Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Federal Government Policy Failures 13124

The Federal Government failed to allow US Companies to keep their manufacturing in the US in the 1970s though high taxes and unnecessary regulations and allowed US Companies to move critical industries to foreign countries and lose their intellectual property. The US succumbed to the Globalism Scam when they should have lowered corporate taxes removed unnecessary regulations and stopped allowing US Labor Unions to blackmail corporations. Companies would have moved to Right-to-Work states and automation would have made up the difference. Jobs would have remained in Rural Couties and allowed Big Cities to remain smaller and more liveable. 

Now, Government continues to give away $billions in bribes to foreign countries, opened our borders to invasion by illegal immigrants and weaponized the Deep State. Biden signed up to the Climate Change Hoax and discouraged producing reliable energy and created inflation. Biden encouraged EV production and now nobody will buy them.

The embrace of Globalism began in 1988 with the Rio Accords when RINO George HW Bush signed on the UN Agenda 21. It accelerated in 1993 with the NAFTA trade agreement that signaled US manufacturers to off-shore their manufacturing. This removed US manufacturing from Rural counties and devastated their economies.

The worst policy failure was to encourage companies to off-shore their manufacturing operations with high taxes and unnecessary regulations. Government did not restrict manufacturers of critical products like anti-biotics and strategic products like steel from moving manufacturing off-shore.

US Manufacturing jobs peaked in 1983.

In 1979 there were 19.406 million jobs.

In 1983 there were 19.686 million jobs.

In 1998 there were 17.556 million jobs.

In 2009 there were 11453 million jobs. 

In 2010 there were 11.489 million jobs.

In 2019 there were 12.784 million jobs.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-9/forty-years-of-falling-manufacturing-employment.htm

The increases in jobs were due to the increase in non-union manufacturing in Electronics from 1980 to 2000 and Trump’s efforts from 2017 to 2020. US manufacturing companies had been working on solving the quality problems and solved these by 2000 using Lean Manufacturing and Teams of Employees using Continuous Improvement. This allowed companies to off-shore their manufacturing operations more easily to take advantage of lower regulatory costs and labor costs. The Decreases in jobs were due to offshoring manufacturing of apparel, home furnishings, home appliances, chemicals, auto parts and electronics.

US consumers bought cheaply made goods from overseas plants from the 1990s to the 2020s because they were cheap. US consumers would like to see their automobiles and appliances last longer and would pay more for better quality. US consumers would like to see US companies return manufacturing to the US.  Labor-saving automation and increases in product throughput technologies will be needed to keep costs reasonable. The US can use High-Speed automated manufacturing to increase throughput.

Foreign Aid includes military foreign aid, economic aid and humanitarian aid. Most aid goes to Africa.  

U.S. foreign aid obligations jumped from $56.3 billion in 2021 to $70.4 billion in 2022,

Countries That Received the Most Foreign Aid From the U.S. in 2022:

Most aid is economic. Aid to Egypt and Israel was mostly Military.

Ukraine           ($12.4B)

Israel                ($3.3B)

Ethiopia            ($2.2B)

Afghanistan    ($1.39B)

Yemen           ($1.38B)

Egypt             ($1.37B)

Jordan           ($1.19B)

Nigeria           ($1.15B)

Somalia         ($1.14B)

South Sudan ($1.12B)

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/countries-that-receive-the-most-foreign-aid-from-the-u-s

Executive Order 10988 is a United States presidential executive order issued by President John F. Kennedy on January 17, 1962 that granted federal employees the right to collective bargaining.

The failures that occurred from 2001 to 2008 were on George W Bush’s watch. He was responsible for wasting $10 trillion on Nation-Building in Afghanistan and Iraq. His agencies failed to prevent 911 occurred in 2001 and he failed to recognize the Financial Collapse that occurred in 2008. Republicans selected RINO John McCain to run in 2008 and he lost to Obama.

The Financial Collapse was facilitated by Democrats citing Civil Rights and threatening Banks with Discrimination Suits and objecting to Republicans asking question.  Obama worked as a Lawyer threatening Banks.

The failures that occurred from 2009 to 2014 were on Barak Obama’s watch. He was responsible for implementing the “transition” we are suffering from now under Biden.

Obama completed the corruption of the DOJ in 2016. In the 2016 campaign Hillary Clinton and the DNC had the purchased the Russian Dossier for $50,000 from Christopher Steele and gave it to the FBI. The DNC paid a $108,000 fine and Hilary Clinton paid an $5000 fine.

