GOP 2012 Budget to Make $4 Trillion-Plus in Cuts Over Next Decade
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Republican chairman who’s writing a 2012 budget says the GOP will propose cutting more than $4 trillion over the next decade.
The head of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan, says President Barack Obama is “punting on the budget and not doing a thing to prevent a debt crisis.”
Ryan tells “Fox News Sunday” that GOP budget-writers are looking at cutting $4 trillion-plus in spending over the next decade. That‘s more than even what the president’s deficit commission recommended.
Ryan is talking about spending caps and long-term belt-tightening for the Medicare and Medicaid health programs. He wants older people who are wealthy to pay more out of pocket for their health care.
The GOP plan for the budget year that begins Oct. 1 is coming out Tuesday.
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Comments (169)
Dannowood
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:27pm@d of g. Lets start with cutting you, useless troll.
Report Post »KL
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:23pmWhy is it before the GOP took over the house, no one blamed the democrats for NOT cutting spending ect. BUT let the gop take over the house and every one thinks they should create jobs and cut spending. IF YOU REALLY want that to happen…..ELECT a republican president and congress and house. NOTHING will change if stupid Americans keep electing democrats and if they dont get rid of the unions!!
Report Post »Steel Awesome
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:23pmI’m sure the spineless GOP will capitulate and settle for $100B in cuts strewn out over 50 years and call it a victory for the working man.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:23pmneeds to be MORE but its a start
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:13pmCommon sense idea. Obama and his communist friends will never let it happen.
Report Post »TOPOFTHEGAME
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:09pmGreat Job, Rep’s Now that Obamadinajad has already started his run for the HOAX & CHAINS……….. When Obama talks about his RECORD… Lets start with his BIRTH RECORD… Then his PASSPORT RECORD… About forgot, his FOREIGN STUDENT RECORD…Last but least, his CONNECTCUT S.S. RECORD…Then hopefully we will see his new FEDERAL LAW RECORD…
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:42pmHey, where are those 12 million emails that Dick Cheney lost during the Valerie Blame affair? Where are Palin’s amails? Oh, wait, they’re coming at the end of May (heh heh heh)
Report Post »pablodez
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:03pmAll this talk about “Next decade” cuts burns me up!! What about this year?! We need some serious spending cuts right now. 61B is pocket lint!!
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:13pmGreat. How much do you want to cut? And where you you cut it?
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:22pm10% ACROSS THE BOARD. EVERYTHING. Got it? Didn’t think so. Too complicated for you.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 4:08pmdawg of gawd
“Great. How much do you want to cut? And where you you cut it?”
_______________________________________________________
Begin with eliminating education department, foreign aid, health and human resources dept, 100 czars, 250,000 bureaucrats, the epa, and several worthless departments. Limit spending to 10% of GDP. As GDP goes up so does government revenues, think of the possibilities, if your puny progressive brain can.
Report Post »swigs
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 8:19pm@dawg
“Great. How much do you want to cut? And where you you cut it?”
Tired line all the left-wing nuts use. Ever heard of a balanced budget? Of course not or the Dems would of had one when they controlled the House.
Maybe if the knew how to add…Oh wait they still don’t know they put an illegal alien in the WH.
Report Post »Thaaaat’s them Dems I reckon….. bunch of jokers.
Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:18am@Blunder Dawg
I want to cut it a minimum of 40%
The first things to go would be anything that benefits you in any way, shape, or form. (Although I would ask for an earmark to have you neutered. We don’t need more junkyard dawgs running around)
After that, it’s easy. Anything that is not specifically spelled out in the constitution for the Feds to cover is gone. Anything that is important enough to be handled by a governmental authority would be left to each individual state.
The states that do things well, will flourish, and the ones that don’t, will be Democrat.
Simple, is it not?
If that did not make sense to you, let me translate: Bark bark bark bark woof, bark bark bark bark bark bark.
May GOD bless you my friend.
Report Post »P4cooler
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:59pmI heard Paul Ryan give the rundown on Sean Hanity show. The liberal Dems and Chris Mathews will be squealing like pigs in a slaughter house. He said the true and total repeal of our nation destroying Obamacare will happen when America has a conservative president and controls the house and senate in 2012. I thought I heard numbers like 6 trillion plus in cuts….but the 4 tril mentioned in this article is a huge cut. Wonder how many agencies we don’t need? FCC EPA Dept of Commerce All full of obama appointed over-regulations strangling America’s growth.
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:58pmCUT NOW.
Report Post »Cut until the outlays are less than the income.
BALANCE IT OR SHUT IT DOWN.
GRANNYMOO
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 8:34pmAmen brother! Get’r done!
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:51pmI have a copy of the proposed GOP budget:
“We propose to cut money things from that budget dealywop to the tune of whatever sounds good on Fox. Of course we have no intention of defining nor defending it.”
Well done! That Paul Ryan, he’s a wizard.
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:48pmLook, doggy-dog…most of us on here know that this mirage of a cut is only smoke and mirrors. What you fail to realize, based on your many progressive posts in the past, is that gov. solving these concerns will not work and does not produce anything. Of course you know that already. You have a different agenda. Fail!!!!
Report Post »sleazyhippo
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:38pmHaa Haaa – Well done D.o.G.
Report Post »Richard Compton
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:49pmGreat, but why wait? We need to do it now not over a decade, stop all foreign aid now, get out of the UN now, scale back our financing of NATO by 75%.. Why keep on pushing back the date we need to do it now not later! Republicans and Democrates alike are to blame, it‘s not one or the other it’s both. There’s plenty of blame to go around so stop the petty finger pointing and do something now! The American people are fed up with the bickering and dirty tricks etc. If those bozo‘s in Washington don’t stop playing politics and do something this country is finished. The American people need to stand up and tell Washington in no uncertian terms that we’ve had it! We will not stand by anylonger and listen to the BS coming out of Washington, if they won‘t do something we will at the voting booth and we’ll vote them out. haven’t people figured out by now the only thing that people in Washington are concerned about is getting re-elected! There should never have been a career politician, it‘s not a career it’s a privilage to serve, not a means to an end of a real working career. Too many lawyers, too many career polititians, too much outside interests, and special interests!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:22pmJust getting rid of the redundancy in the Federal State Local government would do a lot … Why do we need a Dept of Education .. that should be local .. how many agencies are in charge of farms? This is so doable .. what’s the hold up? Oh I know kick backs and payoffs.
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 6:01pm@Richard: Can the populace get a referendum put on the ballot to let the people decide the annual salaries of our representatives as well as their retirement and health benefits? Think if we can take the offices back to “service” rather than “career” we might get only loyal and serious folks as our Senators, Representatives and Presidents.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:44pmIf Boehner cannot stand the heat on a mini cut, how will he ever back this monster cut, which we need, or handle the reforms that we need in SSDI, Medicare/Medicaid, or sad to say, defense spending.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:41pmBoehner and the other RINO’s in the Republican party need to go!
Many of us have been fighting these old R’s since before they tried to give amnesty to illegals and NumbersUSA and other organizations started .. before the TEA Party .. that just solidified those who love America more than greed and power.
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:42pmWait a minute…4 trillion over a decade?….Not enough.
Try 500 Billion spending cut every year…
Report Post »…and…Balance the budget every year!
dawg of gawd
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:18pm$500 billion. Interesting number. That‘s what Obama’s healthcare reform in subsidies to the insurance companies. But you poseurs didn’t take kindly to that, now did you?
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 5:56pm@AmeriCat: It amazes me why all democrats seem to think a one-plan-fits-all is the do all-be all solution to every problem. They never consider that a less populated southern state does not have the same problems that a densely populated northern state has, as an example. We are all different in more ways than one and each state’s needs are different. Gads, just get the federal government out of our personal and state business. I would like to see a return to the original Constitution and start building from there. Hindsight is far better than foresight in this instance.
