Reversing Our Economic Decline

Excessive immigration must cease. We have over 100 million working-age US citizens without jobs. Refugee resettlement must be stopped and reversed to send refugees back to their home countries.  

We need to stop Anchor baby citizenship, providing summer jobs to foreign students, providing immigrants with welfare benefits, providing a visa lottery and chain migration of entire families. 

We need to stop 90% of our military and cash foreign aid, federal grants to states and federal grants to universities.

We need to close all unconstitutional federal departments, agencies and programs and restore the federal government to comply with the US Constitution (as written) and enforce the 10^th Amendment by returning these functions to the States and the People.

We need to return all federal lands to the States.

We need to close half of our military bases in other countries and put those bases on the Mexican border and put the US Military in charge of defending our borders.

We need to reform campaign finance and allow only registered voters to contribute and only to candidates who would appear on their ballot.  Special interests can exercise their political free speech and advance their agendas on their own websites.

These changes would allow us to pay off our $19 trillion National Debt by providing $1 trillion a year to pay down principle and interest.

Causes of our Decline

Corporations allowed unions to take labor costs too high, knowing that it would result in closure of their facilities.  This created a wage bubble that started in the 1950s that started to burst with NAFTA in 1993.  Product quality and productivity were poor in the 1970s. 

Advances in manufacturing processes in the 1980s were complete by 2000 with “Lean” process control of design and manufacturing.  This solved the quality problems and allowed corporations to move off-shore to take advantage of lower labor and other costs.   

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader