time the decline is different, very different. What is happening now is the effect of the natural La Nina cooling is being overpowered and accelerated by a once every 206 year solar cycle that has entered its cold phase.
In 2007 after discovering this cycle, I was the first to announce to the White House, Congress, and the main stream media that this cycle would produce a “solar hibernation,” a major reduction in the output of the Sun which in turn would bring a new climate change to a cold era lasting 20-30 years. This hibernation also called a grand minimum was recently verified by NASA data using sunspot measurements and was announced in another SSRC press release January 25th of this year.
In quick succession here in early 2011 we have seen two of the strongest possible validations of the global cooling phase of the 206 year cycle and the “Relational Cycle Theory” of climate change which I developed to account for the pattern of alternating cold and warm periods that we have seen for over two hundred years now. Although we will continue to see highly variable weather, the punishing winters the world has seen the past few years including the on-going record setting winter of 2010-2011, are just a sample of what is to come.
Though the conclusions of my research and that of many others around the world has shown a new and potentially dangerous cold weather period is coming, the recent NASA data about the Sun going into hibernation and this week’s global temperature figures have provided critical evidence for our leaders and the public to finally see that the next cold climate era is here.
It is also important to recognize that there has been no effective growth in the Earth’s temperatures for twelve years now and according to my calculations, the statistical peak of the long term curve of the past Sun-caused global warming was probably between 2005 and 2007. Global temperatures have suddenly returned to the same level they were in 1980 and are expected to drop much further. Given the momentum of the solar hibernation, it is now unlikely that our generation or the next one will return to the level of global warming that we have just passed through. Again, global warming has ended. It was always caused by the Sun and not mankind. The global cooling era has begun.
The SSRC has a track record for accuracy in climate predictions that is among the best. It remains the only independent research organization in the US that has been consistently warning the US government, the media and the public that this new cold weather is upon us and that we need our people to prepare. As stated many times before, this solar hibernation will bring the worst cold in over 200 years and will likely cause substantial damage to the world’s agricultural systems. Here at the SSRC we will continue to post these releases with new updates so our citizens are well informed.”
The satellite temperature data is available through several NASA and NOAA sources including Remote Sensing Systems, (RSS) out of Santa Rosa, California (www.remss.com), with both sea and atmospheric temperature charts available from the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH) via the web site of UAH’s Dr. Roy Spencer. (www.drroyspencer.com) Friday, February 4, 2011
Source: Space and Science Research Center P. O. Box 607841 * Orlando, Fl 32860
www.spaceandscience.net
Saturday, February 11, 2012
RINOs Everywhere
This year’s Republican Primary is eerily familiar to the one 4 years ago. The RINOs have all the money and the media backing. Again, too few of us have spent the time to gather up facts on candidates’ voting records. All Republicans say they are conservatives, but few can defend their voting records.
We have two Democrats running for President in the Republican Primary. They are Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Their records indicate that they are big government RINOs like we haven’t seen since we met John McCain.
The two the media hate are Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich. We should elect the one they hate the most.
Obama-money for Agenda 21
The litmus test for a real conservative is simple. Refuse to apply for or accept any federal grants. Obama is spending the extra $1 trillion a year on waste, fluff and our future Soviet Gulag infrastructure. He hopes to crash our economy, so we can have our Bolshevik moment.
Our Republican RINO Governors, County Commissioners and City Councils are grabbing all the Obama money they can get before the end of the year. The federal grants require that we do really stupid things with the grant money and it also requires that local taxpayers pay the bulk of the costs.
Federal Grants for Agenda 21
Poisonous federal grant money has been pouring in to our cities and counties since Obama took office. The strings attached to this federal money includes destroying local government and draining taxpayers of every nickel they would have had to fix their roads in the decade ahead.
Delphi Technique
The “visioning” process all grant receiving local governments are required to use gives “participants” the choice between A and B, when C is actually a better option; but C is not offered, so the “public input” is as valid as a Venezuelan election. This "guided outcomes" process is called the Delphi Technique.
City Councils have hired the “consultants” they were told to hire, to “handle” “public input” sessions for their Land Use Master Plans, all paid for by Federal Grants requiring the use of the Delphi Technique. This “public input” is used as an excuse for ramming through truly ridiculous road re-dos and building unwanted public transit expansion.
Master Plans are Agenda 21
The Master Plans all tie Transportation to Land Use and they all require on street bike lanes, larger sidewalks, separate walking and bike lanes, green space, special bus lanes and all are tied to a transit village. The cost of these road re-dos appear to be at least 4 times higher than the normal road milling and resurfacing we would do to maintain our streets.
T-SPLOST is Agenda 21
In 2009, the Federal Department of Transportation offered billions of dollars to states who would sell their souls and Georgia grabbed it. Sonny Purdue took the bait and Gov. Bad Deal implemented the TIA and T-SPLOST debacle we now face for a vote in July 2012.
T-SPLOST meetings in Atlanta use the Delphi Technique at their meetings to ensure that real questions are not asked. The media is fully “in bed” with our RINOs.
The Transportation Investment Act of 2010 (TIA) sets up unelected councils (Soviets) with taxing authority that usurps city and county sovereignty. 80% of the Georgia Legislature voted for the TIA and they all need to be replaced in the next election. For their names and districts, see U.N. Agenda 21 in Georgia posted on this Blog on Feb 8, 2012.
Money Talks, but it doesn’t answer questions. You will be hard pressed to find any real conversations going on about our Agenda 21 implementation or the wisdom of any of the projects on the T-SPLOST list.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
We have two Democrats running for President in the Republican Primary. They are Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Their records indicate that they are big government RINOs like we haven’t seen since we met John McCain.
The two the media hate are Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich. We should elect the one they hate the most.
Obama-money for Agenda 21
The litmus test for a real conservative is simple. Refuse to apply for or accept any federal grants. Obama is spending the extra $1 trillion a year on waste, fluff and our future Soviet Gulag infrastructure. He hopes to crash our economy, so we can have our Bolshevik moment.
Our Republican RINO Governors, County Commissioners and City Councils are grabbing all the Obama money they can get before the end of the year. The federal grants require that we do really stupid things with the grant money and it also requires that local taxpayers pay the bulk of the costs.
Federal Grants for Agenda 21
Poisonous federal grant money has been pouring in to our cities and counties since Obama took office. The strings attached to this federal money includes destroying local government and draining taxpayers of every nickel they would have had to fix their roads in the decade ahead.
