Infrastructure Priority

We’ve spent tons of taxpayer money on lots of scams and fluff over the past 8 years. Obama added strings to a load of federal grants to States and the States spent billions on fluff. We now have bike lanes, multi-use trails, expanded public transit, “studies”, transit villages, “greenspace”, subsidies for retail space developers, unaffordable wind, solar, education and healthcare.  We poured trillions into foreign aid and foreign wars.

In the meantime infrastructure was ignored. Dams were destroyed, roads rotted and highway systems stood still, while we off-shored jobs and imported millions of immigrants. Unemployment soared and so did welfare costs.

Now that we’ve wasted all of our tax money, we still have the failure of our infrastructure to deal with and we need to fire our elected officials, defund our Marxist non-profits, run the Communists out of our universities and legislatures and end the price gouging scams and government micromanagement that have destroyed our healthcare system.

The answer to the infrastructure problem is to make it the number one priority of government at all levels. We need highways that function, roads that are well maintained, storm sewer maintenance and replacement, sanitary sewer maintenance and replacement with no sewer leaks, clean water availability during droughts, reservoirs and well maintained water lines and treatment facilities.

We don’t need higher electric bills. We don’t need to replace our affordable coal and hydro-electric power plants.  We don’t need for our electric companies to charge us for unaffordable wind and solar installations.

We need lower education and healthcare costs and need for government to spend less on these industries, not more. We need to double the size of our damaged private sector economy and need to reduce unnecessary taxes and regulations on the private sector.

Government needs to see themselves as nothing more than a utility company, hired by customers to provide clean water, sanitation, roads, bridges, highways, reservoirs, sewage treatment, sanitation, and low cost electricity.

Government needs to get out of public transit and allow private transit to take over. We need government to stop spending, pay off their debts, stop using Bonds to fund everything and act like a real company.

Cities need to pay for their own roads and storm sewers. In addition, counties need to pay for water supplies and waste treatment.  States need to ensure that we have enough reservoirs to withstand droughts.

The federal government must begin to cut spending immediately, adopt a balanced budget and begin to pay down its $20 trillion before 2020 to be completed by 2040.

The federal government must be brought into compliance with its limited “enumerated powers”.  States, counties and cities need to draft their own “enumerated powers” and have them voted on to install them. Everything else would be handled by the People using the free market economic system.

Everything else government is spending money on should be on the chopping block.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader