Posted on 03/04/2013 4:47:41 AM PST by IbJensen
Stop all the awards and ceremonies, stop social research grants, government advertising, sell off surplus buildings and land, allow drilling and mining with royalties to government on govt. lands, provide incentive for managers to save $ rather than spend $, repeal laws and regs that increase contracting costs, repeal Davis-Bacon, institute scientific inventory controls, make supplies conservation a factor in compnesation/promotiion.The biggest savings that would improve efficiency would be to allow managers to fire deadwood.
Eliminate EPA, DOE, TSA, FED. Combine the leftist think tank known as the CIA into the FBI. Clean the Pentagon and the rest of the military of civilian workers. There is no job a uniformed military personnel can't perform. Make tests for admission to the armed forces tougher and get females out of combat situations and then kick out all the homosexuals.
Sell the TVA
Gee: That would make sense.
I don’t look for that to happen.
Obama wants to cut the things that hurt the most people in order to make his point and have the Congress cave in to him.
Alaska was called Seward's Folly when I was in school. Now it's an untouchable, Federal, pristine wasteland...and that's the way the Feds like it.
Where to cut? This would be a good place to start...http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/index.shtml
why not IPO the TVA?
same with many other departments. could be privatized.
Perhaps the useless House Republicans in the GOPe could quit playing small ball and defund Obama Care? They have the power to defund it, but they piss and moan over 2 cents out of a dollar in cuts while Obama transforms America! Might be a start. However as long as they are concerned with winning elections nothing will happen!
Entitlements, both unearned (TANF, Food Stamps, Medicaid, ObamaCare) and earned (Medicaid, Social Security).
These are exactly the programs that are killing us, and exactly the programs that are EXEMPT from Sequestration.
Talk about mild reform to Social Security and Medicare around here, though, and expect a full out attack.
Well, it "might" be in order to maximize the negative impact to/on voters, so that they will be more willing to vote to raise taxes. ALL levels of government are guilty of using this tactic.
Let's talk about serious reform to welfare, food stamps, Obamacare, etc.
I would also suggest that until these actions are done, Congress and the Executive branch - who are both failing miserably at their jobs - not be paid one cent of salary. Additionally, if these actions are not taken, that none of them are eligible for re-election, nor to hold public federal office ever again.
There are actually a lot of jobs that military members can't perform. The civilians are there as continuity. Military active duty personnel move around too much. Civilians typically stay at one location their whole careers. At a lot of locations the civilians are the ones that do the training and keep the mission flowing smoothly.
It sounds good to say cut civilians but that is really not such a cost effective idea. A lot of the depot work was always done by civilians. You would have to create new career fields, train and recruit to replace the civilians in these slots. This would take years to accomplish. Not really a savings.
It's also prime for oil and has probably been mortgaged acre by acre to the Chinese for illegal campaign monies over the years...
Just a thought of mine...
That list is just the tip of the iceberg. There are branches of agencies within those agencies.
For instance do we REALLY need this:
Funny, I don’t see a Mens Bureau but I do see a Womens Bureau.
Pathetic.
What you suggest has already been done, several times I believe.
I would cut the portions of the budget that pay for alternative energy. While not a cut, I would put the money spent on alternative transportation back into roads and bridges.
Milpers don't HAVE to move around so much. The civilians have about as much effect on the morale of the qualified uniforms as do homosexuals having been placed atop a pedestal as some honored species.
You mentioned “Clean the Pentagon and the rest of the military of civilian workers.” Remember that most of those civilian workers will have to be replaced with active duty military personnel to do the jobs. The growth of civilians in the DoD was meant as a way to let the active duty military focus its manpower on the combat mission, not working daily administrative stuff in the Pentagon and other military bases. Also, it means that contractors are hired to work in the mess halls as KPs instead of detailing soldiers to do that work every day.
You have overseas billets that have to be filled. These posts are filled by active duty. The civilian slots overseas are few and far between.
Active duty are subject to deployments. Only some civilians are deployable and it’s usually voluntary.
Your idea about the effect of civilians on morale is twisted. Civilians are a small fraction of the work force at most bases. Some bases your backbone is all civilian. Some civilians can be pains just like some military.
When an entire unit deploys, the civilians are the ones who keep the home station mission running.
Stop sending money to middle eastern barbarian savage countries.
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