Posted on 06/04/2013 4:13:27 PM PDT by CaptainCapsLock
"On Feb. 13, President Obama released his fiscal year 2013 budget proposal, which includes $3.67 trillion in new spending. That’s a 3.7 percent decline from 2012 levels, after adjusting for inflation.
Discretionary programs—like education, the military, and environmental protection—account for $1.15 trillion, or 31 percent, of the new budget. That includes around $73 billion for education, a 2 percent increase over last year. A poll by the Pew Research Center found that 62 percent of Americans support increasing education funding—the strongest support for any type of spending—even when asked in the context of how the federal government should reduce budget deficits."
"Well over half of the budget—62 percent or $2.27 trillion—funds mandatory spending, which includes earned-benefit programs like Social Security and Medicare. Those two programs are overwhelmingly popular among the American public. A Reuters poll found that more than 70 percent of Americans oppose cuts to those programs."
Nobody wants to cut anything? Ha! More like, nobody knows where to start, thanks to the special interests and 0Bama's friends in Washington.
My friends, below I give you a list of every government agency the U.S. currently has in existence. For sake of posterity, what would you get rid of to shrink our bloated deficits?
A list of every U.S. Government Agency, A-Z.
If you shut down the Federal Reserve, the pork would cut itself.
/johnny
Lol @ “after inflation”.
All of welfare, food stamps, section 8, social security, medicare, foreign aid, green energy and 20% of the Pentagon.
What pork would I cut out if I could? I would start with Obama.
Everything but the military and the small slice shown for government.
Energy Department right off the bat. Not cut-—gone.
HEW cut by half.
EPA Cut by half.
Wookie Staff, cut in half.
Congressional staff cut by 2/3rds.
Air Force One cut by half.
Obamacare Gone—Gone—Gone.
HUD cut in half.
IRS cut in half.
That’s a start.
Interesting... Very Interesting... Well my first decree would be for everyone to go home and stay there until called into work for ABSOLUTELY necessary tasks. That would soon show what employees of the Fed-Gov are actually vital.
Once I determined that then I would just agree to continue to pay the “employees/parasites” and insure that they couldn’t cause any more trouble by the need to “justify” their jobs by creating reams of new Rules and regulations.
Then it’s on to the UN Dues and Foreign “Tribute’ aka Foreign Aid.
SS includes massive amounts of new disability recipients. Some of them are on game shows and once “worked” for the post office etc.
My view of medicade is that it is rife with fraud... same for a lot of medicare.
Buying votes with hard earned money is the name of the game.
Breakdown Medicare and health and Social security to sub categories then ask.
Debt service will mushroom one day as well.
Ag, Ed, Commerce, IRS, etc.
/johnny
Lime Jello... How Barbaric, Cherry or Strawberry I think would be a better choice. It would hide the stains better I think.
Fedgov is a least 65% unconstitutional. Cut away.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/budget.pdf
p. 69: I would cut roughly half of the “mandatory” Agriculture spending, including all federal crop insurance, all federal marketing services, the commodity credit service, and anything in “food and nutrition service” that duplicates other programs. Savings? $75B
p. 75: I would cut a small amount from the small Commerce budget - a total of about $1B or less out of $9B.
p. 83: I would cut about $100B out of the $525B military budget, and it’s not worth specifying the precise cuts.
p. 100: I would cut $72B from the $72B Education budget, and I would cut the separate $150B from the education loan program. Education is not a federal responsibility, and neither is lending money.
p. 106: I would cut $14B from the $35B Energy budget, and I would cut the separate $13B from the energy loan program. Lending money is not a federal responsibility.
p. 114: I would zero out the $81B in discretionary HHS spending in response to their unconstitutional trampling of freedom of religion in the HHS abortion mandate with ObamaCare. I would also cut the $860B in “mandatory” spending through a careful review of eligibility among those claiming disability - amount of cuts here? Unknown.
p. 121: Homeland Security? Unknown, but I would take an ax to TSA, for a significant chunk of their $5B, and make that a state or private responsibility.
p. 128: I would eliminate HUD’s mandatory and discretionary spending for $46B from the HUD budget. Housing is not a federal responsibility.
p. 135: Interior totals a mere $12B, and I would almost leave that alone.
p. 141. Justice totals $36B, and I would eliminate BATFE completely but otherwise leave that mostly alone.
p. 148: I would eliminate most of the $101B Labor budget, keeping unemployment insurance for now at $55B.
p. 156: I would cut $45B from the $60B State budget, and I would cut the separate $283B from the State loan program. Lending money is not a federal responsibility.
p. 162: I would cut $12B from the $99B Transportation budget, and I would cut the separate $3B from the Transportation loan program. Lending money is still not a federal responsibility.
p. 167: I would cut $12B from the $12B in Treasury TARP spending. All TARP should be immediately eliminated. budget, and I would cut an additional $12B from the $110B Treasury budget, along with their $4B in loans and $52B in loan guarantees.
p. 171: I would keep most or all of the $140B in Veterans spending
p. 181: I would cut at least $4B from the $9B EPA budget.
p. 185: I would keep most or all of the $18B in NASA spending, pending a more careful review.
I would review the NSF and SBA, line item by line item. SBA would need a lot to justify it, and NSF would lose some but not all of its funding.
p. 197: Social Security’s $883B is a big one, but a tricky one. We ave a moral obligation to keep our word to those over 65 on Social Security and to those within a few years of retirement. That budget cannot be cut much in the short term except by carefully reviewing those on “disability”. It is time to work on long-term stability, by raising te retirement age to correspond to our longer lives. For tose under age 55, more than 12 years from full retirement at age 67 (it’s already going up to 67), tey should add one or two months to the age every year until it reaches a sustainable level. That might be age 70 or 72. If you want to retire earlier, take lower benefits or save your own money, but the country cannot afford to subsidize decades of retirement for those whoa re not already close to that line. We can’t even afford to subsidize those over age 55, but we have to keep our word.
I’m sure I’ve offended everyone with at least one of my cuts, and no doubt a few of them are the wrong decision. I’d be happy to restore any proposed cuts that eliminate something wort the price, but tat is on a case-by-case basis. I would also be happy to cut many of the things I left in, again after careful review. It’s time to cut aggressively though - decades past time.
Total cuts above? Just over $1 trillion. I don’t think it’s hard to find massive waste. Being generous, I would even agree to keep half of the wasteful spending in the first year, with that waste programmed to be eliminated in the second year, to phase in the “austerity”.
Well, there's a good start, right there.
Abolish all of the pork for regulatory offices, public education and all.
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