We won ! Congratulations to Mayor-elect Mike Davis and Councilor-elect Terry Nall. Go to the City of Dunwoody website for the count. It will show total vote counts as follows: Mayor Mike Davis–3432; Bob Dallas–2267. Council Post 4 Terry Nall–3699 Robert Wittenstein-1980.
We in the Dunwoody GA Tea Party endorsed Mike Davis and Terry Nall and we are confident they will be positive contributors to the Council. They were with us in our opposition to the $128 million debt the Park Bonds would have imposed, but most of the credit for dodging that bullet goes to you, the voters of Dunwoody. Your common sense and math skills prevailed.
City Council Dynamics
We believe the addition of Mike and Terry will give the council some balance. The last council got caught up in taking federal grants that required them to do dumb things. The last Council Reps were also too close to the non-profit organizations squatting on city park land. In the last Council, group-think ruled and common sense and applied math skills failed. We are confident that Mike and Terry know what Dunwoody voters expect and will add critical analysis to pending issues.
The first thing the new Council will need to do is determine why road improvements that are tied to federal grant money cost 4 times what they would cost if the city paid the entire cost. We will oppose the $6.14 billion TSPLOST vote in July 2012 for making the Park Bonds look like a good deal.
My thanks goes to all the Dunwoody Tea Partiers who worked hard on the Vote No Park Bonds and our candidates’ campaigns.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody Tea Party Leader
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Crimes Against Liberty
The federal government is engaged in a full-on attack on our economy, drummed up by the UN, called UN Agenda 21. The Global Warming hoax got this plan started in the US in 1992. This plan is designed to decimate our free market system to turn the US into a third world country and bring the US under UN global governance. It will destroy jobs, make houses and cars unaffordable for most and herd us into “transit villages”. There will be no private property. A totalitarian government will own all the land and will therefore control our food and water supplies. Obama has tasked all federal agencies to implement this destruction as fast as possible. Every federal department mission statement on their websites includes a high priority to combat “global warming”. If Obama is defeated in 2012, the Communists embedded in the federal government will fight to keep this infrastructure until they can reignite their destructive plan.
Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security has seen fit to refuse to close the Mexican border, continuing to comply with the UN Agenda 21 "open borders" rule, rather than the U.S. secure borders laws.
Immigration
The Immigration Department has decided not to deport illegal aliens unless they are dangerous criminals. These criminals are deported, join drug cartels and re-enter the U.S. a week later.
Immigration continues to admit about 1 million legal immigrants per year as they have done for decades. They ensure that these new immigrants have jobs. These are the jobs that would have gone to the 30 million US citizens who are unemployed or the 1 million US citizens a year who are attempting to enter the workforce.
FDA
The FDA is raiding milk production operations on U.S. farms. They show up and declare that the milk products are unhealthy. This is totally unfounded, but they use police powers to destroy the milk and cheese. Farmers who lost product sell cows and try to adjust their costs to offset the loss. These farmers have legal costs in the $30,000 range and are on their way to going out of business
EPA
The EPA shows up at a lot a family purchased to build a house on and declares the lot a “wetland” because it overlooks a lake. The family has already spent $20,000 for grading and materials, but they are forced to remove the materials. The family never gets to build the house on the land they bought.
The EPA has interpreted the Clean Air Act to include the permanent removal of all dust from the air on farms where dust has always been a by-product of plowing, harvesting and clearing. The Clean Air Act has prevented road development and maintenance for decades. The roads and bridges are all in disrepair because they want us to stop deiving our cars.
Labor
The Labor Department is writing regulations that would keep families from working on their own farms by tightening up child labor laws. Anyone who drives a tractor would be required to have a truck drivers license. Apparently farm kids are too capable to "fit in" with their unemployable counterparts.
Interior
The Interior Department orders farmers to stop watering their crops. The corps die and the farmers go out of business.
Interior is also also working on removing 4 hydroelectric dams in 2020 in California. There is nothing wrong with the dams, they just want to restore the Kalmath River to its previous, unproductive past. On November 10, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA) introduced the Klamath Basin Economic Restoration Act in Congress (H.R. 3398 / S. 1851). The bill would approve two Klamath agreements and give the go-ahead to potentially remove four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River. This will cause the loss of 165 megawatts of power from power plants cheaper to run than coal and nuclear. Electric rates will soar.
Interior has already shut down most of the US timber and mining industries and have been seizing land to create “wildlife preserves” and “wetlands” and “buffer zones” in addition to adding to the 35% of the land mass owned by the US government.
HUD
HUD seeks agreements with apartment management companies located by public transit to reserve 20% of their units for low income subsidized housing. This distributes low income housing throughout the suburbs and wherever apartments are located or about to be built. If we abolished HUD, those “clients” would simply move in with relatives. Our economically unsustainable 1964 “great society” programs die hard.
Federal Subsidies
Ethanol – There is no reason to subsidize ethanol or even require that it be put in our gasoline. Ethanol destroys parts that need to be replaced. Our “cheap” foreign made lawnmower has a plastic carburetor that needs to be replaced every couple of years.
Import Export Bank - The Import Export bank is a welfare program for very large multi-national companies like Boeing, GE, Bechtel and Caterpillar. The bank pays subsidies directly to these large exporters.
Tax Code - The Tax Code is rife with subsidies for special interest companies and industries. It over-taxes some products and subsidizes other companies and industries.
TARP & Bail-outs - These should be repealed and the unspent subsidies returned to pay down the National Debt
Direct subsidies for industries like agriculture should not be part of federal expense at all. If states want to subsidize farmers, they can hash it out with their voters.
Indian Reservations are as productive as “wildlife preserves” or museums. What’s stopping American Indians from moving off the reservations ?
OSHA
OSHA shows up at a house owned by a homeowner and orders them to make about $30,000 worth of changes to their house to make it “more environmentally friendly”. The reasoning here is that homeowners have service technicians work in their homes occasionally and these new requirements are meant to protect these technicians.
NLRB
The failure of labor unions to organize anything beyond government workers has the NLRB going rogue. They stopped Boeing from building a plant in North Carolina. They have trumped up a new poster and are trying to trick businesses into posting it so they can advertizing unionization. They are attempting to change union election rules as much as possible to the union’s advantage. They know the only way employees would vote for a union, is if you to trick them into it.
Energy
The Department of Energy is loaning tax dollars to scams like Solyndra, a failed solar panel manufacturer Grant money is pouring out of the Energy Department to attack cost-effective energy production and promote alternative energy to achieve a five-fold increase in our electric bills.
Transportation
The Department of Transportation is giving grants to state and local governments to expand public transit and create “transit villages”. The purpose of this is to replace single family homes in subdivisions and prepare us to give up our homes and cars. They are demanding “Regional” solutions and the creation of appointed Regional Taxing Authorities to subvert city and county sovereignty. This is all outlined in UN Agenda 21.
Justice
The Department of Justice attempted to give terrorists the same trial rights as US citizens by insisting on blocking Military tribunals as “unconstitutional. They sold assault rifles to Mexican drug cartels and then lost track of them. They selectively refuse to prosecute crimes committed by black leftist activist organizations.
Courts
Federal courts are packed with “Progressives” who believe we are a socialist state. Courts have led the charge to destroy the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Legislature
The House and Senate are frozen in inaction. Socialists dominate the Senate and almost half the House. The gridlock is permanent until either the conservatives return us to a free market system or the socialists create a permanent, economically unsustainable communist gulag.
State Department
Hillary Clinton is busy agreeing to everything the UN wants us to do. Obama is happy to implement these UN initiatives by executive order. Our sovereignty is eroding and unless it stops, we will be paying taxes to the UN for the privilege of breathing their air and drinking their water.
Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve has been killing the US dollar with a host of bad moves from imposing below market interest rates for the benefit of our overspending federal government and the banks, hedge funds and international criminals. Other world currencies have followed our dollar decline and commodity prices are rising in every country.
The “Arab Spring” of uprisings was ignited by higher food prices imposed by the Federal Reserve’s dollar killing actions. When food prices rise in the US, we object; when food prices rise in third world Arab countries, they go hungry.
The government / banking cabal needs to be broken up. We need to pass a law to wind down the Fed and eventually close it. The Market would set the interest rates and the inflation caused by currency devaluation would end.
Affirmative Action
The Community Reinvestment Act coupled with HUD regulations forced banks to make bad mortgage loans. The artificially low interest rates imposed by the Fed caused home prices to rise. These loans were bundled into mortgage securities and caused the 2008 global economic meltdown. It’s time to end discrimination lawsuits and every other rip-off that pretends that some of us are victims, somehow inferior and need to be protected.
Federal Regulations
Most of these need to be repealed and replaced with effective, due process, individual culpability civil law reform. Municipal courts can hear civil small claims cases, but they won’t make the crook pay you back You are totally on your own. What use is that ? If someone gets sick or injured because of flaws in your products or processes, they should have the law on their side.
Most regulations are well crafted barriers to prevent “main street” companies from entering mega-companies markets. Safety regulations in particular are rife with abuse.
The most objectionable regulations are those that impinge on our freedoms. When the crook that takes your property is your government, it’s time to change your government.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security has seen fit to refuse to close the Mexican border, continuing to comply with the UN Agenda 21 "open borders" rule, rather than the U.S. secure borders laws.
Immigration
The Immigration Department has decided not to deport illegal aliens unless they are dangerous criminals. These criminals are deported, join drug cartels and re-enter the U.S. a week later.
Immigration continues to admit about 1 million legal immigrants per year as they have done for decades. They ensure that these new immigrants have jobs. These are the jobs that would have gone to the 30 million US citizens who are unemployed or the 1 million US citizens a year who are attempting to enter the workforce.
FDA
The FDA is raiding milk production operations on U.S. farms. They show up and declare that the milk products are unhealthy. This is totally unfounded, but they use police powers to destroy the milk and cheese. Farmers who lost product sell cows and try to adjust their costs to offset the loss. These farmers have legal costs in the $30,000 range and are on their way to going out of business
EPA
The EPA shows up at a lot a family purchased to build a house on and declares the lot a “wetland” because it overlooks a lake. The family has already spent $20,000 for grading and materials, but they are forced to remove the materials. The family never gets to build the house on the land they bought.
The EPA has interpreted the Clean Air Act to include the permanent removal of all dust from the air on farms where dust has always been a by-product of plowing, harvesting and clearing. The Clean Air Act has prevented road development and maintenance for decades. The roads and bridges are all in disrepair because they want us to stop deiving our cars.
Labor
The Labor Department is writing regulations that would keep families from working on their own farms by tightening up child labor laws. Anyone who drives a tractor would be required to have a truck drivers license. Apparently farm kids are too capable to "fit in" with their unemployable counterparts.
Interior
The Interior Department orders farmers to stop watering their crops. The corps die and the farmers go out of business.
Interior is also also working on removing 4 hydroelectric dams in 2020 in California. There is nothing wrong with the dams, they just want to restore the Kalmath River to its previous, unproductive past. On November 10, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA) introduced the Klamath Basin Economic Restoration Act in Congress (H.R. 3398 / S. 1851). The bill would approve two Klamath agreements and give the go-ahead to potentially remove four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River. This will cause the loss of 165 megawatts of power from power plants cheaper to run than coal and nuclear. Electric rates will soar.
Interior has already shut down most of the US timber and mining industries and have been seizing land to create “wildlife preserves” and “wetlands” and “buffer zones” in addition to adding to the 35% of the land mass owned by the US government.
HUD
HUD seeks agreements with apartment management companies located by public transit to reserve 20% of their units for low income subsidized housing. This distributes low income housing throughout the suburbs and wherever apartments are located or about to be built. If we abolished HUD, those “clients” would simply move in with relatives. Our economically unsustainable 1964 “great society” programs die hard.
Federal Subsidies
Ethanol – There is no reason to subsidize ethanol or even require that it be put in our gasoline. Ethanol destroys parts that need to be replaced. Our “cheap” foreign made lawnmower has a plastic carburetor that needs to be replaced every couple of years.
Import Export Bank - The Import Export bank is a welfare program for very large multi-national companies like Boeing, GE, Bechtel and Caterpillar. The bank pays subsidies directly to these large exporters.
Tax Code - The Tax Code is rife with subsidies for special interest companies and industries. It over-taxes some products and subsidizes other companies and industries.
TARP & Bail-outs - These should be repealed and the unspent subsidies returned to pay down the National Debt
Direct subsidies for industries like agriculture should not be part of federal expense at all. If states want to subsidize farmers, they can hash it out with their voters.
Indian Reservations are as productive as “wildlife preserves” or museums. What’s stopping American Indians from moving off the reservations ?
OSHA
OSHA shows up at a house owned by a homeowner and orders them to make about $30,000 worth of changes to their house to make it “more environmentally friendly”. The reasoning here is that homeowners have service technicians work in their homes occasionally and these new requirements are meant to protect these technicians.
NLRB
The failure of labor unions to organize anything beyond government workers has the NLRB going rogue. They stopped Boeing from building a plant in North Carolina. They have trumped up a new poster and are trying to trick businesses into posting it so they can advertizing unionization. They are attempting to change union election rules as much as possible to the union’s advantage. They know the only way employees would vote for a union, is if you to trick them into it.
