Ohhhh, if only, if only...
“Defense cut by 2/3: $475 billion”
Get serious.
I support it!
And just to show that I am not being crazy partisan, the Defense dept cuts hurt as do SS Means Testing
But it is a shared sacrifice
Stossel cuts the defense budget more than anything else and is he really proposing that we cut the defense budget by 2/3. If so, that’s crazy talk.
I am forced by law to pay into SS. But, if I was wise enough to plan for my retirement, I can't collect?
I don't think so!!!
Only those who pay into SS should be permitted to collect.
Medicare/Medicaid*: $441 billion (Cato Institute)
Social Security Means Testing: $170 billion (Heritage Foundation)
Social Security*: $85.7 billion (Cato Institute)
Will NEVER happen. If even folks on FR are against losing out on the above govt gravy its pretty much a dead letter. Sad but true.
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We spend about $400 billion on public welfare. That is insane. How much of that reaches the “poor”?
My proposal would merge all welfare bureaucracies into a single entity. No more free phones, no more section 8, no more food stamps etc. Just a monthly cash payment you have to show up to recieve (and be subject to background checks and surprise home “audits” to see if you are actually poor)
Cut EPA, NPR, PPP and other pork before even THINKING of cutting defense!
We’re screwed and I can tell you why with one question: What would the people that currently get the money we would be saving do if we really cut as he suggested?
I can’t accept that much of a cut in defense. I could if other countries were pulling their weight (Canada, UK, Frants, Germany, et al.), and thus the USA didn’t have to do so much, but they aren’t.
Otherwise, I’m probably in agreement.
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Cut THIS sh*t!!!!
BILLIONS FOR JIHAD!
Obamas 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pandemic Flu was revised and passed by the full committee.
It gives billions http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/05/1...
of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support Sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies.
Read the summary from David Obeys office that was quietly released last week with nary a word from any media.
$3.6 billion, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces
$400 million, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces
Afghanistan:$1.52 billion,$86 million above the request
West Bank and Gaza:$665 million in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza
Jordan:$250 million,$250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance
Egypt:$360 million,$310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance,$50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance
Pakistan:$1.9 billion,$591 million above the request
Iraq:$968 million,$336 million above the request
Oversight:$20 million,$13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
Lebanon:$74 million
International Food Assistance:$500 million,$200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis
Refugee Assistance:$343 million,$50 million above the request, including humanitarian assistance for Gaza. Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)
Disaster Assistance:$200 million to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia
Peacekeeping:$837 million for United Nations
peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic
Department of Justice:$17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system
Obama gives your tax dollars to rebuild Muslim mosques around the world
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/... #
ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL GIVE AWAY NEARLY $6 MILLION OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO RESTORE 63 HISTORIC AND CULTURAL SITES, INCLUDING ISLAMIC MOSQUES AND MINARETS, IN 55 NATIONS. See the State Department document here.
http://exchanges.state.gov/media/pdfs/office-...
What we need is a “Taxes” Chainsaw Massacre....
I would cut 1/2 of all senators. One per state only.
I would cut 1/2 of all congresscritters.
I would cut all CAFE standards.
I would eliminate all state and federal taxes on gasoline and oil.
I would eliminate all non-congressional passed “laws”, i.e. regulations that eminated from non-elected government hacks.
I would eliminate all income tax - federal and state. I know how to spend my money !
FEMA - Gone !
EPA - Gone !
HUD - Gone !
DOE - Gone !
ETC. - Gone !
Happy mood again in my fantasy world, thank you !!
Eliminate Dept. Education and Dept. of Energy.
Pull out of NATO and UN
Pull out of Korea\Iraq\Afghanistan
Stop foreign aid to Mideast and Asia.
Only if we bring all our troops back from everywhere and put those remaining after cuts on the border and at seaports. Highly accurate MIRVed nukes would stay, 'cause if it ain't worth nukes, it ain't worth fightin' over!
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Eliminate foreign aid? How is the Palestinian Authority gonna make it without $600,000,000 of our taxes? How is that great friend of America, Egypt, gonna make it without a few billion dollars of our cash? or China, or Cuba? or Nigeria?
I was just at a government site and the typical laziness is there just like every other fed operation. The fed. manager was saying how he was in on a meeting of a crew of workers, and the boss was pleading with them to “at least give me 4 hours of work a day and we can get this back on schedule.” But they are all union so impossible to fire, and the boss could get charged for harrassment if he does any more than plead. Although layoffs are coming.
Oh - they “work” 10-hour days with Friday off. So out of a 10 hour day, perhaps 1 to 3 hours of actual work gets done.
As a start, firing 50% of the workers next week should be done. Give the rest of them a month’s notice half of the remaining folks will also be canned. That would go a long way at shrinking the debt.
1. Cap all federal employees, elected and appointed, to $100K/year.
2.No pension, except what you put into a 401k, with a 6% match.
3. Limit staffers to 3, including one in district/state.
4. All unspent campaign funds are turned over to the Treasury.
Cut: 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.
Freedom CAR 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. (1931 US Federal Law which established the requirement for paying prevailing wages on public works projects. All federal government construction contracts, and most contracts for federally assisted construction over $2,000, must include provisions for paying workers on-site no less than the locally prevailing wages and benefits paid on similar projects.)
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. WHAT!!!
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. Lord help us!!!
Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings. MOHAIR??
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.
Eliminate 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 My question is, what THE HELL is all this doing in the budget in the first place?