TIA is Soviet Central Planning

We will be asked to vote on July 31, 2012 to allow the State of Georgia to take decision making authority for our roads away from our cities and counties and give it to a cabal of Regional Soviet Committees and appointed bureaucrats in the GDOT.

TIA is the Transportation Investment Act of 2010, passed 80:20 by the Georgia Legislature, signed into Law by Sonny Perdue and implemented swiftly by Governor Bad Deal. TIA authorized the establishment of unelected Regional Soviets and the 1% Regional sales tax vote to fund this piece of treason.

This is as outlined in U.N. Agenda 21, a U.N. scheme to ultimately dissolve our national sovereignty and submit to a U.N. controlled socialist global government. This plan is being implemented by the Obama administration and “Regionalism” is designed to disenfranchise voters from transportation decisions.

This is Soviet style central planning by unelected bureaucrats and its failure is evidenced by the miserable judgment exercised in compiling the Final List. This just doesn’t work.

The ARC (Atlanta Regional Commission) List is a blatant MARTA bail-out coming at a time we need to recognize that publicly subsidized transit is financially unsustainable.

We have had cities and counties responsible for roads for over 200 years. It’s part of the fabric of our limited government model outlined in the Constitution. Everyone knows that the farther down you can push responsibility for government services, the better it works. Freedom breeds productivity. We need open responsive city and county government, working with the citizens to solve their road problems. We don’t need State interference with this and we reject the term “Transportation” as something government should ever dare to do. Our cities and counties are responsible for our roads. If they don’t fix the roads to suit us, we will fire them.

We as individuals are responsible for our transportation. There should be no public transit, publicly subsidized trains or buses. In a free market system, private companies can easily provide for any means of transportation consumers need and do it more efficiently. A Transportation Commissar, we don’t need. Neither do we need a Georgia Department of Transportation, or a Transportation Board, or a Director of Planning. This is the Nanny-State on steroids.

Cities and counties can hire their own engineering and road building and maintenance. They can choose to do this based on make-or-buy decisions they’ve made for over 200 years. Some rural counties will have their own crews and their own equipment and will do the work cheaper and better than a private company.

The federal government has lost its way and is taking the state government with it. We are worse off having the federal or state governments involved in anything the private sector can provide on its own.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader