[WildSnail]

Lots of program reductions and outright elimination. $2.5 Trillion over 10 years is a good start.

[ichabod1]

They should not be allowed to project numbers out like that. They should only be allowed to project out what will happen during the two year course of their term. After that it is out of their hands and in the hands of the next congress. So, does this mean a $500 billion cut over the next two years? Or is it rigged so that if no future congress touches it, most of the benefit will be realized in years 9-10? So sick of the deceptions and half-truths.

[Tzimisce]

These are REAL budget cuts?

...please, just let me savor this for a minute. :)

[fortheDeclaration]

Eliminate half of the government agencies, cut the budget in half of the ones that are left.

Repeat next year.

[conservaterian]

Start off with eliminating the Dept. of Interior - Park Service, Fish & Game, etc. are all duplicated in the states- turn the land over to them. A lot of the land can be sold to private individuals to run as a business. States will be rolling in money. Same with Forest Service and EPA- not needed! Most of Agriculture can go also- especially food stamps and farm subsidies. Flat tax would eliminate 90% of IRS. No more welfare, headstart, etc. Same with corporate bailouts. If you can’t make it on your own TS. People did just fine before all of these socialist programs. ATF, Amtrak, NPR, any arts programs, etc. etc. etc. - getting tired just listing all of these.

[Liz]

Obama’s Deficit Avalanche isn’t Bush’s Fault scottuystarnes.com / 2/9/2010

Washington Times reports: Even more staggering than the mountains of snow in the capital are the deficits the Obama administration plans for the next decade. Huge spending increases will add about $12 trillion to the national debt for budget years 2009 to 2020. The scariest part is that these deficits are based on unrealistic budgeting assumptions; the real fiscal outlook is much bleaker. In the proposed 2011 budget, the White House defensively attacks the “irresponsibility of past” deficits.

For example, the 2009 budget deficit of $1.4 trillion is blamed on the George W. Bush administration as if President Obama’s $862 billion stimulus package and more than $400 billion supplemental spending bill had nothing to do with it. Mr. Obama’s planned 2010 budget deficit rises to an even higher record level of $1.6 trillion.

By comparison, all of Mr. Bush’s deficits from 2002 to 2008 – the seven years during which his team had the most control over the budget – produced a combined deficit of $2.1 trillion. Obama has spent more in 2 years than Bush did in 7 years. Obama’s BIOB (Blame it on Bush) defense just won’t work anymore.

GRAPH

[xtinct]

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (aka NPR) Subsidy. $445 million annual savings

gotta love it !!