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GOP Sen. Paul Calls for Spending Cuts to Every ‘Major’ Bill

GOP Sen-elect Rand Paul (KY) isn’t backing down from the fiscally conservative platform that got him elected. On Monday, he called for spending cuts to be attached to every major bill, a move meant to chip away at the nation’s ballooning deficit.

“I think that every piece of major legislation that goes forward from now on needs to have attached to it spending cuts,” Paul said during a podcast with conservative blogger Ben Domenech. If Congress is serious about corralling runaway spending and deficits, “We have to be serious and introduce spending cuts.”

Paul vowed to seek cuts at every corner during his time in the Senate: “That’s one thing that I will do when I am there, is introduce it at every opportunity and we will have votes on it.”

The Kentucky politician has been outspoken about his dedication to spending cuts. He praised his fellow Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for leading the charge against the omnibus spending bill.

“I’m encouraged by the stand on the omnibus bill and I think that showed a united Republican front, essentially,” he said. He also said he’s not interested in parading his name on major pieces of legislation, but rather wants to fulfill the job his constituents sent him to do — mainly cutting spending and shrinking government.

“I want to be part of the reform movement that the Tea Party is on a national stage. I’m not there and interested in passing one bill that has my name on it,” he said. “I’m there and interested because I think government is broken and really needs serious reform.”

(H/T: The Hill)

Comments (147)

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  • @leftfighter
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:09am

    Every “major” bill??

    How about every minor bill, too?

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  • LukeAppling
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:09am

    Reduce all funding by 10% at once, reduce all government employees by 25% at once, end all union contracts under the bankruptcy rules or simply decertify them public employees have no business negotiating with the taxpayers, Start Term Limits for all this session and end all pensions for government employees, do not talk with any lobbyists or ex-government employees for 10 years after they have left office and do not talk with any of their family members under the same 10 year rule.
    Fire Charley Rangel and Maxine Waters to set a good example of how to deal with corruption then go after Chris Dodd‘s pensions and Barney Frank’s relations with mortgage lenders.

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  • spreadcommonsensenot pc
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:04am

    I wonder if muslim (d)Minn. keith ellison takes any ”PORK BARREL” money? WHAT? cant a guy just wonder?

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  • JamesR
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:58am

    You GO Rand Paul. We are with you all the way. For the sake of America, make it happen.

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  • evangelicalChristian
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:55am

    No serious attempt at fiscal responsibility and spending reform can happen without a 20% cut in pay for every single federal employee. There are 2,000,000 federal employees at an average salary plus benefits of $135,000. That alone costs us $270,000,000,000. A 20% cut would save us $54,000,000,000. Force them to sacrifice and live on only $110,000 a year. Small business has already done that if they hope to stay in business. Where is the congressional voice with enough guts to propose that?

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    • cykonas
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:38am

      Good start Evangelical. Here is a proposed second step. Reform Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid/SCHIP. In the name of disclosure, these are GB’s ideas and stats. I’m only passing them on because after reading them and going on line to review the last Federal Budget I have come to the conclusion that he is dead bang on it. If that makes me a robot, or whatever other name you might care to call me, then so be it. I pass these on not from a desire to further anyones agenda. I pass them on because I think it’s the fastest, maybe the only, way to restore fiscal sanity to our Republic. These are 2010 budget numbers for spending:
      Social Security: $721.5B
      Medicare: $457.2B
      Medicaid/SCHIP: $284.5B
      (Stats From Broke pg.147)

      These represents better than 55% of the total budgeted expenditures in the current Federal budget, and they are all accelerating with each passing year. And there is a lot more to it, all of which is explained in the book. Bottom line: there is no way to have a SERIOUS discussion on Federal fiscal reform unless and until these sacred cows are fully “on the table”. Any discussion of Federal fiscal reform that does not include these programs is nothing more than a smoke screen. Let’s not buy anymore right hand/left hand garbage from these chumps.