Energy
The Department of Energy is loaning tax dollars to scams like Solyndra, a failed solar panel manufacturer Grant money is pouring out of the Energy Department to attack cost-effective energy production and promote alternative energy to achieve a five-fold increase in our electric bills.
Transportation
The Department of Transportation is giving grants to state and local governments to expand public transit and create “transit villages”. The purpose of this is to replace single family homes in subdivisions and prepare us to give up our homes and cars. They are demanding “Regional” solutions and the creation of appointed Regional Taxing Authorities to subvert city and county sovereignty. This is all outlined in UN Agenda 21.
Justice
The Department of Justice attempted to give terrorists the same trial rights as US citizens by insisting on blocking Military tribunals as “unconstitutional. They sold assault rifles to Mexican drug cartels and then lost track of them. They selectively refuse to prosecute crimes committed by black leftist activist organizations.
Courts
Federal courts are packed with “Progressives” who believe we are a socialist state. Courts have led the charge to destroy the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Legislature
The House and Senate are frozen in inaction. Socialists dominate the Senate and almost half the House. The gridlock is permanent until either the conservatives return us to a free market system or the socialists create a permanent, economically unsustainable communist gulag.
State Department
Hillary Clinton is busy agreeing to everything the UN wants us to do. Obama is happy to implement these UN initiatives by executive order. Our sovereignty is eroding and unless it stops, we will be paying taxes to the UN for the privilege of breathing their air and drinking their water.
Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve has been killing the US dollar with a host of bad moves from imposing below market interest rates for the benefit of our overspending federal government and the banks, hedge funds and international criminals. Other world currencies have followed our dollar decline and commodity prices are rising in every country.
The “Arab Spring” of uprisings was ignited by higher food prices imposed by the Federal Reserve’s dollar killing actions. When food prices rise in the US, we object; when food prices rise in third world Arab countries, they go hungry.
The government / banking cabal needs to be broken up. We need to pass a law to wind down the Fed and eventually close it. The Market would set the interest rates and the inflation caused by currency devaluation would end.
Affirmative Action
The Community Reinvestment Act coupled with HUD regulations forced banks to make bad mortgage loans. The artificially low interest rates imposed by the Fed caused home prices to rise. These loans were bundled into mortgage securities and caused the 2008 global economic meltdown. It’s time to end discrimination lawsuits and every other rip-off that pretends that some of us are victims, somehow inferior and need to be protected.
Federal Regulations
Most of these need to be repealed and replaced with effective, due process, individual culpability civil law reform. Municipal courts can hear civil small claims cases, but they won’t make the crook pay you back You are totally on your own. What use is that ? If someone gets sick or injured because of flaws in your products or processes, they should have the law on their side.
Most regulations are well crafted barriers to prevent “main street” companies from entering mega-companies markets. Safety regulations in particular are rife with abuse.
The most objectionable regulations are those that impinge on our freedoms. When the crook that takes your property is your government, it’s time to change your government.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Restoring the 10th Amendment
The excesses and corruption in the federal government have brought the global economy to its knees. Global warming is a hoax and it’s time to cancel all executive orders and return the country to productivity.
The Constitution restricts the federal government to a hand full of functions including the maintenance of our currency, national defense, granting patents, entering treaties, controlling immigration, paying its debts, imposing taxes, delivering mail, passing and maintaining laws, declaring war and maintaining courts of law..
The 10th Amendment restricts the federal government to these duties and declares that all other functions belong to the States and the People.
Unconstitutional Activities
Nowhere in the Constitution or its Amendments or the Bill of Rights will you find that the federal government is responsible for maintaining the Federal Reserve and National Banks, National Parks, Transportation, Health Insurance, Public Schools, Student Loans, Home Mortgages, Protecting Endangered Species, Supporting the Arts, Maintaining Museums,or Retirement Plans.
Nowhere does it say that the federal government should seize private property for “wetlands”, or shut off water to farmlands, or demand that perfectly good cheese and milk be destroyed or shut down production of timber harvesting or mining or oil and gas drilling or shut down our road building because of air quality or shut down our farms because of water quality
Return to Productivity
Our success as a nation has been based on putting all of our resources to work. We have enough farmland to grow all the food we need with a surplus to sell. We have enough timberland to harvest trees for all the wood we need. We have enough coal, oil and natural gas to provide energy for ourselves for a long time. We have enough talent to manufacture anything we need. If we don’t return to producing, our free market economy will die. We need sound money
Close Federal Departments
To return to productivity, we must restore the 10th Amendment. The federal government is too involved with the UN, IMF, Special Interests and Socialists to continue their current unconstitutional activities. We should quit the UN and IMF and end all foreign aid and all grant programs.
The most damaging federal departments should close first. These would include the Departments of Education, Interior, Commerce, Transportation, Labor and Energy. Federal agencies should close including EPA, FDA HUD, FHA, OSHA, NIH. NSF, NASA, Corp of Engineers, EEOC, OFCCP, TSA, National Banks and International Programs.
Next, the federal government should sell Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Sallie Mae and get out of the loan business. At the same time, plans to unwind the federal healthcare and retirement plan activities should be made so that eventually Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will become private programs. The federal government should plan to pay off the National Debt and the entitlement wind-down costs and close the Federal Reserve to make banking a private enterprise with no bail-outs.
Plans to deed all federal lands back to the states should follow. All of the responsibilities performed by federal departments that will close should be transferred to the States. All States have versions of most federal departments and agencies.
New State Responsibilities
States would be responsible for those Interstate highways crossing through their state. They would also inherit maintenance of all federal lands and national parks. All land in the U.S. should be sold by the states to U.S. citizens to be put into production. Foreign citizens and foreign governments should not be allowed to buy land in the U.S. States should pay off their Bonds and refrain from borrowing; all states should begin to build and maintain surpluses sufficient to handle emergencies.
New County Responsibilities
Counties should assume full responsibility for public schools, hospitals and welfare. States should cut funding for these in an orderly fashion and transfer these responsibilities to the counties. Counties could opt to use vouchers for public schools along with internet and home schooling. Counties should pay off all Bonds and refrain from borrowing.
Real Campaign Finance Reform
Legal campaign contributing should be restricted to registered voters. They would only be allowed to make legal campaign contributions to candidates who appear on their ballots.
Cost Reduction
The costs of education, health care and government are unsustainable. These industries must return to the basics and cut their costs in half in a short amount of time.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
The Constitution restricts the federal government to a hand full of functions including the maintenance of our currency, national defense, granting patents, entering treaties, controlling immigration, paying its debts, imposing taxes, delivering mail, passing and maintaining laws, declaring war and maintaining courts of law..
