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How to Cut Federal Spending: The Real Country-Killer in 2013
American Thinker ^
| January 2, 2013
| Jonathon Moseley
Posted on 01/02/2013 5:44:50 AM PST by Moseley
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01/02/2013 5:44:59 AM PST
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Moseley
To: Moseley
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posted on
01/02/2013 5:48:29 AM PST
by
Moseley
(http://www.curesocialism.com)
To: Moseley
Guess you should have posted it here first then.
To: Moseley
What if investors simply choose to stop loaning Uncle Sam any more money?The FED monetizes the debt. Uncle FRN lends Uncle Sam the loot. Ping-pong progressive plunder continues unchecked. Legislative totalitarians living large roam the republic from sea to shining sea. The armed forces back it all up. Distractions forthcoming, if necessary. It's win/win.
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posted on
01/02/2013 6:21:17 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: humblegunner
Guess you should have posted it here first then.
Free Republic is set up to repost articles published elsewehre first. I have sometimes disliked that with things I want to get out. Sometimes it is a pain to have to get something published somewhere else first before getting the word out on Free Republic.
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posted on
01/02/2013 6:39:40 AM PST
by
Moseley
(http://www.curesocialism.com)
To: Moseley
not that diffucult - cut EVERY agencyy by 5% per year untl the budget balances and runs a surplus. use the surplus to buy down the debt.
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posted on
01/02/2013 6:40:49 AM PST
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Moseley
Interesting that you mention your goal as “getting the word out”.
Free Republic has a better Alexa traffic ranking than American Thinker.
American Thinker
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Free Republic
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So, in light of your goal of “getting the word out” you’ll be ditching American Thinker, right?
Unless you failed to mention some OTHER goal.
To: camle
Apply 47-to-1 Formula to Debt Ceiling Increase
Obama defined what "fair and balanced" means
How to cut federal spending: use this last deal to set the bar for the debt-limit rise. If 47-to-1 increase-to-cut ratio is "fair and balanced" for the fiscal-cliff bill, then 1-to-47 increase-to-cut ratio should be "fair and balanced" when raising the debt limit. For each dollar we increase the debt limit, we cut forty-seven dollars from the spending level. Obama want $1 trillion, we cut $47 trillion.
Of course, that's not workable because the cut is larger than the entire federal budget, so either Obama would have to trim his request, or make the sequester look like a picnic.
The five-percent haircut is looking better and better, isn't it?
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posted on
01/02/2013 7:01:23 AM PST
by
asinclair
(B*llshit is a renewable resource.)
To: Moseley
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posted on
01/02/2013 7:01:31 AM PST
by
commonguymd
(The enemy within is our MSM. War starts there imo. twitter @commonguymd)
To: Moseley
During my five years working inside government, I saw that easily 15% of the federal budget could be cut, with no reduction in the output of government services, benefits, activities, or useful functions. In fact, quality should actually improve in many instances from reducing unnecessary complication, red tape, duplication, and burdensome procedures. Anyone heavy into couponing knows from practical experience just how easy it is to save money. Just on parking fees alone I saved about $50 in the past few months by using coupons. Give me the federal budget and I could easily pick out the places to cut to yield 15% in savings. I bet Obama nor most of the Democrats ever used coupons and it shows in their unthinking wild and unnecessary spending.
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posted on
01/02/2013 7:02:13 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(Beware the Rip in the Space/Time Continuum)
To: camle
The feral government has to be cut by at least 50% for this country to survive. I mean by firing 50% of the freeloader feral employees, not transferring them to different deparments.
To: camle
Great idea! 5 % is the average attrition rate for a large business.
BTW, as an incentive, stipulate that all elected Federal Politicians are to have their total annual pay cut by 20 % per year until the Total National Debt is decreased by 1 % for two years in a row.
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posted on
01/02/2013 9:00:13 AM PST
by
Graewoulf
((Traitor John Roberts' Commune Obama"care" violates Anti-Trust Laws, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
To: Moseley
Republicans should demand a return to
Clinton-Era Spending.
And Clinton-Era Welfare, Immigration, etc.
To: Moseley
What I have learned is that when conservative say
CUT SPENDING
liberals and the media hear
“CUT PROGRAMS
that is totally end entire programs (or shut off people completely from necessary social services).
The idea that spending can be cut without changing outcomes, by eliminating waste, is something liberals either dont understand or dont want to understand.
Now, there are some programs that duplicate other programs or accomplish nothing. I am not saying we could never ever end a government program.
But the topic of CUTTING SPENDING has been transformed into always meaning nothing else but TERMINATING ENTIRE PROGRAMS.
Or
cutting recipients of benefits off completely, so that people are starving in the streets living under a bridge.
For liberals and the media, budget cutting is a light switch: You cant turn down the brightness. You have to cut off an entire line item completely.
For conservatives, cutting spending is (usually) a DIMMER SWITCH. You can dial it down without turning the lights out completely.
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posted on
01/02/2013 9:57:48 AM PST
by
Moseley
(http://www.curesocialism.com)
To: humblegunner
So, in light of your goal of getting the word out youll be ditching American Thinker, right?
Can you tell me how to post original material at Free Republic without linking to an article posted somewhere else first?
You seem to be assuming that material can be published first at Free Republic without already being published somewhere else. It was my understanding that I could not post something at FR without it already being published elsewhere with a hyperlink to point to.
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01/02/2013 10:18:38 AM PST
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Moseley
(http://www.curesocialism.com)
To: Moseley
To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
i agree that federal spending needs to be cut drastically, however the goevernmetn doesn’t live in a vacuumm, all tht moneyt spent goes somewhere, pays somebody for working,et c. we need to reduce federal spending, but to do it too fast will be a disaster for theeconomy, which would need time to compensate for less federal spending.
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01/02/2013 11:05:56 AM PST
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Graewoulf
im not in favor of paying them in the first place...they ain’t worth it. and if we paid them what they’re worth, we’d have to violate the minimum wage laws
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01/02/2013 11:07:12 AM PST
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: humblegunner
You make me so not want to come here. You’re just a punk with no power. There is someone actually posting and writing great stuff on a good website and you have claws out like a little girl with faux power. Embarrassing to me. Grow up.
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posted on
01/02/2013 12:45:28 PM PST
by
commonguymd
(The enemy within is our MSM. War starts there imo. twitter @commonguymd)
To: humblegunner
If you leave the excerpt button alone, you can post your full content right here.
Oh, is that what you are referring to? Yes, normally I post all of the content in full at Free Republic. I would rather not hope tha tsomeone will click through. I would rather have the full article n one place and have people read the whole thing at FR.
But some sources have complained to and/or threatened Free Republic.
So when I tried to post the American Thinker article at Free Republic, I get a WARNING from FR that it MUST be excerpted. And I think only 300 words are allowed if it is excerpted.
There are some soruces like (I think) Washington Post and others who have threatend to sue FR if FR posts the entire article rather than only an excerpt.
I would be happy to post things only at FR, depending on what it is.
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posted on
01/02/2013 1:44:20 PM PST
by
Moseley
(http://www.curesocialism.com)
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