The FBI knew the Russia Collusion claim was a hoax, but they applied for wire-taps anyway.  The FBI received approval from the FISA Court and illegally wiretapped the Trump campaign.  Hillary Clinton, acting as Secretary of State had been caught illegally using her private server and illegally deleting 33,000 emails but the DOJ and FBI refused to prosecute. 

In 2021, Biden’s Executive Orders reversed the Trump Policies that worked on the Border, with Energy and with foreign adversaries. Biden’s sloppy retreat from Afghanistan was the last straw. The continual persecution of Trump is confirmation that Democrats view Trump as an existential threat to their survival.

The price of all this Government largesse is our $34 trillion National Debt, US Inflation, a disappearing Middle-class,

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

US Nominal GDP by State 13024

All States reported higher Nominal GDP totals in 2023 due to US inflation. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP

State                   2020       2021        2022       2023

California            3.1T     3.373T      3.598T    3.898T

Texas                 1.9T     2.051T      2.355T    2.596T

New York           1.7T     1.901T      2.053T    2.168T

Florida               1.1T     1.255T      1.389T    1.595T

Illinois                908B      945B      1.033T     1.092T

Pennsylvania    824B      844B         923B       974B

Ohio                 706B       756B         822B       861B

Georgia            625B       691B         755B      811B

N Jersey           652B      682B         745B       807B

N Carolina        596B      662B         730B       773B

Washington      610B      677B         725B       806B

Massachusetts 604B      641B         688B       741B

Virginia            561B      604B         649B       713B

Michigan          548B      572B         620B       664B

Colorado         396B       436B        484B       526B

Tennessee      385B       427B        475B       528B

Maryland         434B       443B        470B       517B

Arizona           372B        420B       458B       512B

Indiana           381B        412B       455B       501B

Minnesota      385B        412B       446B       476B

Wisconsin      351B        368B       401B       417B

Missouri         336B        358B       389B       425B

Connecticut   289B        298B        321B      343B

Oregon          255B        272B       299B       320B

S Carolina     249B        269B       295B       325B

Louisiana      267B        258B        281B      313B

Alabama        234B       254B        277B      302B

Kentucky       217B       237B        260B      280B

Utah              192B       225B        248B      275B

Oklahoma     207B       215B        240B      257B

Iowa              197B       216B        231B     251B

Nevada         180B       194B        215B     241B

Kansas          175B      191B        210B     230B

Arkansas       135B      148B        165B     177B

Nebraska       161B      146B       161B     181B

DC                 148B      153B       162B     176B

Mississippi     120B      127B       138B     147B

New Mixico    105B      109B       122B     131B

Idaho               82B        96B       109B     120B

N Hampshire   89B        99B       105B     112B

Hawaii             98B        91B         98B     109B

W Virginia       78B        85B         95B     100B

Delaware        76B        81B         87B       94B

Maine              68B       77B         84B       92B

N Dakota         57B       63B        73B       75B

Rhode Island   64B       66B        71B       78B

S Dakota         54B       61B        67B       73B

Montana          53B       58B        65B       71B

Alaska             55B       57B        63B       67B

Wyoming         39B       41B        47B       51B

Vermont          35B       37B        40B       43B

Total US     22.31T   23.315T  25.462T   27.610T

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP

Comments

Total US GDP rose by 2.15 trillion from 25.462T to 27.610T, due to US inflation and unnecessary federal spending on the Climate Change Hoax.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

 

Monday, January 29, 2024

Abortion in the US 12924


There were 168.8 million women in the US population in 2020

There were a total of 620,327 abortions in the US in 2020.

3.6% of women in the US got abortions in 2020.

Abortions increased from 2021 to 2023

Year        Annual    Monthly

2021       625,978   52165

2022      924,000   77000

2023   1,044,000   87000

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/ss/ss7209a1.htm

Women receiving an abortion in 2020 by age.

8.1% of age 20 and younger

6.6% of age 40 and older

23.7% of 30 to 39 year-olds

56.6% of 20 to 29 year-olds

https://mana.org/health/abortion-statistics

 

US Abortions per year

Abortions by Race in 2020 included

39.2% Black

32.7% White

21.1% Hispanic

7%  Other

 

86.3% were Not married

13.7% were married

49% were below the poverty line

26% were up to twice the poverty line

 

45% of abortions occur at 6 weeks or earlier

35.6% of abortions occur at 7 to 9 weeks

12.2% of abortions occur at 10 to 13 weeks

6.8% of abortions occur at 14 weeks or later

 

Pew Research reported that 19% of responders want all abortions legal

2% want abortion legal with no exceptions

 

Many of the physical risks that come with abortion are rare. Some medical complications of abortion include:

Pregnancy tissue remains in the uterus

Uterine blood clots

Heavy bleeding

Injury to cervix or uterus 

Extremely heavy bleeding

Infection

Allergic reaction to the abortion medication 

https://mosaic-virginia.org/resources/effects-of-abortion/?utm_source=lgm&utm_medium=SEM&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz_bOhsDzgwMVhwitBh09SQFoEAAYAyAAEgIPLfD_BwE

 

BELOW ARE SYMPTOMS OF ABORTION TRAUMA

Bouts of crying

Depression

Guilt

Inability to forgive yourself

Intense grief / sadness

Anger / rage

Emotional numbness

Sexual problems or promiscuity

Eating disorders

Lowered self esteem

Drug and alcohol abuse

Nightmares and sleep disturbances

Suicidal urges

Difficulty with relationships

Anxiety and panic attacks

Flashbacks

Multiple abortions

Pattern of repeat crisis pregnancy

Discomfort around babies or pregnant women

Fear/ambivalence of pregnancy

https://h3helpline.org/help-after-abortion/post-abortion-stress-syndrome/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMImau7zL7zgwMVZC2tBh2-Ww55EAAYAiAAEgJdIPD_BwE

 

In 2019, adoptions in the US totaled 120,869 vs 620,327 abortions in 2020.

117000 children were waiting to be adopted and 58,000 were adopted in 2020.

407,000 children were in Foster Care in 2020.

By admitting that the Supreme Court State had no standing to rule on abortion cases, this overturned Roe v Wade and tossing it to State Legislatures.

In the 1900s and before, Orphanages were established to care for infants who were abandoned by their mothers.

The most famous Orphanage was Father Flannigan’s Boy’s Town in Nebraska. It has a website and reports a population of 414 boys.  No other orphanages can be found on google. 

Foster Care has replaced the orphanages. Kids who are not adopted often get passed between many foster and group homes until they age out at age 18-21. Kids with disabilities, including learning disabilities, are twice as likely to age out of the system. Once they have aged out, many of these young vulnerable adults face life alone.Oct 29, 2020 Foster Care is a poor replacement for Orphanages because they shuffle children around and the children don’t even have the friends they made in Orphanages.  States in the US also their Mental Hospitals and School & Hospital Homes for the Severely Retarded. They now live on the streets along with the drug addicts.

The US needs to re-open Orphanages as an option to abortion and re-open Mental Hospitals for the criminally insane. Churches need to open Addiction Treatment Centers, because the most effective treatment is God centered.

I suspect that States will pass Anti-Abortion Laws with limits and allow abortion to be legal if it endangers the health of the mother and in the cases of rape and incest. Some will allow abortions before 6 weeks. The heartbeat begins at 22 days. A fetus feels pain after 24 weeks. Most believe that life does begin at conception,

but pro-abortion forces will protest every version of State Anti-Abortion Bills. It would be wise for States to reopen Orphanages and Mental Hospitals before they draft their Anti-Abortion Bills. The Parent(s) giving up an orphan should decide on the orphanage or foster care options. Women who have illegal abortions should have their tubes tied, but should not go to jail. Women who decide on abortion should travel to wherever abortion is legal.

When Roe v Wade passed, people asked me how I felt. I mentioned that killing children would be more appropriate if they were really bad teenagers. I ended up believing that it would be better to banish bad teenagers and rehab these lost sheep later. The name I gave to abortion was “agnosticide” because agnostics didn’t believe that human life belonged to God and found nothing wrong with killing their infants. I did think that a nation founded on life, liberty and private property should not legalize killing babies.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

Sunday, January 28, 2024

US Illegal Immigration Problem 12824

The Supreme Court will only rule on the Constitutional jurisdiction. They will wait for the Federal Government to return to Trump policies. It’s up to Congress to impeach Biden for failure to enforce the laws on the books, but the Democrat Senate won’t approve Biden’s impeachment.  

Florida is imposing E-Verify to keep illegals from working in Florida and requiring other tight controls..

On May 10, 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1718 to combat the dangerous effects of illegal immigration caused by the federal government’s reckless border policies. This legislation makes using E-Verify mandatory for any employer with 25 or more employees, imposes enforceable penalties for those employing illegal aliens, and enhances penalties for human smuggling. Additionally, this bill prohibits local governments from issuing Identification Cards (ID) to illegal aliens, invalidates ID cards issued to illegal aliens in other states, and requires hospitals to collect and submit data on the costs of providing health care to illegal aliens. More on today’s announcement can be found here.

https://www.flgov.com/2023/05/10/governor-ron-desantis-signs-strongest-anti-illegal-immigration-legislation-in-the-country-to-combat-bidens-border

All Republican State Legislatures should adopt the Florida’s Law to require all businesses to comply with E-Verify Laws to discourage employers from hiring illegal immigrants and institute all other requirements in this law

They could pass a law prohibiting land-lords from renting apartments to illegal immigrants.

Florida Authorities Arrest Undocumented Migrant Under State’s New Law 

MIAMI — A Mexican citizen taken into custody for allegedly driving without U.S. papers and transporting undocumented people was one of the first people to be arrested under Florida's controversial SB 1718, considered the most restrictive state law regarding migrants in the United States.

https://www.voanews.com/a/florida-authorities-arrest-undocumented-migrant-under-state-s-new-law-/7267242.html

The current move by Republican Governors to claim that States should be able to protect their States from illegal alien invasion sounds reasonable, but this could result in Democrat States getting all the illegals to expand their populations, give work permits, push for citizenship and let illegals vote. States Laws should be able to not allow illegals into their States.  

US illegal immigrant counts are up to 302,000 in December 2023. 10 million illegals entered the US from 2021 to 2023.

Church members should end their contributions to churches who are acting as subcontractors to settle and support illegal immigrants. This includes Catholic Charities and other church and non-church non-profit groups.

https://www.usccb.org/migrationministries#:~:text=Catholic%20organizations%20provide%20resettlement%20and,to%20those%20in%20immigration%20detention.

https://impactful.ninja/best-charities-for-helping-undocumented-immigrants/

We need to let illegal immigrants know what States don’t want them and that they will eventually be deported to get this immigrant flow to be reduced. Sanctuary Cities should repeal their Sanctuary status.

As illegal immigration moves from 10 million to 13 million, Biden is likely to loose to Trump in 2024. Trump will reinstall ICE to arrest and deport illegals in 2025. He will need to withhold federal grants to Sanctuary States and Cities This might dissuade illegals from coming if they believe Trump will win in 2024.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

Saturday, January 27, 2024

US Government Debt 12724

From its founding in 1789 there was a $75 million US war debt, but there were differences of opinion based on different fears. George Washington and Alexander Hamilton were expected to pay the debt to France for the Revolutionary War that required tariffs on imports. Thomas Jefferson was focused on improving our agricultural economy and expansion. The founders separated into two Political Parties, Federalists, who supported a strong federal government and Democratic Republicans, who supported stronger state governments and opposed Hamilton’s National Bank to handle debt repayment. They saw banks as part of the private sector and therefore subjected to failure. Banks were not included in enumerated powers in the US Constitution. Senators were elected by state legislators and had to approve Bills submitted by the House. Our 2nd President was John Adams, a Federalist, who paid off the Revolutionary War debt in 1795. Thomas Jefferson was our 3rd President and used the US Bank to handle the $15 million Louisiana Purchase debt to France in 1803. There were always 2 sides to the Bank question. In 1809 James Madison becomes the 4th President of the US. The War of 1812-1815 begins in response to Britain’s seizure of US Merchant ships and crews and resulted in a war debt of $158 million.  

The Mexican War 1846-1848 resulted in another $15 million paid to Mexico for their territory. This enabled the US to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The American Civil War 1860-1865 cost was $64.8 million and was finally paid off in 1900.

In 1913, the US amended the Constitution to allow a permanent Income Tax. World War I arrived in 1914 and the US joined in 1917 resulting a $25 billion war debt.  World War II arrived in 1939 and the US joined in 1941 resulting in a $258 billion war debt.  The Korean War arrived in 1950 and ended in 1953 resulting in a $30 billion war debt.

The Vietnam War began in 1965 and ended in 1975 resulting in a $168 billion war debt. The Korean War began in 1950 and ended in 1953 resulting in a $30 billion war debt. The Kuwait Gulf War began in 1990 resulted in a $9 billion war debt.  The Afghanistan War began in 2001 and ended in 2021 with a $2.3 trillion war debt. The Iraq war began in 2003 and ended in 2005 resulting in a $1.922 trillion war debt.

US Military foreign aid for wars aimed at stopping Communist Dictators in foreign countries was all but abandoned after 1975. The Korea war deaths totaled 36,516 and war costs were $30 billion. The Vietnam war deaths totaled 58,220.and costs were $168 billion.

US Military foreign aid for wars aimed at stopping Terrorists and rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq totaled $4.222 trillion.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022 resulting in a $132 billion US war debt. The Iran-backed war against Israel in 2023 has resulted in a $50 billion US war cost to date.

The US National Debt is $37 trillion due to federal government overspending since 200. US inflation is also due to federal government overspending and restricted oil and natural gas production. 

The US had a debt-to-gdp ratio of 110% in 2022 and 123% in 2023.