The 10th Amendment restricts the federal government to these duties and declares that all other functions belong to the States and the People.
Unconstitutional Activities
Nowhere in the Constitution or its Amendments or the Bill of Rights will you find that the federal government is responsible for maintaining the Federal Reserve and National Banks, National Parks, Transportation, Health Insurance, Public Schools, Student Loans, Home Mortgages, Protecting Endangered Species, Supporting the Arts, Maintaining Museums,or Retirement Plans.
Nowhere does it say that the federal government should seize private property for “wetlands”, or shut off water to farmlands, or demand that perfectly good cheese and milk be destroyed or shut down production of timber harvesting or mining or oil and gas drilling or shut down our road building because of air quality or shut down our farms because of water quality
Return to Productivity
Our success as a nation has been based on putting all of our resources to work. We have enough farmland to grow all the food we need with a surplus to sell. We have enough timberland to harvest trees for all the wood we need. We have enough coal, oil and natural gas to provide energy for ourselves for a long time. We have enough talent to manufacture anything we need. If we don’t return to producing, our free market economy will die. We need sound money
Close Federal Departments
To return to productivity, we must restore the 10th Amendment. The federal government is too involved with the UN, IMF, Special Interests and Socialists to continue their current unconstitutional activities. We should quit the UN and IMF and end all foreign aid and all grant programs.
The most damaging federal departments should close first. These would include the Departments of Education, Interior, Commerce, Transportation, Labor and Energy. Federal agencies should close including EPA, FDA HUD, FHA, OSHA, NIH. NSF, NASA, Corp of Engineers, EEOC, OFCCP, TSA, National Banks and International Programs.
Next, the federal government should sell Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Sallie Mae and get out of the loan business. At the same time, plans to unwind the federal healthcare and retirement plan activities should be made so that eventually Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will become private programs. The federal government should plan to pay off the National Debt and the entitlement wind-down costs and close the Federal Reserve to make banking a private enterprise with no bail-outs.
Plans to deed all federal lands back to the states should follow. All of the responsibilities performed by federal departments that will close should be transferred to the States. All States have versions of most federal departments and agencies.
New State Responsibilities
States would be responsible for those Interstate highways crossing through their state. They would also inherit maintenance of all federal lands and national parks. All land in the U.S. should be sold by the states to U.S. citizens to be put into production. Foreign citizens and foreign governments should not be allowed to buy land in the U.S. States should pay off their Bonds and refrain from borrowing; all states should begin to build and maintain surpluses sufficient to handle emergencies.
New County Responsibilities
Counties should assume full responsibility for public schools, hospitals and welfare. States should cut funding for these in an orderly fashion and transfer these responsibilities to the counties. Counties could opt to use vouchers for public schools along with internet and home schooling. Counties should pay off all Bonds and refrain from borrowing.
Real Campaign Finance Reform
Legal campaign contributing should be restricted to registered voters. They would only be allowed to make legal campaign contributions to candidates who appear on their ballots.
Cost Reduction
The costs of education, health care and government are unsustainable. These industries must return to the basics and cut their costs in half in a short amount of time.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Economic Development
Redevelopment Referendum
Unfortunately, the City of Dunwoody voted for the Redevelopment Referendum on November 8th 2011. This gives the city the power to authorize Tax Authorizing Districts (TADs). Now we have to pay careful attention to what the City Council does moving forward. Dunwoody has no blighted areas that the free market system couldn’t resolve. Dunwoody does have Master Plans that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The city will attempt to use TADs to implement these wasteful Master Plans.
The apartments that were saved by the defeat of the Park Bonds are not a blighted property. A proper rental applications process can keep felons and poor credit risks from renting there and other management actions can resolve whatever problems exist there.
PCID Transit Village
PCID however, has 5700 more apartments planned for their transit village. They should be left to make their own mistakes and not expect the city to subsidize their plans. Their transit village is built around MARTA, a failed business that spends $750 million a year, but only has $120 million in ridership revenue. The other $630 million comes from tax subsidies. PCID’s major renters are retail and they will continue to struggle in this long recession. Like the Park Bonds, if the TSPLOST fails, PCID will need to slow its expansion to match its actual revenue projections..
Property Rights Violations
When government uses the term economic development, it is referring to government intervention designed to raise the property tax on whatever they are trying to “fix”. City and county governments have been dealing with “blighted” properties for decades. At first, they resorted to condemning the property and forcing the property owner to do something with it. If it’s a downtown property, owners would pay to have the building demolished and would put in a parking lot until a buyer came along. If the property is too far from downtown office buildings, and the price was low, government might buy it and turn it into a park (a bad move). When government wants to establish a Tax Authorizing District (TAD), it authorized the TAD group to operate as an unelected government entity, with the right to issue Bonds. Like everything else government gets interested in, it will become so expensive, nobody will show up to rent the properties.
Whenever a business “partners” with government, the bail-out will be borne by the taxpayer. TADs are used by cities to attempt to increase city property taxes, usually on commercial properties. We’ve seen news stories over the years, telling about business owners, forced from their businesses by government authorized TADs, claiming Eminent Domain rights over their private property. That’s what TADs do and most of these crimes go unreported.
Free Market System
The only real economic development exists in the free market system; that is, individual owners investing their own money to build a business. If the business fails, the taxpayer isn’t on the hook to bail them out.
The most cost-effective approach to building a family business that can be passed to each generation is for the family to first purchase the land the business will occupy. Once the land and building costs are paid off, the property can operate rent-free. That gives that business a chance to become multi-generational. That’s why Republicans fight for a tax code with no “death tax”. Family farms are the prototype of the family business and when the owner dies, these farms often need to be sold to pay the estate taxes. Government has used tax policy and Eminent Domain abuse for decades to destroy family businesses to favor large corporate ownership.
Replace Elected Officials
Government should abolish the death tax and be forced to pay double the appraised value of any private property it seeks to seize. Instead, government continues to fail to do a good job with their core responsibilities. City governments involved with TADs unnecessarily put voters at risk of financial obligations and inflate prices and taxes. It is similar to public school districts building multi-million dollar school buildings, but failing to teach students basic math, reading and writing. When government authorizes a TAD to do their dirty work, they are still accountable to the voters. The same goes for a State that authorizes a Regional entity. Every State Rep who voted for the legislation and the governor who signed it and the representatives who didn’t repeal it are accountable to the voters. If the HOT lanes aren’t working out so well, the blame goes to the State Reps and the Governor. They should all be replaced in the next elections. The TSPLOST we will vote on in July 2012 has wasteful, unhelpful projects that cost too much. The blame goes to the Governor and the State Reps and Senators who voted for the creation of the Regional Commissions and the County Commissioners and City Council Reps who participated.. Those elected officials who approved and worked on the Regional Commissions should all be replaced in the next election.