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  • cykonas
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:51am

    I salute Sen. Paul for having the courage to speak up, as I have saluted his father for a number of years. Ron Paul has had the courage to stand tall over the years. Even when it cost him in the form of committee assignments and other “penalties” at the hands of the GOP establishment. Here’s hoping his son is equally brave.

    The Paul‘s are RINO’s, but in a very good way. They are not GOP establishment automotons. The recent (35 year) record of the GOP is abysmal. If you look at it with an unbiased eye it’s not essentially any better than the party most villified here in these posts. Hopefully the Paul’s are not only able to stand tall, but they are able to recruit others (Bachmann, Chaffitz, Coburn) and effect REAL change in the GOP so that the American electorate can have something we have NEVER had in my lifetime. A clear and honest choice at the polls. I’m kind of tired of this poop is better than that turd as my choice range. How about you?

    If they can’t change the GOP then maybe they can get the campaign finance laws and ballot access laws changed so that other parties can have a fair chance in this country. Then they could either join another party or make their own. God would I love to see that because I believe the GOP is too far into the pit to pull themselves out. I have too many scars and bad memories to ever trust those bas&*^%s as a group again.

    We had Adamses, father and son, both President. Could we dream of the Pauls, father and son, one President and one VP? Oops, time for my meds…..

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  • DeVain
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:48am

    I’m so happy I voted for him! :D

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  • danrighty
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:45am

    Lets defund the FCC, EPA, and the department of the interior, DOE, and mao oboma care. Then lets look at all the other departments that have been around for years and probably have zero funtionality any more and do away with them. Cut all funding for everything else by 25% except for the military.

    People with guns are citizens.
    People without guns are subjects.

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    • KwB-Texas
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:52pm

      I could not agree more! Make every single department in the federal government cut 25% out of its budget – starting with the personnel.
      Eliminate all the departments that are unnecessary like the FCC, EPA, Education, Energy, Amtrac, etc.
      Then, institute term limits and eliminate all retirement for Congress – including the Congress people who are retired at this time and make Congress pay into Social Security.

      This would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the federal budget and we the people would be the better for these departments being eliminated.

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  • Gringo
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:30am

    NPR first ,EPA next ,Dept of the Interior next and then all FOREIGN AID. Close all overseas military bases post troops on our borders.

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  • right-wing-waco
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:28am

    De-fund the alphabet soups.

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  • SlimnRanger
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:28am

    Talk is cheap in Washington and as bad as we want these new guys to do what they said they will do remains to be seen and as bad as we want and need the GOP to get spending under control and get this nation back on the right track it will be an uphill battle all the way,this will not be an easy task,corruption has been going on far to long,not only do these new ones need our support but also our prayers,they will need to grow thick skin real quick in order to get the right thing done

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  • mike_trivisonno
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:26am

    Wrong. Spending cuts will do nothing.

    Legislation needs to be passed that eliminates many of the departments that have sucked the life and soul of this Republic for far too long.

    Outlaw the following:
    Department Health
    Department of Housing and Urban Development
    Department of the Interior
    Department of Education
    Department of Social Services
    Department of Commerce
    The FCC
    the FDA
    ICE
    IRS
    Federal Reserve

    The list is freaking endless.

    None of these are Constitutional and need to be dismantled.

    A tax on your income is the root of all evil.

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    • bubba0250
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:20am

      Your list is a good start we also need a Balanced Budget Amendment, TERM LIMITS, a Sunset review of all programs, commissions, CZARS, a return to a strict reading of the Constitution especially article 1 section 8

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    • TheBMT
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:00pm

      AND you want to do this with a Democratic Senate and a Democratic President? Id say cuts are a major step in progress in reducing government. Give us two more years and we will be able to achieve “some” of those things. Changing the perception of what the role of govt should be takes some time. But I think we are on that road already, just don’t know how far down the road we as a country are.

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  • NEAF
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:23am

    10% cut across the board is a good start.

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  • Anne Marie Pogo
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:17am

    The only way to get the deficit under control is to cut the budget ACROSS THE BOARD by a fixed percentage…say 10%. Otherwise, the bickering to exclude this program or that program from cuts, will go on.

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  • taskmaster78
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:13am

    I’ll repeat myself, we should have the funding which is currently in the hundreds of millions of dollars in grants cut off. This money is going to the ACLU, just as bad as NPR and next go after the Education department.

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  • Hondaman
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:05am

    I hope it’s the case, but I want to see him 6 months from now. It seems the “regime” has it‘s ways of squelching people that want to do what’s right.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 7:59am

    It’s a nice start. Let’s see how far he gets with it.

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  • truth4at
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 7:42am

    Good!!! Now on to the tax problem

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  • mjzkwz
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 7:41am

    I believe there should be a moratorium on all new spending and cuts on existing spending. At a time when the majority of American citizens have to “tighten their belts” our govt. goes blithely along spending what is not theirs, successfully moving us to the brink of bankruptcy and fiscal disaster. Congress’ job is NOT to spend money but to protect and defend the Constitution of the US. They are not there to propose new legislation as their main jobs. I would also like to see 10% cuts across the board in federal budgets, to include federal pay and benefits to bring them more in line with the average American’s wage. No more free limos, plane travel or supposed “fact-finding trips, cheap gourmet lunches, hairdressers/barbers, etc. At the very least, these services should be paid for at a rate commensurate with the going rates of the private sector. I would like to see unused congressional office budgets returned to the treasury and used toward our immense national debt – this means no year-end bonuses being given to already overpaid employees. When these people can end up retiring with compensation that eventually surpasses their “working” wage something is seriously wrong! Much could be cut from all these budgets. BITE THE BULLET, LIKE THE REST OF US! – before it’s too late!

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    • fanncour
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:03am

      I agree with you totally, I also think they should pay back all the social security money they have taken over the years , then we wouldn’t have such a problem paying our seniors their benefits. We need to put time limits on their terms in office.also a pay freeze on their compensation while in office. Their pay should be more in line with the American people.

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  • VA-Ump
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 7:39am

    You Go Rand… !! Attach cuts on every single bill and “progressively nudge” these drunken sailors back to where we were before Wilson and Roosevelt. The country will be behind you!!!!

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    • IVillageIdiot
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:52am

      Hey, hey, hey…. watch it…

      You’re going to give drunken sailors a bad name….
      associating them with these guys…. they don’t deserve that?!?!?

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  • 1911a1
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 7:32am

    Right On Rand Paul !

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  • joeliberty
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 7:32am

    Rand Paul will probably live in the foot steps of his father Ron Paul. All the neocons will oppose him every step of the way! He needs to be bold…..Mitch McConnell is a scum-sucking neocon that needs to go in next senate race in that state!

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    • TheBMT
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 11:53am

      yea, many of his supporters were worried when he started meeting McConnell, Jeb Bush, Bill Kristol, etc. But from what I have read, he has stuck to his principles even when surrounded by the likes of neo-cons.

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  • Save the USA
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 7:31am

    Senator Elect Paul …. Thank you.

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  • IVillageIdiot
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 7:29am

    This is good… but what is really REQUIRED… is a method of keeping spending at bay. They have caps already mandated by law, but do they adhere to them? NOOOOOOOOoooooooo………. they vote to bypass the cap and then apparently it’s ok.

    We need a way to ENFORCE, in Congress, not JUST less spending, but limited to ONLY those things constitutionally authorized.

    That is the real problem….

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    • IVillageIdiot
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:59am

      For example, Congress voted for a “one time only” amnesty of about 2.1 million illegal residents of the US in 1986. The IRCA Act attempted several things, one of which was a “blanket amnesty” provision for certain classifications of law breakers.

