Anti-Party
Tea Is The New Kool-Aid
For the most part the Left wants the programs we have and they are willing to pay for them through taxation. This is proven because Democrats generally tax for what they/we spend. Deficits nearly always look good under Democrat control.
This is the opportunity, now, for Republicans to put together dozens or hundreds of different proposals to cut certain programs or trim down certain programs. We know some may not be passed which is why you need lots of proposals ready to be put on the table.
But this won't happen because Republicans today are cowards who don't want to see the backlash of closing or trimming programs. They only ask Obama to cut and trim for them so the finger can be pointed at him.
There are hundreds if not thousands of programs that could be cut or trimmed. A lot of the small programs might not "amount to much" according to the Republicans I've talked to but they will add up and why in the hell should we keep funding this crap but focus on cutting programs entirely that the deaf, blind, chronically ill, and disabled depend on to survive? I'll start and if I was a politician I don't think I would worry about the backlash because these are not essential in any way IMO.
1) Stop paying Halliburton to rebuild Iraq. We don't rebuild Countries we are angry enough to go to war with. Cost is rising too fast to calculate. $1000 every 6 seconds.
2) The video game Americas Army that has cost the tax payers over $60 Million already
3) Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job
4) Over half of all farm subsidies go to commercial farms, which report average household incomes of $200,000 and cost the taxpayer $100 Billion
5) Health care fraud is estimated to cost taxpayers more than $60 billion annually (Wait, this ended with Obamacare. Scratch that)
6) $200 Million to a reality show in India
7) $325 Thousand for "RoboSquirrel" to study rattlesnake behavior (again, small but ignorantly wasteful)
I could go on for hours but just do a few internet searches yourself. Search "Federal Government wasteful spending"
But since the GOP are too busy crossing their arms in a hissy fit they aren't working on real problems at all.
This is the opportunity, now, for Republicans to put together dozens or hundreds of different proposals to cut certain programs or trim down certain programs. We know some may not be passed which is why you need lots of proposals ready to be put on the table.
But this won't happen because Republicans today are cowards who don't want to see the backlash of closing or trimming programs. They only ask Obama to cut and trim for them so the finger can be pointed at him.
There are hundreds if not thousands of programs that could be cut or trimmed. A lot of the small programs might not "amount to much" according to the Republicans I've talked to but they will add up and why in the hell should we keep funding this crap but focus on cutting programs entirely that the deaf, blind, chronically ill, and disabled depend on to survive? I'll start and if I was a politician I don't think I would worry about the backlash because these are not essential in any way IMO.
1) Stop paying Halliburton to rebuild Iraq. We don't rebuild Countries we are angry enough to go to war with. Cost is rising too fast to calculate. $1000 every 6 seconds.
2) The video game Americas Army that has cost the tax payers over $60 Million already
3) Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job
4) Over half of all farm subsidies go to commercial farms, which report average household incomes of $200,000 and cost the taxpayer $100 Billion
5) Health care fraud is estimated to cost taxpayers more than $60 billion annually (Wait, this ended with Obamacare. Scratch that)
6) $200 Million to a reality show in India
7) $325 Thousand for "RoboSquirrel" to study rattlesnake behavior (again, small but ignorantly wasteful)
I could go on for hours but just do a few internet searches yourself. Search "Federal Government wasteful spending"
But since the GOP are too busy crossing their arms in a hissy fit they aren't working on real problems at all.