Paul Ryan's Suggested Budget Cuts

[CG6468]

Received in an email.

List of Republican cuts. Clearly, Paul Ryan knows how to make the cuts necessary to get this country back on track

Please notice that Social Security and the military are NOT on this list

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. Read to the end and pass it on to as many as you can.

* 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 -- $1.565 billion annual savings.
* Eliminate duplicating 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.
* Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings..
* Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual savings.
* John C. Stennis Center Subsidy -- $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.
* Freedom CAR 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.
* E nd 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 IS THIS ABOUT?
* 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. WHAT???
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.
* Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
* 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.. WHY?????
* HUD Ph.D. Program.
* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
 
* TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years 

Please explain what this crap doing in the budget in the first place!    

[IassaFTots]

* Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts -- $9 million annual savings

Who the heck are those people???

[JohnnyReb]

Who the heck are those people???

Kennedy, Kerry..........

[Big Dog]

Please explain what this crap doing in the budget in the first place!    

* Applied Research at Department of Energy -- $1.27 billion annual savings.

Without this valuable program, Marvel Comics will go bankrupt. No Incredible Hulk, no Amazing Spiderman, no Fantastic Four. Oh, the huge manatee!

* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.

The national security implications of mohair cannot be overstated.


Worth every penny.

[CG6468]

Without this valuable program, Marvel Comics will go bankrupt. No Incredible Hulk, no Amazing Spiderman, no Fantastic Four. Oh, the huge manatee! Anything but that! No comics in a comic book world.


The national security implications of mohair cannot be overstated understated. I guess this could an exception...


Worth every penny.

[Dori]

Who the heck are those people???

Sounds like more "diversity" crapola.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION


The purpose of this program is to develop culturally-based educational activities, internships, apprentice programs, and exchanges to assist Alaska Natives, native Hawaiians, and children and families living in Massachusetts linked by history and tradition to Alaska and Hawaii, and members of any federally recognized Indian tribe in Mississippi.
 
TYPES OF PROJECTS


Authorized projects include internships, apprenticeship programs, and education programs to increase understanding of cultural diversity and multicultural communication among Alaska Natives, native Hawaiians, and the people of the continental United States, based on historic patterns of trading and commerce. The authorizing law was amended in 2006 to include projects for any federally recognized Indian tribe in Mississippi.

[JohnnyReb]

Sounds like more "diversity" crapola.
 

I'd say it was a Kennedy buying a few more votes with your/our money.

[Lacarnut]

Ryan's budget cuts are a joke. The Obama administration is on a path to add 1 trillion to the debt per year for the next ten years. Subtract Ryan's 2.5 trillion from 10 and you get 7.5 trillion in added debt. Anyone here think we can survive a debt of 23 trillion. These politicans are going to put us in a worse postion than Greece is in.  God help us.

[docstew]

Ryan's budget cuts are a joke. The Obama administration is on a path to add 1 trillion to the debt per year for the next ten years. Subtract Ryan's 2.5 trillion from 10 and you get 7.5 trillion in added debt. Anyone here think we can survive a debt of 23 trillion. These politicans are going to put us in a worse postion than Greece is in.  God help us.

Unlike any other politician in Washington, at least he's willing to actually REDUCE the amount spend on something, as opposed to most of them who just want to SLOW THE GROWTH.

[Lacarnut]

Unlike any other politician in Washington, at least he's willing to actually REDUCE the amount spend on something, as opposed to most of them who just want to SLOW THE GROWTH.

Then we need to get rid of the whole lot cause they are too stupid to understand the problem.

Reminds me of a joke.. A cop stopped this smart ass lawyer for running a stop sign. The cop explained the offense and the lawyer thought cause he was smarter that he would question the law. The cop wrote him a ticket and the lawyer refused to sign the ticket citing his constitutional rights. The cop asked him to exit the car, pulled out a baton and proceeded to whip his ass. The cop asked him now do you want to slow down or stop.   

[docstew]

Then we need to get rid of the whole lot cause they are too stupid to understand the problem.

Reminds me of a joke.. A cop stopped this smart ass lawyer for running a stop sign. The cop explained the offense and the lawyer thought cause he was smarter that he would question the law. The cop wrote him a ticket and the lawyer refused to sign the ticket citing his constitutional rights. The cop asked him to exit the car, pulled out a baton and proceeded to whip his ass. The cop asked him now do you want to slow down or stop.   

The problem is they use baseline budgeting, which is done by no one ever. They say "we spent x on it this year, and we'll increase that by 4% next year." Any increase of less than 4% is termed a cut, when actual spending still increases.

I hereby propose a Constitutional Amendment, call it the Truth in Budgeting Amendment, that requires Congress to produce a list of priorities, and then fund them in that order starting from 0 every year. (Congress won't have time for anything else? BONUS!)