Republican Leader Boehner Leads on Spending Cuts (Government Imparts No Wisdom)

Center for Fiscal Accountability ^ | 7/29/10 | Renae Bartusch

[Andrea19]

...The Boehner amendments bring to light the wasteful spending that Congress continues to push. This is the kind of scrutiny we have been calling on Congress to enact and, if applied in broad strokes, could represent significant savings for taxpayers. The Boehner amendments would:

• Terminate a HUD program for doctoral dissertations by cutting $300,000 from HUD and prohibiting the activity, since funds to study the work taxpayers are already paying thousands of people to do fall outside the scope of HUD’s mission.
• Cut $1.6 million from DOT’s Office of the Secretary, Salaries, and Expenses. This would expand the budgets and increase hires for the bureaucrats who oversee the DOT, even though each agency within the department already has their own budget offices that do just this.
• Cut $40 million from HUD’s Transformation Initiative that funds efforts to teach communities that receive HUD funds how to use them. Spending money to teach other people how to spend money. Really?
• Cut $35 million in new spending for grants to rehab houses through the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. This is a redundant program, one even the Obama administration has decided to not continue to fund. Why should Congress continue to funnel funds down a duplicative black hole?

These are all commonsense approaches to decreasing the federal spending burden. After all, it’s hard to see why a government agency should be spending $40 million to teach people how to spend other money the agency is giving them...

[Andrea19]

Congress wants to teach you to spend as well as they and some other departments do.

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[stefanbatory]

ok, 77mil is a nice little drop over the Niagra Falls of necessary spending cuts...When do y’all plan on getting serious? November is getting closer by the day and the country class is fed up with business as usual...

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Exactly why Congressional Republicans need new leadership.

[BARLF]

http://www.fiscalaccountability.org/index.php?content=729boehner#

[Non-Sequitur]

Cut $77 million out of a $1.4 trillion deficit? What is this, some kind of joke? He’s spitting on a forest fire and we’re supposed to cheer him for helping to put it out? My God do those people actually think we’re that clueless?

[Andrea19]

That’s why all the tea Party groups need to keep House GOP candidates knowing that these Republicans will stay a minority until they get serious.

[Non-Sequitur]

That’s why all the tea Party groups need to keep House GOP candidates knowing that these Republicans will stay a minority until they get serious.

And why the six scariest words connected with a GOP takeover of the House is "Speaker of the House John Boehner".