The warnings are coming from the unlikeliest of places.
First Sarah Palin tells Fox News that “the worst thing that the GOP establishment can do is marginalize Ron Paul and his supporters.” Then that sentiment was echoed by Sen. Jim DeMint, speaking on The Laura Ingraham Show, when he warned that it would be to the party’s detriment to ignore Paul and his supporters. DeMint even gave permission for Paul to use the senator’s voice in a radio ad.
In the two Republican contests so far, Paul consistently won about 20 percent of the vote. Polls show that even in South Carolina, which is not considered hospitable territory for the Texas congressman, he is expected to take about one-sixth of the vote. It is very likely that he will reach the Republican convention with the second-highest number of delegates.
"What can Republicans do to keep Paul's supporters in the tent?"
Yet, large portions of the Republican party seem torn somewhere between reading him out of the party entirely and hoping that Paul and his supporters will quietly fade away.
Many of Paul’s detractors belittle his vote totals by pointing out that much of his support has come from non-Republicans. It is true that Paul won in both Iowa and New Hampshire among independents and people who had never before voted in a Republican primary. In New Hampshire, for example, roughly 63.5 percent of his vote came from independents.
But why is that a bad thing? Given that just 35 percent of voters are registered Republicans, it stands to reason that any GOP candidate is going to have to attract the votes of independents and possibly even disaffected Democrats. Moreover, at a time when many Republican voters are holding their nose in the voting booth, Paul’s supporters are nothing if not enthusiastic. Furthermore, Paul is probably the only Republican candidate who can eat into President Obama’s hold on the youth vote.
But that enthusiasm and those votes are not going to be easily transferred to the eventual Republican standard bearer. Worse, a potential Paul third-party candidacy, while unlikely, would almost certainly guarantee Obama’s reelection.
Paul is unlikely to be bought off with a prime-time speaking spot at the Republican convention. And neither he nor his son Rand is realistically going to end up as the vice-presidential candidate. What then can Republicans do to keep Paul’s supporters in the tent?
Well, to start with, instead of deriding Paul as a RINO or some sort of a crank, and hoping his supporters go away, they might begin to take some of his ideas seriously.
As Senator DeMint says:
I don’t agree with him on everything, but he is right about the out-of-control and unaccountable Federal Reserve. He’s right about the need for limited constitutional government and the importance of individual liberty. And I really think the Republican who is going to win this thing — if they capture some of what Ron Paul’s been talking about for years. And more and more we can see that what he’s been talking about is true. Again, you don’t have to agree with everything he’s saying, but if the other candidates miss the wisdom in what he’s been saying about our monetary policy and limited government, then I think we will see it’s to their detriment because the 20 percent or 25 percent or so that are supporting him are people that we need in the Republican party. A lot of them are libertarians, but they’re our natural base. We shouldn’t ignore them.
That would mean putting forward detailed plans to reduce the size, cost, and intrusiveness of government. It would mean the candidates explaining in detail how they would reform entitlement spending and dismantle Obamacare. It would mean talking about how they will reduce the authority of unelected bureaucracies, including the Fed. It would mean ending corporate welfare, farm supports, ethanol subsidies, and bailouts. It would mean recognizing that, as Sarah Palin noted, “Americans are war-weary,” before proposing the next intervention overseas. It would mean that protecting individual liberty is important, even in an age of terrorism.
For years, Republican candidates have worried that if they didn’t hew to the hardest line possible on social issues, religious conservatives would stay home on Election Day. Economic conservatives, libertarians, and believers in smaller, constitutional government were never given similar deference. The result was a Republican party that drifted ever further away from its Goldwater-Reagan roots.
But that may be about to change. If not, Republicans can’t say they weren’t warned.
This article appeared in National Review (Online)
Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution.
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Presidential Candidates III
The question is, who among the candidates would do the best job of handling the bubble crash crises and have us come out of it as a free market country. I think Ron Paul’s severe cuts and Constitutional compliance proposals would limit our damage and give us the best chance for economic recovery. Newt Gingrich’s plans would run a close second and Rick Santorum comes in a distant third.
U.N. Agenda 21
Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are opposed to U.N. Agenda 21. All would stop and reverse Agenda 21 implementation.
10th Amendment
Only Ron Paul would enforce the 10th Amendment and return the federal government to full compliance with the Constitution. Newt Gingrich would scale down federal departments and may close some agencies. Rick Santorum would do less than Newt.
Federal Spending Cuts
Only Ron Paul would cut federal spending enough to balance the budget. Newt Gingrich would cut less than Ron Paul. Rick Santorum would cut less than Newt.
Core Issues
Whoever is nominated should adopt Ron Paul’s core agenda to cut $1 trillion in annual federal government spending, cut all military and other foreign aid and adopt other measures to increase land productivity. Implementing 10th Amendment reforms and reversing U.N. Agenda 21 implementation are also necessary. These are our core issues.
We know that this would require another Tea Party candidate sweep of the House and Senate and we are working to make this happen.
We believe our economic survival depends on cutting government spending to match revenue. We would accomplish this by removing job killing, regulating departments and agencies from the federal government and giving this responsibility to the states. We would press the federal government to cut all military and other foreign aid. We also believe that the removal of U.N. Agenda 21 implementation needs to occur throughout all levels of government. We would quit the U.N, and all other globalist organizations. We are convinced this is necessary and recognize these changes need to take place in an orderly fashion as soon as possible. We also recognize that taking these actions will affect our current economy. The transfer of functions to the states are necessary to reduce job killing regulatory control. The elimination of military and other foreign aid and U.N. Agenda 21 implementation are necessary to cut spending and return our sovereignty. We would drastically reduce immigration and raise import tariffs.
We believe that government debt and money printing will lead to 50% unemployment and kill our free market system. We believe the debt and dollar crash will be worse if the Federal Reserve continues to prop up the banks and the stock market The Fed has increased the money supply by 300% and given it to the banks and purchased worthless assets to artificially prop up our current economy. This has created a pending federal debt bubble and a dollar devaluation bubble that will create future meltdowns and hyperinflation.
We believe man-made “global warming”, “climate change” is a hoax. We would stop the closure of our coal generating and hydroelectric plants and increase domestic oil production dramatically. We would transfer ownership of all federal lands to the states and urge the states to return this land to productive use.
We believe the best way to get rid of K Street Special Interests is to end all federal spending authority on everything they want. We should abolish all subsidies and the current Tax Code.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
U.N. Agenda 21
Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are opposed to U.N. Agenda 21. All would stop and reverse Agenda 21 implementation.
10th Amendment
Only Ron Paul would enforce the 10th Amendment and return the federal government to full compliance with the Constitution. Newt Gingrich would scale down federal departments and may close some agencies. Rick Santorum would do less than Newt.
Federal Spending Cuts
Only Ron Paul would cut federal spending enough to balance the budget. Newt Gingrich would cut less than Ron Paul. Rick Santorum would cut less than Newt.
Core Issues
Whoever is nominated should adopt Ron Paul’s core agenda to cut $1 trillion in annual federal government spending, cut all military and other foreign aid and adopt other measures to increase land productivity. Implementing 10th Amendment reforms and reversing U.N. Agenda 21 implementation are also necessary. These are our core issues.
We know that this would require another Tea Party candidate sweep of the House and Senate and we are working to make this happen.
We believe our economic survival depends on cutting government spending to match revenue. We would accomplish this by removing job killing, regulating departments and agencies from the federal government and giving this responsibility to the states. We would press the federal government to cut all military and other foreign aid. We also believe that the removal of U.N. Agenda 21 implementation needs to occur throughout all levels of government. We would quit the U.N, and all other globalist organizations. We are convinced this is necessary and recognize these changes need to take place in an orderly fashion as soon as possible. We also recognize that taking these actions will affect our current economy. The transfer of functions to the states are necessary to reduce job killing regulatory control. The elimination of military and other foreign aid and U.N. Agenda 21 implementation are necessary to cut spending and return our sovereignty. We would drastically reduce immigration and raise import tariffs.
We believe that government debt and money printing will lead to 50% unemployment and kill our free market system. We believe the debt and dollar crash will be worse if the Federal Reserve continues to prop up the banks and the stock market The Fed has increased the money supply by 300% and given it to the banks and purchased worthless assets to artificially prop up our current economy. This has created a pending federal debt bubble and a dollar devaluation bubble that will create future meltdowns and hyperinflation.
We believe man-made “global warming”, “climate change” is a hoax. We would stop the closure of our coal generating and hydroelectric plants and increase domestic oil production dramatically. We would transfer ownership of all federal lands to the states and urge the states to return this land to productive use.
We believe the best way to get rid of K Street Special Interests is to end all federal spending authority on everything they want. We should abolish all subsidies and the current Tax Code.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Thursday, January 12, 2012
2012 Economic Dangers
Tea Party Dilemma
How do we explain to you, how much trouble we are in. If you believed, as we do, that we will suffer multiple Meltdowns larger than the one in 2008, because of U.S. government actions taken since 2008, you would need some idea of what we are talking about.
The Banks
We believe Europe is failing to cut their government spending, because they expect the European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve to bail them out. Therefore, they are in no hurry to cut their spending. The banks holding their bonds are European Banks, backed by European governments, mainly Germany. Our banks do not own these Bonds, but bank and sovereign debt defaults in Europe would cost our banks $10 trillion in collateral damage, because our banks have investments in the Eurpoean banks. Our banks already hold an equal amount of toxic assets like foreclosed mortgage-backed securities, so a $10 trillion hit will sink them.
Thanks to Dodd Frank, the U.S. government will pay most of the $10 trillion as they close these banks and we all wander off to find a local state bank or credit union nearby. We may get new charge cards or not. If we have credit card balances, those bills will come due.
U.S. Federal Spending
We are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar the federal government spends every year and there appears to be no plan to stop this soon, or at all. If the banks going out of business wasn’t enough, we have a federal government that is broke. Obama plans to spend an extra trillion or two more than the government receives in revenue for the next 10 years, when the National Debt is planned to go from $15 trillion to $26 trillion. Unfunded liabilities and loan guarantees are now over $100 trillion. This is more than the U.S. would be worth if we sold it. We thought a Republican House would hold the debt ceiling, but that has not been the case.
Investors Pull Out
Investors have been pulling out of Europe and the U.S. for some time. Many continue to have investments in Europe and the U.S., but all are easily liquidated just before the music stops. They like to surf with sharks, so they aren’t worried; they bought all the gold and silver and other commodities. Better yet, they bought hedge fund bets the European and U.S. economies would tank.
Inflation
So far, the Federal Reserve has increased the money supply by 300%. This liquidity is sitting in the big banks in the U.S. and Europe. The published amount is about $5 trillion, but another $20 trillion is suspected to exist as well. The Fed will obviously bail out Europe and the U.S. to allow government spending to continue. This printed money is sure to be used for cash-flow. The entry of this 300% increase in the money supply to the markets will dilute the dollar as it enters. We could have 300% inflation in one year, 30% a year over 10 years, or 10% a year over 30 years. The trillion dollar increases in the debt ceiling will add to this inflation beyond the 300%.
One Chance
If we can get Greece, Italy and Spain to cut their spending to match their revenue and we can do the same, and we can repeal Frank Dodd to end the promise of a funded “wind-down” (last bailout) of the banks and get the Fed’s printed money back from the banks before the crash, we would have a chance. Even if we do all of this, we will have more layoffs, foreclosures, asset value declines and stock market crashes. We will have a 90% drop in the markets and 50% unemployment. Then we will be ready to rebuild.
When will the Music Stop ?
Like a tsunami, we may see the ocean retract from the coast, before it returns and crashes into the shore. We may get the news that European banks are unraveling and know we are in for a hit. At the last minute, the stock market will tank.
In Aftershock, the authors noticed real wages going down and housing prices going up and predicted that the housing price bubble would burst as soon as buyers dried up. Some of us were suspicious when we got 5 telemarketer calls per day to refinance our homes, but the music stopped when banks stopped lending to each other, because they suspected each other might fold because of too many bad loans and bad securities.
What’s a Good Plan
Whoever is elected to the Presidency or the Congress in 2012 will need prepare to handle all the meltdowns. The obvious course the federal government should take is to cut spending to match revenue and refuse to spend any more, or add any loans, aid or loan guarantees to unfunded liabilities.
The cleanest way to deal with this is to cut spending to match revenue immediately. We should suspend legal immigration, deport illegal immigrants and close the border. To ensure that the same agencies won’t be around to ever do this again, we should end the Fed and implement full compliance with the Constitution and 10th Amendment as written. This would end all foreign involvement in the responsibilities that will be given back to the states and the people.
Several things will help our private economy begin to recover. First is to repeal all laws and remove all regulations that prevent us from restoring all land to productive use. Lowering corporate tax rates, especially for manufacturing done in the U.S. will help.
What’s a Bad Plan
A bad plan is for the U.S. to print money and have the fed make up the losses in all U.S. and European banks. This adds more U.S. and European sovereign debt. This will turn into more inflation. It will get worse if nobody cuts spending enough to set up a debt repayment plan.
It is likely Obama would confiscate our savings, retirement, bank accounts and property and turn us into the USSA, comrade. This plan has been published, it’s U.N. Agenda 21. Obama is spending his extra trillion a year implementing Agenda 21 with EPA, Interior, FDA and USDA hostile actions, land confiscation and public transit grants to get local government to do stupid things under the guise of environmentalism.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
How do we explain to you, how much trouble we are in. If you believed, as we do, that we will suffer multiple Meltdowns larger than the one in 2008, because of U.S. government actions taken since 2008, you would need some idea of what we are talking about.
The Banks
We believe Europe is failing to cut their government spending, because they expect the European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve to bail them out. Therefore, they are in no hurry to cut their spending. The banks holding their bonds are European Banks, backed by European governments, mainly Germany. Our banks do not own these Bonds, but bank and sovereign debt defaults in Europe would cost our banks $10 trillion in collateral damage, because our banks have investments in the Eurpoean banks. Our banks already hold an equal amount of toxic assets like foreclosed mortgage-backed securities, so a $10 trillion hit will sink them.
Thanks to Dodd Frank, the U.S. government will pay most of the $10 trillion as they close these banks and we all wander off to find a local state bank or credit union nearby. We may get new charge cards or not. If we have credit card balances, those bills will come due.
U.S. Federal Spending
We are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar the federal government spends every year and there appears to be no plan to stop this soon, or at all. If the banks going out of business wasn’t enough, we have a federal government that is broke. Obama plans to spend an extra trillion or two more than the government receives in revenue for the next 10 years, when the National Debt is planned to go from $15 trillion to $26 trillion. Unfunded liabilities and loan guarantees are now over $100 trillion. This is more than the U.S. would be worth if we sold it. We thought a Republican House would hold the debt ceiling, but that has not been the case.
Investors Pull Out
Investors have been pulling out of Europe and the U.S. for some time. Many continue to have investments in Europe and the U.S., but all are easily liquidated just before the music stops. They like to surf with sharks, so they aren’t worried; they bought all the gold and silver and other commodities. Better yet, they bought hedge fund bets the European and U.S. economies would tank.
Inflation
So far, the Federal Reserve has increased the money supply by 300%. This liquidity is sitting in the big banks in the U.S. and Europe. The published amount is about $5 trillion, but another $20 trillion is suspected to exist as well. The Fed will obviously bail out Europe and the U.S. to allow government spending to continue. This printed money is sure to be used for cash-flow. The entry of this 300% increase in the money supply to the markets will dilute the dollar as it enters. We could have 300% inflation in one year, 30% a year over 10 years, or 10% a year over 30 years. The trillion dollar increases in the debt ceiling will add to this inflation beyond the 300%.
One Chance
If we can get Greece, Italy and Spain to cut their spending to match their revenue and we can do the same, and we can repeal Frank Dodd to end the promise of a funded “wind-down” (last bailout) of the banks and get the Fed’s printed money back from the banks before the crash, we would have a chance. Even if we do all of this, we will have more layoffs, foreclosures, asset value declines and stock market crashes. We will have a 90% drop in the markets and 50% unemployment. Then we will be ready to rebuild.
When will the Music Stop ?
Like a tsunami, we may see the ocean retract from the coast, before it returns and crashes into the shore. We may get the news that European banks are unraveling and know we are in for a hit. At the last minute, the stock market will tank.
In Aftershock, the authors noticed real wages going down and housing prices going up and predicted that the housing price bubble would burst as soon as buyers dried up. Some of us were suspicious when we got 5 telemarketer calls per day to refinance our homes, but the music stopped when banks stopped lending to each other, because they suspected each other might fold because of too many bad loans and bad securities.
What’s a Good Plan
Whoever is elected to the Presidency or the Congress in 2012 will need prepare to handle all the meltdowns. The obvious course the federal government should take is to cut spending to match revenue and refuse to spend any more, or add any loans, aid or loan guarantees to unfunded liabilities.
The cleanest way to deal with this is to cut spending to match revenue immediately. We should suspend legal immigration, deport illegal immigrants and close the border. To ensure that the same agencies won’t be around to ever do this again, we should end the Fed and implement full compliance with the Constitution and 10th Amendment as written. This would end all foreign involvement in the responsibilities that will be given back to the states and the people.
Several things will help our private economy begin to recover. First is to repeal all laws and remove all regulations that prevent us from restoring all land to productive use. Lowering corporate tax rates, especially for manufacturing done in the U.S. will help.
What’s a Bad Plan
A bad plan is for the U.S. to print money and have the fed make up the losses in all U.S. and European banks. This adds more U.S. and European sovereign debt. This will turn into more inflation. It will get worse if nobody cuts spending enough to set up a debt repayment plan.
It is likely Obama would confiscate our savings, retirement, bank accounts and property and turn us into the USSA, comrade. This plan has been published, it’s U.N. Agenda 21. Obama is spending his extra trillion a year implementing Agenda 21 with EPA, Interior, FDA and USDA hostile actions, land confiscation and public transit grants to get local government to do stupid things under the guise of environmentalism.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Thursday, January 5, 2012
AGENDA 21 IN ONE EASY LESSON
AMERICAN POLICY CENTER » AGENDA 21 IN ONE EASY LESSON
Awareness of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development is racing across the nation as citizens in community after community are learning what their city planners are actually up to. As awareness grows, I am receiving more and more calls for tools to help activists fight back. Many complain that elected officials just won’t read detailed reports or watch long videos. “Can you give us something that is quick, and easy to read that we can hand out,” I’m asked. So here it is. A one page, quick description of Agenda 21 that fits on one page. I’ve also included for the back side of your hand out a list of quotes for the perpetrators of Agenda 21 that should back up my brief descriptions.
A word of caution, use this as a starter kit, but do not allow it to be your only knowledge of this very complex subject. To kill it you have to know the facts. Research, know your details; discover the NGO players in your community; identify who is victimized by the policies and recruit them to your fight; and then kill Agenda 21. That’s how it must be done. The information below is only your first step. Happy hunting.
What is Sustainable Development?
According to its authors, the objective of sustainable development is to integrate economic, social and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption, social equity, and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity. Sustainablists insist that every societal decision be based on environmental impact, focusing on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control and reduction.
Social Equity (Social injustice)
Social justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people “to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment.” Redistribution of wealth. Private property is a social injustice since not everyone can build wealth from it. National sovereignty is a social injustice. Universal health care is a social injustice. All part of Agenda 21 policy.
Economic Prosperity
Public Private Partnerships (PPP). Special dealings between government and certain, chosen corporations which get tax breaks, grants and the government’s power of
Eminent Domain to implement sustainable policy. Government-sanctioned monopolies.
Local Sustainable Development policies
Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, STAR Sustainable Communities, Green jobs, Green Building Codes, “Going Green,” Alternative Energy, Local Visioning, facilitators, regional planning, historic preservation, conservation easements, development rights, sustainable farming, comprehensive planning, growth management, consensus.
Who is behind it?
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (formally, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives). Communities pay ICLEI dues to provide “local” community plans, software, training, etc. Addition groups include American Planning Council, The Renaissance Planning Group, International City/ County Management Group, aided by US Mayors Conference, National Governors Association, National League of Cities, National Association of County Administrators and many more private organizations and official government agencies. Foundation and government grants drive the process.
Where did it originate?
The term Sustainable Development was first introduced to the world in the pages a 1987 report (Our Common Future) produced by the United Nations World Commission on Environmental and Development, authored by Gro Harlem Brundtland, VP of the World Socialist Party. The term was first offered as official UN policy in 1992, in a document called UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21, issued at the UN’s Earth Summit, today referred to simply as Agenda 21.
What gives Agenda 21 Ruling Authority?
More than 178 nations adopted Agenda 21 as official policy during a signing ceremony at the Earth Summit. US president George H.W. Bush signed the document for the US. In signing, each nation pledge to adopt the goals of Agenda 21. In 1995, President Bill Clinton, in compliance with Agenda 21, signed Executive Order #12858 to create the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in order to “harmonize” US environmental policy with UN directives as outlined in Agenda 21. The EO directed all agencies of the Federal Government to work with state and local community governments in a joint effort “reinvent” government using the guidelines outlined in Agenda 21. As a result, with the assistance of groups like ICLEI, Sustainable Development is now emerging as government policy in every town, county and state in the nation.
THE FOLLOWING QUOTES OF THOSE BEHIND AGENDA 21 REVEAL THEIR TRUE INTENTIONS. LIKE ANYTHING THE LEFT DOES, THEY GIVE AGENDA 21 PLANS WONDERFUL SOUNDING TITLES WITH THE INTENTION OF HIDING THEIR REAL INTENTIONS.
Revealing Quotes From the Planners
“Agenda 21 proposes an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by EVERY person on Earth…it calls for specific changes in the activities of ALL people… Effective execution of Agenda 21 will REQUIRE a profound reorientation of ALL humans, unlike anything the world has ever experienced… ” Agenda 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet (Earthpress, 1993). Emphases – DR
Urgent to implement – but we don’t know what it is!
“The realities of life on our planet dictate that continued economic development as we know it cannot be sustained…Sustainable development, therefore is a program of action for local and global economic reform – a program that has yet to be fully defined.” The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide, published by ICLEI, 1996.
“No one fully understands how or even, if, sustainable development can be achieved; however, there is growing consensus that it must be accomplished at the local level if it is ever to be achieved on a global basis.” The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide, published by ICLEI, 1996.
Agenda 21 and Private Property
“Land…cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore contributes to social injustice.” From the report from the 1976 UN’s Habitat I Conference.
“Private land use decisions are often driven by strong economic incentives that result in several ecological and aesthetic consequences…The key to overcoming it is through public policy…” Report from the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, page 112.
“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.” Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the UN’s Earth Summit, 1992.
Reinvention of Government
“We need a new collaborative decision process that leads to better decisions, more rapid change, and more sensible use of human, natural and financial resources in achieving our goals.” Report from the President’s Council on
Sustainable Development
“Individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective.” Harvey Ruvin, Vice Chairman, ICLEI. The Wildlands Project
“We must make this place an insecure and inhospitable place for Capitalists and their projects – we must reclaim the roads and plowed lands, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres or presently settled land.” Dave Foreman, Earth First.
What is not sustainable?
Ski runs, grazing of livestock, plowing of soil, building fences, industry, single family homes, paves and tarred roads, logging activities, dams and reservoirs, power line construction, and economic systems that fail to set proper value on the environment.” UN’s Biodiversity Assessment Report.
Hide Agenda 21’s UN roots from the people
“Participating in a UN advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the conspiracy- fixated groups and individuals in our society… This segment of our society who fear ‘one-world government’ and a UN invasion of the United States through which our individual freedom would be stripped away would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined ‘the conspiracy’ by undertaking LA21. So we call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management or smart growth.” J. Gary Lawrence, advisor to President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development.
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Article # 2 from the American Policy Center
Awareness of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development is racing across the nation as citizens in community after community are learning what their city planners are actually up to. As awareness grows, I am receiving more and more calls for tools to help activists fight back. Many complain that elected officials just won’t read detailed reports or watch long videos. “Can you give us something that is quick, and easy to read that we can hand out,” I’m asked. So here it is. A one page, quick description of Agenda 21 that fits on one page. I’ve also included for the back side of your hand out a list of quotes for the perpetrators of Agenda 21 that should back up my brief descriptions.
A word of caution, use this as a starter kit, but do not allow it to be your only knowledge of this very complex subject. To kill it you have to know the facts. Research, know your details; discover the NGO players in your community; identify who is victimized by the policies and recruit them to your fight; and then kill Agenda 21. That’s how it must be done. The information below is only your first step. Happy hunting.
What is Sustainable Development?
According to its authors, the objective of sustainable development is to integrate economic, social and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption, social equity, and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity. Sustainablists insist that every societal decision be based on environmental impact, focusing on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control and reduction.
Social Equity (Social injustice)
Social justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people “to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment.” Redistribution of wealth. Private property is a social injustice since not everyone can build wealth from it. National sovereignty is a social injustice. Universal health care is a social injustice. All part of Agenda 21 policy.
Economic Prosperity
Public Private Partnerships (PPP). Special dealings between government and certain, chosen corporations which get tax breaks, grants and the government’s power of
Eminent Domain to implement sustainable policy. Government-sanctioned monopolies.
Local Sustainable Development policies
Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, STAR Sustainable Communities, Green jobs, Green Building Codes, “Going Green,” Alternative Energy, Local Visioning, facilitators, regional planning, historic preservation, conservation easements, development rights, sustainable farming, comprehensive planning, growth management, consensus.
Who is behind it?
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (formally, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives). Communities pay ICLEI dues to provide “local” community plans, software, training, etc. Addition groups include American Planning Council, The Renaissance Planning Group, International City/ County Management Group, aided by US Mayors Conference, National Governors Association, National League of Cities, National Association of County Administrators and many more private organizations and official government agencies. Foundation and government grants drive the process.
Where did it originate?
The term Sustainable Development was first introduced to the world in the pages a 1987 report (Our Common Future) produced by the United Nations World Commission on Environmental and Development, authored by Gro Harlem Brundtland, VP of the World Socialist Party. The term was first offered as official UN policy in 1992, in a document called UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21, issued at the UN’s Earth Summit, today referred to simply as Agenda 21.
What gives Agenda 21 Ruling Authority?
More than 178 nations adopted Agenda 21 as official policy during a signing ceremony at the Earth Summit. US president George H.W. Bush signed the document for the US. In signing, each nation pledge to adopt the goals of Agenda 21. In 1995, President Bill Clinton, in compliance with Agenda 21, signed Executive Order #12858 to create the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in order to “harmonize” US environmental policy with UN directives as outlined in Agenda 21. The EO directed all agencies of the Federal Government to work with state and local community governments in a joint effort “reinvent” government using the guidelines outlined in Agenda 21. As a result, with the assistance of groups like ICLEI, Sustainable Development is now emerging as government policy in every town, county and state in the nation.
THE FOLLOWING QUOTES OF THOSE BEHIND AGENDA 21 REVEAL THEIR TRUE INTENTIONS. LIKE ANYTHING THE LEFT DOES, THEY GIVE AGENDA 21 PLANS WONDERFUL SOUNDING TITLES WITH THE INTENTION OF HIDING THEIR REAL INTENTIONS.
Revealing Quotes From the Planners
“Agenda 21 proposes an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by EVERY person on Earth…it calls for specific changes in the activities of ALL people… Effective execution of Agenda 21 will REQUIRE a profound reorientation of ALL humans, unlike anything the world has ever experienced… ” Agenda 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet (Earthpress, 1993). Emphases – DR
Urgent to implement – but we don’t know what it is!
“The realities of life on our planet dictate that continued economic development as we know it cannot be sustained…Sustainable development, therefore is a program of action for local and global economic reform – a program that has yet to be fully defined.” The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide, published by ICLEI, 1996.
“No one fully understands how or even, if, sustainable development can be achieved; however, there is growing consensus that it must be accomplished at the local level if it is ever to be achieved on a global basis.” The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide, published by ICLEI, 1996.
Agenda 21 and Private Property
“Land…cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore contributes to social injustice.” From the report from the 1976 UN’s Habitat I Conference.
“Private land use decisions are often driven by strong economic incentives that result in several ecological and aesthetic consequences…The key to overcoming it is through public policy…” Report from the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, page 112.
“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.” Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the UN’s Earth Summit, 1992.
Reinvention of Government
“We need a new collaborative decision process that leads to better decisions, more rapid change, and more sensible use of human, natural and financial resources in achieving our goals.” Report from the President’s Council on
Sustainable Development
“Individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective.” Harvey Ruvin, Vice Chairman, ICLEI. The Wildlands Project
“We must make this place an insecure and inhospitable place for Capitalists and their projects – we must reclaim the roads and plowed lands, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres or presently settled land.” Dave Foreman, Earth First.
What is not sustainable?
Ski runs, grazing of livestock, plowing of soil, building fences, industry, single family homes, paves and tarred roads, logging activities, dams and reservoirs, power line construction, and economic systems that fail to set proper value on the environment.” UN’s Biodiversity Assessment Report.
Hide Agenda 21’s UN roots from the people
“Participating in a UN advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the conspiracy- fixated groups and individuals in our society… This segment of our society who fear ‘one-world government’ and a UN invasion of the United States through which our individual freedom would be stripped away would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined ‘the conspiracy’ by undertaking LA21. So we call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management or smart growth.” J. Gary Lawrence, advisor to President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development.
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Article # 2 from the American Policy Center
Presidential Candidates II
I urge you to take this election very seriously and do a complete study of the candidates’ positions on critical issues. For me, the main issues are over-spending and government overreach. This is not about who we like; it’s about who will save us from becoming a third world country. This is not a beauty contest and half-measures are insufficient. Future posts will outline updates on each candidates’ positions on critical issues.
Critical Issues
If you took the Vote Smart Vote Easy questionnaire and got your percentage match, you have done at least a cursory check based on issues. My standard for picking a candidate is to add up what he says to see if I get a $1 trillion a year in spending cuts. Only Ron Paul has done that so far. I wasn’t surprised after I took the Vote Smart Vote Easy questionnaire that Ron Paul’s position on issues matched at 97% with my answers.
