BTTT
WOO HOO! Go Trump!
Oh how I hope that this is true. The key to cutting spending is cutting federal workers. As long as you have millions of federal workers, they will figure out a way to spend money.
My only question is which Useful Idiot Republican will the press trot out to say how “reckless” these cuts are.
>>Still, Trump is likely to face a wall of opposition from Democrats and federal unions who consider much of the federal workforce on their side.<<
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10% spending cuts is a drop in the bucket. Try for 50%.
Even if he doesn’t get it all done...at least the subject came up and was examined. THAT’S infinitely better than the last eight LONG years.
Decimation, works every time.
Cut off was age 5 on Feb 1st...half way through the school year.
My granddaughter was a whole year older 5 Y 9 m when she started.
Head start is just a babysitting program...and proven to be of no benefit...except to .........
I thought 25% of the federal “workers” said that they were going to quit and move to Canada if Trump got elected. Trump shouldn’t have to fire anybody.
Building the wall is not a “pet project.” It is an essential part of national defense.
The purge of OBuggery’s minions begins.
https://www.thebalance.com/off-budget-definition-and-examples-3305951
Definition: Off-budget is the revenue and spending of certain Federal entities that Congress wants to protect from the normal budget process. “On-budget” includes these entities, and is the total amount reported in the Federal “unified” budget. Off-budget spending is excluded from budget caps, sequestration, and pay-as-you-go requirements.
Examples
The three main entities that are off-budget are the Social Security Trust Fund, the U.S. Postal Service, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Social Security has been funded by payroll taxes since 1937. By 1962, there were more Baby Boomers working than there were retirees needing benefits. This meant the Fund had more than enough money to cover its costs. It invested the surplus in special Treasury bonds that paid a guaranteed return.
This was done off-budget. Otherwise, all that revenue would have made it look like the government was flush with cash, and Congress would have spent it all. There would have been none left to fund Social Security benefits when the Boomers retired.
However, calling the revenue off-budget didn't really protect it. Instead, Congress worked with two budgets. The real budget was the unified, which included off-budget items like the Social Security tax revenue. The official budget was the on-budget, which didn't include Social Security revenue. Instead, Congress ran a what looked like a deficit, but which was actually funded by Social Security.
Payroll tax receipts that go into the Social Security Trust Fund are considered “off-budget”, but are nevertheless used as revenue in the unified budget.
http://www.cagw.org/content/baseline-budgeting
BASELINE BUDGETING
“Baseline budgeting” is one of those Washington terms that sounds very dry and boring. In reality, baseline budgeting is one of the most sinister ways that politicians claim to cut spending when they are actually increasing spending. The Congressional Budget Office defines the baseline as a benchmark for measuring the budgetary effects of proposed changes in federal revenue or spending, with the assumption that current budgetary policies or current services are continued without change. The baseline includes automatic adjustments for inflation and anticipated increases in program participation. Baseline, or current services, budgeting, therefore builds automatic, future spending increases into Congress's budgetary forecasts.
Just start the ball rolling. Start with any new gubmint jobs added by jug ears.
This has a lot of unintended consequences beyond money.
It forces departments to prioritize tasks and weeds out poor managers. There will be accountability.
Will money still be spent on seminars not to hurt gay gender feelings? Which bath room perverts should use?
MAGA
“I won”
BOOM!
House Republicans revive obscure rule that allows them to slash the pay of individual federal workers to $1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/house-republicans-revive-obscure-rule-that-could-allow-them-to-slash-the-pay-of-individual-federal-workers-to-1/2017/01/04/4e80c990-d2b2-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html
The revival of the Holman Rule was the brainchild of Rep. H. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), who is intent on increasing the powers of individual members of Congress to reassign workers as policy demands.
Griffith: “Who runs this country, the people of the United States or the people on the people’s payroll?”
Call them "Go Green Teams". Trump is just reducing Fedzilla's massive carbon footprint to save the Earf. It will confuse the libtards.
Good start. Keep reducing year by year.
