We need to cut 2 Trillion dollars a year, and we needed to do it yesterday. No amount of Marines can stave off an internal collapse due to fiscal insanity.
I think even a lot of Freepers are in denial about just what is coming down the pike for this country.
I posted this a little while ago... and it lists a way to cut roughly $2 trillion dollars per year (at least, based on 2009 dollars)
Here’s my list of what should be cut and eliminated:
The Medicare Prescription Drug Care ‘Benefit’
Obamacare
The following Departments:
Department of Homeland Security (redundant, as the Department of Defense has that job)
Department of Energy (redundant, as energy is bought and sold - therefore it is commerce and should fall under that Department)
Department of Education (redundant, as each state has one... and all public schools fall under state control, not federal)
Department of Health and Human Services (Again, redundant as every state has one!)
Department of the Interior (redundant, as *ALL* of the US Interior is parceled out to an already existing entity... they are called ‘States’)
Department of Agriculture (food is bought and sold, so it should fall under Commerce)
Department of Labor (again, labor is bought and sold, so it should fall under Commerce, heck... it used to even be called the Department of Commerce and Labor, for pete’s sake!)
Department of Housing and Urban Development (WTF is this?!? Why do we have a federal department acting as a landlord?!?)
If you add up how much all these Departments alone cost each year... you’d save $1.391 TRILLION each and every year (based on 2009 dollars).
Add in the repeal of the Prescription Drug care benefit and the repeal of Obamacare and you’ll probably see the savings at nearly 2 TRILLION dollars a year!