Posted on 01/20/2011 10:04:19 AM PST by NowApproachingMidnight
Not nearly enough
Over 10 years what a joke.
We are running 1.4 trillion dollar yearly deficits, what is 250 billion a year in cuts going to accomplish?
... it's a start.
It is a start, I guess.
We need to elimimate corporate welfare and subsidies and trim entitlements and end all grants to NGO’s.
Its a start, but cuts should be equal to our total debt in 1 year..slash and burn sale..its do or die ya’ll..our country will sink into oblivion and chaos,,eliminate all foreign aid, the IRS, just keep slashing like your lives depended on it, ours does..
It is a start. I would be impressed if it were $2.5 trillion out of the next proposed budget.
We want more cuts. We want whole agencies abolished. We want to see the lines of former bureaucrats fighting illegal aliens for meager wages picking beans by hand!
THAT'S how screwed we are.
Sounds like a nice start.
It’d be better if we could 2.5 T cut for this year.
It’s a start, but how many of these cuts are actually gonna survive to the end? That’s why we oughta triple the cuts to begin with... at least.
If only this would pass...
Complete elimination and defunding of:
IRS
FDA
HUD
Department of Education
Department of Agriculture
EPA
HSS
DHS
TSA
DOE
All Czars
The key thing really is the debt ceiling. If we hold the line on that, we can pay interest on the debt, and we can fund entitlements. NOTHING else.
Which means -- that they would actually do real entitlement reform. AND they would cut a lot of other crap.
Everyone is afraid "to go there". But it is exactly where we need to go. Coming up with a list of proposed cuts is not quite a pointless exercise, but that is not the proper starting point.
The place to start is to freeze the debt ceiling.
THEN look at how much money MUST be cut.
THEN make a list of places to cut.
We want whole agencies abolished. We want to see the lines of former bureaucrats fighting illegal aliens for meager wages picking beans by hand!
Indeed we do!!! Down with all wimpy politicians, this is our country, no time to tip toe through the tulips acting like your getting it done, slash and burn sale, sell off all of federal government posessions, complete departments, cur off the federal G’s right to tax people at all!!!!Completely out of total national debt in one year, and don’t give them the chance again ever to spend money, they are idiots once in charge..take that power from them, put them on the damn fence protecting us..I don’t care if we have dirt roads, they will be ours!!!
Good Grief...
Mike
6 billion to the UN, millions in foreign aid, global tax on gas should be eliminated until our economy becomes solvent.
it’s definitely a start. I’d sign on to all of it, but it also shows that we can’t balance the budget without whacking the big ones: SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Defense, Interest on the Federal deficit.
-close all foreign bases not needed for current terrorist effort, i.e. many in Europe and South Korea.
-Copays for all Medicare/Medicaid services.
-Take a serious look at SS Disability.
-And the big controversial one, eliminate interest payments by paying with printed dollars instead of treasury bonds. We’re doing it anyway, via the Federal Reserve, why not just let the taxpayer print money directly and cut out the middleman? As an added bonus, it will be recognized that Federal Deficits == Inflation, which might put a governor on our politicians, hopefully.
You are correct!!
A good start.
Today or tomorrow would be fine.
NPR? Definitely should be on the list, especially given their leftist and globalist (and global warming) agendas.
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