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White House unveils plans to trim regs, save at least $10 billion
The Hill ^
| August 23, 2011
| Erik Wasson
Posted on 08/23/2011 11:39:35 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe
Put a ‘tr’ on billion, and we’ll talk.
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:01:01 PM PDT
by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
To: yoe
Wow, what is that, a couple of pennies for each company? Does Fool Sucka think that’s going to get businesses hiring again?
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:01:51 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Obama/Biden '12: No hope and chump change.)
To: yoe
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced plans to streamline hundreds of regulations across all government departments and said that the review will likely save at least $10 billion over five years. I do believe that we are spending about $10 billion per day. So he has found a way to save one day's spending over the next 1826 days, 0.05476%.
OH goody. Why didn't they say $200 billion over the next 100 years, or $2 trillion over the next millennium? I think there should be a law that all budgetary figures must be reported on in annual terms.
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:02:28 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: MNJohnnie
I’ve got an idea where they can save 400K annually.
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:08:32 PM PDT
by
Mouton
(Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
To: yoe
Don’t streamline...
ELIMINATE!
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:10:01 PM PDT
by
TSgt
(When in the Course of human events...)
To: yoe
$10 billion...
Now there’s a person with a twisted sense of humor. And why not, they’re a twisted individual fronting for a twisted president.
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:20:34 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(McCain 5 yrs Left/1 yr right "BAD!" - Republicans 3 yrs Right 1 year Left to elect RINOs. "Good?")
To: yoe
It was reported early in the month that the Obama administration implemented 608 new regulations in July.
Quite honestly, I have no idea how we survived before July, 2011. It is simply amazing how I grew up without those regulations and made it to adulthood intact. I never even had a bicycle helmet, or for that matter, I grew up playing hockey without a helmet. At least I didn't look like Obama riding his bike. What a wuss!
Obozo and Company, would be taken seriously if every federal regulation since 2008 was eliminated. It would set the stage for 2012, when Republicans can then get serious (like that is going to happen) and eliminate all federal regulations going back to 1976.
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:21:29 PM PDT
by
ConservativeInPA
(Maxine, I'll see you there. I'm not changing my ways.)
To: yoe
spend $3 trillion and “save” $2 billion per year
[if they even manage any of the promised “savings”]
yeah, right, there are serious credible people and I have some wonderful swampland to sell you..... ooops I mean “wetlands”
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:31:37 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(9 year cancer survivor this month - last surgery Aug. 2002)
To: yoe
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:36:57 PM PDT
by
DrC
To: org.whodat
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:39:30 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
("Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8")
To: yoe
"The Obama administration on Tuesday announced plans to streamline hundreds of regulations across all government departments and said that the review will likely save at least $10 billion over five years." Basically, we're going to just let the Justice Department, ATF and FBI do whatever they want in coming up with new ways to fight crime. They no longer need express permission to just think up amazing plans and put them into action.
Oh, wait.
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:40:04 PM PDT
by
Gravitas
To: yoe
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), however, called the effort "underwhelming." The regulatory review does not address the kinds of major items the GOP would like to eliminate, such as those associated with the Dodd-Frank financial reform, the Obama healthcare reform or a raft of new environmental regulations, including the possible regulation of greenhouse gases. Then why didn't the GOP do something like this when it controlled the government?
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:40:59 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: yoe
Trim a few billion in regs here, while over there in the EPA the Gov't is loading 100's of billions on in other regs.
And what's with the easing of regs for trains? Trains is the area where unions are poised to take over.
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:41:31 PM PDT
by
Justice
To: Moonman62
The regulatory review does not address the kinds of major items the GOP would like to eliminate, such as those associated with the Dodd-Frank financial reform, the Obama healthcare reform or a raft of new environmental regulations, including the possible regulation of greenhouse gases. None of these were in place under Bush.
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:45:08 PM PDT
by
Justice
To: Justice
What about all the other government regulations, like the ones Obama plans to cut?
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:51:47 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Moonman62
Those look to be mostly designed to help the left.
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posted on
08/23/2011 12:58:13 PM PDT
by
Justice
To: rwh
Our deficit/accumulated debt per day is now about four billion per day.
To: Justice
So the GOP didn’t cut any regulations when it was in power? Not to help them, the left, or most importantly, America?
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posted on
08/23/2011 1:01:53 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: yoe
JMHO, all Sundstein (along with the rest of The 0’s mob) is doing with these 1/2A$$ed pronouncements is making a real solid case for abolition of whole galloping chunks of bureaucracy.
....and I’m not talking about fractional percentages over decades, I’m TALKING ABOUT PURGING WHOLE AGENCIES WORTH OF THESE SLUGS JUST AS SOON AS WE CAN GET THE COUNTRY BACK.
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posted on
08/23/2011 1:19:05 PM PDT
by
Unrepentant VN Vet
((515 and a wakeup) Truth, I know, always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition.)
To: yoe
Federal budget is $3.5 Trillion. So $2billion per year is about .00057 of the budget. microscopic
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posted on
08/23/2011 1:20:47 PM PDT
by
DaxtonBrown
(HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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