House passes GOP’s ‘Cut, Cap and Balance’ plan 234-190

20 Jul 2011 16:34 #61 by Martin Ent Inc
I found this.

Some pretty interesting "programs"!! That's for sure!! Wow!! Please keep in mind, that each one is some Senator or Congressman’s sacred cow..

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. Read to the end.
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. $167.5 million annual savings.
National Endowment for the Humanities $167.5 million annual savings.
Hope VI Program.. $250 million annual savings.
Amtrak Subsidies. $156.5 billion 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 annual savings.
WoodrowWilson CenterSubsidy. $20 million annual savings.
Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding. $47 million annual savings.
JohnC. Stennis CenterSubsidy. $430,000 annual savings.
Community Development Fund. $4.5 billion annual savings.
Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million annual savings.
Cut Federal 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 processing payment 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 Organization for 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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20 Jul 2011 16:40 #62 by LadyJazzer
FreeRepublic... Uh-huh...

Since you didn't give any attribution:

More likely: http://ashevilleteaparty.org/?p=1291

http://www.rationalpublicradio.com/repu ... ecade.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-blo ... 0607/posts


Actually, there were 11,700 hits from the usual network of rightie sites...

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20 Jul 2011 16:55 #63 by Martin Ent Inc

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20 Jul 2011 20:44 #64 by conifermtman
It looks like the adults are in charge in the house, the children in the Senate and a brat in the Whitehouse.

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20 Jul 2011 20:47 #65 by LadyJazzer
Two out of three ain't bad....

Looks to me more like Boehner can't corral all the children who are stamping their feet and holding their breath until they turn blue unless they get their way... Let me know how that works out for ya...

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20 Jul 2011 22:05 #66 by Martin Ent Inc

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21 Jul 2011 14:24 #68 by LadyJazzer
Sorry, I don't click on undefined links.

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21 Jul 2011 14:27 #69 by Martin Ent Inc

LadyJazzer wrote: Sorry, I don't click on undefined links.



Sorry LJ it's Atlanta GA, news channel 2 report on their investigation into government spending.

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22 Jul 2011 10:28 #70 by Martin Ent Inc
We fund Mosque's


Should we call him our Muslim in Chief?

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