At this point, there is not much choice. Everything, I’d say, with the exception of the military, the national debt, social security and medicare.
It looks like the alphabet. EPA, NLRB, FCC, NEA, DHS...
Call me, CBS News. You can even reverse the charges. But you better give the person who calls me the heads up that they can expect to be on the phone for a while.
Sounds like a challenge. I'll start.
NPR, National Endowment for the Arts, Dept. of Education, Dept. of Energy, OSHA...
The deficit is $1.3 trillion. The 2010 military budget was $685 billion. You can’t eliminate all of the military spending. Even if you placated the libs and cut a massive $300 billion from the military, you’d still need $1 trillion worth of cuts to balance the budget. In short, their whining about the military is useless. You can’t balance this budget on the back of the military.
The hell you say.
Pass a law promising jail time to any public official who directly or indirectly provides any taxpayer benefit or service to an illegal alien.
Eleminate Dept of Education.
Cut 95% of EPA’s budget..........
Defund public broadcasting, art’s.
I could go on, but it’s just too easy.
Where is Chainsaw Al when we need him?
Make it an even x%, across the board, including military and everyone else. Everyone’s ox gets gored but not by any more or less than your neighbor’s ox.
1. Tighten eligibility for welfare
2. No welfare for illegals.
3. Trim everything 10%
4. No more subsidies, grants etc
5. Slash foreign aid and UN funding
At this point, I see it a lot like immigration: a complete moratorium except on current applications.
As far as what to cut, I think we should obvert that to `what should we keep,’ and I can’t get past: the Department of Defense.
Adults don't count. Voters do.
Another stupid poll devised with a specific outcome in mind.
How about a poll that gives as choices:
Cut all federal employees by 50% immediately.
Cut all federal pay by 50% immediately.
Reduce all congressional staffers to a limit of two staffers per representative/senator.
Eliminate the TSA.
Eliminate the EPA.
Eliminate %75 of all education administrative staffers.
I could go on, but I think that my point is not hard to determine.
I say make everyone happy and unhappy, literally cut an equal percentage from everything. EVERYTHING!! Every program has a lot of slop, clean it up! I could do the math but we could start with something like 2% and see what happens.
I’ve known too many government entities who are out there trying to spend every cent they get just because if they don’t spend it all they won’t get higher funding the next time. They are like those food stamp recipients who weigh 300 lbs and are practically starving to death.
The other 62% are too stupid.
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Eliminate these:
Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Education - October 17, 1976 - Carter Administration
Department of Energy - August 4, 1977 - Carter Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of the Treasury
Department of Labor
Department of the Interior
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Independent agencies - all 50 of them
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People are pissing and moaning about States' Rights and sovereignty. Well, let the states deal with all this crap themselves. Get the Feds out of our lives.
If I were John Boehner, at the end of 30 days with all my bills before Congress, I'd be referred to as "Boehner the Butcher," and I'd be damn proud.
The other 62% are too stupid.
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Eliminate these:
Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Education - October 17, 1976 - Carter Administration
Department of Energy - August 4, 1977 - Carter Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of the Treasury
Department of Labor
Department of the Interior
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Independent agencies - all 50 of them
.
People are pissing and moaning about States' Rights and sovereignty. Well, let the states deal with all this crap themselves. Get the Feds out of our lives.
If I were John Boehner, at the end of 30 days with all my bills before Congress, I'd be referred to as "Boehner the Butcher," and I'd be damn proud.
Are the people of Seattle so broke they can't go out and buy their own bulbs?
Sadly figuring this stuff out is what we elect 435 Congress critters and 100 Senators for. The public is not supposed to have to decide what programs get cut. The legislators are supposed to be competent to handle this.