$2.5 Tr USD in CUTS: Full list of 2011 budget cuts... (GOP)

USN | 01/20/11 | Self

[The Comedian]

Dept. of Energy?

EPA?

HUD?

Dept. of Education?

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[NVDave]

I wish the GOP would quit using these idiotic games of “...over 10 years.”

My response to the GOP is this:

Tell me what you’re going to cut (and hold down as cut) NEXT YEAR.

When I see the GOP announce a real cut for NEXT YEAR’S budget and they make it stick for ALL of just the next year, then I might listen to their plans for the next two years. Might. Two.

Not 10.

[kabar]

We have a $3.5 trillion dollar budget. We collect about $2.2 trillion in total tax revenue, which leaves a $1.3 trillion deficit. Our entitlement programs and debt servicing costs are about equal to the $2.2 trillion in total tax revenue from all sources. Everything else is funded by borrowed money including DOD.

Unless you address the entitlement program issues, we cannot get our debt under control. There are 54 million on SS, 47 million on Medicare, 43 million on food stamps, and 60 million on Medicaid--counting the CHIPs program. Will this nation have the political will to make such cuts and will the voters support politicians who want to make such cuts? Look to Greece for your answer.

[blackie]

Close the Dept of Education, the EPA, the Energy Dept, AFT, Commerce Dept, IRS, Transportation Depart, etc, etc, etc.

[bmwcyle]

Cut Democrats pay.

[paulycy]

That’s a good list for today.

Now come up with a list like this tomorrow, and the next day, and every day until you have eliminated the problem.

[kabar]

There was no surplus if you removed the SS "surplus" fron the calculations. Clinton ran a deficit every year he held office.

Plug in the dates Clinton entered and left office, i.e. $4,188,092,107,183.60 when he entered and $5,727,776,738,304.64

Clinton had a Rep Congress and he benefitted from the so-called peace dividend, which he used to make drastic cuts to the military. He also raised taxes.

[SgtHooper]

It will certainly shakeup DC and the entitlement programs. An excellent start!!

[Walt Griffith]

Other things to eliminate.

$35 Billion Oil depletion allowance.

$6 billion of 45 cent per gallon on ethanol paid to oil refineries to blend 10% ethanol with gasoline(the ethanol subsidy that everyone is concerned about. Agriculture could care less about the subsidy since E85 production is not subsidized.

Cut federal retirement in half for all who did not contribute to social security and retirement plans. There should be no cola for these also.

We should put our money where our mouths are and opt out of medicare and ask that it be disposed of (yes you can opt out of medicare and have private insurance. Yes is does cost a bit more.)

No I am not trying to win a popularity contest

[DCBryan1]

We need to elimimate corporate welfare and subsidies and trim entitlements and end all grants to NGO’s.

Exactly! But we need to give time, a month or two for families to buy AR 15s and lots of ammo!

[GeronL]

I think the second amendment means the states can give away free guns to the populace.

/s

[GeronL]

Rand Paul has a better plan.