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Rand Paul Pushes Immediate Half-Trillion in Spending Cuts

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer seemed baffled Thursday afternoon as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., proposed to cut government spending by $500 billion — a notion that necessarily means cutting some public sector jobs.

How could you cut peoples’ jobs? Blitzer wondered aloud.

Additionally, Paul suggested cutting U.S. foreign aid, including aid to Israel.  “It’s an interesting dance, avoiding seeming critical of Israel (which he refused to do), yet still doing the one thing that people who get upset at those who are critical of Israel want the least out of a U.S. politician: cutting off U.S. support,” Reason’s Brian Doherty observed.

Unlike many proposals to cut spending floating around on Capitol Hill these days, Paul’s stands out because of his plan to cut spending during FY 2011.  To be blunt, the Kentucky tea party favorite wants to cut funding immediately.

TPM also notes that Paul‘s plan is like a thorn in many Democrats’ sides as he proposes completely de-funding liberal favorites such as the Affordable Housing Program, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Also on Paul’s chopping bloc for significant cuts: the Consumer Product Safety Commission (de-funded); the Department of Energy (de-funded); the Department of Health and Human Services (cut $26.5 billion); the Department of Defense (cut $47 billion) ; and the Department of Education (de-funded).

Click here to view Sen. Rand Paul’s bill.

Comments (135)

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  • joeliberty
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:55am

    I am certainly glad that Rand has done this! We have redundancy because most states have their own identical departments! However, it really does not matter because we are in the early stages of seeing a states revolt through nullification! It is going to snowball to! I fully expect the states to revolt on taxes as well. This is going to happen because Washington is going to collapse. The Federal Reserve and the IRS are going to go with it! Their time is up and once the financial crisis hits full scale there is going to be an uprising like you have never seen! Prepare yourself because it will not be pretty!

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  • santramir
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:51am

    core issue: who is benefitiated of the government slaves cradle and 3 billion annualy in zion?

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  • Republic
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:49am

    Nice Job Rand!

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  • RestoreCapitalism
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:47am

    We must cut spending immediately. We’ve already hit the iceberg, and the democrats want to take their sweet time and talk about minuscule cuts years from now. It’s insane. They really will sit by why the economy collapses if we don’t take back our country.

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    • BlueStrat
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:47am

      RestoreCapitalism writes:

      “They really will sit by why the economy collapses if we don’t take back our country.”

      ———–

      No.

      No, they won’t “sit by”. They haven’t been sitting by. That’s been the entire goal for decades; overwhelm & collapse the system economically and socially to cause unrest and violence they can exploit to encourage “top-down” totalitarian response.

      They all understand full well what increasing spending or even attempting to keep spending at current levels will do. They are counting on it. They are using the exact same tactic which Iran is employing regarding their nuclear program.

      They will say anything and use any tactic possible to buy sufficient time for them to accomplish their goals. The ends justify the means. It is the despotic insanity that would prefer the entire world including themselves dead if they cannot be the supreme rulers.

      Be extremely cautious when the Progressives realize their defeat is upon them. They will attempt to totally destroy the country, and possibly the entire world if they can, as a last suicidal kamikaze act.

      I believe the “Liberal gene” recently discussed is actually linked to the ability to accept one can be wrong. Liberals/Progressives always view themselves as the smartest people in the room. They view people as easily-herded livestock, with themselves as the “ruling elites”.

      They are mentally incapable of accepting that their ideas and beliefs might be wrong, or that someone else not in their belief circle might be smarter than they are. It is just such an inflexible world-view that causes people to suicide when massive changes in the world happen, like many German civilians did after their defeat in WW2.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:44am

    Here we go, everyone knows we have to make cuts but, liberals are unwilling to make hard choices. It’s like watching A&E’s Hoarders, buried in crap and unwilling to dig themselves out of it.

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  • Zaphod
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:35am

    Rand Paul seemed to have a refreshing grasp of the issues. His ability to NOT be stumbled by the “foreign aid to Israel” question was great.

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  • dallenh
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:29am

    I just reviewed the actual bill, and he is pulling the plug on the majority of DOE funding. He also is proposing pay freezes on federal employees, limits on federal travel, collecting 3 billion in delinquent federal employee taxes (uh… why aren’t they in jail?), etc. in section 27 of the bill. Go Rand!

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  • dallenh
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:23am

    Cut the “Department of Education”… have our schools and/or students improved recently? or am I missing the importance of this department?

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    • Sgt.Moto
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:35am

      The United States Department of Education wasn’t even in operation until 1980, and I think most would agree, that since then things have only gone downhill. The individual states ran their own education before then, and even today with the fed “running the show” the states fund the overwhelming majority of their education budgets themselves.

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  • Larry1951
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 6:55am

    Rand Paul is one of the very few that is not afraid to be frank with the people.

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  • Boojer56
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 6:50am

    The only reason for the federal government to exist is for defense only all others should be left up to the states. Maybe if the Fed would spend more time on snuffing out known countries that sponsor terrorism instead of groping people at the airport we would not need the gropers.

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  • LittleBigMouth
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 6:16am

    As always, Rand gets it…, if we continue as we are doing, we will run out of rope. Let’s start now.
    Man I wish we had a few more of him… Bring the work back to US. Don’t listen to the crap from the left when they say “ The manufacturing jobs that left US are not coming back” Bull, create the insentives, get the Government out of the way and let’s go back to work. End NAFTA. All the problems will go away. Just that simple. Why not, the world has the same hate for the US as the waco left.

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  • FLDeb
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 6:04am

    Tip of the iceberg. Keep cutting until the feds are put back in their place.

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  • enigmaman
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 6:03am

    this serious discussion has to be repeated and often, keeping it on air will help to that end, no matter how crazy or radical some cuts may sound to some its the way for serious debate to start, the more these matters are discussed the more palatable they will become, make no mistake the “first cut is the deepest” there after not so bad and once the process starts we will be on our way to serious yet prudent spending cuts that will make a difference in getting us back on track to manageable debt levels

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  • DeVain
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 6:01am

    I couldn’t wait to vote for him, and I am glad I did.

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  • Living In NYC
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 5:42am

    Rand please make major cuts the FCC and eliminate the DOE, EPA and Czars!

    Keep it up my good man!

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  • cykonas
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 5:39am

    I have been a huge fan of his Dad for better than two decades. For a long time Ron Paul has been the only voice of reason out of the 535 voices in Congress. Finally, he has company! How fitting that it is his son.

    Let’s not waste time with a “tea party”/Rand Paul for President pep rally right now. Ron Paul has been talking this talk and walking this walk since before lots of you were born, much less since there has been a tea party. Now with Rand in the House, and a handful of like minded patriots maybe they can make something happen. We need to get behind them. Let‘s help them push this through before March so we don’t have to face raising the debt ceiling. Rand is right on; waiting any longer to do what has to be done is just a slow death to our Republic. Let‘s do it now and we’ll come out on the other side that much more quickly.

    We all need to contact our representatives today and demand, yes demand, that they get behind these proposals and get them passed. Don’t assume that the establishment majority of the do nothing Republican Party is going to embrace these proposals. Most of them are Progressive Lite in their philosophy. Many a sacred cow is going to be gored in this fight! Those cowards won’t get on board unless we push them hard. Any one of them could have done this at any time in the past. This current “crisis” has been a long time coming, they all just ignored it and told us not to worry about it.

    Let’s not squander this opportunity. THIS is what the November election was all about. Bravo Representative Paul! God Speed to you sir.

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  • pamela kay
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 4:56am

    I know that we are in for some tough times. I don’t expect that he will get much support as a candidate if he were to run following these cuts. If the waste were corrected first and then re-examine each agency and organazation. Find out where the money goes. I can see the necessity of some of these reductions but I also see that millions of people will be effected and more turmoil will follow due to the cuts.I am not sure if it would cause more expense in the long run. It needs to be handled delicately and not in one hard sweep. If more become unemployed how will that help the economy? Wouldn’t it put more pressure and strain on our nation If there are fewer checks handed out for employment ? What about SS , medicare, state and local, and federal taxes ? Who will have to make up the difference? What about the cost of unemployment itself? I worry that a 47 million dollar military cut would cause harm and risk the safety of our military men and woman and the security of our country. Alot of the organazations such as welfare need completely overhauled. We fund many organizations that could and should be eliminated first. To much of our money goes overseas and never ends up where it is supposed to go. All of this may cause serious rioting here just like in Europe if not handled properly. While we know that cuts are necessary and have to be made we have to use common sense and look at each cut thoroughly and individualy before diving in head first. The money left over from the stimulous needs to be used efficiately and all earmarks must be stopped. I am not sure that abandoning our friends Isreal especially now as they face even more serious threats from the mideast. To end the relationship we have had could put the people of Isreal in dire straights. we don’t have many allies other than Isreal at the moment. He might be a bit hastey in his ideas. Cuts in the pay and benefits of government workers has to be addressed as well.No more bailouts. No more spending money that we simply don’t have.Get rid of obama care and start over with HC reform. Shut down Freddie and Fannie. Term limits should be put into place. First clean up the greed and corruption in DC. It is not fair that the waste and greed in Washington and their mistakes are carried over to the citizens and dumped into our laps. It is not going to be an easy tasks and yes we will all have to make sacrifices. Then we are faced with children without food and families with no where to go.or without the basic necessities to survive. Everything is in such a mess and can not be fixed overnight. We have to remember those of us fortunate enough to have a job will be paying for those that do not.Restrictions from the EPA have to be removed in order to allow drilling and reduce our dependency on foriegn oil. All the unnecessary research has to be temporarly stopped until we restore our economy. Limiting campaign finances would assure fair and equal elections allowing more choices for candidates Regardless the old saying that “Rome wasn’t built in a day” comes to mind as we face our nations biggest challenge.

