Repubs Propose $2.5 TRILLION Cuts..

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...in spending.

Read it and weep, Dimocrats.. You're being set up. Republicans got elected in November because you nitwits spent gobs of money we don't have and the public didn't want you to. Now they're proposing to keep their promises to those who voted for them, and Dims of course will fight to keep them from doing so. And all the while the voters will be watching and listening to them as the '12 elections get closer every day.

House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts - US News and World Report
 
Sure they'll do it. Or close to it anyway. Why? No fear it will really happen because Harry Reid won't allow it up for a vote. This is the perfect set up for Repubs in 2012. The Repubs can say, "We tried to cut spending like you told us to, but there were too many damned Democrats in the senate for us to succeed. If you really want to reign in out of control government, you have to give us a Republican Senate (and probably a Republican President).

When they get it, that's when they won't do it (the cynical side of me says). The hopeful side of me says, the pendulum has finally swung far enough that drastic and continued response to an 80 year detour into social-democracy will happen.

Have to wait and see. I know I'm ready to end social-democracy at 82 years....that's plenty long enough to declare it a failure.
 
Could still be a drop in the bucket but it is a start. So i have to applaud them for their efforts.
 
This would be a good start - but without reforming SS and Medicare, it's not enough to fix the spending problem.
 
This is the list.



Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings.

Save America's Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings.

International Fund for Ireland. $17 million annual savings.

Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings.

National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings.

National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings.

Hope VI Program. $250 million annual savings.

Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings.

Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.

U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million annual savings.

Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy. $20 million annual savings.

Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding. $47 million annual savings.

John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings.

Community Development Fund. $4.5 billion annual savings.

Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million annual savings.

Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half. $7.5 billion annual savings.

Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings.

Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings.

Technology Innovation Program. $70 million annual savings.

Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million annual savings.

Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization. $530 million annual savings.

Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings.

New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings.

Exchange Programs for Alaska, Natives Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts. $9 million annual savings.

Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings.

Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings.

Appalachian Regional Commission. $76 million annual savings.

Economic Development Administration. $293 million annual savings.

Programs under the National and Community Services Act. $1.15 billion annual savings.

Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings.

FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.

Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings.

Economic Assistance to Egypt. $250 million annually.

U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual savings.

General Assistance to District of Columbia. $210 million annual savings.

Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings.

Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years.

No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings.

End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.

Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 billion annually.

IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget. $1.8 billion savings over ten years.

Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 billion total savings.

Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees. $1.2 billion savings over ten years.

Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of. $15 billion total savings.

Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.

Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.

Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings.

Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings.

USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings.

Subsidy to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). $93 million annual savings.

Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. $56.2 million annual savings.

Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million savings.

Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings.

HUD Ph.D. Program.

Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.

TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years



That's some serious shit right there!

I wonder if they'll have the backbone to do it? Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen.
 
This is the list.



Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings.

Save America's Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings.

International Fund for Ireland. $17 million annual savings.

Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings.

National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings.

National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings.

Hope VI Program. $250 million annual savings.

Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings.

Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.

U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million annual savings.

Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy. $20 million annual savings.

Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding. $47 million annual savings.

John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings.

Community Development Fund. $4.5 billion annual savings.

Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million annual savings.

Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half. $7.5 billion annual savings.

Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings.

Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings.

Technology Innovation Program. $70 million annual savings.

Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million annual savings.

Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization. $530 million annual savings.

Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings.

New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings.

Exchange Programs for Alaska, Natives Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts. $9 million annual savings.

Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings.

Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings.

Appalachian Regional Commission. $76 million annual savings.

Economic Development Administration. $293 million annual savings.

Programs under the National and Community Services Act. $1.15 billion annual savings.

Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings.

FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.

Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings.

Economic Assistance to Egypt. $250 million annually.

U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual savings.

General Assistance to District of Columbia. $210 million annual savings.

Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings.

Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years.

No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings.

End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.

Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 billion annually.

IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget. $1.8 billion savings over ten years.

Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 billion total savings.

Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees. $1.2 billion savings over ten years.

Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of. $15 billion total savings.

Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.

Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.

Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings.

Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings.

USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings.

Subsidy to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). $93 million annual savings.

Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. $56.2 million annual savings.

Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million savings.

Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings.

HUD Ph.D. Program.

Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.

TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years



That's some serious shit right there!

I wonder if they'll have the backbone to do it? Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen.

Yes it sure is some serious shit. I'm betting they have the backbone this time. The People sent them there for a reason. So i'm betting on them this time. Call me an optimist. :)
 
So i noticed this is over the next 10 years.

How about THIS year?

Heh ... yeah I noticed that too.

The budget deficit is at $1.4 trillion and they propose to cut less than 20% of that?

When are the REAL cuts coming?
 
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...in spending.

Read it and weep, Dimocrats.. You're being set up. Republicans got elected in November because you nitwits spent gobs of money we don't have and the public didn't want you to. Now they're proposing to keep their promises to those who voted for them, and Dims of course will fight to keep them from doing so. And all the while the voters will be watching and listening to them as the '12 elections get closer every day.

House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts - US News and World Report

The Democrats will claim that the Republicans are going to kill americans my cutting medicare/medicaid/obamacare, they will claim that the Republicans are going to destroy grandma's Social Security, and then they will go home to their welfare constituency and tell the walfare queens that their check is going to disappear. It wont affect the democrats that much because liberals get re-elected through making people dependant so that they will vote for no one other than a democrat. It shouldent change the demographics much.
 
Billy Joel reacts to proposed cuts to Amtrak ak ak ak ak ak...

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Sure they'll do it. Or close to it anyway. Why? No fear it will really happen because Harry Reid won't allow it up for a vote. This is the perfect set up for Repubs in 2012. The Repubs can say, "We tried to cut spending like you told us to, but there were too many damned Democrats in the senate for us to succeed. If you really want to reign in out of control government, you have to give us a Republican Senate (and probably a Republican President).

When they get it, that's when they won't do it (the cynical side of me says). The hopeful side of me says, the pendulum has finally swung far enough that drastic and continued response to an 80 year detour into social-democracy will happen.

Have to wait and see. I know I'm ready to end social-democracy at 82 years....that's plenty long enough to declare it a failure.

That's the mistake they made for the first six years of President Bush's first term. Unfortunately, most of the visionary reformers of 1994 had term limited themselves out and we were left with a mostly old guard GOP Congress who embraced the soft socialism of the last 82 years or so--I think it started with Teddy Roosevelt so I put the downward spiral of that trend at 110 years. And with a President who also embraced much of that soft socialism, the GOP Congress, though far more fiscally conservative than the Congress who succeeded them, forgot why they had been put into power in the first place.

They increased unsustainable entitlements with that Senior prescription bill.
They failed to secure the border and even embraced President Bush's plan for an amnesty program despite his insistance that it was not amnesty.
They went along with environmental extremism and passed an energy bill that only a leftist could love.
They embraced earmarks and failed to hold the line on unnecessary or indefensible spending.
They failed to act to reform Freddie, Fannie, and went along with irresponsible lending and packaging of loans until they were out of power and therefore powerless to stop the avalance creating the financial crisis of 2008.
They failed to overturn policies that make it difficult or impossible for the USA to tap its own energy reserves.

The Democratic Congress and then the Democratic President who followed them did no better and in fact have performed even more abysmally.

The Republicans justifiably looked like hypocrites when they found their conservative values only after they were powerless to implement them.

The Tea Partiers noticed and they went into action. And it is mostly by their activism that we are returning conservatives to Congress.

I think those Conservatives won't forget why they were elected and what they are expected to do. At least I sure hope they won't.
 
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I think we should all be applauding them for proposing any cuts at this point. They're finally headed in the right direction. I have to be content with this new direction. It really is a start. The Democrats are going to do everything in their power to stop the Republicans from making any real cuts. They're going to paint them as "Evil Ogres" & "Nazis" to their Welfare entitlement sheep. And of course their Welfare sheep are going to eat that shit up. So cutting anything is going to be an incredibly difficult challenge. We'll just have to take what we can get at this point. It wont be exactly what we want but it is something. I applaud the Republicans for at least accepting reality and trying to do something. I really do hope they're successful.
 
Lots more that needs to be cut... but it is a start.. that is as long as they follow through as much as they can... and the left winger congresspersons (and Obama) don't try and thwart in their little class warfare games they have to keep up for the entitlement junkies
 
Sure they'll do it. Or close to it anyway. Why? No fear it will really happen because Harry Reid won't allow it up for a vote. This is the perfect set up for Repubs in 2012. The Repubs can say, "We tried to cut spending like you told us to, but there were too many damned Democrats in the senate for us to succeed. If you really want to reign in out of control government, you have to give us a Republican Senate (and probably a Republican President).

When they get it, that's when they won't do it (the cynical side of me says). The hopeful side of me says, the pendulum has finally swung far enough that drastic and continued response to an 80 year detour into social-democracy will happen.

Have to wait and see. I know I'm ready to end social-democracy at 82 years....that's plenty long enough to declare it a failure.

That's the mistake they made for the first six years of President Bush's first term. Unfortunately, most of the visionary reformers of 1994 had term limited themselves out and we were left with a mostly old guard GOP Congress who embraced the soft socialism of the last 82 years or so--I think it started with Teddy Roosevelt so I put the downward spiral of that trend at 110 years. And with a President who also embraced much of that soft socialism, the GOP Congress, though far more fiscally conservative than the Congress who succeeded them, forgot why they had been put into power in the first place.

They increased unsustainable entitlements with that Senior prescription bill.
They failed to secure the border and even embraced President Bush's plan for an amnesty program despite his insistance that it was not amnesty.
They went along with environmental extremism and passed an energy bill that only a leftist could love.
They embraced earmarks and failed to hold the line on unnecessary or indefensible spending.
They failed to act to reform Freddie, Fannie, and went along with irresponsible lending and packaging of loans until they were out of power and therefore powerless to stop the avalance creating the financial crisis of 2008.
They failed to overturn policies that make it difficult or impossible for the USA to tap its own energy reserves.

The Democratic Congress and then the Democratic President who followed them did no better and in fact have performed even more abysmally.

The Republicans justifiably looked like hypocrites when they found their conservative values only after they were powerless to implement them.

The Tea Partiers noticed and they went into action. And it is mostly by their activism that we are returning conservatives to Congress.

I think those Conservatives won't forget why they were elected and what they are expected to do. At least I sure hope they won't.

I agree with most of your analysis.

I do think there are fundamental differences between 1994 and 2010. In 1994, the mood was one of the Dems have had power too damned long and are just too damned corrupt (the House bank scandal putting an exclamation mark on that fact). The Repubs had been out of power so damned long, not one single member was in the House the last time they had it. Consequently, none of them knew how to "Govern like a Republican" they only knew how to "Govern like a Democrat". Not surprisingly, they did.

The emphasis on term-limits hurt them and their cause. What term limits does in this town is take power from the member and give it to the staff. NOT and good thing. The staff is what make Congress like it is. You need a strong member with an understanding of how things happen and will to make them happen his or her way to change the system otherwise the system will change them.

This year's new-comers aren't as concerned with reform as the 1994 version. This year they have a conservative agenda (fiscally speaking). Hopefully, that trajectory will change the outcome. Additionally, there was litmus testing upfront. With Gingrich, if he could have gotten Joe Kennedy to put an "R" after his name, he would have taken him. What Gingrich didn't understand is having your party in power is not the end, it is a means to an end. If you have power and can't "do" anything, what was the point.
 
It's a helluva lot better than the paltry $100M cut Obama attempted in 2009:

President Obama plans to convene his Cabinet for the first time today, and he will order its members to identify a combined $100 million in budget cuts over the next 90 days, according to a senior administration official.

Obama to Order Cabinet to Quickly Cut $100 Million From Department Budgets - washingtonpost.com

And from what I've been able to dig up, they never did release anything (if anyone can find an actual list - much appreciated).

Well, on this, the 91st day, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki and White House budget office spokesman Ken Baer released identical statements when queried about the results. “The recommendations have been gathered by the Cabinet Secretary who will be reporting them to the President shortly,” they said in separate responses. When pressed, Psaki said we should see the exact cuts “in the coming days.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/07/20/remember-obamas-promise-to-cut-100-million-in-90-days/
 
I really think across the board cuts should probably be made, but I do wonder how well researched this is also. It's pointless to make a cut which will end up costing us *more* in the long-run due to the back-end effects, and I seriously hope that those would be studied before making any moves.
 

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