Posted on 03/04/2013 4:47:41 AM PST by IbJensen
Want places to cut:
Most foreign aid. Especially to countries who hate us.
Eliminate some federal agencies (DHS, EPA, TSA, Education, Anything dealing with public TV, etc.)
We managed just fine without those agencies, before, we can easily do it again.
That having been said, the "cut waste" approach is fraudulent. Not in the sense that the waste should not be cut - of course it should. But we need an immediate reduction (like in the next six months) of $1.2-1.5 trillion, and there is no question that (temporarily) that would be very, very painful. SO painful, in fact, that nobody who depends on votes to keep the best job they ever have had or will have will go for it.
Basically, we screwed.
Peeling potatoes and mopping mess hall floors is a great way to build character. Half of the pentagon personnel are civilians who couldn’t care a twit for military preparedness or America. Just give them an Obozo and they’re happy until retirement.
stop spending the money we have to borrow to spend. duh!
No $ to foreign countries, no planes to Egypt, Kick the UN off US shores and quit sending money to them. Aid from US should say USA not UN.
stop paying great benefits for one year as a Congress person. All congress should get the same medical we get, SS, medicare etc.
spend only what the constitution says is your business and leave the rest to the States. Repeal all laws that do not fit the Constitution.
Not one penny of domestic spending or our military should be cut until ALL foreign aid is suspended. I know this would be small compared to the problem but it MUST be the very first step and not a single person in the state run media mentions it nor on FOX for that matter.
Yes, it would be symbolic, but a strong symbolic gesture to the world, that the USA can no longer be pissed on by every tyrant dictator or socialist/communist redistributionist country and still expected to subsidize those failures.
To our few remaining allies, that the half-black one has not pissed off, sorry, but for now we are broke but you will be the first in line should we recover.
Then completely eliminate the Depts of Education and Energy.
Eliminate all funding for the arts and certainly NPR/PBS.
Then maybe the citizens, who are paying the freight for this runaway economic train, might feel a little better about tightening our own belts.
The Pentagon personnel does not represent all of the DOD civilians. A lot of the DOD civilan workforce is comprised of either retirees or ex active duty and they do care a lot about the US.
DOD personnel will not riot because of the cuts. Being ex military most will just soldier on and take less pay.
Close the DHS and you cut 25% off the budget and get rid of the police state at the same time.
Foreign aid is kind of tricky. From what I have heard the money given in aid comes back to the US anyway. We don’t give them free arms. They have to buy it and the follow on maintenance contracts have to be done by US or allies contractors.
This is also how non weapon aid works.
Nope...not a dime. Look it up.
The House has passed the bills but the senate did not take them up.
“Foreign aid is kind of tricky. From what I have heard the money given in aid comes back to the US anyway. We don’t give them free arms. They have to buy it and the follow on maintenance contracts have to be done by US or allies contractors.
This is also how non weapon aid works.”
Here we have our government trusting a bunch of genetically defective early off shoots of the primordial soup with F16s yet not trusting law abiding US Citizens with hand held weapons. Makes you wonder which side of the fence the US government is currently on and certainly the State Department (which contains the highest number of communists per capita of any government agency).
In actuality, the crony capitalism of which you speak is even more reason to completely eliminate foreign aid. My reasoning is, without exception, anything or organization that gets big becomes evil. Be it big government, big religion, big business they all abuse their power. However, when you allow government and business to partner with our political enemies you have a Lord Acton moment on steroids. [Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely]
I guess that polls better than the actual enumerated powers of the Federal government.
0bama budgeting - we eat fillet mignon and lobster and caviar for 350 days out of the year - but the last 15 days they STARVE!!!!
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