The UK had 100% in 2022 and 104% in 2023,

Japan had 214%.in 2022 and 255% in 2023

Italy had 140% in 2022 and 144% in 2023.

Germany had 45% in 2022 and 66% in 2023.

China does not share this data (according to IMF).

 

Country in 2023

Japan 255%

Greece 168%

Singapore 168%

Italy 144%

G7 Ave 128%

USA 123%

France 110%

Portugal 108%

Spain 107%

Canada 106%

Belgium 106%

UK 104%

Cyprus 79%

Austria 75%

Finland 74%

Slovenia 69%

Germany 66%

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/government-debt-by-country-advanced-economies/#google_vignette

The US needs to cut spending on the climate change hoax and reduce the $1 trillion per year interest payment.

The only way forward is to elect Trump and Republicans in the House and Senate in 2024 to increase drilling and starve Russia and Iran with lower oil prices and total economic isolation. We also need to close the Mexican border and deport illegal immigrants.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

 

Friday, January 26, 2024

US National Debt by Year 12624

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/national-debt-by-year-compared-to-gdp-and-major-events-3306287 

From 1929 to 2022, the National Debt grew from $17Billion to $30.8Trillion. The debt came from wars in WW2, Cold War. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. More debt came from Medicare, Welfare, Illegal immigration, refugees, climate change spending and Covid19. 

FY       $Debt  %Debt to GDP

1929      17B     16  Hoover

1930      16B     17

1931      17B     22

1932      20B     34

1933      23B     40 Roosevelt

1934      27B     40

1935      29B     39

1936      34B     40

1939      40B     51

1940      43B     49

1941      49B     44

1942      72B     48  WW2

1943     137B    70

1944     201B    91

1945     259B  114 

1946     269B  119 Truman

1947     258B  103

1948     252B    92

1949     253B    93

1950     257B    86 Korea

1951     255B    74

1952     259B    71

1953     266B    68 Eisenhower

1954     271B    69

1955     274B    64

1956     273B    61

1957     271B    57

1958     276B    58

1959     285B    55

1960     286B    54

1961     289B    52 Kennedy

1962     298B    50

1963     306B    48 Johnson

1964     312B    46 Medicare

1965     317B    43 Vietnam

1966     320B    40 Welfare

1967     326B    40

1968     348B    39

1969     354B    36 Nixon

1970     371B    35

1971     398B    35

1972     427B    34

1973     458B    33

1974     475B    31 Ford

1975     533B    32

1976     620B    33

1977     699B    34 Carter

1978     772B    33

1979     827B    32

1980     908B    32

1981     998B    31 Reagan

1982   1.142T   34

1983   1.377T   37

1984   1.572T   38

1985   1.823T   41

1986   2.125T   46

1987   2.350T   48

1988   2.602T   50 Cold War ends

1989   2.857T   51 Bush 1

1990   3.233T   54 Iraq/Kuwait War

1991   3.665T   58 UN Agenda 21

1992   4.065T   61

1993   4.411T   63 Clinton

1994   4.693T   64

1995   4.974T   64

1996   5.225T   64

1997   5.413T   63

1998   5.526T   60

1999   5.656T   58

2000   5.674T   55

2001   5.807T   55 Bush 2

2002   6.228T   57 Afghanistan War

2003   6.783T   59 Iraq War 2

2004   7.379T   60

2005   7.933T   61

2006   8.507T   61

2007   9.008T   68

2008  10.025T  68 Mortgage meltdown

2009  11.910T  82 Obama

2010  13.562T  90

2011  14.790T  95

2012  16.066T  99

2013  16.738T  99

2014  17.824T 101

2015  18.151T 100

2016  19 573T 105

2017  20.245T 104 Trump

2018  21.516T 105 Tax cuts

2019  22.719T 107 Tariffs

2020  26,945T 124 Covid

2021  28,428T 129 Biden

2022  30.928T 122

2023  33.167T 118

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/national-debt-by-year-compared-to-gdp-and-major-events-3306287

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-to-gdp

https://www.investopedia.com/us-national-debt-by-year-7499291

Comments

The US National Debt explosion began in 2000

George W Bush doubled the National Debt from $5.6T to $10.0T

Barak Obama doubled the National Debt again from 10.0T to 19.5T

Donald Trump moved the National Debt from 19.5T to 22.7T and Covid moved it from 22.7T to 26.9T

Joe Biden moved the National Debt from 26.9T to $33.2T

Excessive US Federal spending stems from national defense in necessary wars like WW2 and Isis.

Military Foreign Aid funds unnecessary wars like Vietnam and most other wars.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader