Posted on 01/20/2011 10:04:19 AM PST by NowApproachingMidnight
Additional Program Eliminations/Spending Reforms
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings.
Save America's Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings.
International Fund for Ireland. $17 million annual savings.
Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings.
National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings.
National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings.
Hope VI Program. $250 million annual savings.
Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings.
Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million annual savings.
Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy. $20 million annual savings.
Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding. $47 million annual savings.
John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings.
Community Development Fund. $4.5 billion annual savings.
Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million annual savings.
Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half. $7.5 billion annual savings.
Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings.
Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings.
Technology Innovation Program. $70 million annual savings.
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million annual savings.
Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization. $530 million annual savings.
Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings.
New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings.
Exchange Programs for Alaska, Natives Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts. $9 million annual savings.
Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings.
Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings.
Appalachian Regional Commission. $76 million annual savings.
Economic Development Administration. $293 million annual savings.
Programs under the National and Community Services Act. $1.15 billion annual savings.
Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings.
FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.
Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings.
Economic Assistance to Egypt. $250 million annually.
U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual savings.
General Assistance to District of Columbia. $210 million annual savings.
Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings.
Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years.
No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings.
End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 billion annually.
IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget. $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 billion total savings.
Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees. $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of. $15 billion total savings.
Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.
Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.
Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings.
Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings.
USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings.
Subsidy to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). $93 million annual savings.
Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. $56.2 million annual savings.
Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million savings.
Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings.
HUD Ph.D. Program.
Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years
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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