Posted on 05/13/2010 5:59:52 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," May 12, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Video at above link.
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CANTOR: YouCut is a program that we unveiled today. It was really produced by the Economic Recovery Working Group in the House, a group of Republicans who really intend on trying to change the culture in Washington. You know, not only have we've seen just rampant pork barrel spending, but the whole process itself is bent towards spending money. And so what this program is, is an ability for people across the country to make their voices heard, to vote on what they think should be cut from the federal budget.
VAN SUSTEREN: So let me -- so let me understand. So you go online to YouCut, and you get to vote on what you think should be cut out of the federal budget?
CANTOR: Right. And then the winning item, we take that, and then we're going to put it to a vote, to an up-or-down vote on the House floor the following week.
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CANTOR: Well, once a week, there will be new -- there will five new items to be voted on by the American people. So today, with the launch, there are five items up there right now. As of four hours into the launch, we were getting thousands of people coming to the website to cast their vote. It's Republicanwhip.house.gov/youcut. And once we tally all that up, the following week, we will bring that to an up-or-down vote on the House floor.
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What is the youcut website? Where do we go to vote?
Quite a contrast in program costs:
HUD Program for Doctoral Dissertations
$1 million in savings
Eliminate Wealthier Communities from Community Development Block Grant
$2.6 billion in savings
They should try to pair up comparably priced pork listings.
What we have to break is this habit of DC pitting once interest group against the other. That is how DC avoids having to make the tough choices. Everyone wants their spending increased and everyone eles cut. They use that to keep us divided and paralyzed.
Cut it all
Sorry. FR made me excerpt this article and te website got cut out. The website is posted above and also at the link. I was struggling with the html and slow in posting the part with the website.
Now that I’ve seen this, it appears to be a ploy. The cuts are all popular stuff and small dollars. If he’s serious, Cantor will put up a vote on cutting Medicare entitlements, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, HUD and educational spending. And even some Homeland Security spending, a portion of which is “disaster” spending that is incredibly wasteful.
The money is not in the programs he lists. The money is her:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_States_federal_budget
$2.5 BILLION to backdoor welfare reform is not small change. Cut it. Although all of the programs could be cut, $600 million to subsidize union activities particularly rankled my husband, so he voted for that.
It appears that if you have more than one email address, you can use all of them to vote even if you are voting from the same comupter. I suppose this is a way to gather email addresses of like minded Republicans, but I don’t care. I think it is a neat program.
We’ll se what they do with it.
This government is in need of actions not unlike those taken at the constitutional convention of 1787. Only a return to the principles ordained by the convention will save the Republic. States cannot be the slaves of the federal government, vying for the tax dollars government is able to use as blackmail.
The government needs to get their hands off every area they have no business being in. Like mandating what cars can and cannot do.
The environment.
Health Care.
Transportation.
Education.
Labor
EPA
IRS
An alphabet review, cutting 25% per year, for however long it takes to get down to manageable levels, and never rising above manageable despite economic prosperity.
Taking lands from states, for what ever reason, but especially not for wilderness, parks, the environment, etc.
The list is monumental and IMHO unsustainable.
Basically the government has to give up its power over the people, and return to a government of the people. Good luck.
Way too many power hungry people who realize government is able to empower them.
Cut the Department of Education - states do fine themselves (this is from a teacher).
Put time and extreme income limits on food stamps. Put item limits on food stamps (no angus beef, etc).
Make a 18% tax on everyone and defund the IRS. 18% is the average revenue on taxes as a percentage of the GDP regardless of tax rates(someone correct me if I am wrong).
Repeal Obamacare.
There are probably a million more programs that can be cut. Stop spending our children’s money.
Thanks, I went on and voted. Unfortunately, I could stop with one.
Eliminate the purchase of JUNK food from food stamps. Went to the grocery store Tuesday. Young lady in front of me with 2 small kids had a cart load of mostly junk food paid for it with her ‘food stamp credit card’ $120, 75% of the cart was junk food. Kids were not skinny.
At least she bought something.
Far too many of them have charges rung up for nothing and get 50 cents on the dollar from the "charge" so they can buy drugs and booze.
So, we not only have food stamps but because of the fraud involved with the stamps, the kids have to have breakfast, lunch and now dinner provided so their parent(s) can't scam the system for their own needs and neglect the kids.
I’m of the opinion food stamps should be ONLY for the following...with NO cash back....
Baby formula, milk, rice, beans, hamburger (the cheapest), fresh, canned, or frozen vegetables. That should be about ALL. I supposed you could throw in a loaf of bread, too.
Can we suggest cuts, too?
I think #YouCut should have a way for we the people to suggest programs to be cut. We are all familiar with things in our own area paid for by federal money that are ridiculous.
Maybe there should be government food pantries!
You can vote for all five items, I think.
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