I just finished my second exercise on Google. I typed in the candidate’s name and an issue like spending cuts, 10th Amendment, foreign aid, etc. Then I would go to the websites below and look up what they said. This is my follow-up exercise on issues to see what I missed.
I hear all the other candidates promise what I consider to be minor spending cuts. When I add up what they say, I don’t get $1 trillion in savings. I am one who believes that minor spending cuts are not going to save us from becoming a third world country. I believe we need to cut federal government spending in half. I cannot see us balancing the federal budget without closing most federal departments and agencies. If we return to compliance with the Constitution and the 10th Amendment, it’s easy to see $1 trillion a year being cut. So far, Ron Paul is the only one left willing to do it.
I want the other candidates to realize their current positions on issues are insufficient to deal with the real economy and the bubble bursts already in motion. They would need to pledge to close all unconstitutional federal departments and agencies and send these responsibilities to the States; that results in over $1 trillion in cuts. They would need to cut all foreign aid, quit the UN and quit all other globalist organizations. They would need to end the Fed, end bailouts, loan guarantees, close Fannie, Freddie, Sallie and get out of the loan business. They would need to transfer entitlements and federal land to the States. They would need to eliminate all federal grants.
Our next President will likely preside over the government debt bubble and the dollar crash bubble. These will occur because of past actions like bail-outs, wasteful stimulus and printing money. At the same time, we will be dealing with the more stock market crashes, layoffs, housing value hits, foreclosures, loan defaults the Euro crash, on top of already high unemployment. If our next President deals with these economic shocks by bailing everybody out, we will become a communist gulag with no liberty, no property and no future. The U.N. already has a plan for this, it’s Agenda 21.
The Fed
The cumulative actions taken by our federal government have caused our current economic collapse. These go back to 1913 with the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the end of sound money. Its very existence has created a slush fund for politicians to spend more money than they receive in revenue. The Fed not only debases the dollar with its printing press, it sets wholesale interest rates. The Fed held interest rates low because the federal government overspent. The Federal Reserve has increased the money supply by 300% over the past 4 years. If they don’t pull it back from the banks, that money printing binge will result in 300% inflation in a year, or 30% inflation for 10 years, or 10% inflation for 30 years, take your pick. Real inflation for 2010 and 2011 averaged 15%.
The Debts
We borrow or print 40 cents of every dollar the federal government spends. We’re broke. We don’t have 5 years to fix this. We saw the federal spending go from $3.45 trillion in 2010 to $3.59 trillion in 2011. Our annual revenue is about $2.2 trillion. We need a $1.4 trillion cut in spending to balance the budget.
We have a $15 trillion national debt plus unfunded liabilities of well over $100 trillion; that’s the value of all private property in the U.S. Obama’s current spending plan will take us to a $26 trillion national debt by 2021. We need to freeze the debt where it is and not increase it at all. Foreign investors continue to sell off U.S. Treasury Bills, $69 billion in 2011. If we keep increasing the debt and nobody buys the debt, the Fed will print the money and add to the 300% inflation it has already put in motion (think Weimar Republic).
Europe
If Greece, Spain and Italy fail to cut their government spending and default on their bond payments, our banks will take a $10 trillion hit and their balance sheets are already close to zero because of toxic assets. Our best economists are predicting two bubble bursts: one is the government debt bubble, the other is the dollar bubble crash. Both will result in more asset losses, crashing stock markets, crashing home values and higher unemployment.
Bubbles
Future Meltdowns are eminent. The are two bubbles ready to burst that are larger than the 2008 Meltdown house price and mortgage default bubbles. They are the U.S. government debt bubble and the dollar bubble. As each crashes, it will tank the stock market and give the economy another 30% hit. Unemployment will go to 50%
The federal government owns $5 trillion in toxic assets, including $1 trillion in student loans in Sallie Mae and $4 trillion in worthless mortgage backed securities in Fanny and Freddie and the Fed. The cumulative effect on our economy is $10 trillion from Europe, $5 trillion in bad loans, $15 trillion in National Debt and a $30 trillion loss in a dollar devaluation. There is almost no way out of this.
Government Reform Needed
Much of what the federal government currently does is unnecessary, destructive and designed to ruin our free market economy. It needs to stop giving away our money. All federal departments are implementing UN Agenda 21 to ruin our sovereignty, property rights and liberty. Our government wants to increase our energy costs 5 fold. We need to stop this now. We would eliminate all spending aimed at mitigating carbon emissions and declare global warming an unproven theory.. We would repeal Obama-care, Dodd Frank, Sarbanes Oxley and lots of other laws and regulations. We would cancel previous Executive Orders. We would eliminate foreign aid and quit the U.N. We would stop being the world’s policeman. We could still have a strong, well equipped military as a deterrent..
We would return all federal lands to the states. We would encourage the states to sell their land and return it to productive use. We would encourage oil and natural gas drilling, mining, tree harvesting and eliminate wetlands, wildlife preserves and buffer zones. We would reverse and repeal all productivity damaging laws and regulations. We would limit the sale of U.S. land to U.S. citizens. We would eliminate much of the endangered species list.
In short, I don’t think we can afford a Whitehouse or Senate or House who will keep kicking the can down the road. I don’t have a problem with cutting $1.4 trillion from the federal budget. It will save us from sovereign debt default and allow us to take steps to reduce the inflation we will suffer from money printing. All of the money printed since 1913 has gone to grow government. Balanced budgets end inflation.
Unemployment
We have 100 million working age citizens with no jobs; that’s 32% of our population. Yet we have admitted over 1 million new legal immigrants per year for the past 10 years. They filled 10 million jobs. If we reduce legal immigration to 100 thousand a year and deport 11 million illegal immigrants we would free-up 12 million jobs, If we cut corporate tax for manufacturers with plants in the U.S. to 5% and raise our import tariff from 1.2% to 6% we will see manufacturing jobs return to the U.S. If we cut corporate taxes for all companies with U.S. operations to 15%, more service jobs would return. If these actions result in the creation of another 20 million jobs, we will still have 80 million working age citizens with no jobs. Our real unemployment is far more severe than the government would have us believe.
Reset Government
Our government was designed to protect our free market system and our liberty. Since 1913, our government has passed laws in violation of the Constitution. We can trace all of the trouble we are now having in our economy to these violations. Our solution is to return the federal government to compliance with the Constitution, as written. We need to eliminate all departments and agencies in the federal government that are not authorized by the Constitution to get the kind of spending cuts we need to balance the budget. We would give these functions to the states; the states have most of these departments anyhow.
Swimming Upstream
To reset government, we would need a President, House and Senate who would do everything Ron Paul would do. Government deficit spending creates inflation that will certainly crush our free market economy. Government regulations continue to sap our productivity by restricting natural resource extraction and impose never heard of restrictions on our farms and businesses. The EPA, FDA and USDA are currently shutting down our food production and water access to comply with U.N. Agenda 21. The EPA has stopped all road work for decades because of regulatory overreach in the clean air act. They have shut down California farms by shutting down crop irrigation to save the snail darter. All this should stop.
Ron Paul’s main opposition would come from the 20% Hard Core Liberals, the globalist corporate cronies and the U.N. global government Marxist cabal. They are sending billions in campaign contributions to Obama and Romney.
Ron Paul
I think Ron is the perfect guy for foreign relations; he would leave them on their own, without our money. He has the most comprehensive, specific, common sense plan to return the country to liberty and restore the free market system. He would probably raise our import tariffs to 6% or more and it would be smart to do so. Germany has a 19% import tariff to offset prices and protect their own industries. Ron Paul is a genuine Constitutional Conservative. He is the “founder” of this 10th Amendment movement. He can’t be bought.