      In so far as I know, not necessarily true for the 111th Congress of course, but for the rest, they have no Constitutional power to pardon or to otherwise mitigate violations of the law, violate the provisions of the laws themselves. Only the President has that power.

      Yet, they get away with it all the time. No one does anything.

      Regan should never have signed IRCA, it was a mistake, at a minimum the Congress had no authority to amnesty ANYONE… only POTUS has that power. The Congress can’t say, “we know X is the law, from this moment forward X is forgiven up to this point, but all who violate X thereafter will be held accountable for the violation of X”….

      That is a pardon, not a change applicable to X. They DON’T HAVE THAT POWER….

      Same thing here….
      They are engaging in the pursuit of powers for which they have no legal basis under the Constitution. In the same way “Freedom of Speech” is NOT unlimited, neither is the power of Congress.

      The solution hitherto has been to “vote them out” or push for “term limits”…. Neither works for the bad guys, it only works on the good ones that wish to honor the Constitution… then we let the good ones leave applauding their values and encouraging the remainder to follow their example!??!?? HELLO?????

      You just encouraged and congratulated a good one to go, leaving a vacancy for a new bad guy to fill in the void?!?!? S-T-U-P-I-D……. If that practice is continually and faithful pursued, what do you end up with? The 111th Congress, full of power-mad Socialist and criminals who could give rip about the Constitution!

      DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING??!?!!?!? ARE YOU SURE?

      Cause this…. is not a game….

      What is needed is a way OTHER than Congress to enjoin lawsuits ad nauseam, ad infinitum to slow the buggers down and to challenge them from outside of Washington DC (until we can get his name back to the place of Honor in which it should reside).

      We need an organization that is not compromised by vote buying or by politicking. We need a Legal Arm.

      It’s not going to be enough to engage in elections every few years as those can be rigged by the unions which count the votes, and within two years we can be sold out over and over again, we need to engage in the courts!

      WE NEED AN ARMY OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYERS PITTED AGAINST THE TYRANNY OF IGNORANCE AND BELLIGERENCE TO THE USCON!

      We need a large body of lawyers employed to blast and pick away are EVERYTHING they are doing that is not within the Constitution, regardless of the party in power.

      Voting is a defensive act, we need to attack!

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:45am

      The method to keep spending at bay is to require all past, present and future legislation to be reviewed for full Constitutional compliance. They would not be allowed to toss off “interstate commerce” and no other “blanket” exceptions would be allowed to be invented out of whole cloth either.

      Do a 3 year review and repeal all non-compliant laws, from that point forward allow no more non-compliant laws to pass, apply all the savings towards the principal of the debt, and we’d be in the black brother, in the black, in 8 years tops. No debt, and then we eliminate the income tax and corporate taxes and replace them with…NOTHING.

      Let freedom ring. :)

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 7:27am

    Lets‘ start with NPR’s funding and roll.

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    • JKN
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:01am

      Hooray for Rand Paul… One of the very few who actually get it.

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    • taskmaster78
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:09am

      I would suggest stopping the money currently in the hundreds of millions be cut off in forms of grants to the ACLU. They are a thorn in freedom and we fund them?

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:15am

      Stop calling and start doing.

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:21am

      what we really need is a Congressional rule that a bill can cover only subject not more polution of every bill entered. http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • beebacksoon
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:41am

      The D‘s AND the R’s can include no more slipping in pork and pet projects which are SUPPOSED to go through the Appropriations route. Let’s also stop the “regulation” maddness. It appears if the Dems can’t get what they want passed Constitutionally, they find a way to get it done by calling it a new Regulation.

       
    • Marcobob69
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:47am

      Go get ‘em, Rand! Now if we could only get the rest of the GOP on board with this idea, maybe we could actually start paying-down this massive debt. The first step is always the hardest, so again I say, Go Get ‘em, Rand!!!

