[smoothy]

PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS

A List of Republican Budget Cuts
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 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.
* 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 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 THISABOUT?
* 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 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..
* 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?

[paraclete]

PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS

A List of Republican Budget Cuts
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.

*TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

My question is, what is all this doing in the budget in the first place?

You may well ask, a lot of pork there but not all of those items are bad but probably don't need to be funded at that level. I see they are looking to wipe out AMTRAK and very fast rail, is the aircraft industry involved here and also wipe out Public Broadcasting, that's a political bias and why aren't the military on the list?

[tomder55]

You should see the Dem budget from Sen Patty Murray . If nothing else it demonstrates the impossible divide in thinking between the 2 sides (and I think the Ryan Budget is too modest ) . I can understand why Harry Reid did not want to submit it . I don't know how a Dem Senator in the heartland can vote for the Dem budget ;let alone poor Max Baucus ;who wants his signature achievement in the Senate to be tax simplification and reform.

[speechlesstx]

you should see the Dem budget from Sen Patty Murray . If nothing else it demonstrates the impossible divide in thinking between the 2 sides (and I think the Ryan Budget is too modest ) . I can understand why Harry Reid did not want to submit it . I don't know how a Dem Senator in the heartland can vote for the Dem budget ;let alone poor Max Baucus ;who wants his signature achievement in the Senate to be tax simplification and reform.

It would have gotten more votes than all of Obama's combined...

[tomder55]

It would have gotten more votes than all of Obama's combined...

You mean it would've gotten a single vote?

[paraclete]

It seems this sequester is the non event of the century, Obama may yet leave a legacy of a smaller military

[tomder55]

The defense dept had already been cut. When drawing down after the surrender of 2 wars ,there was no need to have as large a budget. The problem of course is the poor choices the Obama military is making in it's sequester decision. Training should not be short changed... but the F-35 should be .

[paraclete]

What's this Tom you want to leave your country defenceless in the future flying out of date hardware

[tomder55]

The F-35 is nothing but an over budget pork machine... Note I didn't say defund the F-22 Raptor .
United Kingdom: F-35 or F-22?

[paraclete]

But you sold this to us as the ultimate machine are you saying it was all yankee B/S?

Perhaps we should see what the Russinas have to offer or wait for the inevitable Chinese copy

[tomder55]

Yes it's a piece of cr@p .
http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/inde...owtopic=250535

[paraclete]

Strange how far american industry has sunk you should have got the japs to build it

[tomder55]

Like I said ;the F-22 is state of the art 21st century. The F-35 has the capability of the Fa-18 . It was sold as a dual use Joint strike force. By definition it cannot live up to the hype. It is expected to do too much .

[speechlesstx]

you mean it would've gotten a single vote?

At least.

[speechlesstx]

No White House tours but hey, at least we'll have bagpipes and spats to keep the homeland safe. I got to admit the thought of a DHS bagpipe corps should make any terrorist think twice about messing with us.

[paraclete]

It is the perfect weapon, that's why the scots used it

[speechlesstx]

Who needs nukes when we have bagpipes?

[paraclete]

Exactly but Tom thinks you need more nukes

[NeedKarma]

Solicitation Number: PR20074261
Notice Type: Cancellation

[paraclete]

What does that mean