As commander-in-chief, he would not send troops unless Congress declared war. That would get the Saudis, Europeans and Japanese to take over monitoring their own neighborhood crazies and defend themselves and their shipping lanes.
If we don’t get Constitutional Conservatives in control of the House and Senate, all Ron Paul would be able to do is cancel all previous Executive Orders, refuse to sign bad bills and refuse to sign spending bills with the military and other foreign aid he has sworn to stop, that would help. He could effectively end Omnibus Bill abuse and make Congress send single item Bills without bad amendments. He could also lop off the extra trillion a year Obama put into the 10 year budget.
Ron Paul’s Mistakes
Ron Paul’s position on immigration is too weak. I believe suspending all immigration is the key to lowering our real unemployment. His position on Iran is too weak. I think we need to call their bluff. The ban on Iranian oil is a good start. Saudi oil passes through the straits of Hormuz and if Iran closes them, we and others will reopen it. This could be a short war we’ve waited too long to fight. It would be a mistake not to take out their nuclear capabilities at the same time. We could have bombed Iran’s nuclear sites years ago just because they have funded terrorism for decades. The UAE can by-pass the straits with their new pipeline, but the Saudi’s can’t . I believe we should regard an attack on Israel as an attack on the U.S., but I would have the Congress vote to confirm this.
Ron Paul is criticized for his Libertarian stance on a few issues. I don’t think Congress would not let him legalize marijuana or throw away their social conservative poker chips like defining marriage.
Ron Paul’s Clarity
Ron Paul’s plan is the only one you can do the math with, look at the results and know that it will work. Most objections to his plan amount to “inside the beltway” posturing, trying to save their jobs and pretending we need what they do. This is baloney.
The Other Candidates
If Newt Gingrich would include closing all unconstitutional federal departments and agencies and cut all foreign aid, he would have $1 trillion in cuts we could count and his plan might work. Newt wants to include a Reagan-type tax reduction and that could actually help. The other candidates have nothing close. They are too platitudinous. Their plans are vague, non-specific and they have no numbers. They are nice guys, but they are all can kickers.
If we fail and Obama is President when the bubbles burst and unemployment goes to 50%, he will confiscate our savings and our property, comrade. We will have Marshall law and we will find ourselves in one of the detention camps Homeland Security is building as we speak. Obama continues to chant big government myths, like we have big obligations to all other countries on the planet.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Critical Issues
If you took the Vote Smart Vote Easy questionnaire and got your percentage match, you have done at least a cursory check based on issues. My standard for picking a candidate is to add up what he says to see if I get a $1 trillion a year in spending cuts. Only Ron Paul has done that so far. I wasn’t surprised after I took the Vote Smart Vote Easy questionnaire that Ron Paul’s position on issues matched at 97% with my answers.
I just finished my second exercise on Google. I typed in the candidate’s name and an issue like spending cuts, 10th Amendment, foreign aid, etc. Then I would go to the websites below and look up what they said. This is my follow-up exercise on issues to see what I missed.
I hear all the other candidates promise what I consider to be minor spending cuts. When I add up what they say, I don’t get $1 trillion in savings. I am one who believes that minor spending cuts are not going to save us from becoming a third world country. I believe we need to cut federal government spending in half. I cannot see us balancing the federal budget without closing most federal departments and agencies. If we return to compliance with the Constitution and the 10th Amendment, it’s easy to see $1 trillion a year being cut. So far, Ron Paul is the only one left willing to do it.
I want the other candidates to realize their current positions on issues are insufficient to deal with the real economy and the bubble bursts already in motion. They would need to pledge to close all unconstitutional federal departments and agencies and send these responsibilities to the States; that results in over $1 trillion in cuts. They would need to cut all foreign aid, quit the UN and quit all other globalist organizations. They would need to end the Fed, end bailouts, loan guarantees, close Fannie, Freddie, Sallie and get out of the loan business. They would need to transfer entitlements and federal land to the States. They would need to eliminate all federal grants.
Our next President will likely preside over the government debt bubble and the dollar crash bubble. These will occur because of past actions like bail-outs, wasteful stimulus and printing money. At the same time, we will be dealing with the more stock market crashes, layoffs, housing value hits, foreclosures, loan defaults the Euro crash, on top of already high unemployment. If our next President deals with these economic shocks by bailing everybody out, we will become a communist gulag with no liberty, no property and no future. The U.N. already has a plan for this, it’s Agenda 21.
The Fed
The cumulative actions taken by our federal government have caused our current economic collapse. These go back to 1913 with the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the end of sound money. Its very existence has created a slush fund for politicians to spend more money than they receive in revenue. The Fed not only debases the dollar with its printing press, it sets wholesale interest rates. The Fed held interest rates low because the federal government overspent. The Federal Reserve has increased the money supply by 300% over the past 4 years. If they don’t pull it back from the banks, that money printing binge will result in 300% inflation in a year, or 30% inflation for 10 years, or 10% inflation for 30 years, take your pick. Real inflation for 2010 and 2011 averaged 15%.
The Debts
We borrow or print 40 cents of every dollar the federal government spends. We’re broke. We don’t have 5 years to fix this. We saw the federal spending go from $3.45 trillion in 2010 to $3.59 trillion in 2011. Our annual revenue is about $2.2 trillion. We need a $1.4 trillion cut in spending to balance the budget.
We have a $15 trillion national debt plus unfunded liabilities of well over $100 trillion; that’s the value of all private property in the U.S. Obama’s current spending plan will take us to a $26 trillion national debt by 2021. We need to freeze the debt where it is and not increase it at all. Foreign investors continue to sell off U.S. Treasury Bills, $69 billion in 2011. If we keep increasing the debt and nobody buys the debt, the Fed will print the money and add to the 300% inflation it has already put in motion (think Weimar Republic).
Europe
If Greece, Spain and Italy fail to cut their government spending and default on their bond payments, our banks will take a $10 trillion hit and their balance sheets are already close to zero because of toxic assets. Our best economists are predicting two bubble bursts: one is the government debt bubble, the other is the dollar bubble crash. Both will result in more asset losses, crashing stock markets, crashing home values and higher unemployment.
Bubbles
Future Meltdowns are eminent. The are two bubbles ready to burst that are larger than the 2008 Meltdown house price and mortgage default bubbles. They are the U.S. government debt bubble and the dollar bubble. As each crashes, it will tank the stock market and give the economy another 30% hit. Unemployment will go to 50%
The federal government owns $5 trillion in toxic assets, including $1 trillion in student loans in Sallie Mae and $4 trillion in worthless mortgage backed securities in Fanny and Freddie and the Fed. The cumulative effect on our economy is $10 trillion from Europe, $5 trillion in bad loans, $15 trillion in National Debt and a $30 trillion loss in a dollar devaluation. There is almost no way out of this.
Government Reform Needed
Much of what the federal government currently does is unnecessary, destructive and designed to ruin our free market economy. It needs to stop giving away our money. All federal departments are implementing UN Agenda 21 to ruin our sovereignty, property rights and liberty. Our government wants to increase our energy costs 5 fold. We need to stop this now. We would eliminate all spending aimed at mitigating carbon emissions and declare global warming an unproven theory.. We would repeal Obama-care, Dodd Frank, Sarbanes Oxley and lots of other laws and regulations. We would cancel previous Executive Orders. We would eliminate foreign aid and quit the U.N. We would stop being the world’s policeman. We could still have a strong, well equipped military as a deterrent..