Delphi Technique
The “visioning” process all grant receiving local governments are required to use gives “participants” the choice between A and B, when C is actually a better option; but C is not offered, so the “public input” is as valid as a Venezuelan election. This "guided outcomes" process is called the Delphi Technique.
City Councils have hired the “consultants” they were told to hire, to “handle” “public input” sessions for their Land Use Master Plans, all paid for by Federal Grants requiring the use of the Delphi Technique. This “public input” is used as an excuse for ramming through truly ridiculous road re-dos and building unwanted public transit expansion.
Master Plans are Agenda 21
The Master Plans all tie Transportation to Land Use and they all require on street bike lanes, larger sidewalks, separate walking and bike lanes, green space, special bus lanes and all are tied to a transit village. The cost of these road re-dos appear to be at least 4 times higher than the normal road milling and resurfacing we would do to maintain our streets.
T-SPLOST is Agenda 21
In 2009, the Federal Department of Transportation offered billions of dollars to states who would sell their souls and Georgia grabbed it. Sonny Purdue took the bait and Gov. Bad Deal implemented the TIA and T-SPLOST debacle we now face for a vote in July 2012.
T-SPLOST meetings in Atlanta use the Delphi Technique at their meetings to ensure that real questions are not asked. The media is fully “in bed” with our RINOs.
The Transportation Investment Act of 2010 (TIA) sets up unelected councils (Soviets) with taxing authority that usurps city and county sovereignty. 80% of the Georgia Legislature voted for the TIA and they all need to be replaced in the next election. For their names and districts, see U.N. Agenda 21 in Georgia posted on this Blog on Feb 8, 2012.
Money Talks, but it doesn’t answer questions. You will be hard pressed to find any real conversations going on about our Agenda 21 implementation or the wisdom of any of the projects on the T-SPLOST list.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Top Ten Reasons To Vote Against The TIA-T-SPLOST
1. 53 percent of T-SPLOST funds will go into rail projects.
2. Rail transit does nothing to reduce congestion.
3. Rail transit has the highest cost per passenger mile of any form of transportation.
4. Rail transit has higher emissions per passenger mile than auto on a total system basis.
5. T-SPLOST will be governed under the same rules as SPLOST.
6. T-SPLOST passage will result in a new regional transit governance agency that will have the power to overrule local cities and counties.
7. None of the proposed rail projects is fully funded and there is no provision for ongoing maintenance. We will end up paying much more than 1 percent.
8. Major funding will go to MARTA to overcome inept past management.
9. We’re already paying a 1 percent sales tax for MARTA
10. ARC cites $924 congestion cost per commuter as a rationale to fund:
TIA-AR-037, MARTA North Heavy Rail with a project cost of $6,271 per person
TIA-CO-035, Enhanced premium transit with a project cost of $14,881 per person
TIA-CL-006, Clayton County bus service with a project cost of $15,267 per person
TIA-AR-041, GRTA Express bus with a project cost of $18,842 per person
TIA-M-023, I-20 East transit corridor investments with a project cost of $38,462 per person
TIA-AT-004/007, Atlanta Beltline & Streetcar with a project cost of $106,530 per person
TIA-M-028, Clifton Corridor Transit, with a project cost of $137,255 per person
In this Georgia Code all SPLOST and TSPLOST debt and projects will be backed by property taxes. From the bill: "Such general obligation debt shall, however, constitute a pledge of the full faith, credit, and taxing power of the county or qualified municipality within the special district issuing such debt; and any liability on such debt which is not satisfied from the proceeds of the tax authorized by this part shall be satisfied from the general funds of the county or qualified municipality within the special district issuing such debt."
No rational person who knows the facts could support this campaign.
Mike Lowrey, N. Fulton Tea Party
2. Rail transit does nothing to reduce congestion.
3. Rail transit has the highest cost per passenger mile of any form of transportation.
4. Rail transit has higher emissions per passenger mile than auto on a total system basis.
5. T-SPLOST will be governed under the same rules as SPLOST.
6. T-SPLOST passage will result in a new regional transit governance agency that will have the power to overrule local cities and counties.
7. None of the proposed rail projects is fully funded and there is no provision for ongoing maintenance. We will end up paying much more than 1 percent.
8. Major funding will go to MARTA to overcome inept past management.
9. We’re already paying a 1 percent sales tax for MARTA
10. ARC cites $924 congestion cost per commuter as a rationale to fund:
TIA-AR-037, MARTA North Heavy Rail with a project cost of $6,271 per person
TIA-CO-035, Enhanced premium transit with a project cost of $14,881 per person
TIA-CL-006, Clayton County bus service with a project cost of $15,267 per person
TIA-AR-041, GRTA Express bus with a project cost of $18,842 per person
TIA-M-023, I-20 East transit corridor investments with a project cost of $38,462 per person
TIA-AT-004/007, Atlanta Beltline & Streetcar with a project cost of $106,530 per person
TIA-M-028, Clifton Corridor Transit, with a project cost of $137,255 per person
In this Georgia Code all SPLOST and TSPLOST debt and projects will be backed by property taxes. From the bill: "Such general obligation debt shall, however, constitute a pledge of the full faith, credit, and taxing power of the county or qualified municipality within the special district issuing such debt; and any liability on such debt which is not satisfied from the proceeds of the tax authorized by this part shall be satisfied from the general funds of the county or qualified municipality within the special district issuing such debt."
No rational person who knows the facts could support this campaign.
Mike Lowrey, N. Fulton Tea Party
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Repeal TIA Says Valdosta
This is the resolution to repeal T-SPLOST that was passed this month by the Lowndes County Republican Party:
RESOLUTION CALLING FOR THE REPEAL OF GEORGIA’S
TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT ACT OF 2010 (TIA)
WHEREAS, The Georgia Republican Party stands for limited government, lower taxes, ethical government and the reduction in the size and scope of government; and
WHEREAS, the TIA is forecast by the Georgia DOT to tax Georgians $18,666,600,000 over the next 10-years. The current annual transportation budget being $1,937,289,116 plus proposed TIA of $1,866,600,000 in 2013 would be $3,803,899,116 - a massive and unwarranted 96% increase in transportation spending for 10-years; and
WHEREAS, The TIA increases the size and scope of government and establishes another layer of government (Regional Round Tables), which has 36 voting members in the Southern Region -only two of which are elected by or accountable to Lowndes County citizens. The result being the forced “redistribution of wealth” in the sum of $90,000,000 from Lowndes County to other counties in the Southern Region. This is taxation without representation; and
WHEREAS, Governor Deal, the Legislature, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, lobbyists, and special interest groups claim our transportation infrastructure is crumbling and inhibiting “economic recovery.” Yet, Business Facilities, an independent objective rating service, in 2010 the year the TIA was passed, ranked Georgia 7th in the nation in transportation Infrastructure; and
WHEREAS, the Governor claims transportation is the primary issue inhibiting economic recovery in Georgia. Georgia has led the nation in bank failures since 2007, with a total of 73 banks failing and currently 152 banks listed by Weiss Research as D and E rated (troubled) with only seven banks listed A or B (strong). As many as 66 banks could fail this year if the economy worsens, it is self-evident the economy is the primary issue in Georgia.
