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Lots of program reductions and outright elimination. $2.5 Trillion over 10 years is a good start.
1 posted on 01/20/2011 11:46:32 AM PST by WildSnail
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Sounds like defunding will solve our lease agreement with the chinese


2 posted on 01/20/2011 11:48:14 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V.........................................FOR VOMIT)
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eliminate $2.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years

How about over one year?

3 posted on 01/20/2011 11:50:34 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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Name your favorite government program or agency you would like to see defunded! The list should then be compiled and sent to House GOP to stimulate further cuts.


4 posted on 01/20/2011 11:54:32 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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"$900 billion for [obamacare]"

Removing a PLANNED INCREASE is NOT a cut reset ALL spending to 2008 levels and go DOWN from there. a 10% across the board decrease would be a nice start.

5 posted on 01/20/2011 11:55:02 AM PST by Mr. K (There are 10 types of people those who know BINARY and those who don't)
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Yes good “start”.I’d like to see us go back to budgets more in line with the late 1970’s before all of these uneeeded departments like energy and education were formed.Take a machette to the budget not kiddie scissors!


9 posted on 01/20/2011 11:57:52 AM PST by chris_bdba
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$2.5 Trillion over 10 years is a good start.

Not in my book. Given the amount Federal spending has increased since the Bambam took over, it should be three times that, at least.

14 posted on 01/20/2011 12:05:52 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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I particularly like the on that eliminates Energy Star. Last year we bought two such appliances to replace old units. One was a dishwasher. It takes 99 minutes to do a wash and dry cycle. If we don’t almost hand wash the dishes and pots and pans prior to placing them in the dishwasher, it will not clean them and they are seldom completely dried even though the power dry feature is used. Old unit took from 30 to 45 minutes and unless there was baked on food deposits on the dishes or pots, they always came out sparkling clean and completely dry.

Another opportunity to cut government spending is to eliminate Head Start in all public school districts that offer prekindergarten. There is no need for duplicate the services.

The other appliance was a upright freezer. It is also ES and it is so noisy you can hardly stay in the same room with it. Runs considerably more than the 20 year old unit that it replaced. I am convinced that the Energy Star rating is a complete hoax. I also read that many time the government employees at the DOE that are responsible for testing and certifying ES appliances many times don’t do the necessary testing and just give the appliance an ES rating. I say do away with this vast waste of tax money.


16 posted on 01/20/2011 12:06:47 PM PST by Saltmeat
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Restore mohair funding and the HUD doctoral program at once and take the money out of Homeland Security instead!


18 posted on 01/20/2011 12:07:31 PM PST by firebrand
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I like this list so far national endowment for art and humanities and npr nice start.


20 posted on 01/20/2011 12:07:52 PM PST by CONSERVE
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Sounds like a lot of GOP R. Or BS.

I’ll believe it when I see it.


21 posted on 01/20/2011 12:08:22 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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Very interesting. For sure the repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act should have happened years ago.


26 posted on 01/20/2011 12:13:04 PM PST by LuvFreeRepublic (Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)
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2.5T over 10 years !! how about doing that in the next 30 DAYS !!! That would be a good START !!!

Start with the Department of Education INDOCTRINATION !

29 posted on 01/20/2011 12:22:32 PM PST by davidosborne (2012 will be the year of the INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE ! let's GOOOH !)
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A good start.

Then the hard nuts: Soc Sec / Medicaid / Medicare.


33 posted on 01/20/2011 12:24:33 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (0bamanomics: Punish Success, Reward Failure. Destroying America is the point.)
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"Federal Workforce Reforms: Eliminate automatic pay increases for civilian federal workers for five years. Additionally, cut the civilian workforce by a total of 15 percent through attrition. Allow the hiring of only one new worker for every two workers who leave federal employment until the reduction target has been met. (Savings included in above discretionary savings figure)."


34 posted on 01/20/2011 12:25:27 PM PST by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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Yeah, agree...I'm not going to bad mouth this.
Only thing I want is more cuts, much, much more...
35 posted on 01/20/2011 12:26:06 PM PST by Michael Barnes
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A small start.

Not nearly enough.


37 posted on 01/20/2011 12:31:36 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php)
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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


41 posted on 01/20/2011 12:39:20 PM PST by MadIsh32 (In order to be pro-market, sometimes you must be anti-big business)
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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.


49 posted on 01/20/2011 12:45:39 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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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.


53 posted on 01/20/2011 12:54:34 PM PST by lurk
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So, they plan on keeping MaObamacare, just cutting 900 MILLION over 10 years. With very little consideration to what this disaster is actually going to cost us. Better said, DESTROY US!

Typical spineless RINOs, symbolic do-nothing legislation AGAIN AND AGAIN! What a bunch of feckless idiots!

54 posted on 01/20/2011 12:54:55 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (Patriotic by Proxy! (Cause I'm a nutcase and it's someone Else's' fault!....))
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