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Vette Barn PRC Challenge: Slash Spending and Balance the Budget
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to cut enough spending to balance the U.S. Federal Budget
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Your Mission: TRY TO CUT $1,400,000 to eliminate the deficit. Format your plan as follows: 1) Copy the above list. Replace existing $ amounts with your $ amounts. In parentheses, put the $amount SAVED in BLACK, or INCREASED in RED if you decide to increase spending in any areas. 2) Below that, Copy the list again, and replace $ amounts with any text you wish briefly explaining your decision or how money will be saved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For demonstration, my answer: National Defense: $300,000 ($393,856 Savings) Veterans Benefits: $100,000 ($8,384 Savings) Social Security: $500,000 ($206,737 Savings) Income Security: $400,000 ($222,210 Savings) Medicare: $500,000 ($48,364 Increase) Health: $0 ($369,054 Savings) Education, Social Services, etc.: $47,710 ($80,000 Savings) International Affairs: $20,000 ($25,195 Savings) Science, Space, Technology: $100,000 ($68,953 Increase) Energy: $0 ($11,613 Savings) Natural Resources/Environment: $20,000 ($23,662 Savings) Agriculture: $0 ($21,356 Savings) Transportation: $20,000 ($71,972 Savings) Community Development: $0 ($23,804 Savings) Interest: $196,194 Justice: $40,000 ($13,436 Savings) General Government: $20,000 ($3,031 Savings) TOTAL SAVINGS: $1,356,993 National Defense: Revert to Year 2000 levels of spending, withdraw from Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany, etc. and reassign remaining affordable troops from these areas to bases along the Mexican border. Veterans Benefits: Very small cut. Can be achieved through administrative efficiency and lay-offs. Social Security: Cap Benefits at 50% of the current max & means test perhaps? Income Security: Abolish all welfare and replace with "workfare" watch the need for welfare suddenly and mysteriously plummet. $400,000 would be where we are at in this spending of the rate of growth had remained constant after 2008, instead of exploding in 2009 and 2010. Medicare: Increase to half a Trillion, abolish all other federal healthcare programs and legilsation, assuming 100 million Americans can't get insured for reasons of poverty or illness, you can provide each with $5,000 of help. Abolish Obamacare but re-pass the provisions of it that prevent insurers from cherry picking or charging any one customer more than double another. Health: Abolish. See above. Education, Social Services, etc.: Abolish Dept. of Education International Affairs: Revert to 19th century isolationism as much as possible Science, Space, Technology: Increase here to save elsewhere with medical, scientific, computer advancements & also increase revenue in the long term by providing technological advancements that will lead to economic productivity. Energy: Abolish Dept. of Energy Natural Resources/Environment: Mandate a move to cellulosic ethanol over a 10 year period for all passenger vehicles & semis. Abolish the EPA. Agriculture: Abolish Dept. Agriculture Transportation: Oversee Mainatainance, upkeep, and expansion of interstate highways ONLY, perform NO other duties. Community Development: Abolish Interest: Cannot Cut until National Debt is reduced Justice: Lay-off some DOJ lawyers. Stop paying them to work light work weeks by lawyer standards. Cap pay at median income given the sweet retirement packages and job security, which are a fair Trade-off for lower salary than private sector. General Government: Small trimming, efficiency. Last edited by Will; 04-05-2011 at 9:12am. |
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You should be trying to get campaign dollars; screw this internet moderator thing. Beside, the Republican Party can use anyone with more than a pulse and and is breathing air.
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I'll try to take some time this afternoon to work on this if I get a chance.
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Originally Posted by 2010 Federal Spending
National Defense: $393,856 Veterans Benefits: $0 Social Security: $706,737 Income Security: $0 Medicare: $0 Health: $0 Education, Social Services, etc.: $0 International Affairs: $0 Science, Space, Technology: $31,047 Energy: $0 Natural Resources/Environment:0 Agriculture: $0 Transportation: $0 Community Development: $0 Interest: $0 Repudiate the debt....issue new currency...reset the computers, screw the big international bankers.... Justice: $23,436 General Government: $13,031
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Ok that's cool ...
