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Anybody taking bets on how many even read this thing? I'm betting zero senators and maybe a few house folks. Gotta pass it to find out what's in it according to san fran nan. Wonder how she would vote?
Savings over a ten year period from the General Government Section - pages 9-30
Three Year Freeze on Pay and Bonuses for Federal Employees
Reduce the Size of the Federal Workforce by 15 Percent or 300,000
Reduce the Size of the Federal Contractor Workforce by 15 Percent
Reduce and Restrict Government Printing
Eliminate Reemployed Annuitant Double Dip
Reduce Agency Travel Budget by 75 Percent for Civilian Agencies
Reduce the Number of Limousine’s Owned by Federal Agencies
Reduce Federal Vehicle Fleet Budget by 20 Percent
Prohibit the use of Project Labor Agreements on federal contracts
Eliminate Agencies Hollywood Liaison Offices
Eliminate the use of Non-Competitive and Cost Plus Government Contracts
Reduce Agency Advertising Budgets by 50 Percent
Freeze Federal Locality Pay for Five Years
Reduce Annual Spending on Federal Government Conferences
Support the President’s Efforts to Reform Federal IT Management and Close Federal Government
Computer Data Centers
Eliminate the Financing of Presidential Election Campaigns and Party Conventions
Ending Duplication in Federal Employment Agencies by Consolidating Functions at the Office of
Personnel Management
Apply Chained-CPI Government-Wide
End Benefits, Subsidies, and Tax Breaks for Millionaires
Eliminate Carryover of Sick Leave and Cap at 13 Days Annually
Limit the Carryover of Unused Vacation Time and Cap Total Vacation Time at 30 Days a Year
Impoundment to Control Congressional Spending
Total - $974.1 billion
"Prohibit the use of Project Labor Agreements on federal contracts"
We cannot guarantee retirement programs for the elderly, protect the safety net for the poor, or preserve the American Dream for future generations if we do not end Washington’s unsustainable borrowing and spending. While the federal government is bailing out banks, corporations, and government programs and trust funds, we are bankrupting our nation in the process and there is no one who can bail us out when that happens.
We have over 4 times our debt already scheduled in future programs - even though we cannot afford the cost of government today. Total insanity.
Exactly true.
We do need ensure we fund federal programs to protect our elderly and provide assistance to people in dire financial situations, but we will not be able to fund these programs with the break-neck clip of 0bama's rate of spending - the man is insane.
Congressional staffers student loan repayment - p. 31/32
A benefit House and Senate staffers receive comes in the form of student loan debt repayment. Thousands of congressional staff have taken advantage of the program in recent years, with 3,000 House staff alone getting benefits in 2009. Senate staffers can get $6,000 per year, and $40,000 in a lifetime, to repay any outstanding student loans. House staffers are eligible for an even more, with the opportunity to get $10,000 each year, with a lifetime cap at $60,000. In 2009, both houses of Congress combined to spend $18 million for this program.
It eliminates almost the entire EPA administrative structure...including the elimination of clean up efforts in the great lakes, emission controls, research funding, and clean air programs.
Eliminates the army core projects like re-enforcing levies, completing flood protection projects, deepening water ways for boat traffic (like trade), and waste water treatment programs.
Cut programs in the department of labor like subsidizing prisoners looking for work (I wonder how they will live now, maybe...crime?), make OSHA compliance voluntary only, close the BLS, and remove the agency that inspects/prosecutes gender discrimination.
Eliminates funding for NASA materials research (they sell a lot of that stuff, space related or not, for a profit you know), eliminate funding for research into new vehicles/fuels, eliminate upgrades to Kennedy for new technologies, and eliminate small business innovation grants (wait, who is going to research stuff now?).
Increase co-payments for all vets getting medical care, including an annual fee for some.
Eliminate the restoration of damaged habitats/environment (actually paid for with fines), eliminate the enforcement of said environmental protections (including pollution), eliminate the census agency, and get rid of NTIA (including enforcement of net neutrality and provide rural telecommunication lines).
HAHAHAHAHA! This must be a joke.
All these great "oversight' functions sound great, but in practice those with money simply order the politicians to look away. The little guy who wouldn't have done anything bad WILL get ensnared in all the bureaucracy, though, and go broke.
What liberals won't face is that all this endless spending (created by armies of government workers thinking up infinite ways of spending OUR earnings) IS GOING TO END eventually. Either it ends with the nation an austerity program, or it ends with the total collapse of the economic system and hyperinflation and mass starvation.
Liberals are like a guy on vacation with a car that has an oil leak. It would have been no problem if he addressed the problem when he checked the oil and saw it down. Then the oil light came on. The liberal STILL doesn't want to stop his vacation--it's fun driving around! So he keeps driving until the engine seizes, and now the car is worthless scrap.
"Prohibit the use of Project Labor Agreements on federal contracts"
This alone will kill this thing for sure.
They require bidders on the projects to promise to adhere to union work rules and wage scales, and pay into union pension funds, even when nonunion workers are assigned to the project.
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In February 2009, the president issued Executive Order 13502 to encourage executive agencies to consider requiring the use of PLAs when they engage in large-scale construction projects.
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Regulations implementing PLAs should be repealed to ensure the most efficient use of taxpayer money. Eliminating PLAs would save $17.7 billion over ten years.
It would definitely cause a big fight, that's for sure. But you know, union interests are being defeated this year, so there is hope out there.
They require bidders on the projects to promise to adhere to union work rules and wage scales, and pay into union pension funds, even when nonunion workers are assigned to the project.
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In February 2009, the president issued Executive Order 13502 to encourage executive agencies to consider requiring the use of PLAs when they engage in large-scale construction projects.
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Regulations implementing PLAs should be repealed to ensure the most efficient use of taxpayer money. Eliminating PLAs would save $17.7 billion over ten years.
It would definitely cause a big fight, that's for sure. But you know, union interests are being defeated this year, so there is hope out there.
The new gov in my state ended these type of rules for state contracts and the unions ran wild of course. Ending this union lunacy will go a way in helping.
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