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Originally Posted by Goodnight
Then how do we make up all the deficit spending over the last 4 years, where are the spending cuts coming from to make up a few trillion in deficit. Maybe get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, SS and DOD. What programs are you willing to give up and don't tell me foreign aid a food stamps are going to make the difference.
We have an enormous deficit and even if you had some sort of reduction in spending we need additional revenue.
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we should not need to raise taxes on anyone
and all we need to do is trim....why should every expenditure get a 10% increase every year?
where we certainly could
cut is the big government departments
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
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