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These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. Read to the end!! Democrats would rather see America go bankrupt rather than eliminate the wasteful programs.

*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. $167.5million annual savings.
*National Endowment for the Humanities $167.5 million annual savings.
*Hope VI Program.. $250 million annual savings.
*Amtrak Subsidies. $156.5billion 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 annualsavings.
*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.
CutFederal 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 processingpayment 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 Organizationfor 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


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I didn't see any mention of the tax loophole and giveaways for big business, or not funding the Reagan Library. No limiting or reduction of perks for our highnesses. What's up? :p

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Why does this savings have to take a total time of 10yrs?  Why not implement it NOW.

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I didn't see any mention of the tax loophole and giveaways for big business, or not funding the Reagan Library. No limiting or reduction of perks for our highnesses. What's up? :p

our Highnesses like the democrats currently vacationing in Hawaii at the taxpayers expense???  For a meeting Wed. (17th) on Indian something or other.  The dems (D ont E xpect Much), left for Hawaii with members of the media and of course their entourage on Wed. for a meeting a week later at TAXPAYERS expense!  The SOLE Republican arriving the day before :angel:

That kind of wasteful taxpayer spending you meant when talking of our highnesses...Right?

A meeting that could have been held via skype for virtually nothing...and the dems chose to again throw away tax dollars.  Nice gig if ya can get it!


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You want to save money by having Congress use skype? :dunce:

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Nice gig if ya can get it!

You can get it, you just have to run for office, but I'd suggest you find a district crazier than Bachmann's otherwise you don't stand a chance.


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Shared sacrifice, as defined by congress: The poor lose and the rich win!!!! Thank you John Boehner and the tea party... :p ......ned
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You guys dont get it :frusty:

so tell me...what by your definition is the poor???
Those that do not have jobs?  Those that collect unemployment or welfare?  Perhaps homeless?  Those that get food stamps? The elderly on SS?


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Everyone agrees what poor is, the government sets the poverty level and if you're under it, you're poor.

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Over the last decade, child poverty surged in 38 states and erased many of the gains in child well-being made in the last 20 years, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

In most states, the federal government considers a family of four living on less than $22,350 a year "poor." According to the report, child poverty increased 18 percent between 2000 and 2009 and today shapes the lives of nearly 15 million children.

The findings are the latest in a series of studies that reveal the real impact of the recession on family-level finances in the country, including stagnating and declining wages during the 2000s. These sharp changes in individual financial security may ultimately influence the nation’s future.

Children -- particularly very young children -- who experience even a bout of poverty are less likely to graduate from high school, are more likely to become very young parents, have more difficulties learning and earn less money than their non-poor peers as adults, said Patrick McCarthy, president and CEO of the Casey Foundation.

"Child poverty is in some ways a leading indicator of how the country is going to be doing down the road," said McCarthy. "Nearly all of the social problems that we worry about in this country are heavily correlated with child poverty."

Around the country, there were almost 15 million children who lived in poor families in 2009. But another 31 million children also lived in families where the loss of just two paychecks would produce economic catastrophe, McCarthy reported. Taken together, this means that about 43 percent of the nation’s children live in economically insecure households, he said.

"This is a problem that is not just about somebody else's kids, this is about a lot of kids," McCarthy said.

The study also found that 4 percent of the nation’s children had been directly effected by a foreclosure and 11 percent had at least one parent who lost their job since the recession began. (Individual state data can be accessed here: http://datacenter.kidscount.org.)

In Nevada, the state where the greatest share of children had been effected by foreclosure or a parent's job loss, conditions for children have evolved from challenging before the recession to deeply problematic since it began, said Robert Parker, a sociologist at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Before the recession, Nevada often sat near the top of the list of states experiencing both job and population growth, Parker said. But the vast majority of the jobs created in the 2000s involved low-wage, service-sector work. As a result, Las Vegas has long had one of the highest teen pregnancy and drop-out rates in the nation. But since the recession began, more obvious signs of social distress have begun to abound. The state's unemployment rate has remained well above 10 percent for more than two years, and Parker said families are clearly struggling.

"The number of families living in non traditional settings -- renting rooms to unrelated adults, multiple families living in a single home and all sorts of arrangements have just skyrocketed," Parker reported. "There's even a phrase that's developed here -- 'going ghetto' -- to describe what's happening in a lot of the glamorous, glitzy master plan communities. There are just these incredibly sharp contrasts that you see. There are houses with overgrown grass and boarded up windows or two or three families inside next door to houses filled with marble."

The number of children visible on the city's streets instead of engaged in structured summer activities has also surged, Parker said. And cuts to education are being made at every level.

"There's really good reason for a great deal of concern," said Parker.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011...05.html


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How many jobs would be lost if these were all eliminated?

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Good question librarian... Wonder how long before Breeze finds an answer...If he/she ever has one....... :p .....ned
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