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From:	soooright (68.212.254.149)
Subject:	The new budget
Date:	February 3, 2010 at 3:46 pm PST

So Jug Hussein Ears just sent a $3.6 trillion budget to congress. Remember, this is the guy who campaigned on fiscal responsibility. I guess it all depends on what you mean by responsibility. And do ya remember what Speaker Blinky said about pay as you go and ripped the Republicans for their deficits? These people really do have no shame.

I also remember JHE campaigning against earmarks but the stimulus porkulus bill Blinky, Reid, and company passed and JHE signed contained over 9000 earmarks. Way to keep that campaign promise JHE!

So now we get to see what congress is gonna do with this $3.6 trillion (it boggles the mind) budget. They will prolly add more spending. There will prolly be over 10,000 earmarks this time.

Let me at the budget. I might not be able to balance the budget but I'll be able to cut a lot of it and I won't use a scalpel like JHE said he would do, I'll use a meat axe 'cause that is what needs to be done and that is what it will take. How would I do it? By cutting failing programs and failing agencies.

I'll start off with the Department of Energy. This is a legacy from Jimmah Carter. Why did he create it? To give us energy independence. Has it worked? Nope. We are even more dependent on foreign oil now than we were when Jimmah created this failing bureaucracy. Of course a lot of that is because the Dimocrats, Jimmah's party, will not allow us to drill for oil off the coasts and in ANWR. Also, another group of wacko's, the environmentalists, who are a core constituency of the Dimocrat Party, stopped us from building nuke plants and additional oil refineries. The Department of Energy is an epic fail. Over 30 years later and we're worse off. If it can't do the job it was created to do, eliminate it.

The Department of Education is another failing bureaucracy created by Jimmah Carter in return for the teachers unions supporting him in the election. Is our educational system any better than it was back then? Nope. Another epic fail. If it's not doing its job, eliminate it.

Howza 'bout the Department of Agriculture. We were in the process of weaning farmers off the gummint teat and then when we elected Chimpy McHalliburton Bush1tler, he and the Republicans started restoring all of the subsidies. Cut the budget of the Department of Agriculture in half.

Get rid of HUD. Let the cities use their own money for "urban development" and subsidized housing. I don't want my money to go to failed cities like Detroit.

No pay raises for congress. They can't do their jobs. Why should they get raises? Yeah. This wouldn't save much money but I've always thought that people should be paid on merit. When I worked for IBM, I was.

No military jets for congresscritters and their families. Let 'em fly commercially like we peons have to do. I'm mainly singling out Speaker Blinky on this one. Once again, the savings would be symbolic, but let them go through the same checkpoints and TSA security that we have to go through. They don't have to fly home to their districts every weekend. They can have phone in townhall meetings like my representative, Tom Price does.

This is just off the top of my head. Of course, if we only funded the stuff that is mandated by the Constitution we would have a budget surplus and could cut taxes even more and our economy would grow by leaps and bounds.

-- Cut and pasted from the Grouchy Old Cripple.

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