Bipartisan Complicity 4-13-25

The failures and successes in US governance from 1900 to 2024 created the conditions we face today. These failures were presided over by Democrats and Republicans. 

As the US Federal Government increased its access to Revenue, Congress pushed to increase grants to States. Local expenses for infrastructure were shifted to be paid by Federal Revenue. Citizens in the States didn’t want to fund their own needs. Campaign Contributions and Campaign Expenses rose to new heights.

US House Reps and Senators believed that their job was to “bring home the bacon” to fund projects that local voters would probably refuse to fund.

In 2016, voters began to realize that they were being scammed. Trump converted “Establishment Republicans” into “Populist Republicans”.  Democrats wanted to continue to win elections by promising “free stuff” we don’t want and don’t need.

Teddy Roosevelt 1901-1909 was a Republican. His successes include establishing what became the USDA to improve food safety and quality, built the Panama Canal and restored the US Navy. His seizure of federal lands was unconstitutional. His environmentalism became a scam.

William Taft 1909-1913 was a Republican. He was in Teddy Roosevelt’s Administration and Teddy’s pick to succeed him.

 Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 was a Democrat. What laws did Woodrow Wilson pass?

The income tax soared to high rates after the U.S. entered World War I in 1917. Other major progressive legislation passed during Wilson's first term included the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the Federal Farm Loan Act. Wilson began the “Deep State”. The Federal Reserve was a Fabian Socialist Government Managed Economy model designed to create inflation. Wilson created the National Park system that gave 30% of the US landmass to the US Federal Government. He led the creation of the League of Nations that failed to prevent war and participated in the Treaty of Versailles that created World War II.

Warren Harding 1921-1923 was a Republican. He cut US taxes and died from food poisoning.

Calvin Cooledge 1923-1929 was a Republican. He was a “small government” conservative who pursued rooting out corruption.

Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 was a Republican. He turned his attention to helping the unemployed and failed to recognize that the Federal Reserve needed to increase the money supply to stop the Great Depression.

Franklin D Roosevelt 1933-1945 was a Democrat who served 4 terms. He presided over the Great Depression. He turned his attention to public works like hydroelectric dams and expanding electric power. He coped with the Dust Bowl Drought. World War II began in 1939 and employment returned to build and ship military equipment to the Allies. He entered World War II in 1941 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He presided over the winning of the war in Europe.

In 1940, the U.S. national debt was approximately $50.7 billion. 

Harry S Truman 1945-1953 was A Democrat. He ended World War II by dropping the atomic bomb on Japan.  He appointed General Douglas Mcarther to restore the Japanese economy. He inherited the failure to get the USSR to exit Eastern Europe and the “Cold War” with the USSR began. He fired General Douglas Macarther for insisting on securing Korea. Truman insisted on returning North and South Korea to their original borders. We sill have US Troops protecting South Korea. Truman approved the “Marshall Plan” to restore Europe.

In 1950, the U.S. national debt was approximately $257.4 billion

Dwight D Eisenhower 1953-1960 was a Republican. He built the US Highway System and presided over a good US economy. Eisenhower identified the “Deep State” as the “Military / Industrial Complex and warned Kennedy

In 1960, the US national debt was estimated to be around $284.5 billion.

John F Kennedy 1960-1963 was a Conservative Democrat. He lowered Taxes and presided over a good US economy. He desegregated schools in the South. He began attacking the Mafia. He resisted expanding the Vietnam War. He was sabotaged by his own CIA to allow their attack to oust the Communist Government in Cuba and refused to approve using the US Air Force to join the Cuban Partriots. He prevented the USSR from putting missiles in Cuba using a naval blockade. He was assassinated in 1963.

Lyndon B Johnson 1963-1969 was a Liberal Democrat. He ran up Federal Debt, expanded the Vietnam War, created Medicare for retirees, created Medicaid for the poor, created “welfare”, Passed the Civil Rights Acts and ensured hyperinflation in the 1970s. Vietnam War Protests began and never ended. He refused to run for reelection in 1969. He was a disaster. In 1970, the US national debt was $371 billion

Richard Nixon 1969-1974 was a Republican. He inherited the Vietnam War, presided over a bad economy, ended the Gold Standard from the US dollar, initiated trade with China to separate them from the USSR, He resigned in 1974.

Gerald Ford 1974-1977 was a Republican. He had been Nixon’s Vice President and assumed the Presidency when Nixon resigned. The “Johnson Inflation” was beginning to hit the US. New Car prices doubled.

Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 was a Democrat. He ran and won as a Bible Teaching good guy. He gave away the Panama Canal and spend most of his time on getting Egypt to sign a peace agreement with Israel. He presided over a bad economy with the “Johnson Inflation”, OPEC reduced the gasoline supply and the US experienced long lines of cars at gas station and higher gas prices. In a referendum held on April 1, 1979, the people of Iran overwhelmingly approved the establishment of an Islamic Republic. They seized the US Embassy He couldn’t get the US Embassy “hostages” released by Iran. In 1980, the US national debt stood at approximately $908 billion. 

Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 was a Republican. He lowered Taxes to increase Revenue. He suspected that the USSR was going broke. He attacked the USSR as the “evil empire”. He engaged Mikhail Gorbachev to lower military spending. Gorbachev knew the USSR was going broke and began to prepare its citizens for a transition. Reagan insisted on pursuing “star wars” with space-based weapons. The USSR was broke and had to release its satellite countries. The transition of the USSR to the Russian Republic involved the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991, and the subsequent emergence of the Russian Federation (Russia) as a sovereign state, according to the Office of the Historian and Wikipedia. The Soviet Union's 15 republics, including Russia, became independent states, effectively ending the centralized communist regime and the Cold War. The U.S. national debt in 1990 was approximately $3.2 trillion. 

George HW Bush 1989-1993 was a Republican. In 1990, he orchestrated the Gulf War to protect Kuwait from Iraq. It took 6 days. He returned to approve every unnecessary Labor Law Teddy Kennedy wanted. In 1992, he signed on to UN Agenda 21 based on the Global Warming Hoax. In 1992, Ross Perot ran warning about the National Debt and took

In 1990, the US Military invaded Panama. The purpose of the invasion was to depose the de facto ruler of Panama, General Manuel Noriega, who was wanted by U.S. authorities for racketeering and drug trafficking. The operation, codenamed Operation Just Cause, concluded in late January 1990 with the surrender of Noriega. The US had a history of propping up bad guys.

18.9% of the vote. Bush got 37.5% and Clinton won 43% of the vote.

Bill Clinton 1993-2001 was a Democrat. He ran on expanding the US economy. He signed the Executive Order to implement UN Agenta 21. This involved getting the American Planning Association to develop a plan, notifying States to pass “Regionalism” legislation and everybody else to keep their mouths shut. ICLEI was formed for local implementation of UN Agenda 21 and was active in 125+ countries, to influence sustainability policy and drive local action for low emission, nature-based, equitable, resilient and circular development. https://icleiusa.org/

The U.S. national debt in 2000 was approximately $5.6 trillion.

George W Bush 2001-2009 was a Republican. He was unprepared for the Terror Attack on the Twin Towers in NYC on 9-11-2001. Bush ordered the US military invasion of Afghanistan to find Ossama Bin Laden who ordered the 911 Attack.

The US had been supplying the Afghans with weapons to fight the Russians from 1979 to 1989 and Bin Laden was their leader..

In 2010, the US national debt was $13.562 trillion. 

Barak Obama 2009-2017 was a Democrat who was raised as a Marxist Muslim in Hawaii and Indonesia. He was sponsored by the American Communist Party to attend Colombia University and Harvard Law. He worked as a Community Organizer to threaten banks with discrimination suits to make them give mortgage loans to unqualified buyers who were minorities. Many were Illegals. When they defaulted on their loans, their homes were seized and their mortgages were cut up and sold in pieces as “securities”. This caused the “Great Recession”. Congress bailed out the banks and George W Bush took the blame. Obama continued to implement UN Agenda 21 and took it to the State, County and City level by imposing “Regionalism”. He allowed the “Deep State” to double down on regulations. The result was 8 years of “Stagflation”.

In 2018, the US gross national debt was $21.97 trillion.

Donald J Trump 2017-2021 was a Tea Party Oriented Republican. He introduced Establishment Republicans to his Make America Great Again Agenda. He included the Blue Collar and minority voters and won the House, Senate and Whitehouse.  Trump won 304 Electoral Votes and Hillary Clinton won 227 Electoral Votes.

In 2021, the US national debt reached $28.429 trillion

Joe Biden 2021-2025 was a Democrat. The most popular candidate with Democrats was Bernie Sanders, a Socialist who ran as an Independent. The DNC arranged for Biden to run and implement all of Sanders’ policies. Biden was elected based on Open Borders and the Climate Change Hoax. He was elected in a race that was riddled with fraud. The Courts refused to touch it.

The U.S. national debt in 2025 is projected to be around $36.22 trillion

Donald J Trump 2025-2028 was elected for a second term. He has reformed the Republican Party to make America First. Trump won 312 Electoral votes and Kamala Harris won 226 Electoral votes. Trump won the “swing States” and won the popular vote Republicans took the House and Senate. He appointed a deep bench of the most qualified leaders in the country. The Trump Agenda includes lowering Taxes to 15%, downsizing and automating government and reducing federal government spending by $1.5 trillion. He wants to balance the Federal Budget and lower the National Debt that now approaches $37 trillion.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader