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Scoffing at Washington's troubled effort to cut just $1.2 trillion in federal debt over 10 years, the Tea Party's own debt commission today unveiled a shocking plan to slash nearly $10 trillion over the next decade, in part by eliminating several federal agencies, balancing the budget by 2015, and killing foreign aid to unfriendly nations.
"Go bold or go home," says the report from the Tea Party Debt Commission. "Are you listening, Washington?"
The FreedomWorks-led effort started months ago by asking Tea Party members for ideas on what to cut from the federal budget. They ended up going much further than Congress or the president wants.
Their plan would cut spending by $9.7 trillion, and shrink the federal government from 24 percent of GDP to 17.5 percent, in line with the post-war norm.
Key initiatives include:
- Repealing the president's health care reform plan.
- Eliminating four cabinet agencies: Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce and Education, and reducing or privatizing the EPA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and TSA.
- Ending farm subsidies, foreign aid to unfriendly nations, and student loans, or what the Tea Party report called "luxuries we can no longer afford."
- Suspending pension contributions and cost of living adjustments to lawmakers when the budget is running a deficit.
- Killing all congressional earmarks.
- Cut federal employee pay by 10 percent and slash employee travel to $4 billion, half of what was spent in 2000.
- Make the Bush tax cuts and the alternative minimum tax permanent.
"Imagine a plan that cuts, caps, and balances federal spending without raising taxes; that gives future generations control over their own retirement security; and that lifts the massive debt burden from our children's shoulders so they can know the American dream of ever-higher freedom and prosperity. And on top of all that, imagine that it's a serious, credible, plan generated by the grassroots. This is that plan," said the report.
Exclusive: Tea Party Would Cut $9 Trillion - US News and World Report
Two questions:
1. Where are the defense cuts?
2. How many Americans would lose their jobs under this plan?
We do not need defense cuts, we do however need to get rid of programs the federal government should not be into to begin with, like the department of education and the jobs killing energy department.
The only reason one would want to cut defense spending and downsize our military is if you would need a weak military at a time when NATO uses the "Right to protect law that takes away our sovereignty" and comes steam rolling into our country for a takeover.
The communists know the only thing from NATO taking over this country is that 1) we are all armed 2) the majority of our police are sworn to protect the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic 3) our military would never stand for NATO coming into this country. They cannot take our guns away yet, they are hard at work right now turning the police against the people, and the only way they can make our military weaker is through legislation and downsizing.