The Regional entities have been authorized in nearly every state. These are unelected commissions and are not accountable to the voters for their actions or failures. The establishment of Regional entities is required by U.S. Agenda 21 to undermine city, county and state sovereignty. These commissions need to be abolished.
Private / Public Partnerships are also part of this scheme and those elected officials who allow them should be driven from office. These “partnerships” create boondoggles like Atlanta’s Toll Lanes. The HOT lanes should be dismantled and their contracts cancelled.
Cities, counties and states are being bribed with grants from every federal agency to implement UN Agenda 21. The fact that cities have grant money implicates them in this scheme. The money for these grants is being printed as we speak and will result in inflation and higher unemployment going forward. Local government gains nothing from these grants. It would be cheaper if local taxes went to fix local roads and sewers. Somehow the grants require that the local governments spend four times more than simple resurfacing would cost. These local elected officials should be fired.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Unfortunately, the City of Dunwoody voted for the Redevelopment Referendum on November 8th 2011. This gives the city the power to authorize Tax Authorizing Districts (TADs). Now we have to pay careful attention to what the City Council does moving forward. Dunwoody has no blighted areas that the free market system couldn’t resolve. Dunwoody does have Master Plans that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The city will attempt to use TADs to implement these wasteful Master Plans.
The apartments that were saved by the defeat of the Park Bonds are not a blighted property. A proper rental applications process can keep felons and poor credit risks from renting there and other management actions can resolve whatever problems exist there.
PCID Transit Village
PCID however, has 5700 more apartments planned for their transit village. They should be left to make their own mistakes and not expect the city to subsidize their plans. Their transit village is built around MARTA, a failed business that spends $750 million a year, but only has $120 million in ridership revenue. The other $630 million comes from tax subsidies. PCID’s major renters are retail and they will continue to struggle in this long recession. Like the Park Bonds, if the TSPLOST fails, PCID will need to slow its expansion to match its actual revenue projections..
Property Rights Violations
When government uses the term economic development, it is referring to government intervention designed to raise the property tax on whatever they are trying to “fix”. City and county governments have been dealing with “blighted” properties for decades. At first, they resorted to condemning the property and forcing the property owner to do something with it. If it’s a downtown property, owners would pay to have the building demolished and would put in a parking lot until a buyer came along. If the property is too far from downtown office buildings, and the price was low, government might buy it and turn it into a park (a bad move). When government wants to establish a Tax Authorizing District (TAD), it authorized the TAD group to operate as an unelected government entity, with the right to issue Bonds. Like everything else government gets interested in, it will become so expensive, nobody will show up to rent the properties.
Whenever a business “partners” with government, the bail-out will be borne by the taxpayer. TADs are used by cities to attempt to increase city property taxes, usually on commercial properties. We’ve seen news stories over the years, telling about business owners, forced from their businesses by government authorized TADs, claiming Eminent Domain rights over their private property. That’s what TADs do and most of these crimes go unreported.
Free Market System
The only real economic development exists in the free market system; that is, individual owners investing their own money to build a business. If the business fails, the taxpayer isn’t on the hook to bail them out.
The most cost-effective approach to building a family business that can be passed to each generation is for the family to first purchase the land the business will occupy. Once the land and building costs are paid off, the property can operate rent-free. That gives that business a chance to become multi-generational. That’s why Republicans fight for a tax code with no “death tax”. Family farms are the prototype of the family business and when the owner dies, these farms often need to be sold to pay the estate taxes. Government has used tax policy and Eminent Domain abuse for decades to destroy family businesses to favor large corporate ownership.
Replace Elected Officials
Government should abolish the death tax and be forced to pay double the appraised value of any private property it seeks to seize. Instead, government continues to fail to do a good job with their core responsibilities. City governments involved with TADs unnecessarily put voters at risk of financial obligations and inflate prices and taxes. It is similar to public school districts building multi-million dollar school buildings, but failing to teach students basic math, reading and writing. When government authorizes a TAD to do their dirty work, they are still accountable to the voters. The same goes for a State that authorizes a Regional entity. Every State Rep who voted for the legislation and the governor who signed it and the representatives who didn’t repeal it are accountable to the voters. If the HOT lanes aren’t working out so well, the blame goes to the State Reps and the Governor. They should all be replaced in the next elections. The TSPLOST we will vote on in July 2012 has wasteful, unhelpful projects that cost too much. The blame goes to the Governor and the State Reps and Senators who voted for the creation of the Regional Commissions and the County Commissioners and City Council Reps who participated.. Those elected officials who approved and worked on the Regional Commissions should all be replaced in the next election.
The Regional entities have been authorized in nearly every state. These are unelected commissions and are not accountable to the voters for their actions or failures. The establishment of Regional entities is required by U.S. Agenda 21 to undermine city, county and state sovereignty. These commissions need to be abolished.
Private / Public Partnerships are also part of this scheme and those elected officials who allow them should be driven from office. These “partnerships” create boondoggles like Atlanta’s Toll Lanes. The HOT lanes should be dismantled and their contracts cancelled.
Cities, counties and states are being bribed with grants from every federal agency to implement UN Agenda 21. The fact that cities have grant money implicates them in this scheme. The money for these grants is being printed as we speak and will result in inflation and higher unemployment going forward. Local government gains nothing from these grants. It would be cheaper if local taxes went to fix local roads and sewers. Somehow the grants require that the local governments spend four times more than simple resurfacing would cost. These local elected officials should be fired.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Community Development
Dunwoody Master Plan
You will find Community Development on the City of Dunwoody website. Implementation of the approved Land Use Plan is included under Community Development. As you read the Land Use Master Plan you will notice references to “community input” contributing to develop the “vision” of what Dunwoody ought to become. This process was conducted by consultants trained in the Delphi technique, designed to “guide” the outcome of the exercise. The outcomes are consistent with the current, expensive, cookie cutter “vision” of the Obama administration and UN Agenda 21. The vision the Land Use Plan was based on is a sham, but approved just the same..
U.N. Agenda 21
The goal of UN Agenda 21 is to collapse our country in debt, take the U.S. dollar to zero; then create a U.N. dollar and take over the U.S. under UN rule. This would be a global communist government. There would eventually be no private property and those who survive the de-population events would be herded into transit villages in crowded rented apartments (think Soviet gulag). Government regulations will drive the price of energy and automobiles so high that few will be able to afford cars or live in single family houses. All will be moved to 750 square foot apartments in PCID.
Obama promised “fundamental transformation” After he crashes the dollar and bankrupts the country, he will hand it over to the U.N.
