Metro Atlanta Growth & Retrenchment

The AJC article Regional Divisions Hinder Growth, 5/31/15 page 1 is a nonsensical propaganda piece. Atlanta’s growth in the 1980s was compliments of the electronics manufacturing boom.  All of that was off-shored, moved to Texas or brought back to their home office states. 

ARC is irrelevant and failure to follow ARC’s wishes will help more than hurt. ARC is totally irrelevant to the rural counties in the 10 county region.  Regional governance is destroying California by usurping local control and cutting the voters out of the conversation. It is part of UN Agenda 21, designed to remove elective governance.

Agenda 21 requires that we completely abandon our infrastructure to save us from “global warming”, which does not exist. It claims that carbon is a pollutant that must be reduced, public transit, bikes and walking must be used, cars must be banned, our coal and oil must be outlawed and 5 times more expensive wind and solar must be used.

Georgia politicians have created the gridlock and deteriorating roads by using our road taxes for other purposes.

Atlanta grew outward like every other US metro area from the 1950s forward.  City dwellers moved to the suburbs to find good schools and the jobs moved with them. Land costs farther out were more affordable, so the subdivisions and office parks and Shopping Malls followed. There is nothing wrong with this model and we have $trillions invested in our current set-up and the smartest thing we can do is maintain it.  

We don’t have $trillions right now to waste on underutilized public transit, expensive commuter trains or unaffordable energy, education, healthcare or government.

If multinational corporations want to put their offices in Atlanta transit villages, that’s fine. It’s up to them.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader