Posted on 01/20/2011 11:46:26 AM PST by WildSnail
Moving aggressively to make good on election promises to slash the federal budget, the House GOP today unveiled an eye-popping plan to eliminate $2.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years. Gone would be Amtrak subsidies, fat checks to the Legal Services Corporation and National Endowment for the Arts, and some $900 million to run President Obama's healthcare reform program.
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All window dressing unless you go after social security/medicare and DoD funding.
There are billions in savings within our military budget which would have 0 negative impact on our military personell. Simple DoD procurement reform would save billions per year
Axing some sacred cows is good but we need to end the deficit.
If the Republicans want to be relevent at all in 2012 they need to show some serious leadership and cut that 2.5T before the end of the first quarter THIS YEAR !!!
And put the Dept. of Education on the TOP of the defunding list and completely eliminate it by Jan 2012
The bill initially calls for 2008 levels alomost across the board. Only Defense and Homeland Security spending were spared. The Obamacare cut is separate from this calculation.
Later, after a period of time, the baseline calls for 2006 levels.
This is one helluva start.
It may be that or the fact the new dish washers spray so much less water at lower pressure or both.
Head start, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten should all be eliminated. There is no evidence that any of these programs accomplish anything except serve as “free” babysitting services subsidized by taxpayers.
It makes it easy for single parents to farm out responsibility for their kids instead of raising them. As someone who was a single dad for years, I saw how these welfare programs were abused...and the primary beneficiaries are single unwed mothers who vote Democrat. Go figure.
It is a good start, but get rid of the dept. of education, EPA, and ALL the endowments, etc-especially anything to do with climate change and fed regulation thereof.
I’ve got the same problem-the dishwasher in the home we sold 7 years ago ran quietly and always left the dishes clean and dry in 30-45 minutes. We built a new house then, with those new, energy star appliances-the dishwasher is a deafening piece of crap that stays on for 90 minutes and leaves the dishes wet, and you have to practically run around under the new low flow shower heads to get wet and clean, flush the low flow toilets 6 times, etc. I still have my old washer and dryer, and do not intend to part with them-I do not want to try to get clothes clean in something that uses so little water that I see products advertised especially for it because it makes everything stink-that is NOT clean.
I will not be holding my breath on this so I suggest that the INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE groups.... be them Tea Parties or whatever keep the pressure on and let’s GOOOH forward toward 2012 !
It’s a start. I thought it sounded good until I saw that they were spreading it over ten years.
They need to cut much more than that. It amounts to $250 million. Less than Obama spent on road signs.
EPA is high on my list, too. And I say abolish or greatly cut all departments that need additional state bureaucracies to function: OSHA, HHS, Dept of Education. Dept of the interior(which includes Indian Affairs - each state has one even here in MD). That is just a start.....
Any alarm clock with bigger than a four cylinder is just overkill unless you’re a really sound sleeper.
The Davis Bacon act is one of the more insane laws around. It skyrockets the cost not only of Federally funded jobs, but also state funded jobs and even locally funded government jobs that seek to comply with it.
For those who aren’t familiar, the Davis Bacon act requires contractors doing work on certain government-funded construction jobs to pay their workers “prevailing wage” rates determined by the government. Basically it locks in Union wage rates for non-union workers. It also has a paperwork compliance component that adds a huge burden on the companies who are under its jackboot.
And to illustrate the silliness: We’re a contractor in Maryland. If we do work in Baltimore, our wage rate is about $11/hour. If the same crew drives to DC, it’s $19.80. But if the job is over 4 stories, it’s $33. And if we drive to Philadelphia, it’s $52/hour. Same guys doing the same work.
So the result is that every job under Davis Bacon ends up costing 40 to 150% more than it should if done under prevailing competitive market wages.
Repealing Davis Bacon would kill a lot of unions.
Cutting $250B a year isn’t much. It’s still deficit spending every year. We’re not even getting serious until NPR, the Arts, EPA, FCC, Education are gone.
Typical spineless RINOs, symbolic do-nothing legislation AGAIN AND AGAIN! What a bunch of feckless idiots!
And the EPA, NASA , Global Warming research efforts.
There was also a space heater with a feather duster taped to it that got the “Energy Star” seal of approval. John Stossel did a segment a short while back on the colossal joke that is Energy Star.
WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER !!!
Thanks — good to know.
True enough; there’s a big difference between common sense and just showing off.
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