Now we live in an almost free economy, soon we won’t. Many of us own cars and homes in subdivisions with yards, soon we won’t. We can currently pay our food and water bills along with our electric and gas bills, soon we won’t.
These Land Use Master Plans are being implemented by City Councils and County Commissions all across the country. They are identical, because they are pre-packaged by ICLEI, the U.N. agency tasked with implementing U.N. Agenda 21 at the city and county level. All consultants hired by cities and counties will draw up these plans. Up to now, all cities and counties have rubber-stamped them approved.
Before Land Use Master Plans, In our traditional free market system, shopping centers were planned to serve local residents. The new Land Use Plans usurp private property rights and impose a fairy-tale version of what a shopping center should be.
Recent Dunwoody history shows how a free market system worked. Publics moved in to the Shoppes of Dunwoody several years ago, demolished the existing grocery store building and build a larger building in compliance with their own corporate model. There was no Land Use Master Plan at the time to conform to. Now we have one, so how would Publics deal with the new plan ? About the same time, Walgreens moved in to Dunwoody Village, tore down the old building and built a new one according to their corporate model. If the Dunwoody Village Master Plan was implemented and the buildings built, who would the tenants be ?
If you look at the drawings of the Dunwoody Village Master Plan, you will see apartments over retail stores and none big enough for a grocery store or drug store. If all these stores are sized to be nick-nack shops, they won’t make it.
Tax Authorizing Districts
The City of Davidson N.C. got a bunch of grant money and built one of these mixed use developments 5 years ago. It still sits empty today because the rents are too high. No apartments or stores are rented except an ice cream shop.
Several developments have been built over the last decade, by cities creating tax authorizing districts (TADs), using federal grants and selling bonds based on the appraised value of the property vs. the hoped-for value of the property. The incentive for cities to do this is to generate more revenue for the city, by creating more expensive retail space they can tax at a higher value. Many of these developments missed the mark and sit empty. The developer is gone and the taxpayers of the city are left holding the bag.
All Plans are Identical
All city and county Master Plans throughout the U.S. are the same. They are multi-modal plans built around transit villages. They are the same because the agency giving the city or county the grant to develop the plans requires that they all comply with the granting agencies specifications. These plans are implemented by consultants trained in U.N. Agenda 21 implementation. These plans are all implemented the same way. The city or county appoints a Sustainability Commission. Consultants come in and organize “citizen input groups, using methods that are designed to get the answers the consultants want. This is called the Delphi Technique. The Master Plan controls everything, even privately owned shopping centers.
While this is going on, the EPA, OSHA, and the Departments if Transportation, Commerce and Interior are seizing rural land for “wildlife preserves”, state and national parks and buffer zones. Their goal is to restrict water in farming areas and force farmers from their land. If they can’t have water to irrigate their crops, they will quietly go broke and sell their land to the government or a “private partner” (think Soylent Green).
Living in the USSA
U.N. Agenda 21 calls for the government to take over all food production and control all water use. Cap & Trade schemes will raise energy rates five fold. Their goal is to make single family housing so expensive, we all move to government subsidized apartments in transit villages. Also cars will be unaffordable after this scheme drives gasoline prices up five fold and café’ standards make the average car cost $50,000. It also calls for us to transfer most of our resources to third world countries. The U.N. is made up of mostly third world countries.
Replace Elected Officials
If we don’t think this is a good deal, we can stop it. All we need to do is to fire Obama and elect all new city councils, county commissions and state legislatures in November 2012, based on how they voted. Then we need the new guys to disapprove their Land Use Master Plans. We also need to repeal the laws authorizing U.N Agenda 21, Regional Commissions, Tax Authorizing Districts and Public / Private Partnerships. We need to disband commissions and unelected groups. We need close most federal departments and agencies and send these responsibilities to the states. We need to quit the U.N and send it to Somalia. Federal grants should stop, they’re broke and should stop giving away printed money.
Dunwoody Village Plan
The approved plan to re-do Dunwoody Village Parkway is typical of the price increases associated with taking grants. This less than a half mile 4 lane road re-do will cost $2.4 million. That’s $5 million a mile to turn it into a 2 lane road. What’s the rest of the re-do going to cost ? It’s not a good time to overpay for road re-do on underutilized shopping center road.. Milling and resurfacing a road should cost $100 thousand per mile, not $5 million a mile. How about a re-do of the Chamblee Dunwoody Road / Mt. Vernon intersection first ? There are two plans afoot here. One is to break us with government overspending, taxes, a devaluing dollar and unemployment and the other is to link us with the transit village. (think multi-modal).
Economic Outlook
We have new bubbles to burst in our economy, the government debt bubble and the dollar crash are the most dangerous. The continuing dollar devaluation will bring a substantial increase in inflation from the Federal Reserve’s printing press. The toxic assets created in the 2008 Meltdown now belong to Fannie, Freddie, The Federal Reserve and the big banks; they are not going away, they are getting worse. Sallie Mae holds $1 trillion in student loan debt (think blood and turnip). U.S. consumer debt is $2.43 trillion. Government, Education and Healthcare costs are double what they should be for these industries to remain “sustainable”. The fundamentals suggest higher unemployment ahead.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
You will find Community Development on the City of Dunwoody website. Implementation of the approved Land Use Plan is included under Community Development. As you read the Land Use Master Plan you will notice references to “community input” contributing to develop the “vision” of what Dunwoody ought to become. This process was conducted by consultants trained in the Delphi technique, designed to “guide” the outcome of the exercise. The outcomes are consistent with the current, expensive, cookie cutter “vision” of the Obama administration and UN Agenda 21. The vision the Land Use Plan was based on is a sham, but approved just the same..
U.N. Agenda 21
The goal of UN Agenda 21 is to collapse our country in debt, take the U.S. dollar to zero; then create a U.N. dollar and take over the U.S. under UN rule. This would be a global communist government. There would eventually be no private property and those who survive the de-population events would be herded into transit villages in crowded rented apartments (think Soviet gulag). Government regulations will drive the price of energy and automobiles so high that few will be able to afford cars or live in single family houses. All will be moved to 750 square foot apartments in PCID.
Obama promised “fundamental transformation” After he crashes the dollar and bankrupts the country, he will hand it over to the U.N.
Now we live in an almost free economy, soon we won’t. Many of us own cars and homes in subdivisions with yards, soon we won’t. We can currently pay our food and water bills along with our electric and gas bills, soon we won’t.
These Land Use Master Plans are being implemented by City Councils and County Commissions all across the country. They are identical, because they are pre-packaged by ICLEI, the U.N. agency tasked with implementing U.N. Agenda 21 at the city and county level. All consultants hired by cities and counties will draw up these plans. Up to now, all cities and counties have rubber-stamped them approved.
Before Land Use Master Plans, In our traditional free market system, shopping centers were planned to serve local residents. The new Land Use Plans usurp private property rights and impose a fairy-tale version of what a shopping center should be.
Recent Dunwoody history shows how a free market system worked. Publics moved in to the Shoppes of Dunwoody several years ago, demolished the existing grocery store building and build a larger building in compliance with their own corporate model. There was no Land Use Master Plan at the time to conform to. Now we have one, so how would Publics deal with the new plan ? About the same time, Walgreens moved in to Dunwoody Village, tore down the old building and built a new one according to their corporate model. If the Dunwoody Village Master Plan was implemented and the buildings built, who would the tenants be ?
If you look at the drawings of the Dunwoody Village Master Plan, you will see apartments over retail stores and none big enough for a grocery store or drug store. If all these stores are sized to be nick-nack shops, they won’t make it.
Tax Authorizing Districts
The City of Davidson N.C. got a bunch of grant money and built one of these mixed use developments 5 years ago. It still sits empty today because the rents are too high. No apartments or stores are rented except an ice cream shop.
Several developments have been built over the last decade, by cities creating tax authorizing districts (TADs), using federal grants and selling bonds based on the appraised value of the property vs. the hoped-for value of the property. The incentive for cities to do this is to generate more revenue for the city, by creating more expensive retail space they can tax at a higher value. Many of these developments missed the mark and sit empty. The developer is gone and the taxpayers of the city are left holding the bag.
All Plans are Identical
All city and county Master Plans throughout the U.S. are the same. They are multi-modal plans built around transit villages. They are the same because the agency giving the city or county the grant to develop the plans requires that they all comply with the granting agencies specifications. These plans are implemented by consultants trained in U.N. Agenda 21 implementation. These plans are all implemented the same way. The city or county appoints a Sustainability Commission. Consultants come in and organize “citizen input groups, using methods that are designed to get the answers the consultants want. This is called the Delphi Technique. The Master Plan controls everything, even privately owned shopping centers.
While this is going on, the EPA, OSHA, and the Departments if Transportation, Commerce and Interior are seizing rural land for “wildlife preserves”, state and national parks and buffer zones. Their goal is to restrict water in farming areas and force farmers from their land. If they can’t have water to irrigate their crops, they will quietly go broke and sell their land to the government or a “private partner” (think Soylent Green).
Living in the USSA
U.N. Agenda 21 calls for the government to take over all food production and control all water use. Cap & Trade schemes will raise energy rates five fold. Their goal is to make single family housing so expensive, we all move to government subsidized apartments in transit villages. Also cars will be unaffordable after this scheme drives gasoline prices up five fold and café’ standards make the average car cost $50,000. It also calls for us to transfer most of our resources to third world countries. The U.N. is made up of mostly third world countries.
Replace Elected Officials
If we don’t think this is a good deal, we can stop it. All we need to do is to fire Obama and elect all new city councils, county commissions and state legislatures in November 2012, based on how they voted. Then we need the new guys to disapprove their Land Use Master Plans. We also need to repeal the laws authorizing U.N Agenda 21, Regional Commissions, Tax Authorizing Districts and Public / Private Partnerships. We need to disband commissions and unelected groups. We need close most federal departments and agencies and send these responsibilities to the states. We need to quit the U.N and send it to Somalia. Federal grants should stop, they’re broke and should stop giving away printed money.
Dunwoody Village Plan
The approved plan to re-do Dunwoody Village Parkway is typical of the price increases associated with taking grants. This less than a half mile 4 lane road re-do will cost $2.4 million. That’s $5 million a mile to turn it into a 2 lane road. What’s the rest of the re-do going to cost ? It’s not a good time to overpay for road re-do on underutilized shopping center road.. Milling and resurfacing a road should cost $100 thousand per mile, not $5 million a mile. How about a re-do of the Chamblee Dunwoody Road / Mt. Vernon intersection first ? There are two plans afoot here. One is to break us with government overspending, taxes, a devaluing dollar and unemployment and the other is to link us with the transit village. (think multi-modal).
Economic Outlook
We have new bubbles to burst in our economy, the government debt bubble and the dollar crash are the most dangerous. The continuing dollar devaluation will bring a substantial increase in inflation from the Federal Reserve’s printing press. The toxic assets created in the 2008 Meltdown now belong to Fannie, Freddie, The Federal Reserve and the big banks; they are not going away, they are getting worse. Sallie Mae holds $1 trillion in student loan debt (think blood and turnip). U.S. consumer debt is $2.43 trillion. Government, Education and Healthcare costs are double what they should be for these industries to remain “sustainable”. The fundamentals suggest higher unemployment ahead.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Friday, November 25, 2011
Run-off Election Dec 6
I urge everyone to get out to vote on December 6th for Mike Davis for Mayor and Terry Nall for City Council Rep. Their victories are critical to the future of the Council. Without them we would not have the fiscally conservative voice we need to moderate the overreach we saw when the Council voted 6 to 1 to place the Park Bonds and the Redevelopment Referendum on the ballot.
The strings attached to the federal grants the City has received contain wasteful, impractical requirements that could all go away after November 2012. The Council needs to drop the “group think” and engage in cost benefit analysis on every item.
The council needs to understand that Dunwoody is divided into two parts, PCID and the subdivisions.
PCID wants a high density transit village surrounding the MARTA stations. They support the very expensive multi-modal designs in our current Master Plans.
The subdivisions need their roads, intersections and sewers fixed and maintained and don’t need multi-modal transit improvements. If we don’t get this change on the Council, we will continue to have a Council that pretends these differences don’t exist.
The council can satisfy the needs of both groups, but that involves handling PCID as its own entity and not imposing their wishes on the rest of Dunwoody. The current council did not do this; they approved plans that impose expensive PCID multi-modal changes outside PCID.
The Redevelopment Referendum that was approved by the voters will be a source of problems in future years. We need Mike and Terry to keep the council from wasting money on boondoggles.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
The strings attached to the federal grants the City has received contain wasteful, impractical requirements that could all go away after November 2012. The Council needs to drop the “group think” and engage in cost benefit analysis on every item.
The council needs to understand that Dunwoody is divided into two parts, PCID and the subdivisions.
PCID wants a high density transit village surrounding the MARTA stations. They support the very expensive multi-modal designs in our current Master Plans.
The subdivisions need their roads, intersections and sewers fixed and maintained and don’t need multi-modal transit improvements. If we don’t get this change on the Council, we will continue to have a Council that pretends these differences don’t exist.
The council can satisfy the needs of both groups, but that involves handling PCID as its own entity and not imposing their wishes on the rest of Dunwoody. The current council did not do this; they approved plans that impose expensive PCID multi-modal changes outside PCID.
The Redevelopment Referendum that was approved by the voters will be a source of problems in future years. We need Mike and Terry to keep the council from wasting money on boondoggles.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Government’s Abysmal Judgment
The job of government is to live within its means and stick to its core responsibilities. For the past 50 years we have seen government at all levels drift from its primary duties and expand its authority beyond the levels that allow our free market to operate. We are witnessing the strangulation of our free market system at the hands of our own government. There are many reasons for this, but the fact that politicians have allowed it to happen indicts all of them.
The Piggy Bank
The first duty of government is to remain debt free and solvent. The creation of the Federal Reserve and National Banks with the power to print currency created the possibility that government could accumulate deficits. Banks and government have become so intertwined that bail-outs are now codified in the Dodd Frank law.
Constitutional Drift
Communist infiltration of many of our institutions has allowed the Judiciary to drift from the Constitution as it was written, to accommodate their objectives. The Legislative and Executive branches of government collude to assist in this dismantling of our government as it was envisioned. Our government no longer works properly as it had done in the past. Every year it gets worse. The Constitution was written to protect private property and keep government from infringing on individual rights. We are allowing Leftist elements to erode our Constitutional rights and destroy our country. We are exactly where the Germans were in 1933.
Uncontrolled immigration, if not stopped, will result in a nation of unassimilated individuals, setting the stage for the creation of a Communist dictatorship, but this time it will be global as planned.. Our Federal Government Departments and Agencies are actively working to remove our rights systematically. The combination of Federal spending, uncontrolled immigration and national welfare regulations has sapped the free economy beyond its ability to recover.
The EPA, through its Clean Air Act regulations has managed to stall road and bridge replacement and infrastructure maintenance. Carbon capture from the global warming hoax continues to fuel these regulations. Politician’s attempts to reverse damaging regulations have been unsuccessful. Over the years, State and local government has spent that infrastructure money on unproductive and damaging activities.
The EPA through its Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act regulations has began a series of water rights grabs resulting in the closure of valuable farmland.
The Interior Department has seized millions more acres of private property to create wildlife preserves, halting the timber, mining, oil and gas industries, resulting in layoffs and town closures.
The Commerce Department has used the EPA to fight making our land free and productive.
The Transportation Department hands out grants, like bribes to give State and local officials incentives to do all the wrong things. Regional governance, Public-Private Partnerships and forced Transit spending usurps city and county sovereignty and squanders tax dollars on unproductive nonsense.
The Energy Department loans billions of dollars to failed alternative energy scams. Working electrical power generating dams in the west are being torn down for no good reason other than to decimate our energy production capability and unleash devastating soil erosion.
The Education Department has rendered our public schools useless, dangerous and too expensive to maintain for much longer. Vouchers offer our best path to reform.
Our Last Chance
Our public officials at all levels have allowed this to happen. They must be replaced,.. all of them. We must select political leaders who will reverse the damage that has been done. We must dismantle the institutions and repeal the laws that caused the damage. In the process, we will cut federal spending in half and balance the federal budget. Closing the unconstitutional federal departments and returning these responsibilities to the States and the People is our best course going forward.
The cost of healthcare, education and government are unsustainable. Government must cut subsidies for education and healthcare carefully, lowering the subsidies substantially and gradually over the next decade to allow these industries to reorganize while they continue to function. All public transit must become private. All government agencies engaged in lending operations will need to sell these operations to private corporations. All government land must be sold off to U.S. citizens and U.S. corporations to increase the productive use of our land. All national parks should be transferred to the States. The functions of the Federal government must be reduced to conform to their Constitutional limits.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
The Piggy Bank
The first duty of government is to remain debt free and solvent. The creation of the Federal Reserve and National Banks with the power to print currency created the possibility that government could accumulate deficits. Banks and government have become so intertwined that bail-outs are now codified in the Dodd Frank law.
Constitutional Drift
Communist infiltration of many of our institutions has allowed the Judiciary to drift from the Constitution as it was written, to accommodate their objectives. The Legislative and Executive branches of government collude to assist in this dismantling of our government as it was envisioned. Our government no longer works properly as it had done in the past. Every year it gets worse. The Constitution was written to protect private property and keep government from infringing on individual rights. We are allowing Leftist elements to erode our Constitutional rights and destroy our country. We are exactly where the Germans were in 1933.
Uncontrolled immigration, if not stopped, will result in a nation of unassimilated individuals, setting the stage for the creation of a Communist dictatorship, but this time it will be global as planned.. Our Federal Government Departments and Agencies are actively working to remove our rights systematically. The combination of Federal spending, uncontrolled immigration and national welfare regulations has sapped the free economy beyond its ability to recover.
The EPA, through its Clean Air Act regulations has managed to stall road and bridge replacement and infrastructure maintenance. Carbon capture from the global warming hoax continues to fuel these regulations. Politician’s attempts to reverse damaging regulations have been unsuccessful. Over the years, State and local government has spent that infrastructure money on unproductive and damaging activities.
The EPA through its Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act regulations has began a series of water rights grabs resulting in the closure of valuable farmland.
The Interior Department has seized millions more acres of private property to create wildlife preserves, halting the timber, mining, oil and gas industries, resulting in layoffs and town closures.
The Commerce Department has used the EPA to fight making our land free and productive.
The Transportation Department hands out grants, like bribes to give State and local officials incentives to do all the wrong things. Regional governance, Public-Private Partnerships and forced Transit spending usurps city and county sovereignty and squanders tax dollars on unproductive nonsense.
The Energy Department loans billions of dollars to failed alternative energy scams. Working electrical power generating dams in the west are being torn down for no good reason other than to decimate our energy production capability and unleash devastating soil erosion.
The Education Department has rendered our public schools useless, dangerous and too expensive to maintain for much longer. Vouchers offer our best path to reform.
Our Last Chance
Our public officials at all levels have allowed this to happen. They must be replaced,.. all of them. We must select political leaders who will reverse the damage that has been done. We must dismantle the institutions and repeal the laws that caused the damage. In the process, we will cut federal spending in half and balance the federal budget. Closing the unconstitutional federal departments and returning these responsibilities to the States and the People is our best course going forward.
The cost of healthcare, education and government are unsustainable. Government must cut subsidies for education and healthcare carefully, lowering the subsidies substantially and gradually over the next decade to allow these industries to reorganize while they continue to function. All public transit must become private. All government agencies engaged in lending operations will need to sell these operations to private corporations. All government land must be sold off to U.S. citizens and U.S. corporations to increase the productive use of our land. All national parks should be transferred to the States. The functions of the Federal government must be reduced to conform to their Constitutional limits.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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