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    • dshamis20
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:28am

      Pamela -

      Avg govt employee makes 70k+ per year– I’ll hand them a 400 dollar a week unemployment check any week of the year. I agree that there will be pain in the streets and maybe some chaos but remember this America have been complacent for many years now, it’s finally time to revisit the true meening of the “General Welfare” clause. I enjoy listening to Rand, he is not the usual talking head, I applaud Kentucky for electing him.

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    • blacksmith
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:56pm

      We do not have a generation to straighten this mess out! The cuts and sacrifices must be made right here and right now.If there is rioting in the streets then so be it! At what point do we stop paying people just so they will not riot,steal and disrupt society? The responsibility for the riots will be on the rioters and not the people that make the cuts. I am ready to make the sacrifices that need to be made and I am employed by a city government. It is the people that pay the least or none of the taxes that use the most public services and drain our public coffers of wealth.

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  • justice
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 4:20am

    Go,Go Rand.

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  • tobefreeinmt
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 4:11am

    Remember now, this (Blitzer) is the guy who got the lowest score in Jeopardy’s history. Minus 500!.
    This is clearly one of the stupidest men in cable news, but then again, there are so many!

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  • Outside Looking In
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 3:22am

    “Yes, I understand there‘s no money to pay the employees’ salaries, but if you lay them off they’ll all be unemployed. How can you do something so mean?”

    Wolf and the Mighty Left will play this card fast and furiously.

    Reminds one of the kid brought into court for murdering his parents and demanding mercy because he’s an orphan.

    @Texasblooz
    “Life is tough. It‘s even tougher when you’re making mistakes with your grammar and punctuation.”

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  • Revotelution
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:55am

    “How could you cut peoples jobs.” Shouldn’ he be asking BO that question. Hundreds of BO regulations and ObamaCare have added 1000′s to the unemployment roles.

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    • dallenh
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:21am

      Agreed. How can you cut peoples jobs? Well the reality is that the private sector that pays the taxes that pay for these programs have lost their jobs in record numbers. So it is simple arithmetic.

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  • TexasBlooz
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:41am

    Looks like a teaparty dream ticket..Rand Paul and Paul Ryan.

    True young articulate constitutional conservatives.

    Be still my beating heart.

    “Life is tough its even tougher, if your stupid.”
    John Wayne

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  • Flybot
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:34am

    No one said these cuts weren’t going to hurt. As for Affordable Housing Program you mean he proposes that they have to work for what they have no free rides.Man i can hear the crack heads screaming on this one

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    • So
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:37am

      GO RAND!!

      We are behind you!

      Keep pushing! We will push on this end and vote those that don’t agree, O-U-T!

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  • Timely Renewed
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:30am

    I commend Senator Paul’s courage and boldness. However, to permanently restrain the federal behemoth we must restore the Constitution’s original meanings and allocation of power to the states. Unfortunately the original constitutional meanings and structure have been so misconstrued and abused by over 70 years of progressive control of the Supreme Court and other branches of the federal government that simple legislative action is not enough. We need to promote amendments to the Constitution to restore its original meaning and structure.

    The first step to locking in our current moment of constitutionalist resurgence is to put through an amendment to the amendment process itself which will eliminate the unnecessary convention now required by Article V and permit States to directly initiate amendment proposals. This will break the current de facto federal congressional and judicial monopoly on interpreting the Constitution, and permit grassroots patriots on the state level to restore the Constitution by amendment. Only this can permanently constrain future federal overreach of the sort rejected by the people in November. See http://www.timelyrenewed.com

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    • BoilitDown
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:50am

      Timely Renewed:
      I couldn’t agree more with the restoration of a Constitutional America. I suspect that Rand Paul has your back as well. I would add the deconstruction of the way Congress conducts it’s corrupt business, decommissioning many of the Federal agencies and a myriad of other costly and damaging items that threaten our liberties within the Federal Government.

