The Cuts you would make in federal spending (fast food, wage, health care)

[Quick Enough]

Originally Posted by Opin_Yunated

Google is your friend.

This stuff is publicly available.

Please, tell us your plan for cuts. Gotta cut the military and those pensions...

I know you don't follow the "REAL" news but, defense HAS been cut several times now over the past several years.

Even with that I KNOW there is a whole lot of waste in ALL gov't, even the military.

Please be more specific on "pensions".

[Quick Enough]

Originally Posted by Vejadu

Here's a few:

1. Eliminate all Federal departments redundant of equivalent state departments
2. Reduce military spending
3. Reduce SS payouts through means-testing
4. Drastically reduce foreign aid
5. Enforce border security to reduce the number of poor flowing over the border
6. Consolidate poverty programs and focus on reducing fraud
7. Legalize soft drugs and prostitution to reduce the strain on corrections systems. Tax both activities to increase revenue.

SS, welfare and other entitlement programs account for 60% of Federal spending and are filled with fraud. Reducing the abuse of those programs would be the fastest way to balance the budget.

Social Security is short ONLY because the gov't "borrowed" the money from the Social Security trust fund and NOW has to pay it back because SS doesn't collect as much as they pay out.

[silas777]

Originally Posted by jbtornado

I hope you think local governments need to be involved in things like fire,police, utilities, sewers, etc.. or you are a total nutjob too

Nonsense... I am a proponent of returning most everything back to the most local level possible, but to believe that a government entity is the most efficient and effective way of running police fire and infrastructure is naïve or ignorant.

[Quick Enough]

Originally Posted by silas777

Nonsense... I am a proponent of returning most everything back to the most local level possible, but to believe that a government entity is the most efficient and effective way of running police fire and infrastructure is naïve or ignorant.

He has probably NEVER heard of a Volunteer Fire dept.

[mkpunk]

Originally Posted by Quick Enough

He has probably NEVER heard of a Volunteer Fire dept.

Or heard of Arizona who cut K-12 spending do bad the state got sued the schools and LOST and now contesting the settlement because "We can't pay for that." Oh and the cuts to Arizona's cold protective services that forced it to be privatized as a result off thousands of dropped cases. This is Arizona, home off constitutional republicans and libertarian leaning republicans...

[jbtornado]

So you want a corporation with corporate interests running our police departments? Should they run the courts too?

[silas777]

Originally Posted by jbtornado

So you want a corporation with corporate interests running our police departments? Should they run the courts too?

I understand that to you those are "bad" words, "Corporation" and "Corporate interests" however across the board they do a much more efficient and effective job than GOVERNMENT.

[brownbagg]

One penny out of every dollar across the board

[pvande55]

Since Congress is so hot to cut benefits to the public, cut theirs. Make government employees pensions less generous. And an overlooked revenue source: start collecting fines from employers of illegal aliens.

[jbtornado]

Originally Posted by silas777

I understand that to you those are "bad" words, "Corporation" and "Corporate interests" however across the board they do a much more efficient and effective job than GOVERNMENT.

Yes with the intention of one thing.. Making a profit. They really do not care about anything else..