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An interesting email re: GOP proposed cuts

Faster horses

Well-known member
This Needs to be brought to the attention of every Voter you Know.
Notice S.S. 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.

* 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.
* WoodrowWilsonCenter Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings.
* Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual savings.
* JohnC.StennisCenter 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 InternationalDevelopment -- $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 millionsavings 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 THE HELL IS THISABOUT?
* 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
My question is,what is all this crap doing in the budget in the first place?
Send to Everyone you Know.
 

Steve

Well-known member
sadly when it comes to federal waste.. the list is just the tip of the iceberg..

* No funding for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual savings.

why buy more when billions sit empty, under-utilized and could be sold.

Sell Federal Buildings…………………………………………..$19,000,000,000.

http://amoraloutrage.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/a-detailed-look-at-the-rand-paul-spending-bill/

Rand Paul has a list of cutting .. 500 billion...

so far just in his staff/office budget he has cut or returned hundreds of thousands..

but back to buildings..



it has identified 14,000 vacant government buildings to sell, saving upward of $15 billion over three years, well ahead of initial savings estimates of $3 billion.

The federal government owns and operates more than 1.2 million buildings costing about $20 billion a year to operate, he said.


Thousands of Costly Federal Buildings Lie Unused — And Problem Could Be Worse Than We Thought

A 2010 map by the White House estimated that about 14,000 buildings and structures are "excess," or no longer needed, and that taxpayers pay $190 million to maintain them. Most of these assets, the White House promised, would soon be demolished, transferred or sold.

The 14,000 number, committee spokesman Justin Harclerode said, mostly represents low-value structures the government has already decided to get rid of.

It doesn't take into account properties the government hasn't decided what it wants to do with, or properties that are underutilized.

The most high-profile example: the Old Post Office building in Washington, which is partially occupied but mostly empty, including a rear annex that lies in disrepair.

The building was never included on the government "excess" buildings list, despite costing taxpayers $6.5 million every year, according to Congressman Mica.

The Cotton Annex, an 89,000 square foot building just a block from the National Mall, has been empty for five years, but has not been deemed "excess" by GSA.

estimates range from 5 billion to 8 billion could be saved by selling or utilizing these unused or under utilized properties..

and several billion .. (1.2 to 2.4) could be saved on maintenance costs per year...

and to top it off.. the proceeds for selling them... and the tax revenue municipalities would earn would just be icing on the cake..

and that doesn't even go into the massive amount of land the US federal government controls...
 
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