Wednesday, January 4, 2012

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

List of Republican  Budget cuts WOW
                 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 duplicative 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 THE HELL IS 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.. WHY?????
*  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?

The Staff: Thank you for submitting this information for all to read.


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