Why can't these idiot in Washington do that? Well ... maybe because it's a little more complicated ... as they would say. |
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it's easy to cut the budget, and any of them give me a hard time over it, I"d go public on their asses.....
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They are "paid servants" ... unfortunately they are paid more by Big Business and Lobbyist.
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OK. NEW excel files WILL NOT ATTACH.
You have to re-save the excel file in 2003 format (.xls) in order to attach to a post if you are using a newer version of excel. |
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All I have time for ...
National Defense: Revert to Year 2000 levels of spending, withdraw from Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany, etc. and reassign remaining affordable troops from these areas to bases along the Mexican border. Totally Agree Veterans Benefits: Very small cut. Can be achieved through administrative efficiency and lay-offs. Totally Agree Social Security: Cap Benefits at 50% of the current max & means test perhaps? Sure Income Security: Abolish all welfare and replace with "workfare" watch the need for welfare suddenly and mysteriously plummet. $400,000 would be where we are at in this spending of the rate of growth had remained constant after 2008, instead of exploding in 2009 and 2010. I’m willing to try and see what really happens. If someone would have said that 10 years ago, we'd have some results to see. Medicare: Increase to half a Trillion, abolish all other federal healthcare programs and legilsation, assuming 100 million Americans can't get insured for reasons of poverty or illness, you can provide each with $5,000 of help. Abolish Obamacare but re-pass the provisions of it that prevent insurers from cherry picking or charging any one customer more than double another. If someone has a better idea, I’m for it and not from the people who choose to do nothing for decades. Health: Abolish. See above. Cool Education, Social Services, etc.: Abolish Dept. of Education – I disagree … the day we choose to stop investing in our people will be a sad day. If we don’t care who will? International Affairs: Revert to 19th century isolationism as much as possible Who needs it anyway. Sure Science, Space, Technology: Increase here to save elsewhere with medical, scientific, computer advancements & also increase revenue in the long term by providing technological advancements that will lead to economic productivity. Agree Energy: Abolish Dept. of Energy – Disagree, the only what we get out of a hole is stop digging. If we can go to the Moon, we can handle this. The Kennedy's wouldn't think this way Natural Resources/Environment: Mandate a move to cellulosic ethanol over a 10 year period for all passenger vehicles & semis. Abolish the EPA. Ok cool Agriculture: Abolish Dept. Agriculture – Thank God Transportation: Oversee Mainatainance, upkeep, and expansion of interstate highways ONLY, perform NO other duties. I’ve driven from coast to coast and I’ve seen firsthand what happens when you leave it up to the state. Community Development: Abolish – Fine with me, just don’t bitch about who moves next door. Interest: Cannot Cut until National Debt is reduced Yep Justice: Lay-off some DOJ lawyers. Stop paying them to work light work weeks by lawyer standards. Cap pay at median income given the sweet retirement packages and job security, which are a fair Trade-off for lower salary than private sector. Yea sounds good General Government: Small trimming, efficiency. Same |
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C'mon, lets see some more ideas.
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So you've killed off all food and drug safety and testing by dissolving the HHS and the Ag department.
But that won't really matter because you've also eliminated all oversite of the nuclear power industry and the entire control backbone of the aviation industry. Quality work there Will. |
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Originally Posted by 2010 Federal Spending
National Defense: $693,856 new $400,000 Veterans Benefits: $108,384 new $100,000 Social Security: $706,737 no change Income Security: $622,210 new $0 Medicare: $451,636 new $ 200,000 Health: $369,054 new $150,000 Education, Social Services, etc.: $127,710 new $0 International Affairs: $45,195 new $0 Science, Space, Technology: $31,047 new $10,000 Energy: $11,613 new $0 Natural Resources/Environment: 43,662 new $10,000 Agriculture: $21,356 new $0 Transportation: $91,972 new $50,000 Community Development: $23,804 new $0 Interest: $196,194 no change Justice: $53,436 new $35,000 General Government: $23,031 new $14,000 new total spending: $1,871,931 will edit tomorrow with details. |
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