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    • ozz
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 5:27am

      Make senators appointed by the state governor. That would stop the federal tyranny dead in its tracks. Think about it? It would force them to remain in line with their state or get yanked and replaced. They used to be appointed by the state legislature. A return to that would work too.

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    • cykonas
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:16am

      @ Timely
      I hear your argument but I can’t sign on just yet. I think Senator Paul is going about it in the proper way. If we can shrink the Federal bureaucracy to is Constitutionally mandated size I believe most (80% ?) of the problems and abuses will disappear. I would rather see us go in that direction first.

      We can’t stop with just the cuts that Senator Paul has included in his current legislation. Most of what is the Federal Government today must be completely done away with. Feasibly, that can’t be done in a couple of years. It will probably have to be done over a ten to twenty year cycle to avoid complete chaos.

      At that point we should have a Federal Government that operates on a total yearly budget of somewhere between $50B and $75B. Along with the downsizing would have to come repealing all, or most, of the ridiculous regulations that put US business at a competitive disadvantage and makes new business formation cumbersome, if not almost impossible.

      It’s going to take time for the private sector to absorb all of the displaced government employees. Many of them will end up working in the State governments as the States take on the duties that should have been theirs all along, but were usurped by the Feds. Even at that it will still take some time for everything to work out completely.

      Once all that is done, then maybe we look at further amendment. We really don‘t know how it’s all going to look if we really do stay on the course because none of us were even alive the last time the United States was operated as it was intended. Hell, for the most part our parents and grand parents weren’t alive. I favor letting it “reset” and settle a while before we do any tinkering with further amendments.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:37am

      Take all of our soldiers from overseas and put them on the borders!!! Problem fixed!!! And give them free Dunkin Donuts round the clock!

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  • Deuteronomy22
    Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:29am

    Cut Senate staff funding 75%, your Senate salary but 60% and pay 50% of your government health care Randy. You want to put cuts on others? Take some yourself.

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    • taxed
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:37am

      GO RAND!!!

      http://conservativepoliticalforum.com

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    • brliantedj
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:44am

      You’re missing the point @hysterectomy22, he proposed some valid arguments, First get others on board for this round of cuts, then let it snowball into other proposals. You really think Senators would support a pay cut for themselves as well here? I think this would be a good first step followed by what you’re talking about and maybe even term limits down the road.

       
    • silentwatcher
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 3:22am

      yup,,,,,cut EACH government salary by 25 percent,,,hold them to 100 percent of their duties. Once they have effectively conducted their duties and placed the United States back on a proper foundation, then they can have the full salaries back.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 3:24am

      I also believe they should cut the DHS by 75 percent. 75 percent. 75 percent. 75 percent.

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    • tobefreeinmt
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 4:14am

      That was one of his first suggestions over 2 months ago.

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    • ozz
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 5:22am

      It appears a little of your father has rubbed off on you Rand. Keep chopping Rand. The FDA and EPA could use some serious cuts too. GO RAND GO!! :D

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    • Lunar
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 5:54am

      Yes, unfortunately cutting only the gov. jobs would be a small tiny amount of money as opposed to half a trillion dollars.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 6:21am

      eliminate Das Homeland Security !!!! we lived without all those years before 911
      Freedom is not Free

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 6:23am

      End Both Wars Now !
      Cut Dept of Education Now !
      Stop the madness before it is Game Over.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 6:24am

      let’s go back to spending like 1979, eliminate
      any programs that were added after 79.

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    • Jackers
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 6:40am

      Hooray for Rand Paul!

      While other politicos talk the talk, Rand Paul quietly walks the walk… So nice to have Ron Paul in the House and Rand Paul in the Senate… I understand that Rand has four siblings… Wouldn’t it be nice to have all four, with the same views, join in? We need more sensible politicians like Ron and Rand Paul in office!

      Go, Rand, Go!

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    • Dd09999
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:05am

      That’s not a bad idea either!

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    • exdem
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 7:36am

      Please start off by cutting O‘s salary and vacations and Muschelle’s wardrobe budget.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:35am

      Bottom line , we have to start over with any of those programs. De-fund and start over if necessary! Overhauling or restructuring does not work!! Let the states have responsibility!

