Posted on 01/20/2011 10:04:19 AM PST by NowApproachingMidnight
hm..no mention of not funding HAMAS via aid to palestine ?
720+ foreign installations was the last count I read...I'm sure they're all indispensable,too.
Buncha RINOs. If they were REAL conservatives, they’d completely eliminate the federal government, and outsource it to private companies.
Sen. Rand Paul to unveil budget proposal with $500B worth of cuts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2659098/posts
“Kentucky’s junior Republican senator... about to unveil his own sweeping budget plan that would result in a $500 billion cut in just one year — about five times more than what the House GOP has promised to do.”
We are in big trouble if this is all the GOP is going to do. They are using a scalpel when they need to use a machete.
“The place to start is to freeze the debt ceiling.
THEN look at how much money MUST be cut.
THEN make a list of places to cut.”
These are the priorities, and in the correct order.
Mahalo for your analysis.
My proposals:
1. Return to FY2009 levels and freeze them. Saves $116 billion for 2012.
2. Fix a date - probably 2014 - for the states to take over all responsibility for HHS functions. Beginning in 2014, this $794 billion becomes $600 billion as budgeted and is distributed directly to the states... under the idea that the states can do things more cheaply and by eliminating the Washington superstructure. Saves another $194 billion.
3. Over the next 10 years, reduce that $600 billion by 10% per year and let each state figure what programs they wish to continue (and tax for) and which ones they wish to eliminate.
Total savings: $4.398 trillion over ten years 2012-2021 or $6.950 trillion by 2024 when the funding line is entirely eliminated... though these figures don't account for the inevitable escalation of federal budgets over time.
Until and unless we can actually get stuff like this out of Washington completely, there is going to be no true reform and no true savings. We must eliminate bureaucracy.... and HHS (in my opinion) is the biggest offender. I'm not suggesting that some of the programs they do aren't useful; but I want them out of Washington so that they can be controlled better by the people and so that the Constitution's requirements can be restored.
Yet, they're floating the idea of raising it for a worthless promise of a measly reduction in the deficit.
They need to refuse to raise the debt ceiling, then start investigations into Geithner and the rest of the criminals in the Ears regime to see if they have been illegally issuing debt in expectation of it being raised.
Wouldn't we all love to see that worthless punk Geithner spend a looooong time in a federal penitentiary? And maybe they could get Ears a nice permanent vacation at Club Fed.
The DOD too.
{When an agency loses BILLIONS of dollars [unaccountable-disappeared, not “oh, we used it in secret projects”] it’s time to put that agency down; if it’s truly a needful agency we can charter a replacement.}
I agree, we need the slash and burn sale, our lives and country depend on it...if this mentality does not catch on we are gone...
I am with you..say our national debt is 30 trillion total, probably more like 150 trillion, just start slashing government agencies, overseas bases, strip them of the ability to even raise money from us, let the states handle the budget and make it illegal for the fed to have funds to bail out foolish states, dirt roads are better than ones our childrens children can never pay for, all overseas spending gone, all federal taxes gone..prop up the manufacturing bases by the states.. etc until the big number is gone in 1 year...take the bitter pill now, and kick the butts of those politicians that won’t serve..
Though it’s a good start it’s Not enough.They need to start. Chopping the Dept. Of energy,Dept. Of Education and cut them massively.They don’t produce so they need to be eliminated.
Now we need a minimum of another $13 trillion just to bring balance.
We must have patience - this is a great start - the media and dems will howl.
Too much at one time will fail - I like this list.
More to come.
I hate that guy.
Seriously, this is a good start.
I think Senator Rand Paul is coming out with something twice this size, which is an even better start
Now THAT’s a good start...
Agreed.
And about 2 times the size of this proposal. Works for me.
We have a $3.5 trillion annual budget. Even without inflation and no increases, that is $35 trillion over 10 years. $2.5 trillion represents a 7% cut in spending.
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