cold iron Loc: White House

A List of Republican Budget Cuts or big Democrat spending..
Notice 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?
For the sake of all this spending the old retired folks that help make this country are given
no increases in there social security as food and fuel keep going up..that is sad.

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

You don't seem to be aware that SS goes up by 1.5% on January 1st. That's not much, but it's not "no increases". Btw, it's the same percentage that both retired military and retired civil service retirees' retirement pays increase.

American

Last year we got 18.00 raise from ss. That's the only time under Obama that we got a raise. At least under Bush we got 100.00 a year.

cold iron Loc: White House

If you don't know there was NO INCREASE last year. Well this guy got zip last year. Lets hope this comes.

Constitutional libertarian Loc: St Croix National Scenic River Way

What gets my gaul is when they decrease the increase of a program and call it a cut.

I wonder how many of those programs were no bid and just given to a political party contributor.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Yeah, and that doesn't begin to cover the increase in costs over the last year.

alex Loc: michigan now imperial beach californa

WOW!!! a whole 1.5 % after no raise after how long aren't they just soooo generous? are you telling us they have been lieing to us about how well the economy has been doing

GERARD A. SANCHEZ Loc: Las Vegas, Nv. 89123

The abuses and ine******y continued in our U.S. Congress to cut programs that help the low income americans, and seniors retirees, etc.

Confused

How about we cut all tax loopholes and save 2.8 TRILLION A YEAR ? That's 28 trillion over the same 10 years .

silvereagle

PBS has been on the chopping block every year somehow it always pulls a rabbit out of the hat and is funded.The states that have PBS stations are also funded by the state govment.PBS in our state has all but been gutted.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

What are you going to do about this? Please march on Washington D.C.-I don't how you can sleep at night! The old retired folks caused this you Ninny!

cold iron Loc: White House

Have you ever wonder why there are low income people in America? They get free education and should be able to make good money, I did. When I went to a government school most of the kids spent all day throwing spit balls at each other, or sneaking off for a cigarette or just cutting school all together. And now the only job they can get is flipping burgers for min wage, and it's not there fault? I guess it's my fault and I should have to pay more for my burger. Yor a democrat, right?

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

So you think it was Obama who was behind no Social Security COLAs? Wouldn't you think that if he had his way, COLAs for Social Security recipients would have been as generous as possible? Probably not; that would require acknowledging that Obama isn't the socialist you always try to make him out to be.

And while we're at it, you might find it useful to see what the SS COLAs have been for the past 5 years (effective on January 1st of the following year). Straight from the SS website:

2009 - 0.0
2010 - 0.0
2011 - 3.6
2012 - 1.7
2013 - 1.5

SS COLAs, as well as retired military and federal workers' COLAs, are set by law, and Obama hasn't been behind any laws to change it.

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

I think the reason that so many (but not all) students behave that way is because of lack of parenting in the home, and do-gooders objecting to corporal punishment by both parents and school administrators rather than anything else. Having said that, I recall quite well that I and my fellow high school students back in the early 70's used to go "over the hill" at lunch time and smoke cigarettes. Cigarette usage has been on the decline among high school students for years now.

A high school diploma didn't get you very far even back then, and it's much worse today. I don't think academic failure today is as much the fault of the students as it is the parents and a more liberal society. But a return to the 50s-70s isn't going to happen, and I don't think it would solve the problem anyway. I think the answer to getting our HS graduates earning more than they make flipping burgers is to bring back industry to America. Back in the day, even those with only HS educations could earn a reasonable living on assembly lines. Today we don't even have assembly lines! (not many of them, at least)

alex Loc: michigan now imperial beach californa

of course you are wrong again the cola and military pay raises are based on the cost of living that's why they are called cola if the economy is doing as great as you libs claim why is the cola so low