Posted on 10/11/2013 10:34:41 AM PDT by bestintxas
As if the government shutdown wasn’t bad enough, the U.S. Treasury is set to run out of borrowed funds on October 17. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew wants Congress to raise the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling, and plenty of our elected representatives are clamoring for the same “solution.” Somehow it never occurs to government to rein in its spending habits, even while ordinary citizens across the U.S. are tightening their belts. In fact, last month House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi expressed shock at the very suggestion: “The cupboard is bare,” she cried. “There’s [sic] no more cuts to make.”
Perhaps Ms. Pelosi needs to take another good, hard look at the back corners of her “cupboard.” The government is chock full of wasteful, redundant programs that cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year. How about we slash those programs before we borrow more money and pile even more debt on our children and grandchildren? Here are just a few areas where cuts could be made immediately.
1. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) just issued a regulation for measuring power consumption in TVs despite the fact that the private sector already has a test method. This DOE-mandated test procedure is a prime example of wasted time and taxpayer money. The DOE should have deferred to the existing industry consensus standard, known as ANSI/CEA-2037, which was developed with input from interested industry and non-industry stakeholders. By mandating its own test procedure, the DOE has tied everyone’s hands, limiting the ability of industry to maintain test procedures that benefit consumers and existing programs such as ENERGY STAR and EnergyGuide. The DOE should withdraw its new regulation and stop spending money reinventing the wheel.
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On the other hand, it is likely to be completely barren.
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Dingy’s testicles.
ENERGY STAR? Am I the only one who remembers the hilarious GAO audit on them?
I dunno - I kinda don’t wish to know what exists in her pantry.
On the other hand, it is likely to be completely barren.
Ever see those movies that depict the gateway to hell? That’s what I believe exists in her pantry, how else do you explain her actions and comments about the Catholic Church? The simple answer is she is hell spawn, so there by it is obvious that her pantry would hold the gateway to her master.
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