Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) will soon introduce legislation that puts just about all other spending cut plans proposed by Republicans this Congress to shame.
The bill, passed my way by a source, calls for $500 billion in specific spending cuts during Fiscal Year 2011 -- which comes to a close at the end of September, just eight months from now.
Like the House's Republican Study Committee before him, Paul targets projects and agencies dear to liberals. It defunds completely the Affordable Housing Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
But it goes much farther than that.
It calls for rescinding all funds to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (that's the agency that offers protection from unsafe cribs and lead paint). It dramatically reduces spending to nearly every government agency. It rescinds most of the Department of Energy's funds and transfers the remaining dollars and accounts to the Department of Defense.
Paul would reduce Health and Human Services funding by over $26.5 billion, including over $5.8 billion in reductions for the National Institute of Health. He'd slash defense spending by over $47 billion, and defund all Department of Education programs immediately, while capping Pell grants at just over $16.2 billion. He does not, however, propose to touch Social Security between now and the end of the fiscal year.
So he'd basically trash every single federal agency and completely defund the Department of Education, knock nearly a billion off of NOAA, cut military pay by $14 billion, cut the NIH by nearly six billion, completely defund Housing and Urban Development (which I guess would put a couple million poor people out on the street), defund the Bureau of Indian Affairs (yeah, sorry about your reservations guys, good luck with that, you're on your own), slash $9 billion from the Justice Department, cut $20 billion from the State Department, cut $42 billion from Transportation (screw you, socialist roads!), cut nearly $5 billion each from NASA and the NSF, and a host of other cuts and repeals.
By all means, I want to hear what other Republicans think of this and if they agree with Rand here telling schools, soldiers, the working poor, Native Americans, people who got screwed by Foreclosuregate and scientists to go screw themselves with a rusty broadsword.
Parade this $500 billion cut plan around, Rand. I want this attached to your Senate career for the duration. Number of co-sponsors I see for this bill? Zero.
But hey Kentucky, you voted for him. Well, you did, I didn't.
You liberals haven't said you would cut anything but defense spending. Not only that, liberals would add a greater amount to the spending than the what would be cut from defense, thus increasing the budget and the debt.
ReplyDeleteIn the SOTU, Obama showed he has no interest in cutting any spending; he makes it a point to say he will increase it in his pet projects.
Typical liberal hypocrisy. Demand something you won't demand of yourselves, then trash it.
what do the comments threads on think progress, the washington monthly, the anonymous liberal, liberal values, firedog lake, skippy the bush kangaroo, the impolitic, balloon juice and obsidian wings all have in common? they've all been soiled by the idiocy of steveAR.
ReplyDeletewhen you accentuate one of your shit-headed posts by talking about having a job or running a business, you're a big fat fucking liar, steveAR.
you spend your entire day trolling liberal blogs. do you live at home with your folks or do they have internet access at the local mental health facility where you're currently under observation?
you are the saddest excuse for a human being i have yet come across in my 'net travels. get a fucking life already. jeez.
Poor baby. You liberal assholes say something stupid like Zandar did in this post and you demand people believe that you have a clue. Then you whine like a spoiled child when someone dares to question your bullshit. You can't argue on substance because you have no substance. None. Zero. You're pathetic.
ReplyDeleteGo fuck yourself. I'm sure you've done so before.
LOSER-LIAR.
ReplyDeleteall day. trolling liberal blogs. you have no life except this. you are pathetic. turn it around and project all you want. confronting and insulting liberals is all you have to do, all day. you really and truly are a pathetic excuse for a human being.