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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on February 27, 2013, 10:33:45 PM
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Fiscal hawks say government waste, unspent funds could offset sequester
While the Obama administration says automatic spending cuts will mean budget pain for Americans everywhere, lawmakers say the government is sitting on more than enough money to soften the blow.
But lawmakers say the government already has $45 billion in unspent money which could be used to offset the shortfall
Fresh legislation would authorize that money, which hasn't yet been spent, to be used elsewhere.
"There are pots of money sitting in different departments across the federal government, that have been authorized over either ... a number of months or a number of years," Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., said.
Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/27/fiscal-hawks-say-government-waste-unspent-funds-could-offset-sequester)
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This sequester-panic nonsense is the phoniest thing since Y2K. Not only is the $85B "cut" not a cut - it is a reduction in the projected growth in spending - it is orders of magnitude too small.
Instead of a 2.5% trim to the projected behemoth, there should be an immediate 10% across the board CUT from last years expenditures, plus another 25% selective CUT phased in over 5 years.
Start by completely sh*tcanning the Dept of Ed, Dept of Energy, EPA, DHS, HUD, OSHA, CPB, Dept of Ag, ACF, AoA, ADF, Amtrak, BATF, Bureaus for: Consumer Protection, International Labor Affairs, Transportion Statistics; Center of Nutrition, Commission of Fine Arts, Commission on Civil Rights, Community Planning and Development, Corporation for National Community Service, Dept of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, Domestic Policy Council, the Endangered Species Committee, Employment and Training Administration, the EEOC, FHEO, FEMA, Freddie and Fannie and 200 other agencies, bureaus and departments.
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Works for me, but I'm not in charge.
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Greta had several Washington insiders on tonight talking about where all the different departments can cut hundreds of billions in waste and duplication.
The biggest problem we have is no one is overseeing what gets spent or having to account for what's allocated to them.
Rand Paul actually returned $600k of what he was allowed for staffing, travel etc. that he didn't use.
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Rand Paul actually returned $600k of what he was allowed for staffing, travel etc. that he didn't use.
He should donate that $600K/year to help pay a fraction of the $2.6T amnesty* plan he's pushing (along with the Cuban Combover)
*2.6 trillion over 10 years, according to the Heritage Foundation.