We would return all federal lands to the states. We would encourage the states to sell their land and return it to productive use. We would encourage oil and natural gas drilling, mining, tree harvesting and eliminate wetlands, wildlife preserves and buffer zones. We would reverse and repeal all productivity damaging laws and regulations. We would limit the sale of U.S. land to U.S. citizens. We would eliminate much of the endangered species list.
In short, I don’t think we can afford a Whitehouse or Senate or House who will keep kicking the can down the road. I don’t have a problem with cutting $1.4 trillion from the federal budget. It will save us from sovereign debt default and allow us to take steps to reduce the inflation we will suffer from money printing. All of the money printed since 1913 has gone to grow government. Balanced budgets end inflation.
Unemployment
We have 100 million working age citizens with no jobs; that’s 32% of our population. Yet we have admitted over 1 million new legal immigrants per year for the past 10 years. They filled 10 million jobs. If we reduce legal immigration to 100 thousand a year and deport 11 million illegal immigrants we would free-up 12 million jobs, If we cut corporate tax for manufacturers with plants in the U.S. to 5% and raise our import tariff from 1.2% to 6% we will see manufacturing jobs return to the U.S. If we cut corporate taxes for all companies with U.S. operations to 15%, more service jobs would return. If these actions result in the creation of another 20 million jobs, we will still have 80 million working age citizens with no jobs. Our real unemployment is far more severe than the government would have us believe.
Reset Government
Our government was designed to protect our free market system and our liberty. Since 1913, our government has passed laws in violation of the Constitution. We can trace all of the trouble we are now having in our economy to these violations. Our solution is to return the federal government to compliance with the Constitution, as written. We need to eliminate all departments and agencies in the federal government that are not authorized by the Constitution to get the kind of spending cuts we need to balance the budget. We would give these functions to the states; the states have most of these departments anyhow.
Swimming Upstream
To reset government, we would need a President, House and Senate who would do everything Ron Paul would do. Government deficit spending creates inflation that will certainly crush our free market economy. Government regulations continue to sap our productivity by restricting natural resource extraction and impose never heard of restrictions on our farms and businesses. The EPA, FDA and USDA are currently shutting down our food production and water access to comply with U.N. Agenda 21. The EPA has stopped all road work for decades because of regulatory overreach in the clean air act. They have shut down California farms by shutting down crop irrigation to save the snail darter. All this should stop.
Ron Paul’s main opposition would come from the 20% Hard Core Liberals, the globalist corporate cronies and the U.N. global government Marxist cabal. They are sending billions in campaign contributions to Obama and Romney.
Ron Paul
I think Ron is the perfect guy for foreign relations; he would leave them on their own, without our money. He has the most comprehensive, specific, common sense plan to return the country to liberty and restore the free market system. He would probably raise our import tariffs to 6% or more and it would be smart to do so. Germany has a 19% import tariff to offset prices and protect their own industries. Ron Paul is a genuine Constitutional Conservative. He is the “founder” of this 10th Amendment movement. He can’t be bought.
As commander-in-chief, he would not send troops unless Congress declared war. That would get the Saudis, Europeans and Japanese to take over monitoring their own neighborhood crazies and defend themselves and their shipping lanes.
If we don’t get Constitutional Conservatives in control of the House and Senate, all Ron Paul would be able to do is cancel all previous Executive Orders, refuse to sign bad bills and refuse to sign spending bills with the military and other foreign aid he has sworn to stop, that would help. He could effectively end Omnibus Bill abuse and make Congress send single item Bills without bad amendments. He could also lop off the extra trillion a year Obama put into the 10 year budget.
Ron Paul’s Mistakes
Ron Paul’s position on immigration is too weak. I believe suspending all immigration is the key to lowering our real unemployment. His position on Iran is too weak. I think we need to call their bluff. The ban on Iranian oil is a good start. Saudi oil passes through the straits of Hormuz and if Iran closes them, we and others will reopen it. This could be a short war we’ve waited too long to fight. It would be a mistake not to take out their nuclear capabilities at the same time. We could have bombed Iran’s nuclear sites years ago just because they have funded terrorism for decades. The UAE can by-pass the straits with their new pipeline, but the Saudi’s can’t . I believe we should regard an attack on Israel as an attack on the U.S., but I would have the Congress vote to confirm this.
Ron Paul is criticized for his Libertarian stance on a few issues. I don’t think Congress would not let him legalize marijuana or throw away their social conservative poker chips like defining marriage.
Ron Paul’s Clarity
Ron Paul’s plan is the only one you can do the math with, look at the results and know that it will work. Most objections to his plan amount to “inside the beltway” posturing, trying to save their jobs and pretending we need what they do. This is baloney.
The Other Candidates
If Newt Gingrich would include closing all unconstitutional federal departments and agencies and cut all foreign aid, he would have $1 trillion in cuts we could count and his plan might work. Newt wants to include a Reagan-type tax reduction and that could actually help. The other candidates have nothing close. They are too platitudinous. Their plans are vague, non-specific and they have no numbers. They are nice guys, but they are all can kickers.
If we fail and Obama is President when the bubbles burst and unemployment goes to 50%, he will confiscate our savings and our property, comrade. We will have Marshall law and we will find ourselves in one of the detention camps Homeland Security is building as we speak. Obama continues to chant big government myths, like we have big obligations to all other countries on the planet.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Georgia Legislative Session 2012
Transportation
The Transportation Investment Act of 2010 should be repealed. It violates city and county sovereignty by creating unelected, unaccountable regional governing entities. It usurps city and county authority and responsibility for roads within its borders. UN Agenda 21 recommends regional governance to sabotage local control and cut voters out of the loop. The ARC final list continues to be a MARTA bail-out. With federal funds for MARTA in question, they see this grant spending binge Obama is on as the last chance to get that Obama-money. Subjecting the 8 surrounding counties to a 1 cent sales tax for the next 10 years based on a vote of the total region is political suicide for the Georgia Legislature. TIA needs to be repealed, the vote cancelled and MARTA sold to private operators. All public transit should be privatized. If we are successful in defeating the TSPLOST in July, what will the legislature do ?
Federal Menace
Federal grants for transportation should be refused because they require us to do stupid things. I hope we are not counting on there being any federal money after 2013. The U.S. Department of Transportation should be abolished along with the U.S. EPA for its obstruction of road maintenance in the name of “clean air”. U.N Agenda 21 implementation should be stopped and reversed and the 1992 Executive Order cancelled. The U.N now plans to tax us for our water in the name of environmentalism and the redistribution of wealth from us to them.
Atlanta Roads
There is a mess to clean up in Atlanta metro. The HOT lanes need to be removed and returned to general use. The PPP contract needs to be terminated. UN Agenda 21 suggests public private partnerships to promote the general chaos. US 29 should be extended to intersect with I-85 and I-75 and identified as an Atlanta by-pass for interstate traffic. I-285 needs another lane in each side. An East to West highway needs to be built to connect Smyrna with Tucker giving us a grid. Leave the cities and counties alone to do the rest by themselves.
The GDOT is a train-wreck. Whoever decided to put stop lights at highway entry ramps should be deported to Haiti. GDOT needs to be a department reporting to the Governor with very limited responsibilities. They could handle the interstate highways if we can close the U.S. Department of Transportation. I would leave everything else to the counties and cities. City and county taxes should be left to handle all expenses. State spending on the interstate should be 20%.
Education
Education has reached its price / demand curve due to over-subsidization by government, regulations and mission-drift. It will be necessary to push the counties to assume more and more financial responsibility for public schools. State tax dollars going to education should be reduced 5 to 10% each year. Bonds should not be used to finance anything. Education soaks up 54.5% of the 2012 budget. College costs are too high and students rely on Sallie Mae student loans they will not be able to repay. This bubble needs to be deflated carefully but steadily.
