These advances were not restricted to electricity, manned
flight and assembly lines, but included durable and nondurable goods, and
multiple industries like agriculture and medicine. Chemists extracted plant juices and
discovered their properties and uses and developed synthetics using the same chemicals. They developed new materials like nylon. The invention of labor saving devices and
better processes resulted in the explosion of products we see today.
The U.S. had become the go-to place to learn product design
and manufacturing. We had the resources
and capitol to pursue all endeavors.
There was a time when new grads were free to pursue anything they thought
they could handle. In the period from 1900
to 1940, many Americans left school after 8th grade with fully
developed skills sufficient to start a business. Many went to Tech Schools to learn a trade
and then opened businesses in that trade.
Many more left school after High School and did the same thing. Those who wanted to be chemists, engineers,
teachers, lawyers, doctors and dentists, took the college courses required to
enter these fields. After 1940, High
School graduation was the standard.
By the 1950s, most large companies had overseas operations
and sold American manufactured goods world-wide. Many foreign companies tried to copy our
designs, but their products were not as good.
Many foreign countries, knowing that manufacturing was needed to build
their economies, required U.S. companies to build part of their products in
their country before they allowed the U.S. to sell in that country.
By the 1960s, we noticed the first signs of decline. After 1961, college entrance exam scores
began to drop and manufacturing costs had risen to the point where changes were
needed. Productivity in the U.S.
flattened out and in 1970s product quality problems became apparent.
Our government was busy from 1900, but the accumulation of
their efforts resulted in our economic decline. They had given in to whatever
pressures they received from destructive groups of lobbyists, from labor,
environmentalists, entitlement promoters, foreign aid fans and others. These groups were further supported by
academics, artists, the media, hollywood and foundations looking for causes. Most of these groups had ample numbers of
socialists and communists and they all loved the U.N.. They had nothing in
common with us folks working in the private economy. They did have time to spend with our elected
officials, who we generally ignored.
By 1970, taxes were high and productivity was low. Regulations
strangled industries and the bureaucracies build by the government were at war
with manufacturing. Strategic resource manipulation was eminent. Government was blindsided by the deliberate middle
east oil shortage and our own oil drilling had ceased because of low
prices. The inflation created by Lyndon Johnson’s
money printing during the Vietnam and poverty wars was coming due and produced “stagflation. In the late 1970s we had real 7% annual
inflation, 9% unemployment, 13% interest rates and car prices doubled overnight
in 1978.
Labor had bribed Congress into strangling business with
labor laws. Permits were made harder to get.
Big agribusiness was swallowing up family farms. Laws protecting us from
ourselves became popular. Government involvement made healthcare costs rise
along with education costs. Business
found itself in a hostile environment.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan made the case that government was the
problem and got elected, cut taxes and created growth just in time for the
electronics manufacturing boom we had with the development of the personal computer. He ended the “cold war” with the USSR and strengthened
our economy. Unions declined, quality
problems were solved and businesses sold products world-wide.
In 1988 Republican, George HW Bush became President, but
governed like a Democrat and signed more useless labor law and government intrusion
laws to bloat the bureaucracies. In
1992, Bill Clinton became President and signed NAFTA, the first of many trade
agreements the ushered manufacturing our of the U.S. Government said we were
entering the “information age”. This propaganda ushered in the full-on decline
of the U.S. economy. Since then, the
government has become unsustainably expensive along with everything it
touched. Despite the fact that George W.
Bush knew he needed to dismantle the government, he never did. By the time Comrade Obama was elected in 2008, we were in full decline
and ready to morph into a one-party communist republic.
This was a government designed failure. We let our enemies from within take over the
government and they have ruined the country.
We can recover from this, but we will need to clean house
and replace almost every elected official.
Then we need to demand that they begin to repeal unconstitutional laws and
economy killing regulations and cut government spending in half. We need to replace the media and put up the
tracking systems we will need to ensure that reforms are being made. We need to
take over our political parties at the Precinct level this month.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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