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Comment by Patricia M. McBride on July 28, 2011 at 7:40am

Didn't all print:  here are more

• 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 Massachusett . $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.
• FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.
• Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on July 28, 2011 at 7:38am

When you look at this, you may see why Obama does not like the Boehner plan (while Reid is using the money saved when we end the wars and other smoke and mirrors items).  I got this from a fellow Arlington Group member.  These are the Boehner cuts:

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. 

• 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. $1565 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.

Comment by Kevin Fisher on July 28, 2011 at 7:07am

I'am with you 110%. have not had a pay check for 2 1/2 years, normal years 65 men on payroll down to 5,ready to take back our country the old fashion way,no more bull shit ,no more intitlements.I always thought Robin Hood lived in the woods not the White House.  Mr. Concrete

Comment by LOTTO NICK ! on July 28, 2011 at 7:04am

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.

I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

1. Term Limits.

12 years only, one of the possible options below.

A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms

2. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12.

The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.



LET'S FIX CONGRESS!!!!!

Comment by Joe Story on July 28, 2011 at 7:04am

Giving the federal government more money to spend is not the ANSWER!

 

-- In 1934, the government banned ownership of gold and eliminated the right to exchange gold certificates for gold coins. It then immediately revalued gold from $20.67 per troy ounce to $35, thus devaluing the dollar holdings of all Americans by 40 percent. Government defaulted and We The People paid the price.

-- From 1934 to 1968, the federal government continued to issue and redeem silver certificates, notes that circulated as legal tender that could be redeemed for silver coins or silver bars. In 1968, Congress unilaterally defaulted and We The People paid the price.

-- From 1934 to 1971, foreign governments were permitted by the U.S. government to exchange their dollars for gold through the gold window. In 1971, President Richard Nixon severed this final link between the dollar and gold by closing the gold window. The government defaulted and We The People paid the price.

-- Social Security has a trust fund, and that trust fund is supposed to have $2.6 trillion in it, according to the Social Security trustees. The federal government has borrowed all of that trust fund money and spent it. The government has now defaulted on it’s obligations to WE THE PEOPLE!

 

-- Trillions of fake dollars created for TARP, QEI and QEII. Ponzi schemes that created a debt so large that the Fed itself has had to purchase the debt to keep the game going. The government defaulted by devaluing the dollar and We The People are paying the price.

 

The answer to the GOVERNMENT problem is to keep Obama and the federal government from spending more money on top of the $14+ trillion existing debt!

 

If the department, program, or federal position is not authorized by the constitution or congress cut off the funds as of August 2, 2011!

 

1. START WITH CONGRESS---NO MORE PENSION FUND’S THEY MUST BE UNDER THE SAME PROGRAM AS EVERYONE ELSE.
2. NO MORE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
3. NO MORE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
4. NO MORE EPA
5. NO MORE CZARS
6. NO MORE Federal Reserve (that alone should save a few trillion $)

 

AND THE LIST JUST GOES ON AND ON!

WE THE PEOPLE ARE NOW ONLY WILLING TO GIVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 10 % OF OUR HARD EARNED MONEY SO THAT YOU CAN KEEP THE “LIMITED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT” ENVISIONED BY OUR NATIONS FOUNDERS IN OPERATION.

 

ANYTHING OVER 10% MUST BE USED TO PAY OFF THE DEBTS WE OWE.

 

“WE THE PEOPLE” ARE SERIOUS ABOUT PUTTING OUR HOUSE IN ORDER AND STOPPING THE RUNAWAY, OUT-OF-CONTROL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!

Obama can you spare Dime?  

Comment by Bert Amaral on July 28, 2011 at 7:01am

A lot said in 5.5 minutes, not much more to add. To bad that that isn't more out there like this to make everyone aware

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