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