WHEREAS, the TIA would remove $18 billion through taxation from the private sector of the economy to the non-productive public sector, and free market economists agree you can NOT improve economics with a tax. Winston Churchill said, ”For a government to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket trying to lift himself up by the handle.”; and
WHEREAS, the Republican Party stands for free enterprise, personal responsibility, and government accountability to the voters. The TIA forces Regional Government and redistribution of wealth from wealthy counties to poor counties based on need, peer pressure, and mob rule. Redistribution of wealth is an underlying tenant of Socialism promoted by Karl Marx: from each (county) according to its ability, to each (county) according to its need. This is the exact purpose and function of the Regional Commission; and
WHEREAS, Socialism is the core principal of the Democratic Party, it should not be practiced, legislated or promoted by Republicans in Georgia who have worked tirelessly to promote the Republican Party and its principles of lower taxes and limited government. Holding the majority of elected constitutional offices in Georgia is of little consequence unless we insist that the popular Republican principles that brought us here are adhered to by our elected representatives in their policies and laws. Republicans must demand Republican principles in government; and
WHEREAS, the TIA violates and eliminates the “Home Rule” provision, Article IX Section II of the Georgia Constitution, thus severely limiting the constitutional power of the people, and violates a primary tenant of self-determination espoused in the Constitution of Georgia; and
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Lowndes County Republican Party has voted to call for the repeal the Transportation Investment Act of 2010 (TIA), the repeal of the Ballot Question and the associated penalties that punish constitutionally adherent and fiscally responsible counties by the punitive Act.
Approved and adopted the 17th day of January, 2012 by the Lowndes County Republican Party.
_______________________ _______________________
Nolen P. Cox, Chairman Sandy Chaput, Secretary
RESOLUTION CALLING FOR THE REPEAL OF GEORGIA’S
TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT ACT OF 2010 (TIA)
WHEREAS, The Georgia Republican Party stands for limited government, lower taxes, ethical government and the reduction in the size and scope of government; and
WHEREAS, the TIA is forecast by the Georgia DOT to tax Georgians $18,666,600,000 over the next 10-years. The current annual transportation budget being $1,937,289,116 plus proposed TIA of $1,866,600,000 in 2013 would be $3,803,899,116 - a massive and unwarranted 96% increase in transportation spending for 10-years; and
WHEREAS, The TIA increases the size and scope of government and establishes another layer of government (Regional Round Tables), which has 36 voting members in the Southern Region -only two of which are elected by or accountable to Lowndes County citizens. The result being the forced “redistribution of wealth” in the sum of $90,000,000 from Lowndes County to other counties in the Southern Region. This is taxation without representation; and
WHEREAS, Governor Deal, the Legislature, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, lobbyists, and special interest groups claim our transportation infrastructure is crumbling and inhibiting “economic recovery.” Yet, Business Facilities, an independent objective rating service, in 2010 the year the TIA was passed, ranked Georgia 7th in the nation in transportation Infrastructure; and
WHEREAS, the Governor claims transportation is the primary issue inhibiting economic recovery in Georgia. Georgia has led the nation in bank failures since 2007, with a total of 73 banks failing and currently 152 banks listed by Weiss Research as D and E rated (troubled) with only seven banks listed A or B (strong). As many as 66 banks could fail this year if the economy worsens, it is self-evident the economy is the primary issue in Georgia.
WHEREAS, the TIA would remove $18 billion through taxation from the private sector of the economy to the non-productive public sector, and free market economists agree you can NOT improve economics with a tax. Winston Churchill said, ”For a government to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket trying to lift himself up by the handle.”; and
WHEREAS, the Republican Party stands for free enterprise, personal responsibility, and government accountability to the voters. The TIA forces Regional Government and redistribution of wealth from wealthy counties to poor counties based on need, peer pressure, and mob rule. Redistribution of wealth is an underlying tenant of Socialism promoted by Karl Marx: from each (county) according to its ability, to each (county) according to its need. This is the exact purpose and function of the Regional Commission; and
WHEREAS, Socialism is the core principal of the Democratic Party, it should not be practiced, legislated or promoted by Republicans in Georgia who have worked tirelessly to promote the Republican Party and its principles of lower taxes and limited government. Holding the majority of elected constitutional offices in Georgia is of little consequence unless we insist that the popular Republican principles that brought us here are adhered to by our elected representatives in their policies and laws. Republicans must demand Republican principles in government; and
WHEREAS, the TIA violates and eliminates the “Home Rule” provision, Article IX Section II of the Georgia Constitution, thus severely limiting the constitutional power of the people, and violates a primary tenant of self-determination espoused in the Constitution of Georgia; and
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Lowndes County Republican Party has voted to call for the repeal the Transportation Investment Act of 2010 (TIA), the repeal of the Ballot Question and the associated penalties that punish constitutionally adherent and fiscally responsible counties by the punitive Act.
Approved and adopted the 17th day of January, 2012 by the Lowndes County Republican Party.
_______________________ _______________________
Nolen P. Cox, Chairman Sandy Chaput, Secretary
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Vote No on T-SPLOST
Vote No on T-SPLOST in July 2012. The T-SPLOST final list does little to alleviate road traffic congestion. With half the $6.1 billion going to public transit, It’s a MARTA bail-out. MARTA spends $750 million a year, takes in $120 million in revenue and gets the other $630 million in tax subsidies. Their “sugar daddy” has been the federal government, but all that will end; they’re broke. Public transit only goes where it goes and that hasn’t been where most of us need to go.
