Posted on 02/25/2013 10:04:50 AM PST by blam
Another sucker poll. They didn’t mention specific programs that are hideously wasteful, only general areas of spending that everybody generally favors.
And you see in this poll where the public is so misinformed. Dump money into heart-tugging areas, regardless of results.
If that’s an accurate poll, we are screwed. With the exception of foreign aid, it seems a super-majority of Americans favors either continued or increased levels of federal spending, regardless of the fact we are broke and $17,000,000,000,000 in debt with more than a hundred trillion in unfunded mandates.
We own the world’s reserve currency. Currently borrowing costs are near or below 0%. We are not “broke”. The US government is not a household.
Energy Dept
Homeland Security especially TSA
in their entirety. There are others but my kauphy hasn't completely kicked in yet.
No. I do not care who's private oxen will get gored in the process. For things like the FAA/FCC/NASA... Hand them over to private consortia like the IEEE.
Enough is enough.
How about we cut the O’Dumbies vacations and golf. No wait he will spend more if hes is still at the white house.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Don’t forget the EPA; rogue dept.
“We own the world’s reserve currency.”
But for how much longer?
“But for how much longer?”
For the foreseeable future. What’s going to replace it? The Euro? The Yuan? Doubtful.
When the american people get corrupt...
You end up with a political system EXACTLY like the one we have..
American people seem to getting MORE corrupt NOT LESS..
Expecting it to change is delusional..
The QUESTION: Just HOW delusional ARE YOU?..
** Note; If you expect change you are delusional its just a matter of how delusional.. you are.. not IF..
$1.2 trillion over 10 years is chump change and we all know it will never happen. You cannot constrain a future Congress. Most of it will never get cut. That being said I say let the sequester begin.
I’d start with hussein’s free spending.
Good point... Only 10% favor reduced spending on Education... when there hasn’t been a dollar spent on education since the Department of Education was created that wasn’t a complete waste and totally unproductive.
Pay no attention to ksen. He will put up arguments you can swat away all day, and never stop. He’s a time sink, and the House Socialist.
Until our soldiers can be fed 3 squares a day, congressional salaries should be reduced.
Many of the laws and regulations on the books are redundant, and expensive to enforce. Dump them. When people are in a position to develop business, and run their businesses as they see fit, money will be made that will benefit all.
When the average American can own firearms per Amendment 2, without the infringements on his GOD given RIGHTS, we won’t need as much law enforcement. Chances are, more lives will be saved as well. More saved lives means more tax payers.
The ineffective war on drugs would be a huge savings! Fewer black-0ps amd pay-offs needed.
REstore to the States that which belongs to the states in terms of responsibilities and freedoms. Like Education for example.
Now, just eliminating cabinet positions that don’t belong there will save money in wages, materials, and legislation enforcement.
If this country operated from a position of strength rather than being blackmailed, a ton of foreign aid spending would be released.
Dump the fed and put the money BACK into the United States Treasury. It saves interest...tons of interest. It will pissof a few people but will also empower the the “People”, once again. Money goes back into the pockets of the PEOPLE, where it belongs and eliminates a whole bunch of corruption. Banks don’t belong running countries.
Look at what’s been put into place over the past 50 years that’s cost this country a small fortune...and reverse it.
Expect it? Now way no how. Too many dollar lined pockets out there hanging on for dear life.
t need as much law enforcement. Chances are, more lives will be saved as well. More saved lives means more tax payers.
The ineffective war on drugs would be a huge savings! Fewer black-0ps amd pay-offs needed.
REstore to the States that which belongs to the states in terms of responsibilities and freedoms. Like Education for example.
Now, just eliminating cabinet positions that don
Politicians and their bloated salaries. I suggest that we set the politician's salry at the minimum wage and see how anxious they are to remain in office to "serve us".
Political "service" was NEVER intended to be a career choice, but people who can't get jobs saying "Welcome to Walmart" have turned it into one.
We are long overdue for a change in the way that politicians are paid and in the way that their offices and expenses are operated.
But, that's wishful thinking on my part. To make that happen, we, the people who own this government lock, stock and barrel would have to DO something!
And, we won't.
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