In all seriousness, there really isn't too much in the federal budget that most people would want to cut or should be cut in my opinion.
Most if not all depeartment heads know little or nothing about economics.
Education is where we should start, and I mean increasing the budget, as necessary..
Spend money in the right places, cut in the places where its can be done..
So far, our President has set a bad example....And this is where the cuts should begin..Do away with Air Force One and Two.. An executive jet should suffice.
But, will my ideas be listened to ?
Never have yet, the money wasters do not want any change....
In reality, the federal budget should be cut by 80%, just to get inside the Constitution again.
If the free market can support the bull**** programming on PBS, then let it do so. If that programming can't survive without tax dollars, let it follow Howdy-Doody into oblivion.
If an artist can't sell his schlock crap to a private buyer, there's no reason for the federal government to be buying it. End the art subsidies.
Much of the budget needs to be trimmed, but I think that Welfare and Unemployment need it the most. Mainly welfare. I know, let's drug test those on welfare and we can probably cut the rolls by 75%.
Yeah, let's go back to the Bush years. Good times and small government.
The other big item I would cut would be the regulatory agencies. Does anybody have any idea how much compliance costs these things impose?
And while I'm at it, let's do likewise to state and local regulatory agencies.
I'm not sure if my post would fall under arts/public broadcasting so I am putting it here.
I think that entertainment could calm down a bit. How many movies do we need to spend a lot of money on just to satisfy people? Can't we find something else to spend time on? Entertainment also includes video games, I enjoy them, but we don't need a new Call of Duty every year.
You left off reducing the number of government employees. That one never makes the list.
Automatically comes with complete termination of unconstitutional programs.
A few years back, during the last California budget crisis, or maybe the one before that, some parasite making her iving by handing out taxpayer dollars to other parasites, I believe they're called socailist workers, said that her fat useless ass would continue to draw taxpayer dollars if she was laid off, on unemployment.
Why do you keep on making that claim, despite all logic and facts to the contrary?
Let's work on this, shall we?
What does "termination" mean? Why, it means make an end to. The word "complete" is redundant.
What was the quote in reference to?
The reduction of the number of government employees.
When a project is ended, the employees working on that project are either shifted to other projects or let go. When GM stops making Oldsmobiles, it can't shift all the men working on the Oldsmobile line to the Pontiac line. If the government ends welfare, it's not going to have enough work to move all those welfare employees to the education staff, especially since education is yet another federal item the Constitution does not allow.
So, it logically follows that the termination of a federal program leads to the dismissal of federal employees.
Let's get to the "unconstitutional" part.
If it's not specifically allowed by Article 1, Section 8, it's reserved to the states. The vast majority of government programs simply are not in the Constituiton, anywhere. That means they're not Constitutional.
You can't argue this, you can only lie about it.
So if something isn't mentioned in the constitution, it should be illegal for govt to be involved in it?
You're starting to get the idea.
Now you're going to come up with some silliness about some technological advance and say "well, what about that one, HMMMMM?", aren't you?
Regulatory agencies would be at the top of my hit list.
These are the most dangerous -- the "swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."
I want to support Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare, but they're just too costly. If we don't get rid of them we should at least reform them.
What category is that money going to ACORN? What category is the TARP money that went to the financiers stealing our money? What category is that 747 flight over NY? I didn't notice a category for pork but I guess they just attach it to whatever they want to inflate.
Government exists to facilitate commerce and communication, and to protect private property.
Anything that furthers those ends should be well funded.
Anything that does not should be eliminated.
wHAT ABOUT THE epa mofo!
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