Restoring the US Economy

The US federal government made lots of serious mistakes over the past 50 years. Now we need to cut government spending in half and restore the free market economy. The obvious cuts should be in subsidies, welfare and eliminating labor intensive bureaucracy. Politicians who know how to do this should be elected to do it.

In 1965, the federal government passed Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare and began to squander $trillions on the Vietnam War. This overspending caused the bone-crushing inflation we experienced in the 1970s. Government subsidies made the cost of healthcare, education and government unsustainable. Government encouraged US companies to move manufacturing to low wage countries.

In 1989, the federal government doubled legal immigration from 500,000 to 1 million, refused to drill oil and refused to control the border. Illegal migrants flooded in to the US and took minimum wage jobs away from the teenagers, ensuring that they wouldn’t learn how to work. Their excuse was that we had to replace the 60 million babies we had destroyed with abortion or we wouldn’t be able to fund the Social Security Ponzie scheme.

In 1993, Congress passed NAFTA to encourage all US companies to move manufacturing to low wage countries. It was the “Information Age” and the information wasn’t good. By 2005, we had 100 million working age US citizens without jobs.

Restoring middle class jobs to US citizens requires that we replace welfare subsidized immigrants with US citizens and bring manufacturing back to the US.

Thankfully, we made improvements in manufacturing processes to ensure quality, but these processes also allow us to use automation and high speed assembly lines to improve throughput. This makes it possible to produce a lot of product with fewer workers.

Manufacturing jobs typically pay from $15 per hour to $30 per hour depending on the employee’s technical ability. Assemblers and Material Movers are generally on the low end and Equipment Technicians are generally on the high end. The ability of employees to move up is not limited. Pay is skill-based and employees are encouraged to learn multiple processes.

Bringing manufacturing back to the US also increases the number of engineering jobs and protects intellectual property.

We will know our economy is being restored when we see our $13 trillion in household debt begin to decline.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader