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