Taking the Long View

My articles often include the history of issues and the ultimate cost of policies, to show how short-term political fixes can turn into existential threats to our economies. I am amazed at the economic damage that has been done by UN Agenda 21 globally. I am equally amazed that the US government abandoned the US Constitution over 150 years ago.

I prefer to deal with facts rather than propaganda. My own biases are based on the Laws of Economics, my view of human nature and my study of history.

Many facts need to be viewed with perspective that identifies the causes that produced the facts. The facts include GDP, population, land-mass and other facts like imports, exports and trading partners. I will list and track economic costs resulting from wars and other actions over time and list GDP, population and land mass of counties like a scorecard.

Our vacillation between capitalism and socialism and nationalism and globalism swings like a pendulum until these policies become painful. It also shows that bad policies are never fully repealed, because the constituencies who enacted these policies continue to benefit from these scams.

The competing ideologies seem to have permanent sponsors who profit from the battle between socialist globalism and capitalist nationalism. My focus is on the conditions these ideologies have imposed on the citizens of the countries who are left to suffer from their mistakes.

Some things are clear. No country can exist without a private sector and families continue to be the basic unit of our economies. Individuals are wired to take responsibility for their own survival and self-support must be achieved with individual effort by informed voters. Advances in living standards must come from increases in individual productivity.

When governments allow individual freedom to achieve self-support for their citizens, they will see their nation prosper over time.  The best example of this is found in the history of the American colonies and the founding of the United States.

I listed the history of the US population, US revenue, US deficits and US unemployment by US President to give each President a score. Those who accomplished the most while avoiding higher spending and deficits did the best. Those who spent the most and endangered our future economic stability did the worst. 

Since 1913, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Barak Obama were the worst.

Oddly enough, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan were the best.

In earlier days, George Washington would be on the best list for winning the Revolutionary War. Thomas Jefferson would be on the best list for the Louisiana Purchase.  Andrew Jackson would score on winning the War of 1912 and pushing for more expansion. James Polk would score on winning the Mexican War in 1848 and expanding the US to the Pacific Ocean in one 4 year term.

Abraham Lincoln would be on the best list for keeping the US together, but the cost of the Civil War was too high. It would have been cheaper to have the US government buy all the slaves from their owners.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader