PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS

[oldsparkey]

PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS
A List of Republican Budget Cuts
Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list.
These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.

Read to the end.

* Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings.
* Save America 's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual savings.
* International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual savings.
* Legal Services Corporation -- $420 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Arts -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Humanities -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* Hope VI Program -- $250 million annual savings.
* Amtrak Subsidies -- $1.565 billion annual savings.
* Eliminate duplicating education programs -- H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon , eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
* U..S. Trade Development Agency -- $55 million annual savings.
* Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings.
* Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding – $47 million annual savings.
* John C. Stennis Center Subsidy -- $430,000 annual savings.
* Community Development Fund -- $4.5 billion annual savings.
* Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid -- $24 million annual savings.
* Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half -- $7.5 billion annual savings
* Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% -- $600 million annual savings.
* Essential Air Service -- $150 million annual savings.
* Technology Innovation Program -- $70 million annual savings.
* Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program – $125 million annual savings
* Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization – $530 million annual savings.
* Beach Replenishment -- $95 million annual savings.
* New Starts Transit -- $2 billion annual savings.

* Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts –$9 million annual savings
* Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants -- $2.5 billion annual savings.
* Title X Family Planning -- $318 million annual savings.
* Appalachian Regional Commission -- $76 million annual savings.
* Economic Development Administration -- $293 million annual savings.
* Programs under the National and Community Services Act –$1.15 billion annual savings.
* Applied Research at Department of Energy -- $1.27 billion annual savings..
* Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership -- $200 million annual savings..
* Energy Star Program -- $52 million annual savings.
* Economic Assistance to Egypt -- $250 million annually.
* U.S.Agency for International Development -- $1.39 billion annual savings..
* General Assistance to District of Columbia -- $210 million annual savings.
* Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority –$150 million annual savings.
* Presidential Campaign Fund -- $775 million savings over ten years..
* No funding for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual savings.
* End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
* Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -- More than $1 billion annually.
* IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury,instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget – $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
* Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees –$1 billion total savings. WHAT'S THIS ABOUT?
* Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees –$1.2 billion savings over ten years.
* Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of – $15 billion total savings.
* Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress. WHAT???
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.
* Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change –$12.5 million annual savings. WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
* Eliminate Market Access Program -- $200 million annual savings.
* USDA Sugar Program -- $14 million annual savings.
* Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- $93 million annual savings.
* Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program – $56.2 million annual savings.
* Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs -- $900 million savings.
* Ready to Learn TV Program -- $27 million savings..
* HUD Ph.D. Program.
* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.

*TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

My question is, what is all this doing in the budget in the first place

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[catfish]

Chuck your getting my blood pressure. Up. :evil: makes you wonder how they can come up and approve these without the. Public vote. Thought it was we the people by the people for the people?

 

[swampwood]

Social Security and Medicare are not federally funded. Social Security has had its surpluses taken 2 times by Republican Presidents George HW Bush & George W. Bush. These surpluses were created by Democratic Presidents when they had a congress that would work with them! The Repubs love to get their hands on these 2 systems and they will try again, bank on it! If you check into the programs Ryan wants to cut you will find out most are for the benefit of the people of this country! I do not see any cuts for congress in those cuts? Think about it? The rich and corporations run this country and yes that includes Trump!

 

[oldsparkey]

On the flip side of that coin.

Bill Clinton was the president who added a income tax to the social security payments , He basically taxed the tax that you already paid into the government. So we got to pay the tax one time as earnings and then have it deducted from our check as the social security payment. Then later in life we get to pay another income tax on it when we receive it.

Obama also used the social security and medicare funds for his pet projects and took 700 billion from it during his administration , that we know of.

Just for fun and giggles , Lyndon Johnson was the 1st president to take money from Social Security funds to pay for the Vietnam war. Also the Moneys Bush took almost all of it has been paid back because that was some which Obama took.

It seams that politicians of all types just love to dip there money grubbing hands in this honey pot of cash that belongs to the people and not them.

 

[swampwood]

The money Bush took went to fund another war we still are fighting today. Iraq & Afghanistan. I am afraid we are all going to get hurt by Trump, Ryan & McConnell's agenda's! The people no longer matter!

 

[oldsparkey]

I am afraid we are all going to get hurt by Trump, Ryan & McConnell's agenda's! The people no longer matter!

It could happen and it might just be the opposite , only time will tell. Right now everyone is second guessing and especially the Gloom and Doom ( so called ) news media along with AOL and Yahoo. No one knows for sure how Trumps term will pan out.
Like the last 8 years with Obama we have to watch as each day is recorded in history.

This might be a indication from past Presidents. I found this article quite interesting.........
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A LAWYER WITH A BRIEFCASE CAN STEAL MORE THAN A THOUSAND MEN WITH GUNS.

This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way.
The Lawyers' Party, By Bruce Walker

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers Party.
Barack Obama was a lawyer. Michelle Obama wasa lawyer.
Hillary Clinton was a lawyer. Bill Clinton was a lawyer.
John Edwards was a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer.
Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).
Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.
Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:
Harry Reid is a lawyer. Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer

The Republican Party is different.
President Bush is a businessman.
Vice President Cheney is a businessman.
The leaders of the Republican Revolution:
Newt Gingrich was a history professor.
Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist.
House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer.
The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.
Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976.

The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich. The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America .. And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers Party, grow.

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?....Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation. This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become adverse parties of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.

When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.

The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97%of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!

 

[Kayak Jack]

Let me pose a couple of propositions.
It's pretty impossible for us to actuality confirm or deny the validity of:
1. The budget cut information.
2. Who really took how much money, or where it went.

Frankly, any, all, or none could be true. Or not. Stories on here about fishing have as good a chance about being true. Some really are. Others. . . . .

 

[swampwood]

Let me pose a couple of propositions.
It's pretty impossible for us to actuality confirm or deny the validity of:
1. The budget cut information.
2. Who really took how much money, or where it went.

Frankly, any, all, or none could be true. Or not. Stories on here about fishing have as good a chance about being true. Some really are. Others. . . . .

Well said Kayak Jack

 

[oldsparkey]

The tails of fishing and hunting are absolutely true , The boat building most of it with some exaggeration and all the rest is your guess. :lol:

 

[BEARS BUDDY]

Good question, what are these doing in the budget to begin with.