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:54am

      Rand Paul is a good start and a refreshing voice for true Conservatism, but we need hundreds more just like him in Congress, if we are going to save this country. Time to trim, cut, slash and burn the governments budget, til our childrens financial futures are safe, and the bloated atrocity of the federal government has been reduced back to the size the founders thought appropriate.

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:25am

      Any reform to be meaningful must start with the repeal of the 17th Amendment. Restore the states voice in Gov’t. Let the states select the senators to represent the states and states righhts. This is the reason we have runaway gov’t. The balance of power has been destroyed. As long as Senators can sell and trade their vote for reelection by the people nothing will change. there is no mechanism to change it. All those senators are interested in is lining their own pockets and getting stupid people to reelect them. If the states had their voice in Gov’t as originally in the Constitution there would be no unfunded mandates. Education would be by states. The welfare system would not exist along with SSA and Medicare(that would not be a bad thing). Obamacare would never have been passed with its billions of unfunded mandates on states budgets. Think about it. Read what Madison said about the Senate being selected by the states rather than voted by the people. By the way what he said would happen if the people voted for the Senate is happening even as I type. There is no balance of power if all they have to do is appease the demands of the people today and not worry about tomorrow. Unintended consequences!

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:33am

      Lets start with all those incentives for the states to sign up MORE people to collect welfare, kid care, etc.. even if the parents are NON-CITIZENS. Here‘s what it is IF you work you get penalized you have NO way to get ahead but IF you don’t work you have MANY programs to fall back on.. IF you only live with another person/family you BOTH get help.. therefore are living BETTER than a married couple who BOTH work.. NO WONDER no one wants to get married.. IT’S non profitable..

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:34am

      Under what POTUS was all US debt paid in full? Andy Jackson. He also disbanded the Central bank and the US went into the most economic growth in history. This growth extended well into 1912. The decline started with high deficit spending and destruction of the Constitution by Wilson. He reestablished a Central bank(Federal reserve(private bank) to control all our currency. He who control the purse control the people. The Fed was who caused the 1929 crask and alco the Depression. Their monetary practices and their efusal to loan money to any bank that refused to come under their control. The whole bank failure was by design to destroy non member banks and put all banking control with the Fed. What the Fed deemed would always come to pass. Just like what we have today.

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    • Major Infidel
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:36am

      Like father like son.

      I love the Pauls.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:40am

      NPR actually receives very little direct federal funding (I think it’s around 4% to 14%?), and if federal funding is yanked, they could survive, only without having to worry about Congress threatening to de-fund them, ergo, they’d probably go even further left wing than they are now.

      Indirect federal funding is another matter to be certain, many of the corporations that support NPR themselves are federally funded, so if you add those in in some kind of “really?” massive de-funding of all associated corporations, you’d still knock out about ~40% of NPR’s budget. They could make that up, entirely, by one donation from Soros per year like he did this year (~ $150 million).

      Now, I do agree with the call to take away all taxpayer support of that group of left wing idjits. But I’m under no illusion that it would make them go away. Most people tend to think that it’s a 100% taxpayer funded organization (except for the occasional pimp money drive they do now and again), and its not.

      Me, I’d slash and burn in major ways that WOULD seriously tick off not only the left, but the elderly segment of the right as well. And I wouldn’t care, because frankly we’re at the point that our fate is certainly sealed if we continue down this path, and further, we’re still in for a boat load of pain even if we do the right thing.

      We cannot continue to destroy the future generations like this without a care in the world and with a “but I deserve mine!” attitude.

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    • guyperram
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:56am

      When can we get to real change- do away with all the departments not provided for, specifically, in the constitution. All the rest is chump change.
      We seriously need to get back to the gold standard, and make our money as provided for in our constitution, “coin” is a specific word chosen to prevent “printing” which is another specific word the found fathers had a real problem with having lived through the hyperinflation of the Continental Dollar.