The Transportation Investment Act of 2010 appears to violate the Georgia Constitution and challenges are underway. The Cobb rail study has not been done and it along with other projects on the List are noncompliant with TIA’s own specifications. In short, it’s as big a mess as the Toll Lanes. It deserves a NO Vote in July.
Let each county do its job and fix its own roads. Let MARTA go private. Let Atlanta build its own tourist attractions with its own money. Extend U.S. 29 to connect with I-75 and I-85 to serve as an Atlanta bi-pass. Or, wait for the EU and U.S. debt meltdowns and the dollar crash when unemployment will go to 50%. The roads will be as empty as a MARTA bus in Dunwoody.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
The Transportation Investment Act of 2010 appears to violate the Georgia Constitution and challenges are underway. The Cobb rail study has not been done and it along with other projects on the List are noncompliant with TIA’s own specifications. In short, it’s as big a mess as the Toll Lanes. It deserves a NO Vote in July.
Let each county do its job and fix its own roads. Let MARTA go private. Let Atlanta build its own tourist attractions with its own money. Extend U.S. 29 to connect with I-75 and I-85 to serve as an Atlanta bi-pass. Or, wait for the EU and U.S. debt meltdowns and the dollar crash when unemployment will go to 50%. The roads will be as empty as a MARTA bus in Dunwoody.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
T-SPLOST is a Disaster
The Atlanta Regional Commission's economic
analysis of TIA impacts is incredibly weak. Again,
this poorly constructed plan, with no financial
accountability and no cost-benefit analysis,
represents an immense RISK to the future economy
of metropolitan Atlanta, not an improvement.
The overwhelming cost of expanding, maintaining
and operating an already flawed transit system
will steal critical funding away from our future
economy. Instead of having critical funds to
upgrade vital infrastructure to encourage future
productivity, we will be saddled with the
exorbitant costs of a regional transit system that
is unable to justify its existence.
Notice the careful phrase, "... these projects
would allow residents to save $9.2 billion by
2040." Yes, the MARTA bus system WOULD ALLOW me
to never drive my car in Fulton County, but nearly
98 percent of commuters chose NOT to use that mode
of transportation.
It goes on, "... these projects can be built
cheaper, can improve transportation more quickly
and have a positive economic impact sooner." Turn
the logic around and we can save $3.5 billion and
future billions of annual operations and
maintenance funding for a mode of transportation
that a fraction of our commuters use if we do not
built the unjustifiable transit projects. And
where is the positive impact of bleeding the
region of billions of dollars annually through a
permanent regional sales tax (the only way to
generate the funding needed) when a majority of
the commuters are still stuck in traffic? Rep. Ed
Seltzer was absolutely correct say the TIA
referendum comes no where close to its primary
objective of relieving traffic congestion.
"ARC predicts that it will grow to more than eight
million by 2040." Seriously? Growth is at a
standstill pace and traffic volume has dropped
each year for the last five years.
The saddest part is the regional and state leaders
refuse to tell the voting public how we will
sustain the exorbitant future costs associated
with current and expanded transit. They are no
better than Nancy Pelosi saying, "vote for the
bill to know what is in it."
Steve Brown
Fayette County Board of Commissioners, Post 4
analysis of TIA impacts is incredibly weak. Again,
this poorly constructed plan, with no financial
accountability and no cost-benefit analysis,
represents an immense RISK to the future economy
of metropolitan Atlanta, not an improvement.
The overwhelming cost of expanding, maintaining
and operating an already flawed transit system
will steal critical funding away from our future
economy. Instead of having critical funds to
upgrade vital infrastructure to encourage future
productivity, we will be saddled with the
exorbitant costs of a regional transit system that
is unable to justify its existence.
Notice the careful phrase, "... these projects
would allow residents to save $9.2 billion by
2040." Yes, the MARTA bus system WOULD ALLOW me
to never drive my car in Fulton County, but nearly
98 percent of commuters chose NOT to use that mode
of transportation.
It goes on, "... these projects can be built
cheaper, can improve transportation more quickly
and have a positive economic impact sooner." Turn
the logic around and we can save $3.5 billion and
future billions of annual operations and
maintenance funding for a mode of transportation
that a fraction of our commuters use if we do not
built the unjustifiable transit projects. And
where is the positive impact of bleeding the
region of billions of dollars annually through a
permanent regional sales tax (the only way to
generate the funding needed) when a majority of
the commuters are still stuck in traffic? Rep. Ed
Seltzer was absolutely correct say the TIA
referendum comes no where close to its primary
objective of relieving traffic congestion.
"ARC predicts that it will grow to more than eight
million by 2040." Seriously? Growth is at a
standstill pace and traffic volume has dropped
each year for the last five years.
The saddest part is the regional and state leaders
refuse to tell the voting public how we will
sustain the exorbitant future costs associated
with current and expanded transit. They are no
better than Nancy Pelosi saying, "vote for the
bill to know what is in it."
Steve Brown
Fayette County Board of Commissioners, Post 4
U.N. Agenda 21 in Georgia
U.N. Agenda 21 in Georgia
The following is a record of votes cast in 2010 by the Georgia Legislature. The vote for HB 277 passed both houses and created the Transportation Investment Act of 2010. This law was then signed by Gov. Bad Deal and the U.N. Agenda 21 implementation in Georgia went on steroids.
It’s no secret that to receive any federal grant money, states had to sign up for U.N. Agenda 21 implementation. Many local governments rejected this ruinous plan designed to usurp local sovereignty and spend us into oblivion, but not Georgia.
Georgia General Assembly webpage Summary of HB 277 Transportation Vote created the Transportation Investment Act 2010
The “good guys” who voted against TIA in 2010 are as follows. Some may have retired or moved from the House to the Senate.