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:47am

      “TPM also notes that Paul‘s plan is like a thorn in many Democrats’ sides as he proposes completely de-funding liberal favorites such as the Affordable Housing Program, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.”

      Yes yes yes yes yes!

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 8:50am

      @Deut

      “Cut Senate staff funding 75%, your Senate salary but 60% and pay 50% of your government health care Randy. You want to put cuts on others? Take some yourself.”

      Is that really all you have?

      Why not address the actual idea of reducing spending in government? The “cuts” you bring up would be symbolic, and symbolic is about as useful as a fur lined sink these days. We need “real”. He’s proposed “real”. I’m certain that has most of the Lefts undies in a bind, but at this point, who cares? If they cannot grow up and stop acting like spoiled entitlement drive children, that’s their problem, we have problems to solve and they need solved yesterday. The old games, like the one you are playing, no longer apply.

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    • infidelamerican
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:44am

      Cut the dept of education completely and let the states educate their own kids and screw mrs. obamys lunch program, and the endoctorination of our kids into the progressive, green eco terrorist, socialist agenda.

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    • btulver
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:34am

      Blitzer is like a mad little kid. What about this you gonna cut this? What about that you gonna cut that? He is so pissed!

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:08am

      Finally, someone who gets it. Thank you, Kentuckians!

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    • WakeUp
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:19am

      If he’s doing the job we sent him there for, then he’s one of the few that actually DESERVE a staff.

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    • rghtwngnutjob
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 11:36am

      He has been in office less than a month. I am sure he would not have a problem with making those cuts. He does not feel entitled. The problem would be getting Harry Reid to go along with your suggestion. Oh and the rest of them that keep getting reelected year after year because people no longer think before they vote. They just vote for the same old people but we still have the same old problems. You getting the connection here.

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    • solaveritas
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 12:34pm

      FINALLY, some REAL sense in fixing the system!!!

      I believe in the “start over” program:
      1. Fund the 16 tasks the CONSTITUTION assigned to the Federal Government.
      2. Fund (and modify the future of) Social Security.
      3. Fund (but privatize and modify the future of) Medicare.
      IF there is anything left
      a. cut taxes
      b. continue other programs on a “priority of need” basis.

      THATS IT. Leave the rest (and the taxes) to the states to do.

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 2:00pm

      Go Rand, go. DOE, DE and the rest can go. EPA, etc….cut them all.

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    • Lantern
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 4:24pm

      How can the Senate propose spending cuts? Don’t spending or cutting proposals have to come from Congress?

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    • Lantern
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 4:24pm

      Not that I have any problem with the cuts!

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on January 28, 2011 at 10:22pm

      I agree with him. Cut federal wages by 40% but do it over 4 years. Can you stand a 25% pay cut in 1 year and not go under? Freeze hiring and reduce personnel levlsl at 2006 numbers. Complete eliminate Education, housing, energy and half of HHS. Gut FEMA. Let people know if there is an emergency or disaster handle it just like your great grandparents did. Do for your self instead of waiting on a roof top for the gov’t to fly over and drop a check and keys to a FEMA trailer. Freeze SSa. Raise the age for those under 45 and allow them to participate in the Thrift Savings plan. Of course Congress is already trying to get that money(ours) and put worthless T-bills in its place.

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    • Enuff Zenuff
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:57am

      Only HALF a trillion$???
      Oh well… like a busload of lawyers on the bottom of the ocean…”It’s a good start”.

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    • nomoreprogressives
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 8:52am

      Hey Deut, congress does not have government healthcare you moron. They have choices of commercial/private plans just like other large companies. We the taxpayers do subsidize but it’s not government healthcare.

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    • waggie
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:17pm

      I LIKE this guy!

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    • lostinamerica
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 8:50pm

      Outsource government

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    • *************************
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:47am

      Only a half trillion? REPEAL AND RECOVER … ALL OF THE COMMIE CONGRESS’S LAST 10 YEARS OF SPENDING … and then you’ll get us cheering for you. I smell a RINO.

      “Come on, boys! The way you’re lolly-gaggin’ around here with them picks and them shovels, you‘d think it was a hundert an’ twenty degree. Can‘t be more than a hundert an’ fourteen.” -cowboy Lyle, Blazing Saddles

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    • Gloria
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:25am

      All the cuts are great…. Why turn our backs on Israel?
      They are surrounded by countries that want them dead all of them.
      Israel will cease to exist without us.
      It is like adopting a baby and when you loose your job you just dump the child off somewhere.
      Do we have friends in this world?
      Israel has always stood with us.

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