House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts:
Every American citizen should be aware of these outlandish programs that are funded by the taxpayers. To read the full content of the article cut and paste the website below.
The following is the full list of cuts that the Republican Party has recommended to help cut our deficit. It is about time.
Highlighted are some of the more ridiculous ones.
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 duplicate 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 saving.
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.
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 Organisation 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
I am very surprised that the senate, congress and the president haven’t set a up a fund for their haircuts. Maybe they did and it is hidden somewhere.
I am quite sure that Obama is not responsible for the majority of these over the top expenditures but shouldn’t it be the responsibility of the current leader of our country to try and cut the fat? That was one of his platforms in 2008; cut the fat and get rid of the lobbyists. He hasn’t done either.
Some of the funds are so unusual that it is hard to believe that they exist. This is a direct result of special interest groups/lobbyists that have what seems to be an unbreakable strong hold on Washington DC.
The USA is going broke or has gone broke being partly because it is an entitlement country; literally giving away all of the taxpayers money.
It seems to me that through the years our government has just gone hog wild dishing out money to special interest groups and foreign governments. It has to come to a head; because sooner or later this gigantic infested pimple is going to pop, be very messy and do permanent damage if it hasn’t already.
This is a list of just the top 25 countries that receive aid from the USA. There are hundreds more.
Do any of the citizens of this country know about all these handouts? I sure didn’t until I did a little research.
Afghanistan 159.56 233.52
Pakistan 10.52 4.95
Israel 4.94 380.68
Iraq 39.46 33.91
Egypt 4.93 16.18
Haiti 145.75 0.19
Ethiopia 11.16 0.00
Sudan 19.82 2.39
Colombia 15.34 4.20
Kenya 19.99 0.06
Jordan 72.31 47.41
Mexico 5.54 0.85
Senegal 5.6.67 0.30
West Bank/Gaza 172.44 0.00
South Africa 11.53 0.03
Tanzania 13.21 0.48
Russia 2.72 0.91
Uganda 13.50 1.09
Nigeria 2.82 0.02
Georgia 91.30 3.87
Mozambique 18.02 0.02
Congo (Kinshasa) 5.14 0.43
Indonesia 1.29 0.10
Zambia 24.62 0.03
Kazakhstan 17.82
All of these numbers are in the million
I said it before and I will say it again; if the USA had its back against the wall we would be hard pressed to find a few countries that would help us out. What other government does what we do. I know the answer from the politicians; “that is what makes us great”. I still say that charity begins at home.
Can we even imagine what good the USA could do with the combined funds if they were put to public use?
It is time to put the financial brakes on and take a serious look at all of our deficiencies and straighten them out once and for all. This is a matter of self-preservation and survival.
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