liberals, what social programs are you will to cut to fund free healthcare and college?

[blktoptrvl]

Cut the criminally over-bloated military budget.

[workingclasshero]

Originally Posted by Enigma777

We could put a limit on Secret Service protection and junkets. Set a limit, and when a president goes over-he pays. We are currently in line to spend $600 million on First Family this term alone for Maralago, golf and jet set family jaunts and private business trips. Surely that money can be put to better use.

So I would start there. We don't' have kings, and we should not be forced to spend unlimited funds on any presidents' families.

Why should it be social programs being cut? The current admin takes the money from anywhere they want and spends it on vanity projects.

Then I would hit the military budget, because we already know it's an extravagant waste of money.

Just starters.

we have a spending problem


we spend 2.5 trillions dollars on social programs


revenue is up since the tax cuts


we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem


we could cut almost every department by half


almost every dept could be cut in half

other areas(depts.) that could afford cuts

cut the inefficiency...cut the unnecessary

for example...the federal department of education......why does it need 7000 employees?

1. schools are state run..they have state dept of ed's
...a. while we ''may'' need the feds to set a standard..... lets say 100 academics to set standards for nation wide
...b. so total needed 100

2. yes , part of the federal dept of ed is.....pell grants......
...a. ok maybe 10 people per state to process pell requests
...b. so total needed 500

3. that totals out to a ''needed'' 600 personnel, you could even double that amount and say 1200 ....not the 7000 people on the books that we currently have


no-one is saying you cant have departments...only let's be smart about how we fund and man them....especially TO THE MISSION of said department
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department of transportation....
why are we continuing to fund a failing entity of AMTRAK...???
Amtrak (part of the DOT's 130 billion dollar budget)...over 50 billion is allocated to HSR and Amtrak
why not send Amtrak the way of CONRAIL??


department of energy....16000 employees plus 94000 contractors ...with a budget sitting around 35 billion....... do we really need 100k of employees/contractors to supervise the nations power grid??

DOHUD.....11,000 employees....meanwhile it was HUD with fannie/Freddie that caused the housing bubble/bust

DOHHS....67,000 employees...with a budget near 100 billion...and that doesn't count medicare/Medicaid

DoL.......17,500 employees.... with a budget of 137 billion.......17000 employees and we cant get more people employed in America??

DOA......109,000 employees....with a budget of over 150 billion

department of state (formerly known as dept of foreign affairs).......19,000 employees......55 billion dollar budget which includes some foreign aid too

Dept of treasury.....116,000 employees (86,000 GS employees and 30,000 contractors)....do we really need over 100k employees to run the treasury???... 22 billion budget....... or which IRS....92,000 employees, to process taxes...budget about 13 billion falls under the treasury dept

DOI (dept of interior)...budget 25 billion...70,000 government employees with an additional 20,000 contractors.......now this dept is not so much of a cut in its budget...but does it really need almost 90,000 employees???



everyone of these could be cut by at least half

[Pilot1]

Originally Posted by blktoptrvl

Cut the criminally over-bloated military budget.

^^^^^This. The military industrial complex has way too much power. We could reduce military spending in half and still have the best military in the world by far. However, for each dollar of military spending we cut, we should cut the same amount from Social Engineering programs that create generational dependency.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by Pilot1

^^^^^This. The military industrial complex has way too much power. We could reduce military spending in half and still have the best military in the world by far. However, for each dollar of military spending we cut, we should cut the same amount from Social Engineering programs that create generational dependency.

This isn't how the world works. Invading Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and places bases all around the world costs far more than redundancy in some social program.

I believe we could cut every program and in many cases not cut the benefits at all. There is waste and redundancy in all programs. I've never had a problem addressing this. I've never had a problem making those who are over these programs responsible for seeing that it's cleaned up.

Part of the reason it isn't is both those who refuse to agree that cuts can be simply cutting waste and those like yourself you think if we cut a billion from the military we have to cut a billion from food stamps.

[Old Gringo]

Originally Posted by FKD19124

liberals, what social programs are you will to cut to fund free healthcare and college?

Here's a good start:

Corporate welfare

[Annino]

Originally Posted by what'd i miss

Trump the Great.

I agree!!