List of proposed Republican budget cuts. Holy Cow!!!!!

[John Schmidt]

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.

* 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. These people hate our guts!!
* 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. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ABOUT?
* 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. WHAT???  This on top of all the other benefits they get!!
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.
* Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
* Eliminate Market Access Program -- $200 million annual savings.
* USDA Sugar Program -- $14 million annual savings.
* Subsidy to Organization 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.. WHY?????
* HUD Ph.D. Program.
* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
* TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

My question is, what is all this doing in the budget in the first place? I can think of a few more items to add to that list. 

Notice they didn't include putting themselves on the same retirement and medical benefits the rest of us have to live with. Doing that would probably double the savings in under ten years. States should be responsible for paying their own representatives, eliminating Congress' power to vote themselves anything, including exemption from insider trading, and all other laws they deem unworthy of themselves such as retirement, pay, medical benefits, etc.  Each State would then determine their own representative's pay and benefits....including travel, security, office and staff, etc.  No Federal tax dollars permitted to support these clowns.  But....Fantasy Land (a/k/a Disney World) is just west of town and the nation's capital isn't located there.

[czuch]

Yup,, If youre not pissed, youre not paying attention.
Vote em all out and vote 10 years out. Hope and change,patoooooooie.
However I suppose, it wont be a worry in ten years if we dont really do anything.

[grandpaweaver]

I think there's a lot more they could cut if they really wanted. All the social programs would be a good start. Remind them social securty is our money not theirs.

[alph]

just a drop in the bucket of money wasting programs!  question is, how many will you actually miss?

[da prez]

  F Y I . If they serve 1 (ONE) year as a representative, they get a full retirement.
  I worked for 55 years and am entitled to their handouts.

                                                                                    da prez

[MP]

That list sounds like a decent START on things to get rid of!!

MP

[PAVALKER]

    So where is the Democrat's list ?




 

[Jess from VA]

Git 'er done!!   

[FloridaValkRyder]

Great post John and your right, it's just a drop in the bucket. I rant on about Dems/Libs a lot. These programs were put in place by ALL of them, Republicans and Dems.    Notice I did not say Conservatives!! We didn't even know they were being done, at least I didn't and I pay attention. This has got to stop and it is going to hurt some if not all of us in some way. Most of us don't even know what most of those programs are or that they existed. We need to elect any one, on either side, that is willing to make the changes necessary. Your list didn't even list some of the Departments that need to go away, Education, Energy, Commerce, IRS, HHS, etc. So hopefully they will keep this list going and going and we have to elect those who are willing and courageous enough to do it.

[DarkMeister]

From an article I just read...

Coins Could Replace Dollar Bills, Save US $5.6 Billion

The Government Accountability Office, which issued a report on the cost-savings of a currency switch earlier this year, said that because coins outlast paper currency (which survive about 42 months), the switch would save about $5.6 billion over 30 years.

[R J]

We could add to the list all of the foriegn countries we support.   Even the ones that hate our guts, and also the ones we are trying right now to get them into a democracy.   

Then get rid of all the czars that the Change lad has, and then all of the attendants that his wife has, alsa limit him to 3 or 4 Air Force One flights a year.

He doesn't need to be going to NYC for a firkin Opera, or to Mass. for a vacation, or to Hawaii for a vacation, especially at our expense.

[alph]

From an article I just read...

Coins Could Replace Dollar Bills, Save US $5.6 Billion

The Government Accountability Office, which issued a report on the cost-savings of a currency switch earlier this year, said that because coins outlast paper currency (which survive about 42 months), the switch would save about $5.6 billion over 30 years.

better yet, get rid of money all together and go paperless, but then the holy-rollers would be screaming "MARK OF THE BEAST" and they'd start jumping out of windows and stuff.....

as for RJ's last comment, had we just stopped giving billions of dollars to those eastern terrorist countries right after 9-11, osama would have been brought to our doorstep by christmass '01, saving us trillions of dollars!!

[John Schmidt]

From an article I just read...

Coins Could Replace Dollar Bills, Save US $5.6 Billion

The Government Accountability Office, which issued a report on the cost-savings of a currency switch earlier this year, said that because coins outlast paper currency (which survive about 42 months), the switch would save about $5.6 billion over 30 years.

I recall back in the early 40's my dad was working on his Doctorate during the summer in Boulder, CO.  For some reason, all the even dollar change given in that area was done with silver dollars, hardly ever did you see change given in bills. One day following a trip to the grocery store, he came home with his pants bulging at both front pockets. As he set the bags on the table, both pockets suddenly gave way and his $40-50 worth of silver dollars went rolling all over the floor. I guess using nothing but hard coins does have its drawbacks. 

[DarkMeister]

Here in Canada we have dollar coin and the two-dollar coin. There has been some noise about a five-dollar coin.
Personally I wish the penny would get discontinued. PITA.
That article I read also says that there is a lot of reluctance by people to give up on the dollar bill.

[fudgie]

From an article I just read...

Coins Could Replace Dollar Bills, Save US $5.6 Billion

The Government Accountability Office, which issued a report on the cost-savings of a currency switch earlier this year, said that because coins outlast paper currency (which survive about 42 months), the switch would save about $5.6 billion over 30 years.

better yet, get rid of money all together and go paperless, but then the holy-rollers would be screaming "MARK OF THE BEAST" and they'd start jumping out of windows and stuff.....

Kit mentions that 'mark of the beast' before. More importantly, tucking coins just does not have the same appeal. Am I really suppose to put dirty coins in my mouth? 

[musclehead]

From an article I just read...

Coins Could Replace Dollar Bills, Save US $5.6 Billion

The Government Accountability Office, which issued a report on the cost-savings of a currency switch earlier this year, said that because coins outlast paper currency (which survive about 42 months), the switch would save about $5.6 billion over 30 years.

thats cause we use linen, have you seen Australia's 'paper' money?  I think it's some kind of polymer

[musclehead]

well John, I'd call that a 'modest' start 

[MP]

"Strippers" do not want coins, MUCH harder for them to place than dollar bills!  LOL   

MP

[Momz]

I resent it when concervatives out there say that I'm costing taxpayer money because I collect SS Diability.
I would rather work, but my spinal chord/neuromuscular issues prevent me from persueing my previous line of work (or most any thing). I am extermely frustrated at times, hHowever I try to do creative endeavors and inspire my wife and daughter.

I had paid into the system since I was i5 years old and I thought that was wrong yhat I could not opt out of FICA. Am I on the dole now? I don't think so, I paid into FICA for forty years. I scrimped and saved like mad after I got married and pay cash for virtually we have ever bought, like our truck, everything in our house, our travel trailer and every motorcycle I own. I have never asked for a "handout", but I have excepted a "hand-up" when needed and reciprecated in return.

How many in Congress can say that!

[musclehead]

I resent it when concervatives out there say that I'm costing taxpayer money because I collect SS Diability.
I would rather work, but my spinal chord/neuromuscular issues prevent me from persueing my previous line of work (or most any thing). I am extermely frustrated at times, hHowever I try to do creative endeavors and inspire my wife and daughter.

I had paid into the system since I was i5 years old and I thought that was wrong yhat I could not opt out of FICA. Am I on the dole now? I don't think so, I paid into FICA for forty years. I scrimped and saved like mad after I got married and pay cash for virtually we have ever bought, like our truck, everything in our house, our travel trailer and every motorcycle I own. I have never asked for a "handout", but I have excepted a "hand-up" when needed and reciprecated in return.

How many in Congress can say that!

no,no,no that's not the conservative view. we know there are many, MANY that need suplimental income. unfortunately there are many, MANY gaming the system.  I have a cousin that needs SSI she was born with a very disabling birth defect. these are the folks it was designed to help. I support this and I support you, my turn is coming.

don't buy into the heartless crap that the left wants you to believe, paul ryan pushing grandma over the cliff and such. whenever I hear the left say we want to cut social security benefits, why do conservatives never fire back saying we want to cut the adminsitrative side of things?

if you have no disability and can work it's time to get off the couch, because we won't support you anymore.

[hubcapsc]

I think we should use only pennies, that way the disgruntled atheists would know
there is a hell 

-Mike

[Jabba]

  F Y I . If they serve 1 (ONE) year as a representative, they get a full retirement.
 
                                                                                    da prez

That ain't true.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/socialsecurity/pensions.asp

Not that I disagree with the sentiment.  But they are not fully pensioned after a year.  and they DO participate in SSI. 

I have been saying... "Vote them ALL" out for a decade.

We need a change in the tax structure.

www.fairtax.org

Jabba