House Reps
N ABRAMS, 84TH
N BEASLEY-TEAGUE, 65TH
N BELL, 58TH
N BUCKNER, 130TH
N CRAWFORD, 16TH
N DAWKINS-HAIGLER, 93RD
N FLUDD, 66TH
N FRANKLIN, 43RD
N HATFIELD, 177TH
N HUDSON, 124TH
N KEOWN, 173RD
N LONG, 61ST
N MANGHAM, 94TH
N MARTIN, 47TH
N MAYO, 91ST
N MILLAR, 79TH
N MOSBY, 90TH
N PORTER, 143RD
N POWELL, 29TH
N RANDALL, 138TH
N REECE, 11TH
N RYNDERS, 152ND
N SCOTT, 153RD
N SCOTT, 2ND
N SINKFIELD, 60TH
N STEPHENSON, 92ND
N STOUT, 19TH
N WILLARD, 49TH
N WILLIAMS, 89TH
Senate
N BROWN, 26TH
N BUTLER, 55TH
N CHAPMAN, 3RD
N HARBISON, 15TH
N HENSON, 41ST
N RAMSEY, SR., 43RD
N STONER, 6TH
N THOMPSON, 33RD
The full voting list is as follows:
HB 277 ADOPT CCRApril 21, 2010 8:49PM
Yea (Y):141Nay (N):29 Not Voting (-):4Excused (E):6
HOUSE VOTE
• Y ABDUL-SALAAM, 74TH
• N ABRAMS, 84TH
• Y ALLISON, 8TH
• Y AMERSON, 9TH
• Y ANDERSON, 117TH
• Y ASHE, 56TH
• Y AUSTIN, 10TH
• Y BAKER, 78TH
• E BARNARD, 166TH
• Y BATTLES, 15TH
• Y BEARDEN, 68TH
• N BEASLEY-TEAGUE, 65TH
• N BELL, 58TH
• Y BENFIELD, 85TH
• Y BENTON, 31ST
• Y BLACK, 174TH
• Y BROOKS, 63RD
• Y BRUCE, 64TH
• Y BRYANT, 160TH
• N BUCKNER, 130TH
• Y BURKHALTER, 50TH sponsor
• Y BURNS, 157TH
• Y BUTLER, 18TH
• Y BYRD, 20TH
• Y CARTER, 175TH
• Y CASAS, 103RD
• Y CHAMBERS, 81ST
• Y CHANNELL, 116TH
• Y CHEOKAS, 134TH
• Y COAN, 101ST
• Y COLE, 125TH
• Y COLEMAN, 97TH
• Y COLLINS, 27TH
• Y COLLINS, 95TH
• Y COOPER, 41ST
• Y COX, 102ND
• N CRAWFORD, 16TH
• Y DAVIS, 109TH
• N DAWKINS-HAIGLER, 93RD
• Y DAY, 163RD
• Y DEMPSEY, 13TH
• Y DICKSON, 6TH
• Y DOBBS, 53RD
• Y DODSON, 75TH
• Y DOLLAR, 45TH
• Y DOOLEY, 38TH
• Y DRENNER, 86TH
• Y DUKES, 150TH
• Y EHRHART, 36TH
• Y ENGLAND, 108TH
• Y EPPS, 128TH
• Y EPPS, 140TH
• Y EVERSON, 106TH
• Y FLOYD, 99TH
• N FLUDD, 66TH
• N FRANKLIN, 43RD
• Y FRAZIER, 123RD
• Y FULLERTON, 151ST
• Y GARDNER, 57TH
• Y GEISINGER, 48TH
• Y GLANTON, 76TH
• Y GOLICK, 34TH
• Y GORDON, 162ND
• Y GREENE, 149TH
• Y HAMILTON, 23RD
• Y HANNER, 148TH
• Y HARBIN, 118TH sponsor
• Y HARDEN, 147TH
• Y HARDEN, 28TH
• N HATFIELD, 177TH
• Y HEARD, 114TH
• Y HECKSTALL, 62ND
• Y HEMBREE, 67TH
• Y HENSON, 87TH
• Y HILL, 180TH
• Y HILL, 21ST
• Y HOLT, 112TH
• Y HORNE, 71ST
• Y HOUSTON, 170TH
• Y HOWARD, 121ST
• N HUDSON, 124TH
• Y HUGLEY, 133RD
• Y JACKSON, 142ND
• Y JACOBS, 80TH
• E JAMES, 135TH
• Y JERGUSON, 22ND
• Y JOHNSON, 37TH
• Y JONES, 44TH
• Y JONES, 46TH
• Y JORDAN, 77TH
• Y KAISER, 59TH
• Y KEEN, 179TH sponsor
• N KEOWN, 173RD
• Y KIDD, 141ST
• Y KNIGHT, 126TH
• Y KNOX, 24TH
• Y LANE, 158TH
• Y LANE, 167TH
• Y LEVITAS, 82ND
• Y LINDSEY, 54TH
• N LONG, 61ST
• Y LOUDERMILK, 14TH
• Y LUCAS, 139TH
• Y LUNSFORD, 110TH
• Y MADDOX, 127TH
• E MADDOX, 172ND
• N MANGHAM, 94TH
• Y MANNING, 32ND
• Y MARIN, 96TH
• N MARTIN, 47TH
• Y MAXWELL, 17TH
• Y MAY, 111TH
• N MAYO, 91ST
• Y MCCALL, 30TH
• Y MCKILLIP, 115TH
• Y MEADOWS, 5TH
• N MILLAR, 79TH
• Y MILLS, 25TH
• Y MITCHELL, 88TH
• Y MORGAN, 39TH
• Y MORRIS, 155TH
• N MOSBY, 90TH
• Y MURPHY, 120TH
• Y NEAL, 1ST
• Y NIX, 69TH
• Y O`NEAL, 146TH
• Y OLIVER, 83RD
• Y PARRISH, 156TH
• Y PARSONS, 42ND
• Y PEAKE, 137TH
• N PORTER, 143RD
• Y POWELL, 171ST
• N POWELL, 29TH
• Y PRUETT, 144TH
• Y PURCELL, 159TH
• - RALSTON, 7TH supported by Speaker
• Y RAMSEY, 72ND
• N RANDALL, 138TH
• N REECE, 11TH
• - REESE, 98TH
• Y RICE, 51ST
• Y ROBERTS, 154TH
• Y ROGERS, 26TH
• N RYNDERS, 152ND
• N SCOTT, 153RD
• N SCOTT, 2ND
• Y SELLIER, 136TH
• Y SETZLER, 35TH
• Y SHAW, 176TH sponsor
• Y SHELDON, 105TH sponsor
• YSIMS, 119TH
• Y SIMS, 169TH
• N SINKFIELD, 60TH
• Y SMITH, 113TH
• Y SMITH, 122ND
• E SMITH, 129TH sponsor
• - SMITH, 131ST
• Y SMITH, 168TH
• Y SMITH, 70TH
• Y SMYRE, 132ND
• Y STEPHENS, 161ST
• Y STEPHENS, 164TH
• N STEPHENSON, 92ND
• N STOUT, 19TH
• Y TALTON, 145TH
• Y TAYLOR, 55TH
• Y TEILHET, 40TH
• E THOMAS, 100TH
• YTHOMPSON, 104TH
• -VACANT
• E WALKER, 107TH
• Y WELDON, 3RD
• Y WILKINSON, 52ND
• N WILLARD, 49TH
• Y WILLIAMS, 165TH
• Y WILLIAMS, 178TH
• Y WILLIAMS, 4TH
• N WILLIAMS, 89TH
• Y WIX, 33RD
• Y YATES, 73RD
141 of 181 Reps who voted Yes should be replaced. Those 29 Reps who voted No should be re-elected.