Healthcare
Healthcare has also reached its price / demand curve due to over-subsidization by government, regulations, the lack of tort reform and gaming the system. Providers are over-due for serious restructuring and cost reduction. Government subsidies should be removed concurrent with the industries’ cost reduction plans. State tax dollars going to healthcare should be reduced 5 to 10% each year.
State Land
Sell off the 210 thousand acres we own and return this land to productive use wherever possible. We shouldn’t own any wildlife preserves, wetlands, timberland or hunting preserves. We should sell these to U.S. citizens only. Proceeds should go to the reserve account. Bonds should not be used to finance anything.
Water
If there is anything the State is responsible for, it’s water. Our water supply is unstable and more and larger reservoirs are needed.
Taxes
Keep income tax rates where they are. Screwing around with taxes will just piss everybody off. Any tax increase on cigarettes will send all smokers to Missouri to by it by the case. Food is already high enough. Everybody is jumping on raising sales taxes. Paychecks will continue to decline, so it is a good idea to cover the losses you can project from lower income tax revenue. Property tax is also a declining entity. Bonds should not be used to finance anything. They make everything cost double, so half of the debt service goes in the paper shredder.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody Ga Tea Party Leader
The Transportation Investment Act of 2010 should be repealed. It violates city and county sovereignty by creating unelected, unaccountable regional governing entities. It usurps city and county authority and responsibility for roads within its borders. UN Agenda 21 recommends regional governance to sabotage local control and cut voters out of the loop. The ARC final list continues to be a MARTA bail-out. With federal funds for MARTA in question, they see this grant spending binge Obama is on as the last chance to get that Obama-money. Subjecting the 8 surrounding counties to a 1 cent sales tax for the next 10 years based on a vote of the total region is political suicide for the Georgia Legislature. TIA needs to be repealed, the vote cancelled and MARTA sold to private operators. All public transit should be privatized. If we are successful in defeating the TSPLOST in July, what will the legislature do ?
Federal Menace
Federal grants for transportation should be refused because they require us to do stupid things. I hope we are not counting on there being any federal money after 2013. The U.S. Department of Transportation should be abolished along with the U.S. EPA for its obstruction of road maintenance in the name of “clean air”. U.N Agenda 21 implementation should be stopped and reversed and the 1992 Executive Order cancelled. The U.N now plans to tax us for our water in the name of environmentalism and the redistribution of wealth from us to them.
Atlanta Roads
There is a mess to clean up in Atlanta metro. The HOT lanes need to be removed and returned to general use. The PPP contract needs to be terminated. UN Agenda 21 suggests public private partnerships to promote the general chaos. US 29 should be extended to intersect with I-85 and I-75 and identified as an Atlanta by-pass for interstate traffic. I-285 needs another lane in each side. An East to West highway needs to be built to connect Smyrna with Tucker giving us a grid. Leave the cities and counties alone to do the rest by themselves.
The GDOT is a train-wreck. Whoever decided to put stop lights at highway entry ramps should be deported to Haiti. GDOT needs to be a department reporting to the Governor with very limited responsibilities. They could handle the interstate highways if we can close the U.S. Department of Transportation. I would leave everything else to the counties and cities. City and county taxes should be left to handle all expenses. State spending on the interstate should be 20%.
Education
Education has reached its price / demand curve due to over-subsidization by government, regulations and mission-drift. It will be necessary to push the counties to assume more and more financial responsibility for public schools. State tax dollars going to education should be reduced 5 to 10% each year. Bonds should not be used to finance anything. Education soaks up 54.5% of the 2012 budget. College costs are too high and students rely on Sallie Mae student loans they will not be able to repay. This bubble needs to be deflated carefully but steadily.
Healthcare
Healthcare has also reached its price / demand curve due to over-subsidization by government, regulations, the lack of tort reform and gaming the system. Providers are over-due for serious restructuring and cost reduction. Government subsidies should be removed concurrent with the industries’ cost reduction plans. State tax dollars going to healthcare should be reduced 5 to 10% each year.
State Land
Sell off the 210 thousand acres we own and return this land to productive use wherever possible. We shouldn’t own any wildlife preserves, wetlands, timberland or hunting preserves. We should sell these to U.S. citizens only. Proceeds should go to the reserve account. Bonds should not be used to finance anything.
Water
If there is anything the State is responsible for, it’s water. Our water supply is unstable and more and larger reservoirs are needed.
Taxes
Keep income tax rates where they are. Screwing around with taxes will just piss everybody off. Any tax increase on cigarettes will send all smokers to Missouri to by it by the case. Food is already high enough. Everybody is jumping on raising sales taxes. Paychecks will continue to decline, so it is a good idea to cover the losses you can project from lower income tax revenue. Property tax is also a declining entity. Bonds should not be used to finance anything. They make everything cost double, so half of the debt service goes in the paper shredder.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody Ga Tea Party Leader
Monday, January 2, 2012
Camping with Bears
In December 2010, two years into the 2nd Great Depression, the State of Georgia purchased 10,000 acres of Oaky Woods in Houston County for $28.7 million ($2,875 per acre). Georgia had already purchased 200,000 acres of uninhabitable land and this will bring our total holdings of uninhabitable land to 210,000 acres of land for wildlife. This has been brought to us by the lobbying of 8,400 Georgians working in behalf of the other 9,820,811 Georgians and the haplessness of the Board of Natural Resources that should be abolished. So the State is going to pay $2,875 per acre for uninhabitable land we will “all enjoy visiting”, so we can camp and hike and run from the wild bears ? I don’t think so.
We could have had the 8400 Sierra Club members in Georgia and 100 bear and wild boar hunters buy the land. It would only cost them $3,376 each and after all, it’s for the bears. If you Georgians can’t wait to camp there, I urge you to bring your running shoes and extra food to lob at the bears when they chase you. The bears can run faster than you and they also climb and swim, so if they chase you, you’re in trouble. It might be good to bring paper bags full of salad to lob at them. They also like fish, but the fish should be alive and moving, so this might not work out so well. Wild hogs will eat anything, so make sure you have plenty of anything to lob at them.
Was the original argument for buying this uninhabitable land to promise that if we gave wild animals their own land, they would not visit our homes ? I realize the black bears and wild hogs the pest control people remove from our homes need to go someplace, but we are not likely to pack up the kids to go camping with bears. Don’t we first need to recruit hunters to become interested in hunting wild hogs and bears before this gets out of hand ? The folks in the Florida Keys are having a hell-of-a time finding hunters interested in eradicating the 9 pound African Gambian pouch rats inhabiting their wildlife preserves to keep them from heading north.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody Ga Tea Party Leader
We could have had the 8400 Sierra Club members in Georgia and 100 bear and wild boar hunters buy the land. It would only cost them $3,376 each and after all, it’s for the bears. If you Georgians can’t wait to camp there, I urge you to bring your running shoes and extra food to lob at the bears when they chase you. The bears can run faster than you and they also climb and swim, so if they chase you, you’re in trouble. It might be good to bring paper bags full of salad to lob at them. They also like fish, but the fish should be alive and moving, so this might not work out so well. Wild hogs will eat anything, so make sure you have plenty of anything to lob at them.
Was the original argument for buying this uninhabitable land to promise that if we gave wild animals their own land, they would not visit our homes ? I realize the black bears and wild hogs the pest control people remove from our homes need to go someplace, but we are not likely to pack up the kids to go camping with bears. Don’t we first need to recruit hunters to become interested in hunting wild hogs and bears before this gets out of hand ? The folks in the Florida Keys are having a hell-of-a time finding hunters interested in eradicating the 9 pound African Gambian pouch rats inhabiting their wildlife preserves to keep them from heading north.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody Ga Tea Party Leader
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