Posted on 02/10/2011 3:30:56 AM PST by tobyhill
Conservatives are showing new found clout. The Republican Party is being pushed forward by conservatives and the GOP leadership is learning there is no tolerance for more business as usual in Washington this year. Things are looking up!
If they are appeasing the TEA party, a one time cut isn’t going to make us happy. The only way to survive as a nation is to cut spending way below tax revenues to allow us to retire debt.
Lat year we overspent by 1.5 trillion dollars. Can you DC people do the math?
Waaaaay past time to start defunding this overly excessive gub mint
Try cutting about 60 percent of it then you have got mt attention.
http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.shtml
Here’s a list of all Government agencies and Departments, not counting public corporations funded by the Government, like CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting).
I’m sure they can find a couple hundred billion here.
I sure hope they do not try to sell 40 or 50 billion as a cut.
Most excellent! Let's start the fight between the RINOS and Constitutional conservatives! I love a good fight between right and wrong. Bring it!
It can’t be difficult to come up with $500 billion in cuts but entitlements are where the real money’s at. We have to figure out how to get people to save for their retirement and take care of our seniors without bankrupting the country.
$40 billion? Who are they kidding?
If they don't START with at least $750 billion, they are not serious.
Perhaps this fiasco has put to rest the idea that Paul Ryan is a guru of fiscal responsibility. To put forth an extremely puny $32 billion deficit reduction package out of a $1.5 TRILLION annual deficit was laughable. Let’s look to Rand Paul as the new guru. His $500 billion is a good starting point in saving our children’s future in the USA.
Even that's still defecit spending, isn't it? Still going into the hole, right?
With a 14 trillion dollar debt there’s a whole lot of cuttin’ to do to make a dime’s worth of difference.
$40 billion out of a $4 trillion (est.) deficit is exactly the same as cutting $4 out of $400: a 1% cut. When you're borrowing money just to survive, a 1% cut is a joke. A wholesale re-ordering of finances is in order.
Yes, and I said that the FY2012 budget must be at least $1.5 trillion less than FY2011.
This DOES involve some work by our poor little dears up on the HIll, so I am willing to consider a $750 billion down-payment.
This is like one of those TV shows about people in debt who can’t face reality. They make $100,000 a year and spend $150,000. When the bill collectors start calling the husband puts off buying new golf clubs and the wife limits her pedicures to once a month instead of every week.
Problem solved, right?
Yes, and I'll bet you anything these "cuts" aren't real cuts at all, they're reductions in anticipated increases.
The GOP will not survive this failure - which, on the whole, is probably a good thing.
I guess math isn’t their strong suit. $1.5 trillion does NOT equal $30 billion. You’ve got a long, long way to go, Pubbies!
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