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:00am@DAWG OF GAY
You’re a liar and so is BO. I work for one of these demonized insurance companies. There are/were no subsidies. We are non-profit, we take everyone with no pre-existing conditions; always have. We were never allowed to drop except for non-payment. The only thing that denied coverage was democrat governmental regulation across state lines. If that didn’t exist everyone in the entire country could have gotten insurance AT LEAST through just the company for which I work.
If you want to keep going on this just open up again but this time with coherent sentence. You lie and so does your dictator. You aren’t going to spew your bs, unanswered around me.
Health insurance is a PRIVATE idea. It was never a right and never will be. It is a product that someone created and people choose to buy it.
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:41pmRight on!
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:37pmCut spending 4 Trillion over a decade…YES!…for starters!
Now THAT’s more like it, thanks to Rep. Paul Ryan.
Report Post »Boehner had better sit down and listen to We The People!
markamerica
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:36pm$4 trillion over a decade? That’s about 20% of the work they need to do. They need to cut $20 trillion in that period.
The $4trillion number will never be realized. This is more smoke and mirrors garbage. Let’s get real: We need to cut $1.7 Trillion THIS YEAR.
$4Trillion over a decade doesn’t do squat, and you can bet most of the cuts are in the ‘out years’, meaning they’ll never really happen.
Mark
Report Post »PITMASTER
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:34pmWant to trim government? Go back to the Gold Standard. That’s when we started deficit spending. Four trillion sounds nice, our nation‘s cancer is at Stage 4 and we’re going to have to gut Washington like a fish if we hope to survive. We HAVE to get back to being a nation of producers and slap big-time tariffs on crap imported into this country. Severely limit collective bargaining so we can produce items like cars, steel, TV’s and on and on, on a competitive footing. Increase retirement to 75 for SS, Medicare and Medicaid. End unemployment on the federal level. Food Stamps should require you have a job so that the stamps bridge the gap, not fill the whole picture.
Report Post »This kind of CHANGE will give the American people real HOPE for the future. Because as things stand now, we don’t have a very pretty outcome.
kramh
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:33pmThis is not enough cuts. We need to balance the budget each year now and cut 500 billion more to start to pay off the 15 trillion debt now over a 30 year time span. If the economy grows we can pay down the debt faster and spend a little more. EVERYONE needs to take a haircut and I mean everyone, every generation if this country is to prosper over time again.
Report Post »JJCon
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:31pmTry harder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »JJCon
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 4:30pmI’m going to walk back what I said earlier until the plan if officially revealed. Paul Ryan has been running a media blitz preparing this budget’s official release. He hasn’t said any specifics, in fact, he specifically stated that he wasn’t giving specifics yet. AP, the Blaze, and myself are jumping the gun with this report.
Earlier last week on Hannity, he stated that the last budget he presented was for $4.8T over 10 years and that it is his goal to cut more than that in the budget. He also stated that he wants the budget to be below the 2008 spending levels; 2008 spending levels were about $2.9T, that would make the cuts between $900B and $1T from this year.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:26pmSeriously, you see things like Bank of America getting $1.9B refund and you want to balance the budget on programs like Meals on Wheels and HeadStart?? (btw, I expect the answer to be “yes.” :)
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:00amIn the words of Ann Murray:
“Spread your tiny wings and fly away”
Report Post »Matrix22
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:26pmFinally, a serious move in the right direction. It doesn’t solve the problem completely, but at least it will slow the hemorrhaging a little. What we need to do is radically reduce corp taxes to make us more competitive, and start getting companies to place their business in America vs. running as far away as possible. This problem will not be solved by raising taxes on anyone. It will only be solved when everyone is working, everyone is paying their fair share, and everyone is accountable for their actions. Stop punishing success and start promoting true capitalism and innovation.
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 4:02pmYou are delusional. There is a hidden agenda going on here. We just don’t see it yet, but I will just bet you, Glenn will find out. It all sounds good on the news, but watch, it will never budge the economy in a good direction. It will make it worse.
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:39pmDon’t know about this move making it worse Demogirl…but it will sure lull some people to sleep again. It’s not enough cut, and it’s also late. Cutting needs to happen NOW. Ohbummercare needs to go away NOW. Borders need to be sealed NOW. There is no more time. 2012 seems too far away.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:19pmOuch.
Report Post »Barry Obama tells them they gotta do it now.
So, the Republicans do it “now.”
Same old same old. The Demotards will cry this that or the other to stall and it’s the Republicans fault.
Shame on Nevada for putting Harry Reid in power AGAIN in 2010.
tierrah
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 5:37pmNo, TelepromoterNChief, shame on the democrats for stealing the Nevada vote, i.e., voter fraud!!!! I want to go to Washington and walk into the Senate and House to punch everyone of them in the mouth!!!
Report Post »Divineliberty
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:17pmO great we will get back to the debt we had before the Obama mistake…we are screwed.
Report Post »mamawalker
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:29pmSad to agree but you are so correct! We have walked the plank and have no where to go…well…but down!
Report Post »maryslittlelamb
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:29pmIt’s a beginning.
Report Post »Amma K
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:18pmThis should be required reading for every person in American…especially our congress! Great description of the interest rates we are incurring.
http://governmentgonewild.org/brothercanyouspareatrillion
Check out this video. Ignore the registration to see the video, just click on the video.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:16pm4 Trillion over a decade … and Obama will be spouting off that they are “starving children” .. (this btw from the party that advocates killing children ie abortion) We are 14+ trillion in debt …time to get serious … balanced budget amendment .. can’t spend more than you take in … pay off the debt!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:52pmExactly cant spend more than you take in & also we have to stop sending our $$$$$$$$$ outside when we can get everything from here & keep the $$$$$$$$$$$$$ here .
Report Post »S G Applebee
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:31pmWe need a WASTE Czar: 4 minute video.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMSXwxLeCu4
democratgirl
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:56pmCatB:
Report Post »Hooray. Someone FINALLY said it RIGHT. The Tea Party does know who our enemies are and they are sometime the REPUBLICANS, who feel that if they COMPROMISE, everything will be kumbaya. THERE SHOULD BE NO COMPROMISE with the left AT ALL. Start slashing every single thing the Democrats passed and more. THE TEA PARTY IS SO AWESOME. Thank you CatB!
Devil Dog 7175
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 7:03pmNot there yet but its a start.
Report Post »swigs
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 8:09pm@CatB
“…Obama will be spouting off that they are “starving children…”
That’s how Progressive Marxists Socialist Left-wing nanny-state hypocrites roll.
The only thing before them is expanding the debt agenda. Debt driven economy means more debt.
According to them it would be suicidal if we had to rely on the abundance God provides.
Report Post »For them God is dead and we need funny money to survive.
Tea Party Conservatism
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:12pmProgressive Socialist Democratic Mindset:
Threatening Language = United States Constitution
Threatening Symbol = United States Flag
Gun Restrictions = all your firearms, none of ours
De Facto Motto:
“From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.”
Carl Marx.
20th Century Heroes:
Only the bloodiest of tyrants each similarly extolling the ‘progressive socialist democratic’ political philosophy of “do as you’re told” and cumulatively responsible for nearly 100 million deaths! [1.]
Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.”
Joseph Stalin.
“The Communist party must control the guns.”
Mao Zedong.
“What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.”
Adolf Hitler
Conservatives don‘t believe ’progressive socialist democrats’ will actually behave like fascist Adolf Hitler. Conservatives believe ‘progressive socialist democrats’ given a chance, will act like their communist heroes Stalin and Mao, who cumulatively murdered far more people politically opposed to them than Hitler ever did.
“In matters of power let no more be heard of the confidence in man but bind them down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.” Thomas Jefferson
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
Why Obama is ineligible – regardless of his birthplace
By Leo C. Donofrio, Esq.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134881
1. Necrometrics, Matthew White, Oct. 2010. http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm
Report Post »Cymry
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:23pm…….and then Jesus returns shortly thereafter. :)
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:27pm@joe conservative,
“This is the number one issue to show how the GOP is different than the liberals.”
The GOP still thinks that the Left means well, which is why they‘re willing to attempt to make deals with America’s enemies.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:34pmok, so our national debt is projected to increase by over $9 trillion AT LEAST over the next decade, and their big plan is to only spend us into $5 Trillion more debt??? Thanks for coming up with a plan to kill us more slowly! We’re going to pay more than $5 Trillion in interest payments alone.
Firstly , this will never get done at a $4 Tril clip – there will be no way Senate or the POTUS would sign off on it. This is a diversionary tactic, just to make their constituents happy with big numbers that will never come true. Secondly, this gives them cover to negotiate this week on the 2011 budget, and say ” Well, we had to give in to Dems this time,, but NEXT time, we’re gonna fight! Look at our shiny new plan for next year!” What a joke.
Balanced Budget Amendment NOW. The Republican plan is STILL going to spend far more than the government takes in, and continue to dig us deeper into debt. Not good enough.
Sheepdog911
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:35pmRyan will be declared a radical, bent on destroying the “democratic” way of life in America. Let’s hope he and the rest of our TEA Partierrs can rally the rest of the Republicans to our cause. If this is what dems consider radical – sign me up, I’m already a TEA Party Plankowner.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:37pm400 billion a year is too little; a good start, but too little.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:57pmit’s not enough….$400 Billion in cuts per year means WE ARE STILL borrowing $1.2 Trillion a year…if you can’t run this country on $2 Trillion a year, then the ENTIRE Gov. needs to GO HOME , pick up a shovel and find out what $10.00 per hour will buy…..It‘s the CITIZEN’S BACKS they are BREAKING not THIERS……
Report Post »Dannowood
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:03pmExcellent post. I just saw conservatisms future. 1/3 of all mankind. If you haven’t done so yet find God and ask Jesus into your life
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:07pmPeople need to really listen to and run the numbers from what Ryan is proposing. I believe he has the best interests of this nation in mind and really think he has the smarts to get it done. The problem will lie with the progressives and the progressive light GOP. The so-called establishment GOP needs to get on board and quit with the elitist mentality.
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:13pm“Proposed” means it’s negotiable. Ryan gives me some hope, but I think he doesn’t quite get it yet either.
WE CAN NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TRAITORS.
Close borders, cut budget in half, prosecute medicare/medicaid fraud, prosecute all abuses of entitlements, 25% tariff on Chinese all goods, cut of foreign aid, drill on our own soil, restart existing drilling operations.
WE CAN NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TRAITORS.
Report Post »S G Applebee
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:30pmWhat we REALLY need is a WASTE Czar. This video is only 4 minutes long.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMSXwxLeCu4
CatB
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:38pm@ A DOCTORS
“The GOP still thinks that the Left means well, which is why they‘re willing to attempt to make deals with America’s enemies.”
And that is one of the BIG differences between the GOP and the TEA Party people .. we know the enemy and until the GOP wakes up they are on thin ice also!
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:54pmToo much information for the clowns on this board. Most of these people ho-hum at anything that does not directly affect them, UNTIL IT DOES AFFECT THEM. They all figure SOMEONE ELSE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE PROBLEM. They don’t realize yet that UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL and we ARE FALLING.
This is just NOT enough slashing to get our economy back on track. When they say they are going to cut personal taxes, THEN I WILL GET EXCITED……it’s all political rhetoric and posturing.
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 4:00pmWe need the actual facts on the cuts. These snakes (all politicians) will claim huge cuts, but in reality they are cutting PROPOSED spending increases and NOT current expenses.
It would be like me stating I’m going to cut my expenses next year by $35,000.00 by not buying the brand new 4X4 I had planned on buying. In reality my actual expenses remained the same and nothing was cut.
Democrats and Republicans…can’t trust a damn one of them.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 4:01pmRogue;
I appreciate your position, however; I learned only a few days ago, a balanced budget amendment does not do the trick. Consider that we have a (actually I’m not sure of the exact number – but follow the logic) 4 trillion gross domestic product, the government taxes everyone 100% and spends 4 trillion – balanced budget – not a good situation. The answer really lies in linking spending to GDP say 10% (eventually). This approach actually encourages government to get out of the way, and let the free market grow – increasing revenues – but limiting the amount they can spend.
Report Post »Dan
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 4:05pmWell we don’t have to look back thousands or even hundreds of years to see how dangerous this present day situation is, we can look back to Bolshevik Russia, we can see the takeover by the Bolsheviks, talking about the peoples revolution, talking about the positive change, and Lenin came in and then Stalin, the fact is, is that over 40 million Russians between 1925 and 1940, good Russians, people who were Christians, people who had, who had their own businesses, people who were educated, they were exterminated because they had their own business, because they were educated, because they believed, believed in God’s law.
We can look over at Germany. Germany was in a very very terrible economic situation, and this very charismatic leader called Adolf Hitler comes in, he rebuilds roads very well and he promises a better life for the people, and within 10 years you see a completely nationalized, centralized, dictatorial situation where millions and millions of people were exterminated.
We can go to Maoist China. Mao Tse-tung came in, he promised change, he promised a better life, and within 5 years, 60 million Chinese were exterminated.
Let us not forget Castro, Idi Amin, Pol Pot and Kim Jong-il
This isn’t taught in schools these days and it wasn’t that long ago and I pray to God that this will not happen in the United States and the way it won’t happen is if you and your friends and all of us together take action to say no. This country is too precious, it’s too wonderful, it’s too good of a place to lie down as a victim and give up.
American is beholden to the Financial Institutions. The Federal Reserve should be done away with. The Federal Reserve Bank is no more federal than Federal Express.
Stop spending, get rid of entitlement programs so “We The People” can stand on our own.
Dan
Report Post »Dan
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 4:19pmThomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
“I believe that banking Institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
Dan
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 4:24pmI AM ANGRY AND TIRED OF THE GOP BOOSTING OF WHAT THEY PLAN TO DO
They will not even keep the promise they made to us last year for the November election. They do not have any intention of reducing any spending and will never try to repeal Obama Care. We are doomed unless we force the end of the Federal System of Government. Only Palin can end this and Democrats know it which is why they hate here and fear the TEA.
Report Post »notreally
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 4:28pmGreat post.
From the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Which is why our Founders gave us the Second Amendment.
See you at this summer’s Tea Parties.
BE THERE!
Report Post »docvet
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 6:05pmRelax, folks. The Dems will get the RINO’s to negotiate it down to $4 million.
Report Post »G.W. Dobbs
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 6:12pmAblish the Federal Reserve as provided in the 1913 Bill which was stuck in by the Progressives.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 6:32pmCutting 400 billion a year will still leave us with 1.2 Trillion in deficits per year.
Report Post »Ubermoose
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 6:36pmA very good Start.
Report Post »This is the level of cutting I was voting for last November.
Not yet enough, but certainly on the right track.
sleazyhippo
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 7:17pmHey- Conser! Your post is very interesting, it’s great there are so many Quotes that are useful in your messages.That’s why a lot of us read bibles so closely whenever a question comes up.
Report Post »There is a solution to the economic pressure we face as a country.