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    • theVirginian
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 9:59am

      Spot on Oldoldtimer

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:19am

      GHOSTOFJEFFERSON :The elderly segment- (maybe) the strongest voting block in America, will not allow huge cuts in programs they where forced to pay into all of their working lives.

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    • PatriotDaze
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:19am

      followed by defense and farm subsidies. After all…..every means EVERY.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:25am

      Fine, lets get it all going, and keep it going unto the land is restored to the people and not the ruling elite we have let take power for too long.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:48am

      @RepubliCorp

      I’m aware. That’s why we need people elected, en masse, who walk in day one and say like that gentlemen did yesterday “I’m here knowing I will lose the election 2 years from now”, roll up their sleeves, and get to work.

      I do not intend to imply kicking grandma to the curb. What I am saying however is this:

      1. Keep current enrollees on Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security on the rolls, current spending levels.
      2. Let no more onto the rolls who are younger than a given age (let’s just say, for example, younger than 50)
      3. Let attrition take its toll and reduce the rolls naturally, while not reducing the “benefits” for all still on it.
      4. You, me, GenX and below, continue to pay for these programs until they go away, with the knowledge that we will collect $0.00 in “benefits”.
      5. The programs dwindle, then wither, then go away.
      6. Done

      Somebody has to sacrifice. The elderly are too set in their ways and will NOT understand this even if you explain it to them at length, and many many evil socialists will lie to the 10th degree telling them that we’re going to kick them to the curb. We ignore them, and sally forth.

      What we can’t do, is allow the AARP to continue to keep us on this cycle of servile dependency to socialism. The elderly simply do not grasp that they’re destroying us and our grandchildren. We need men in office who will do what is necessary, while not harming them, who are also able to stomach taking a hit on the chin at election time.

      It’s the best option I can think of that tries to address all concerns. If there are better ideas, I’m all ears to hear them.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:49am

      @PatriotDaze

      I totally agree. Especially farm subsidies.

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 11:36am

      Defund the CBC, and EVERY liberal organization at the government trough. Let Soros fund the leftist organizations; Talk about soaking the rich…LOL

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:13pm

      There is not enough time to wait for the congress to fight over making spending cuts. The financial system will collapse first. Its probably best that way. As long as the system gets rebuilt with a much smaller federal government and no programs like Social Security or Medicaid or Medicare. And of course built on the original constitution.

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    • jose wasabi
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 3:54pm

      Amen.

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    • koyettsu
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 5:35pm

      Agreed time to cut NPR off, if they are that important to the Liberals they can fund it instead of forcing me to pay for their nonsense.

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    • Joey8
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 5:41pm

      I just left active duty air force and trust me, there’s plenty of room for cutting there.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on December 29, 2010 at 1:12am

      GONZO, again you took the words right out of my mouth. Why not the UN too and all those other antiAmerican progressive socialist organazations. Just clean house.

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    • Nixit
      Posted on December 29, 2010 at 1:10pm

      We the people need to use our collective resources just to look into different programs and means in which Paul can introduce ways to cut. I am quite sure he has many ideas but the more eyes reading and uncovering ways to help will allow him and others like him to cut back the deficit and reign in this out of control fiasco.

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    • Republic Under God
      Posted on December 30, 2010 at 1:19pm

      Oldtimer,

      Kudos on the Andy Jackson reference. That was an interesting president. His war with the Central Bank was one of my favorite points in American History. But we can’t forget his complete disregard for the SCOTUS and consequently the Native Americans. He is an interesting figure in our history. On one hand I think he helped to preserve our Republic. On the other hand, I think he was something of a tyrant.

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    • bak2basics
      Posted on December 31, 2010 at 5:19pm

      I say we cut every elected officials salary to that of the Armed Forces, take away their golden fleece of Health insurance & make a barrack for them to stay in when they are in Washington. This would show we are serious about getting Bak 2 Basics.
      HMMM! Didn’t Glenn say that? Thought it sounded familiar

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