SENATE VOTE
Pursuant to Senate Rule 5-1.9 any Senator shall be permitted to explain his or her vote in writing and have it entered into the Senate Journal.
HB 277 ADOPT CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT (LC 34 2764ERS)April 21, 2010 8:18PM
Yea (Y):43Nay (N):8 Not Voting (-):2Excused (E):3
• Y BALFOUR, 9TH
• N BROWN, 26TH
• Y BUCKNER, 44TH
• Y BULLOCH, 11TH
• N BUTLER, 55TH
• Y BUTTERWORTH, 50TH
• Y CARTER, 1ST
• Y CHANCE, 16TH
• N CHAPMAN, 3RD
• Y COWSERT, 46TH
• Y CROSBY, 13TH
• Y DAVIS, 22ND
• Y DOUGLAS, 17TH
• Y FORT, 39TH
• Y GOGGANS, 7TH
• Y GOLDEN, 8TH
• Y GRANT, 25TH
• Y HAMRICK, 30TH
• N HARBISON, 15TH
• Y HARP, 29TH
• Y HEATH, 31ST
• N HENSON, 41ST
• Y HILL, 32ND
• Y HILL, 4TH
• Y HOOKS, 14TH
• Y HUDGENS, 47TH
• Y JACKSON, 24TH
• Y JACKSON, 2ND
• Y JAMES, 35TH
• Y JONES, 10TH
• Y MOODY, 56TH
• Y MULLIS, 53RD sponsor
• Y MURPHY, 27TH
• Y ORROCK, 36TH
• Y PEARSON, 51ST
• E POWELL, 23RD
• N RAMSEY, SR., 43RD
• Y ROGERS, 21ST
• Y SEABAUGH, 28TH
• E SEAY, 34TH
• Y SHAFER, 48TH
• E SIMS, 12TH
• Y SMITH, 52ND
• Y STATON, 18TH
• N STONER, 6TH
• Y TATE, 38TH
• Y THOMAS, 54TH
• N THOMPSON, 33RD
• Y THOMPSON, 5TH
• Y TOLLESON, 20TH
• Y UNTERMAN, 45TH
• - VACANT
• - VACANT
• Y WEBER, 40TH
• Y WILES, 37TH
• Y WILLIAMS, 19T
43 of 55 Senators who voted Yes should be replaced The 8 Senators who voted No should be re-elected.
The Governor, Lt. Governor and all other elected State officials should be replaced. Who will run for these offices ?
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
The following is a record of votes cast in 2010 by the Georgia Legislature. The vote for HB 277 passed both houses and created the Transportation Investment Act of 2010. This law was then signed by Gov. Bad Deal and the U.N. Agenda 21 implementation in Georgia went on steroids.
It’s no secret that to receive any federal grant money, states had to sign up for U.N. Agenda 21 implementation. Many local governments rejected this ruinous plan designed to usurp local sovereignty and spend us into oblivion, but not Georgia.
Georgia General Assembly webpage Summary of HB 277 Transportation Vote created the Transportation Investment Act 2010
The “good guys” who voted against TIA in 2010 are as follows. Some may have retired or moved from the House to the Senate.
House Reps
N ABRAMS, 84TH
N BEASLEY-TEAGUE, 65TH
N BELL, 58TH
N BUCKNER, 130TH
N CRAWFORD, 16TH
N DAWKINS-HAIGLER, 93RD
N FLUDD, 66TH
N FRANKLIN, 43RD
N HATFIELD, 177TH
N HUDSON, 124TH
N KEOWN, 173RD
N LONG, 61ST
N MANGHAM, 94TH
N MARTIN, 47TH
N MAYO, 91ST
N MILLAR, 79TH
N MOSBY, 90TH
N PORTER, 143RD
N POWELL, 29TH
N RANDALL, 138TH
N REECE, 11TH
N RYNDERS, 152ND
N SCOTT, 153RD
N SCOTT, 2ND
N SINKFIELD, 60TH
N STEPHENSON, 92ND
N STOUT, 19TH
N WILLARD, 49TH
N WILLIAMS, 89TH
Senate
N BROWN, 26TH
N BUTLER, 55TH
N CHAPMAN, 3RD
N HARBISON, 15TH
N HENSON, 41ST
N RAMSEY, SR., 43RD
N STONER, 6TH
N THOMPSON, 33RD
The full voting list is as follows:
HB 277 ADOPT CCRApril 21, 2010 8:49PM
Yea (Y):141Nay (N):29 Not Voting (-):4Excused (E):6
HOUSE VOTE
• Y ABDUL-SALAAM, 74TH
• N ABRAMS, 84TH
• Y ALLISON, 8TH
• Y AMERSON, 9TH
• Y ANDERSON, 117TH
• Y ASHE, 56TH
• Y AUSTIN, 10TH
• Y BAKER, 78TH
• E BARNARD, 166TH
• Y BATTLES, 15TH
• Y BEARDEN, 68TH
• N BEASLEY-TEAGUE, 65TH
• N BELL, 58TH
• Y BENFIELD, 85TH
• Y BENTON, 31ST
• Y BLACK, 174TH
• Y BROOKS, 63RD
• Y BRUCE, 64TH
• Y BRYANT, 160TH
• N BUCKNER, 130TH
• Y BURKHALTER, 50TH sponsor
• Y BURNS, 157TH
• Y BUTLER, 18TH
• Y BYRD, 20TH
• Y CARTER, 175TH
• Y CASAS, 103RD
• Y CHAMBERS, 81ST
• Y CHANNELL, 116TH
• Y CHEOKAS, 134TH
• Y COAN, 101ST
• Y COLE, 125TH
• Y COLEMAN, 97TH
• Y COLLINS, 27TH
• Y COLLINS, 95TH
• Y COOPER, 41ST
• Y COX, 102ND
• N CRAWFORD, 16TH
• Y DAVIS, 109TH
• N DAWKINS-HAIGLER, 93RD
• Y DAY, 163RD
• Y DEMPSEY, 13TH
• Y DICKSON, 6TH
• Y DOBBS, 53RD
• Y DODSON, 75TH
• Y DOLLAR, 45TH
• Y DOOLEY, 38TH
