Politicians Team with State Industries

At all levels of government, politicians will justify voting for Bills that favor their industries.  Federal officials justified their votes for TPA based on their State’s exports, despite the fact that TPP bypasses US law and ends US sovereignty.  State officials vote on Bills for the same reasons.  Local officials vote on granting subsidies, tax holidays and other bribes to attract and keep jobs in their cities and counties.  These are bribes that should be replaced by lower energy and government cost.  TPP has open border provisions that will bring more immigrants to take US jobs.  TPP should not be approved because of the irreparable harm it would do to US sovereignty. 

Winning in Iowa may depend on a candidate’s position on Ethanol, a harmful gasoline additive that was rushed to market prematurely and should be removed from gasoline.  Iowa corn farmers need to see what alternatives they have given the harmful effects and unpopularity of mandating 10% ethanol in gasoline. 

Ending all mandates and subsidies is a good start to cleaning up the laws that prevent the free market from controlling prices.  This will require developing a sustainable crop insurance plan to protect farmers from crop loss.

Our politicians screwed up miserably by embracing “free trade” when it was obvious that it would result in off-shoring jobs.  They did it again when they embraced multiculturalism and allowed excessive immigration to result in 100 million working-age US citizens having no jobs.  They did it again when they allowed the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1993 that encouraged the bad mortgages that created the 2008 Meltdown.  They did it again when they continued to overspend and allowed the debt to go from $5 trillion in 2000 to $10 trillion in 2008 to $20 trillion in 2017. They screwed up when they didn’t stop UN Agenda 21 implementation. They screwed up when they didn’t stop Muslim immigration when it started.  They are doing it again as they ignore the $trillions in derivatives and credit default swaps to reach $700 trillion.  They do it all the time.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader