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House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts
U.S. News & World Report ^ | 01/20/2011 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 01/20/2011 11:46:26 AM PST by WildSnail

Moving aggressively to make good on election promises to slash the federal budget, the House GOP today unveiled an eye-popping plan to eliminate $2.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years. Gone would be Amtrak subsidies, fat checks to the Legal Services Corporation and National Endowment for the Arts, and some $900 million to run President Obama's healthcare reform program.

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To: The Antiyuppie

We don’t need a flipping Federal Department to conduct nuclear research. If we need that so bad, put it under HUD. Oh, we need to get rid of HUD too. Stick it someplace but it’s not a cabinet level deal.

Take the fangs out of the EPA. Let them reccommend to Congress, nothing more. Maybe able to file some suits but in no wise to issue imperial regulations on non-pollutants.


121 posted on 01/21/2011 10:35:38 AM PST by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: alexandria

Thanks!


122 posted on 01/21/2011 10:55:51 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yeah, because everything is rated by the hour, right? So, if they can spread the energy usage over two hours (even if it’s more in total), they can claim they reduced the wattage, or whatever.


123 posted on 01/21/2011 10:57:58 AM PST by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: WildSnail

These are REAL budget cuts?

...please, just let me savor this for a minute. :)


124 posted on 01/21/2011 3:03:20 PM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: pleikumud

Also eliminate the Department of Interior -— that’s $12 billion saved.


125 posted on 01/21/2011 3:14:38 PM PST by pleikumud
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To: WildSnail
Eliminate half of the government agencies, cut the budget in half of the ones that are left.

Repeat next year.

126 posted on 01/21/2011 11:35:09 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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To: pleikumud

you left out one very big hog.

USDA, never grew a damn thing except it’s budget, just as the DoEd never educated anyone. You could probably fire 50% of the federal work force, and you would never notice the difference.


127 posted on 01/22/2011 1:19:34 AM PST by Segovia (Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.)
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To: WildSnail

Start off with eliminating the Dept. of Interior - Park Service, Fish & Game, etc. are all duplicated in the states- turn the land over to them. A lot of the land can be sold to private individuals to run as a business. States will be rolling in money. Same with Forest Service and EPA- not needed! Most of Agriculture can go also- especially food stamps and farm subsidies. Flat tax would eliminate 90% of IRS. No more welfare, headstart, etc. Same with corporate bailouts. If you can’t make it on your own TS. People did just fine before all of these socialist programs. ATF, Amtrak, NPR, any arts programs, etc. etc. etc. - getting tired just listing all of these.


128 posted on 01/22/2011 5:50:32 AM PST by conservaterian (Sarah/DeMint '12)
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To: All

Obama’s Deficit Avalanche isn’t Bush’s Fault scottuystarnes.com / 2/9/2010

Washington Times reports: Even more staggering than the mountains of snow in the capital are the deficits the Obama administration plans for the next decade. Huge spending increases will add about $12 trillion to the national debt for budget years 2009 to 2020. The scariest part is that these deficits are based on unrealistic budgeting assumptions; the real fiscal outlook is much bleaker. In the proposed 2011 budget, the White House defensively attacks the “irresponsibility of past” deficits.

For example, the 2009 budget deficit of $1.4 trillion is blamed on the George W. Bush administration as if President Obama’s $862 billion stimulus package and more than $400 billion supplemental spending bill had nothing to do with it. Mr. Obama’s planned 2010 budget deficit rises to an even higher record level of $1.6 trillion.

By comparison, all of Mr. Bush’s deficits from 2002 to 2008 – the seven years during which his team had the most control over the budget – produced a combined deficit of $2.1 trillion. Obama has spent more in 2 years than Bush did in 7 years. Obama’s BIOB (Blame it on Bush) defense just won’t work anymore.

GRAPH

129 posted on 01/22/2011 6:14:03 AM PST by Liz (There's a new definition of bipartisanship in Washington -- it's called "former member.")
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To: SamuraiScot

eliminate $2.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years
How about over one year?

EXACTLY. Over ten years is a big lie, a promise they won’t keep, hell they won’t even be in office then. Its just 250 billion a year less than 1 billion a day.

FREEZE THE DEBT CEILING.


130 posted on 01/22/2011 10:19:07 AM PST by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: Liz

NICE GRAPH


131 posted on 01/22/2011 10:27:14 AM PST by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: USNA74
"Actually, the reason your dishwasher doesn’t clean anymore is because phosphates have been removed from almost every dishwashing detergent. Check the box - would almost bet it says that on the box so you can feel good about yourself. Some environmental hooey. BTW, I think “Finish” is one of the last dishwashing detergents to have phosphates still in it. Stock up."

Just discovered that about a month ago: Finish does a far better job than anything else we've tried.

Now how about laundry detergents?
I can't get a shirt to come out white anymore!

132 posted on 01/22/2011 9:37:32 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Name your favorite government program or agency you would like to see defunded!

Federal ethanol subsidy!


133 posted on 01/23/2011 8:00:49 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: WildSnail
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (aka NPR) Subsidy. $445 million annual savings

gotta love it !!

134 posted on 08/03/2011 5:44:16 AM PDT by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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