• Y DRENNER, 86TH
• Y DUKES, 150TH
• Y EHRHART, 36TH
• Y ENGLAND, 108TH
• Y EPPS, 128TH
• Y EPPS, 140TH
• Y EVERSON, 106TH
• Y FLOYD, 99TH
• N FLUDD, 66TH
• N FRANKLIN, 43RD
• Y FRAZIER, 123RD
• Y FULLERTON, 151ST
• Y GARDNER, 57TH
• Y GEISINGER, 48TH
• Y GLANTON, 76TH
• Y GOLICK, 34TH
• Y GORDON, 162ND
• Y GREENE, 149TH
• Y HAMILTON, 23RD
• Y HANNER, 148TH
• Y HARBIN, 118TH sponsor
• Y HARDEN, 147TH
• Y HARDEN, 28TH
• N HATFIELD, 177TH
• Y HEARD, 114TH
• Y HECKSTALL, 62ND
• Y HEMBREE, 67TH
• Y HENSON, 87TH
• Y HILL, 180TH
• Y HILL, 21ST
• Y HOLT, 112TH
• Y HORNE, 71ST
• Y HOUSTON, 170TH
• Y HOWARD, 121ST
• N HUDSON, 124TH
• Y HUGLEY, 133RD
• Y JACKSON, 142ND
• Y JACOBS, 80TH
• E JAMES, 135TH
• Y JERGUSON, 22ND
• Y JOHNSON, 37TH
• Y JONES, 44TH
• Y JONES, 46TH
• Y JORDAN, 77TH
• Y KAISER, 59TH
• Y KEEN, 179TH sponsor
• N KEOWN, 173RD
• Y KIDD, 141ST
• Y KNIGHT, 126TH
• Y KNOX, 24TH
• Y LANE, 158TH
• Y LANE, 167TH
• Y LEVITAS, 82ND
• Y LINDSEY, 54TH
• N LONG, 61ST
• Y LOUDERMILK, 14TH
• Y LUCAS, 139TH
• Y LUNSFORD, 110TH
• Y MADDOX, 127TH
• E MADDOX, 172ND
• N MANGHAM, 94TH
• Y MANNING, 32ND
• Y MARIN, 96TH
• N MARTIN, 47TH
• Y MAXWELL, 17TH
• Y MAY, 111TH
• N MAYO, 91ST
• Y MCCALL, 30TH
• Y MCKILLIP, 115TH
• Y MEADOWS, 5TH
• N MILLAR, 79TH
• Y MILLS, 25TH
• Y MITCHELL, 88TH
• Y MORGAN, 39TH
• Y MORRIS, 155TH
• N MOSBY, 90TH
• Y MURPHY, 120TH
• Y NEAL, 1ST
• Y NIX, 69TH
• Y O`NEAL, 146TH
• Y OLIVER, 83RD
• Y PARRISH, 156TH
• Y PARSONS, 42ND
• Y PEAKE, 137TH
• N PORTER, 143RD
• Y POWELL, 171ST
• N POWELL, 29TH
• Y PRUETT, 144TH
• Y PURCELL, 159TH
• - RALSTON, 7TH supported by Speaker
• Y RAMSEY, 72ND
• N RANDALL, 138TH
• N REECE, 11TH
• - REESE, 98TH
• Y RICE, 51ST
• Y ROBERTS, 154TH
• Y ROGERS, 26TH
• N RYNDERS, 152ND
• N SCOTT, 153RD
• N SCOTT, 2ND
• Y SELLIER, 136TH
• Y SETZLER, 35TH
• Y SHAW, 176TH sponsor
• Y SHELDON, 105TH sponsor
• YSIMS, 119TH
• Y SIMS, 169TH
• N SINKFIELD, 60TH
• Y SMITH, 113TH
• Y SMITH, 122ND
• E SMITH, 129TH sponsor
• - SMITH, 131ST
• Y SMITH, 168TH
• Y SMITH, 70TH
• Y SMYRE, 132ND
• Y STEPHENS, 161ST
• Y STEPHENS, 164TH
• N STEPHENSON, 92ND
• N STOUT, 19TH
• Y TALTON, 145TH
• Y TAYLOR, 55TH
• Y TEILHET, 40TH
• E THOMAS, 100TH
• YTHOMPSON, 104TH
• -VACANT
• E WALKER, 107TH
• Y WELDON, 3RD
• Y WILKINSON, 52ND
• N WILLARD, 49TH
• Y WILLIAMS, 165TH
• Y WILLIAMS, 178TH
• Y WILLIAMS, 4TH
• N WILLIAMS, 89TH
• Y WIX, 33RD
• Y YATES, 73RD
141 of 181 Reps who voted Yes should be replaced. Those 29 Reps who voted No should be re-elected.
SENATE VOTE
Pursuant to Senate Rule 5-1.9 any Senator shall be permitted to explain his or her vote in writing and have it entered into the Senate Journal.
HB 277 ADOPT CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT (LC 34 2764ERS)April 21, 2010 8:18PM
Yea (Y):43Nay (N):8 Not Voting (-):2Excused (E):3
• Y BALFOUR, 9TH
• N BROWN, 26TH
• Y BUCKNER, 44TH
• Y BULLOCH, 11TH
• N BUTLER, 55TH
• Y BUTTERWORTH, 50TH
• Y CARTER, 1ST
• Y CHANCE, 16TH
• N CHAPMAN, 3RD
• Y COWSERT, 46TH
• Y CROSBY, 13TH
• Y DAVIS, 22ND
• Y DOUGLAS, 17TH
• Y FORT, 39TH
• Y GOGGANS, 7TH
• Y GOLDEN, 8TH
• Y GRANT, 25TH
• Y HAMRICK, 30TH
• N HARBISON, 15TH
• Y HARP, 29TH
• Y HEATH, 31ST
• N HENSON, 41ST
• Y HILL, 32ND
• Y HILL, 4TH
• Y HOOKS, 14TH
• Y HUDGENS, 47TH
• Y JACKSON, 24TH
• Y JACKSON, 2ND
• Y JAMES, 35TH
• Y JONES, 10TH
• Y MOODY, 56TH
• Y MULLIS, 53RD sponsor
• Y MURPHY, 27TH
• Y ORROCK, 36TH
• Y PEARSON, 51ST
• E POWELL, 23RD
• N RAMSEY, SR., 43RD
• Y ROGERS, 21ST
• Y SEABAUGH, 28TH
• E SEAY, 34TH
• Y SHAFER, 48TH
• E SIMS, 12TH
• Y SMITH, 52ND
• Y STATON, 18TH
• N STONER, 6TH
• Y TATE, 38TH
• Y THOMAS, 54TH
• N THOMPSON, 33RD
• Y THOMPSON, 5TH
• Y TOLLESON, 20TH
• Y UNTERMAN, 45TH
• - VACANT
• - VACANT
• Y WEBER, 40TH
• Y WILES, 37TH
• Y WILLIAMS, 19T
43 of 55 Senators who voted Yes should be replaced The 8 Senators who voted No should be re-elected.
