Budget cuts..............

[Teresa]

These are all the programs that the new Republican House have 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 Art s. $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.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.

Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings

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 THE Heck is all this doing in the budget in the first place?  

[Anmar]

You know what didn't get eliminated?  over 20 billion in foreign aid.

edit:  Let me add this,  subsidies for private corporate jets, tax breaks for oil companies (that are breaking profit records every quarter), and a wide variety of other special interest payouts.  Good job tea party, you kept the fat cats happy.

[redcliffsw]

Yeah, you're right.  So let's abolish the income tax to level the playing field instead of allowing
your kind to determine who gets what from whom.

Keynesian doesn't work no matter what you Republicans think.

[Anmar]

I'm not sure if that was at me or not red, but I've stated here before that Keynesian economics don't work.  Back when Bush bailed out the banks, I outlined here the principles of that economic theory, and how BOTH parties adhere to the system.  Republicans much more so than democrats. 

I'm all in favor of an abolishment of income tax on individuals below $200,000.  I think capital gains should be taxed at a higher percentage, a national sales tax should be implemented, and corporations should pay their fare share.  The government still needs to have some sort of income, there are things that they have to be able to do.

[redcliffsw]

I can't locate your any of your postings regarding Keynesian, however I'm thinking your past posts were pro-Keynesian.

Republicans and modern Democrats just love that junk which our forefathers had nothing to do with. 

[Anmar]

nope,  I definitely don't believe in the keynes model.  Stimulation of the economy is not the responsibility of the government.  There are natural up and down cycles and the best way to get out of the down cycle is to allow inefficiencies to fail, and new institutions that are superior should take their place.  This allows individuals a chance to overcome barriers of entry into the marketplace. 

[Diane Amberg]

And Red, that's exactly what I meant.You ''assumed" without knowing. That's very judgmental. Perhaps I'll assume you wear a sheet and are an active KKK.

[Teresa]

And Red, that's exactly what I meant.You ''assumed" without knowing. That's very judgmental. Perhaps I'll assume you wear a sheet and are an active KKK.

Seriously Diane???     Good Lord!!!

You know what didn't get eliminated?  over 20 billion in foreign aid.

edit:  Let me add this,  subsidies for private corporate jets, tax breaks for oil companies (that are breaking profit records every quarter), and a wide variety of other special interest payouts.  

I agree Anmar.................Its a small drip in a bucket with a hole in the bottom and is an appeasement!
But you just HAD to throw a negative about the tea party in there didn't you?  The ones of us who still stand for the original tea party ethics~~well, We didn't get to sit in on the negotiations..  I realize too and I have disgustedly listened to Tea Parties falsely claiming victories....but can you name one of those claimed victories that had a successful outcome in the end? I know many will think the Nov. 2010 election was a victory.  Really?  In the end, is that a victory?    We change some game players but not the corrupt game. Hate to say it... but the "fat cats" are everywhere..and always will be. Nothing at this point anyone anywhere is going to do to stop them from being fat. Even at this point, its way too far down the pooper to pull out.

We now have over 20,000 Tea Party groups and many of those are splitting at this very moment and so the group numbers grow.. Everybody's claiming to link arms and supposedly we're all working for the same goal.  Really?
If that were true... then why so many divisions?... why so many splits and back-biting? ((Reminds me of organized religion ..and we all know where that has gone over the century's.)    Uniting is not the same as collaborating.
Tea Party Leaders are running in 20,000 plus different directions because of their personal gains.

The Tea Party STARTED OUT as being NOT a  defined party as such like the Republicans or Democrats etc.  It was simply the once silent majority that just got fed up with Washington and our growing unbelievable debt. We simply wanted the Constitution of the United States to be honored as our forefathers intended it to be. I'm sorry to say that is not what the tea party is anymore.  One of my great hopes is that a new party will form out of the original tea party mission and get us back on what we started to represent in the beginning.

And while I'm on my rant~~~~
What is with all the blame game?
Blame Bush, the Republicans, The Tea party, Fox news, and talk radio. so that Socialists avoid the RESPONSIBILITY for their imbecilic actions ! However now the game is played with large doses of snarky drama and out right denial of responsibility. And people just suck it up like cherry cola through a double straw.

Who would have thought we would live to see the day when a President of the United States of America purposely divided the country with class warfare. Pitting one American against another American is pitiful!!  But It gets the votes of the clueless..that thats Obama's job security. And sadly it seems to working for the masses of the blind.  I never would have ever thought that somebody that hates America would ever rise to sit in the oval office!!~
I don't think any one did.
I guess I was ignorant enough to think that the American people are more intelligent to fall for of all this degrading crap that the progressives have shoveled out to us. I was wrong! I was very very wrong.

But I am way beyond tired of politicians saying we shouldn't hold people accountable or find the root cause of problems as they arise...and  treating the peoples concerns ( since you mentioned the tea party) like the annual in-state college football game. A rivalry they must win to stay in or get power in elected office by any mean.
This has been going on forever and not gonna stop anytime soon .. its called~~
blame ....divert attention ......
The sheeple aren't smart enough to figure it out!!! It is all by design! They indoctrinate our youth and start the blame game at a very early age!
I'm starting to feel that we are~~~~
America ... land of the sheep and home of the slave!

[Anmar]

Teresa,

I will concede that you have a point.  I agree that the tea party is no longer what it started out to be, and my digs at the tea party are aimed at the current national movement.  I feel like a lot of the people in congress saw a strong, powerful movement and like any good politician, they all clamored to jump in front of the parade and claim to have helped launch it.

We both know that the tea party was infiltrated by large corporate interests very early in its inception.  Unfortunately, many people in the movement are not sophisticated enough to recognize that their movement has been corrupted, and they continue to side with their corruptors against their own interests and principals.  Before you get offended by that statement, let me add that the people on the left suffer from the same lack of sophistication.  The democrat party succumbed to corporate influence under Clinton, and remain a divided party until now. 

This bill wasn't a victory for anyone.  The cuts in the first two years are almost nothing.  We still waste a boatload of money on stupid, redundant programs.  Members of congress, Democrat, Republican, and Tea party, will still get overly expensive projects for their districts in the form of earmarks.  We will still spend more on our military than the rest of the world combined.  We are still wasting billions every day in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and who knows where else. 

My biggest complaints against the right,  they think this is fair:

We are still allowing our largest and most profitable corporations to use tax loopholes to escape paying any tax at all.

Our richest citizens, who benefit the most from our country, pay at most, 15% (but usually on the 10-12% range) in taxes while the average working taxpayer pays closer to 30%.

Yes I blame the right.  We are living under their tax system.  Bush destroyed the economy.  They have controlled the budget for the last 10 years.  They took us to wars without paying for them (yes, many democrats went along too).  They were the biggest spenders, and the biggest instigators of poor policies, and rip-offs for the rich. 

[Patriot]

And Red, that's exactly what I meant.You ''assumed" without knowing. That's very judgmental. Perhaps I'll assume you wear a sheet and are an active KKK.

So, Diane... Where's the ha ha ha, tee he he, poke poke, giggle, snort    ?

That makes it all better, right?