EPA?
HUD?
Dept. of Education?
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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
EPA?
HUD?
Dept. of Education?
I wish the GOP would quit using these idiotic games of “...over 10 years.”
My response to the GOP is this:
Tell me what you’re going to cut (and hold down as cut) NEXT YEAR.
When I see the GOP announce a real cut for NEXT YEAR’S budget and they make it stick for ALL of just the next year, then I might listen to their plans for the next two years. Might. Two.
Not 10.
Unless you address the entitlement program issues, we cannot get our debt under control. There are 54 million on SS, 47 million on Medicare, 43 million on food stamps, and 60 million on Medicaid--counting the CHIPs program. Will this nation have the political will to make such cuts and will the voters support politicians who want to make such cuts? Look to Greece for your answer.
Close the Dept of Education, the EPA, the Energy Dept, AFT, Commerce Dept, IRS, Transportation Depart, etc, etc, etc.
Cut Democrats pay.
That’s a good list for today.
Now come up with a list like this tomorrow, and the next day, and every day until you have eliminated the problem.
Clinton had a Rep Congress and he benefitted from the so-called peace dividend, which he used to make drastic cuts to the military. He also raised taxes.
It will certainly shakeup DC and the entitlement programs. An excellent start!!
$35 Billion Oil depletion allowance.
$6 billion of 45 cent per gallon on ethanol paid to oil refineries to blend 10% ethanol with gasoline(the ethanol subsidy that everyone is concerned about. Agriculture could care less about the subsidy since E85 production is not subsidized.
Cut federal retirement in half for all who did not contribute to social security and retirement plans. There should be no cola for these also.
We should put our money where our mouths are and opt out of medicare and ask that it be disposed of (yes you can opt out of medicare and have private insurance. Yes is does cost a bit more.)
No I am not trying to win a popularity contest
Exactly! But we need to give time, a month or two for families to buy AR 15s and lots of ammo!
I think the second amendment means the states can give away free guns to the populace.
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Rand Paul has a better plan.
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