Exclusive: Tea Party Would Cut $9 Trillion

U.S. News and World Report ^ | November 17, 2011 | Paul Bedard

[Zakeet]

Now you Freepers know why we told you that the tea party was worse than the occupy idiots

[Pining_4_TX]

Boo yah! Let the good times roll! I would love to see these cuts made.

[Scotsman will be Free]

It would be a fantasy come true.

[DustyMoment]

•Eliminating four cabinet agencies: Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce and Education, and reducing or privatizing the EPA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and TSA.

It's a start . . . . and a darn good one!!

[Fast Moving Angel]

Ditto that.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The first Republican candidate who embraces this wins.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

If we keep wracking up $1.5 TRILLION annual deficits, then we’ll accumulate $15 TRILLION more debt in the next 10 years. The Tea Party says cut that to $5 TRILLION more debt.

NOT good enough! Balance the damn budget, do it now, and keep it balanced.

[EGPWS]

"CUT...Cut.."

What is this alien political language that you speak?

What does it mean?

[EGPWS]

NOT good enough! Balance the damn budget, do it now, and keep it balanced.

Now don't be piggish! /s

[Zuben Elgenubi]

THAT caught my attention.

[Paladin2]

Add elimination of the NLRB and BATFE and it’s a winner.

[freekitty]

How are you going to cut anything if you continue to vote for the wrong people. This isn’t going to happen magically.

[tgusa]

Shocking! Donks will be dropping like flies.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Awesome work! YES! YES! YES!!

[Zakeet]

It's a nice start but it only rolls things back to the Bush 2 years ... pre-porkulus maximus.

So, in keeping with the spirit of trying to restore fiscal sanity, how about these additions:

• The United Nations
  
• All the rest of the Department of Agriculture
  
• All the rest of the Environmental Protection Agency
  
• The Transportation Screening Agency
  
• The Department of Transportation
  
• The Department of Health and Human Services ... transfer Medicare, Medicaid and welfare back to the states to do with as they see fit
  
• The Department of Homeland Security ... bust it up and kill about 2/3 of the spending
  
• 90 percent or so of the Department of the Interior
  
• Everything else that isn't expressly authorized by the U.S. Constitution

Then, and only then, we might start to return to a tolerable and reasonable government.

[ExTexasRedhead]

We The People/The Tea Party must make it a priority to vote out this Regime and this Congress with the exception of Jim DeMint and Allen West. Clean the sewer and start over.

[Tzimisce]

I love it.

But it is very unlikely to happen.

Instead I foresee more spending and taxes.

It’s what the all important “moderates” are demanding.

[YankeeDoodleRebel]

Unfortunately, the American people will not wake up until it is in their face. Probably another 6 months of confusion and pain. Most are rapped up in the Xfactor or why the NBA is not playing.

[okie01]

NOT good enough! Balance the damn budget, do it now, and keep it balanced.

You fail to account for the increased revenues generated by economic growth that this plan would entail.

It would balance the budget by 2015...and pay off the debt by 2020.

[PALIN SMITH]

"If we keep wracking up $1.5 TRILLION annual deficits, then we’ll accumulate $15 TRILLION more debt in the next 10 years. The Tea Party says cut that to $5 TRILLION more debt. NOT good enough! Balance the damn budget, do it now, and keep it balanced."

You don't understand the effects of a growing economy!

The budget is balanced in 2015. No more deficits!

A good friend of mine is one of the 12 patriots scheduled to speak today before the Democrats locked them out.