The Governor, Lt. Governor and all other elected State officials should be replaced. Who will run for these offices ?
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Saturday, February 4, 2012
U.N. Wants to Tax us
UN Wants World Tax To ‘Help The Poor’
Global levy needed to aid “needy people” get free housing, education and healthcare
By Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, February 3, 2012
The United Nations wants a world tax imposed on all financial transactions to fund a global model of social services that will provide “needy people” with a basic income, free healthcare, education and housing.
The drive is part of the UN’s mission to create a “social protection floor” under the auspices of the Commission on Social Development, which began this week in New York. The SPF will become the UN’s primary focus from 2015 onwards when the Millennium Development Goals project concludes.
“The money to fund these services may come from a new world tax,” reports the Deseret News, quoting Jens Wandel, Deputy Director of the United Nations Development Program, who said that a long term funding plan for the project would center around “a minimal financial transaction tax (of .005 percent). This will create $40 billion in revenue.”
“No one should live below a certain income level,” stated Milos Koterec, President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. “Everyone should be able to access at least basic health services, primary education, housing, water, sanitation and other essential services.”
According to the report, the new global tax is designed to be a progressive scale, with higher earners paying more to help provide “all needy people with a basic income, healthcare, education and housing.”
This represents the UN’s latest attempt to fleece western taxpayers under the utopian rhetoric of global socialism.
While invoking the plight of the world’s poor as a justification to create a slush fund under its control, the UN is also invoking the discredited pseudo-science of man-made global warming in an effort to shake down the developed world through the imposition of carbon taxes
A new UN report entitled “Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing,” calls for punishing economies deemed not “sustainable” by establishing, “natural resource and externality pricing instruments, including carbon pricing, through mechanisms such as taxation, regulation or emissions trading systems, by 2020.”
A 2010 UN blueprint for putting the organization back at the forefront of global governance alarmingly revealed the agenda to re-brand global warming as “overpopulation” as a means of dismantling the middle classes while using “global redistribution of wealth” and increased immigration to reinvigorate the pursuit of a one world government.
The United Nations also called for using the pretext of environmental threats to concentrate power and wealth into its hands during the recent UN Climate Summit in Durban, a plan under which the west would be mandated to respect “the rights of Mother Earth” by paying a “climate debt” which would act as a slush fund for bankrolling an all-powerful world government.
Even if one entertains the viability of countries being forced by the UN to send even more money overseas, trusting the United Nations to oversee such a massive transfer of wealth would be somewhat naive given the fact that the organization is inherently corrupt, as the oil for food scandal illustrated.
The UN also has a habit of using money designated for relief projects to enrich its own coffers, including the $732.4 million budget for earthquake-shattered Haiti, two thirds of which was spent on “the salary, perks and upkeep of its own personnel, not residents of the devastated island.”
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
Global levy needed to aid “needy people” get free housing, education and healthcare
By Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Friday, February 3, 2012
The United Nations wants a world tax imposed on all financial transactions to fund a global model of social services that will provide “needy people” with a basic income, free healthcare, education and housing.
The drive is part of the UN’s mission to create a “social protection floor” under the auspices of the Commission on Social Development, which began this week in New York. The SPF will become the UN’s primary focus from 2015 onwards when the Millennium Development Goals project concludes.
“The money to fund these services may come from a new world tax,” reports the Deseret News, quoting Jens Wandel, Deputy Director of the United Nations Development Program, who said that a long term funding plan for the project would center around “a minimal financial transaction tax (of .005 percent). This will create $40 billion in revenue.”
“No one should live below a certain income level,” stated Milos Koterec, President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. “Everyone should be able to access at least basic health services, primary education, housing, water, sanitation and other essential services.”
According to the report, the new global tax is designed to be a progressive scale, with higher earners paying more to help provide “all needy people with a basic income, healthcare, education and housing.”
This represents the UN’s latest attempt to fleece western taxpayers under the utopian rhetoric of global socialism.
While invoking the plight of the world’s poor as a justification to create a slush fund under its control, the UN is also invoking the discredited pseudo-science of man-made global warming in an effort to shake down the developed world through the imposition of carbon taxes
A new UN report entitled “Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing,” calls for punishing economies deemed not “sustainable” by establishing, “natural resource and externality pricing instruments, including carbon pricing, through mechanisms such as taxation, regulation or emissions trading systems, by 2020.”
A 2010 UN blueprint for putting the organization back at the forefront of global governance alarmingly revealed the agenda to re-brand global warming as “overpopulation” as a means of dismantling the middle classes while using “global redistribution of wealth” and increased immigration to reinvigorate the pursuit of a one world government.
The United Nations also called for using the pretext of environmental threats to concentrate power and wealth into its hands during the recent UN Climate Summit in Durban, a plan under which the west would be mandated to respect “the rights of Mother Earth” by paying a “climate debt” which would act as a slush fund for bankrolling an all-powerful world government.
Even if one entertains the viability of countries being forced by the UN to send even more money overseas, trusting the United Nations to oversee such a massive transfer of wealth would be somewhat naive given the fact that the organization is inherently corrupt, as the oil for food scandal illustrated.
The UN also has a habit of using money designated for relief projects to enrich its own coffers, including the $732.4 million budget for earthquake-shattered Haiti, two thirds of which was spent on “the salary, perks and upkeep of its own personnel, not residents of the devastated island.”
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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