Getting Your Country Back

What a real economy looks like

When I graduated from college in 1965, the US economy was still expanding and jobs were available for everybody and all new grads were hired within a month.  This included high school grads and college grads and there were plenty of jobs for students. I got to work my way through college with no student loans and bought my own car. Moms typically didn’t work outside the home.  Dads made enough to buy a house and support the family.  

Virtually all manufacturing was done in the US.  Productivity continued to increase and that produced a healthy economy because revenue increased and allowed for increases in wages and salaries.  This economy lasted through the short-term recessions in the 1970s until 2008 and then it died. 

The 2008 Meltdown was caused by the Community Reinvestment Act of 1993 and HUD anti-discrimination rules that forced lenders to give mortgages to unqualified buyers.  When these mortgages foreclosed, losses were in the $trillions.  That killed the US economy.

What a dead economy looks like

The US economy after 2008 was dead.  New grads couldn’t get jobs.  All the jobs student had done were being filled by legal and illegal immigrants.  The excessive immigration that began in 1989 soaked up all the jobs that were available except for engineering jobs with very narrow specifications. 

How do we get our economy back

First we should have Congress repeal the Community Reinvestment Act of 1993 and repeal HUD anti-discrimination rules.  That hasn’t been done.  Next we should have Congress repeal Obamacare and freeze all immigration, so Americans can get jobs and reverse EPA air and water rules, so electric bills don’t explode.  We also need to export US oil, natural gas and coal and get out of bad open borders trade deals.  We need to close all unconstitutional government departments, agencies and programs to save $1 trillion a year, so we can begin to pay off our $20 trillion government debt.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader