Posted on 01/20/2011 7:30:44 AM PST by jackspyder
The federal workforce might first feel the wrath of the new GOP-run House’s budget cuts as a 10 percent reduction in the amount of government employees tops the list of $150 billion in slashes Congressman Kevin Brady, Texas Republican, is recommending. Brady’s cuts would shrink the annual budget deficit by about 12.5 percent.
In his “Cut Unsustainable and Top-Heavy Spending (CUTS) Act of 2011,” Brady pushes for a “start” to spending cuts in Washington. Recommendation for spending cuts include the 10 percent Washington workforce reduction, immediate cuts to the White House and congressional Budgets and the elimination of several “obsolete” programs, as Brady calls them. Some of the “obsolete” programs include the “Safe and Drug Free Schools” program, “Public Broadcasting funding,” and the LEAP college scholarship program.
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you’ll have to do ten times that just to offset obama’s increases inteh deficit. you bet it’s a start, and a pretty poor one at that.
And the bill you proposed slashed how much?
Hope he is addressing current spending.
Ok, so they sign the tax cut extension bill with 300 billion of additional welfare funds, after they said they would make cuts, now they come up with only 150 billion?
Since landslide victory and pledge to cut spending.
300 billion - 150 billion= 150 billion additional spending
Boy we are off to a good start. Almost the the guy who looks across the street and sees 3.30 a gallon of gas and says “wow that’s great the gas station by me is 3.45”.
Thousands of fiscally responsible wonks at think tanks, universities and private industry have outlined the steps to slash a trillion dollars from the yearly Federal budget.
Not a single elected Republican in the House has stepped up to propose a bill to reduce the real yearly budget by more than $50 billion.
This guy is starting out from a position of asking for only 1/20th of what is already available to slash... and all the legwork on the numbers has already been done... such a weak sister starting out with such a poor negotiating strategy will never get the budget under control.
i would cut every agency’s budget by 5% and continue to do so every year.
and your plan?
When does your bill come up for a vote?
Also, cutting 10% of the Federal workforce doesn’t even get us back to FY2006 levels...
As a percentage of the employed working age population in the country, as of November just to return to the long term average the Congress would have to eliminate something approaching 20% of the workforce.
Will try to find the article on private/public employment ratios using (employed working age population) as the denominator from November/December, will post it when I find it in my bookmarks.
FOr now, here is another god article (check the links in article too)
“The chart below (found also here), from Big Government contributor Veronique de Rugy clearly shows that federal employment has grown by 98,000 jobs since the start of the recession. This bears repeating, because lefty columnist Paul Krugman is furiously spinning that the increase in employment is due to Census hiring. Krugman:”
the day after yours.
the problem is that these guys think that our money is theirs, and when the smoke clears, they’ll still be spending more than they take in. they like to cut the other guys’s sacred cows, but refuse to make their fair share of sacrifice.
the real problem is the people who elected these folks to do some real cutting - what is gonna happen when they don’t? all them folks are gonna be real upset.
Did you read the article? Did you think about what was being said or done?
Here is a quote from the article:
Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson agreed with Brady that these cuts are a start to fixing Washington’s spending problem and that this is a test of the 112th Congress’s “political will.”
“Cutting 10 percent of the federal workforce is a good first step to restoring fiscal sanity,” Wilson said. “If we can’t do this basic cut, then it is impossible to believe that the political will exist to make the cuts necessary to recover form the Pelosi-Reid spending binge.”
Maybe you should look up the word "start" and allow people to take a first step in a marathon rather than bitch and moan that they didn't leap the full 26 miles.
http://mercatus.org/publication/even-accounting-census-federal-employment-grows-during-recession
Here is a breakdown of Federal workers in Excel format:
http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/publication/census-federal-employment-for-web.xlsx
Now tell me how taking a starting position of a 10% reduction is going to help when clearly they should have started near to 20% and negotiated down to 15%?
Somewhere out there there is a similar excel spreadsheet that adds in national population growth to maintain ratios of Federal employees per capita... I can’t find it atm. Non the less, 10% isn’t much more than a 25 month clawback in what needs to be a 10 year clawback in the Federal workforce.
in understadnm your position, but I’ve heard ‘start’ a little too often to be taken in by it. this isn’t a start, it’s s sop to the base. there won’t be any real spending cuts until they go to zero based budgetting, and real accounting principles.
any no cuts would be politically possible unless everybody gets cut the same.
i’ll beleive this is a start when the start at least gets us back to 2008 levels.
and there needs to be some concrete method of reducing the debt.
So fine, no cuts, ever. How is that. Work for you?
If you can’t get what you want, stand in the way of those who are doing the work. Demoralize and criticize those who are starting to get the job done.
Good idea.
You are the type that secretly hope that the budget gets worse because complaining and griping is what gives you the greatest joy in life.
Read the freaking article.
Just read it.
When Brady talks about bringing up another budget cut each week of the Congress, does that sound like a sop to the base to you?
The ant eats the elephant one bite at a time.
The federal workforce might first feel the wrath of the new GOP-run House’s budget cuts
ill believe it when i see it
Well can you at least keep the demoralizing talk limited until they actually break their word?
what’s demoralizing is all the talk about huge budget cuts that result in a bigger budget anyway. it’s like raising the price of a car by $1000, then offering it at a $500 discount. you still end up paying more.
far too many politicians have done this to us for me to take them at their word, eespecially when nothing has been done yet.
Then run for office. If you can trust no one to do it, then you need to do it yourself.
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