hprinze Loc: Central Florida

PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS A List of Republican Budget CutsNotice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list.These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.Read to the end.

* 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 duplicating 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 T***sit -- $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.
* Freedom CAR 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 T***sit Authority -- $150 million annual savings.
*P**********l 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'S 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???
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.
*Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on C*****e C****e -- $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..
* 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?!

Olden McGroen Loc: Texas

Corruption is the problem in D.C.
ABOLISH LOBBYISTS and SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS.
There should never be a term "Career Politician".
TERM LIMITS FOR ALL BRANCHES OF GOV'T...INCLUDING THE SCOTUS.
Eliminate pork projects by ABOLISHING PORK PROJECTS AND SPENDING.
Mandatory balanced budgets.
BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT.

Remove the "quid pro quo" temptation for Congress to enrich themselves by approving subsidies and favorable legislation for kickbacks from lobbyists AND limit their terms to 3 for the House and 2 for the Senate and demand a balanced budget without raising the debt limit....and I think we'd be getting somewhere.

You'd want to follow that by abolishing the IRS and all of the current tax codes...and just have a flat tax rate of 7% +/-...then abolish the Federal Reserve...Oh, and weed out all of the Marxists in our government and cut the size of government in half...maybe even two thirds.

Then pass an Amendment to lessen the powers of the Executive Branch by injecting some Congressional oversight to the departments under it (DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, EPA, B*M, DOE, etc.) The current POTUS (and even previous ones) has demonstrated just how having too much concentrated power under one man can cause great damage.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

All those agencies currently DO have Congressional oversight. The problem is, the Congress is so totally clueless, they rely on reports from the agencies themselves. Ask a criminal if they're breaking the law, they'll say "no".

pankswife

Cut salaries of congress, senate, etc. and let them save their own money for retirement without getting retirement from us after just one term in office.

The President should NOT use Air Force One for reasons other than USA business. Why should Obummer or any other president use Air Force One to go around the country for campaigns. That includes incumbents.

Why should we pay for their special gym in D.C.

The list is probably endless.
Enough already.



There are probably other things but I think we all understand how "special" they think they are.

Kirk

Yes and don't most of these agencies do base line budgeting? Spend the money or you won't get it next year?

pankswife

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