What we need to do is pay our bills. We are not “broke,“ the country has plenty of cash and this ”broke” word is just a scary talking point that has recently become popular. As a clear eyed patriot I refuse to consider America “broke” – we have power and control over most of the material wealth that exists and always will.
We are going to make 3 Billion dollars in 2011 and 2012 helping Japan clean up their reactors. Home Depot estimates they will make 400 millon dollars in construction supplies and Walmart is planning to set up 3 separate Japanese response centers in May 2011.
restorehope
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 7:42pmUntil the Repubs have control of both Congress and the White House, these are just wishes. It doesn’t hurt to put them out for Americans to see, but in reality, for now they just don’t have the power to enforce this budget. Hate to see them negotiate one iota with the Dems, since it is the Dems that got us into this mess with their huge spending the last two years. You should never negotiate from a point of weakness. As they said on The Price is Right: COME ON DOWN, 2012!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 7:43pmYes, the RINOS are going to actually cut that much, the libs and Commies on the left are going to let them do it…..and monkeys will begin flying out of my butt shortly thereafter…..come on guys, at least try to makeup lies I might actually believe….now its just getting sad….
Report Post »ReallyAUnionGuy
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Report Post »Thanks, and see ya at TAX day rally.
waggie
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 8:13pmWe need a 4 tillion cut RIGHT NOW, not in 10 years!
Report Post »Czar Casm
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 8:13pm@ sleazyhippo
Do you believe the federal government is spending responsibly? That there‘s no waste and the tax payer’s just aren’t paying enough?
I’ll try that. I’ll spend way over my means and just blame my employer for not keeping up with my spending through pay raises.
I agree with you that we need to pay our bills, but we also need to quit the irresponsible spending that got us in this hugh deficit. Public and private sector.
Report Post »waggie
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 8:14pmFirst cut the Dept. of Education, then cut the FHA. I could cut 4 Trillion in one swipe!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:02pmTo all “moderate” or “conservative” Democrats and “liberal GOP”:
The Progressives, and that includes Democrats and Republicans alike, are trying to overthrow this government by spending us into bankruptcy. The national debt is unsustainable. Period.
The sooner the American people realize this and understand it, the better. I do not know why this Congress has not rescinded all discretionary spending, foreign aid and grants (Brazil’s oil comes to mind), and FREEZE any and all unspent Stimulus I and II funds. They are playing a con game with the bailout paybacks. The Fed needs to be audited. And, Obama needs to be INVESTIGATED to determine if he is serving a VOID presidency or to impeach him — YESTERDAY!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:03pmRand Paul has more fiscal sense in his little toe than ALL of Obama and Obama’s “advisors” combined.
Report Post »Igno Ramus
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:08pmDoctor—You are sooo right. The GOP seems to not have a damn clue most of the time.
EVERYBODY——Vote out ALL incumbants–Every election–Always. Water the Tree of Liberty with their political blood and restore political sanity to ourselves.
Report Post »Strictlybusiness
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:21am$4 Trillion, This woud be a pretty good start…. BUT MORE HAS TO BE DONE…..TURN BACK THE CLOCK TO 1938, NOW YOUR TALKING. Those were the days ! !
Report Post »DieBambi
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:19amCUT 1.6 trillion over the next year, and it would be even better. NO DEFICIT SPENDING NOW!
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:17amSuggestion: Stop Calling it a Deficit, Call it what it is OVER SPENDING. I ask you what will hit home
Report Post »with the average American. 1.65 Trillion Deficit OR 1.65 Trillion in Over Spending.
sleazyhippo
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:35pmIts about time! We should have the budget go back to pre-911 and eliminate a Trillion in Terrorism/Fear programs and all active Wars, and cut the Border Patrol back to 2000 levels. It would also be a good idea to pay back what we spent in Afghanistan and Iraq, by taking their oil and precious metals. Sadly we will never get our dead and wounded back again.
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:45pmthanks for the link
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