House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts

U.S. News & World Report ^ | 01/20/2011 | Paul Bedard

[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.

[ichabod1]

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.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Thanks!

[ichabod1]

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.

[Tzimisce]

These are REAL budget cuts?

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

[pleikumud]

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

[fortheDeclaration]

Eliminate half of the government agencies, cut the budget in half of the ones that are left.

Repeat next year.

[Segovia]

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.

[conservaterian]

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.

[Liz]

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

[TomasUSMC]

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.

[TomasUSMC]

NICE GRAPH

[Redbob]

"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!

[Taxman]

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

Federal ethanol subsidy!

[xtinct]

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (aka NPR) Subsidy. $445 million annual savings

gotta love it !!