EPA?
HUD?
Dept. of Education?
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Not nearly enough
Over 10 years what a joke.
We are running 1.4 trillion dollar yearly deficits, what is 250 billion a year in cuts going to accomplish?
... it's a start.
It is a start, I guess.
We need to elimimate corporate welfare and subsidies and trim entitlements and end all grants to NGO’s.
It is a start. I would be impressed if it were $2.5 trillion out of the next proposed budget.
We want more cuts. We want whole agencies abolished. We want to see the lines of former bureaucrats fighting illegal aliens for meager wages picking beans by hand!
Sounds like a nice start.
It’d be better if we could 2.5 T cut for this year.
If only this would pass...
Complete elimination and defunding of:
IRS
FDA
HUD
Department of Education
Department of Agriculture
EPA
HSS
DHS
TSA
DOE
All Czars
Good Grief...
Mike
6 billion to the UN, millions in foreign aid, global tax on gas should be eliminated until our economy becomes solvent.
A good start.
Today or tomorrow would be fine.
NPR? Definitely should be on the list, especially given their leftist and globalist (and global warming) agendas.
Buncha RINOs. If they were REAL conservatives, they’d completely eliminate the federal government, and outsource it to private companies.
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.
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
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.
EPA?
HUD?
Dept. of Education?