Boehner, Cantor, and Obama have agreed to cut $61 Billion out of the 2012 budget. Yes, that is right, $61 Billion out of the budget for next year. That is less than 2% of the budget and about 6% of the added deficit for each year.
The annual deficit is more than a trillion dollars. $61 Billion does not even make a dent in it. Obama claims that his budget will cut a trillion dollars from the total budget over a 10 year time period. That budget does it all in the out years. And it includes tax increases starting in 2013, the year after the 2012 elections.
Does anyone in America actually think that a decrease to the deficit will actually happen? Ever?
Who do these guys think they are kidding? Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, and all the rest of the RINOs evidently did not get the message in the 2010 elections. Obama increased government spending by $700 Billion per year. So why are these Republicans not cutting it all out now?
Republicans made the mistake in 2001 of growing government spending. Yes, they had to agree to some spending increases with the Democrat controlled Senate to get the spending that was needed for Iraq. But if they repeat the same big government spending again now, then they should all be fired … starting with Boehner and McConnell.
Just as Rand Paul suggests: the government should cut current spending by $500 Billion and then cut the 2012 budget back to the 2008 levels. This can be done easily. They only need to cut out all the increases of the last 2 years. And if that is not possible, then try these:
1. cut government employee pay by 5%. Since government employees get paid 30% more than private sector, this should have been done a long time ago. This will save $100 Billion per year.
2. eliminate the Departments of Education and Interior. Both are functions of the states as per the Constitution of the USA. These federal departments are redundant to the states. Eliminating them will save the USA $200 Billion.
3. eliminate all earmarks. This will save another $50 Billion.
4. stop sending money to foreign governments. This will save the USA another $100 billion.
5. stop funding the clandestine actions of Hillary Clinton’s State Department. That should save another $50 Billion.
This totals $500 Billion. And Social Security and Medicare are not touched.
Next: stop all the new regulations being implemented by the EPA and stop all the subsidies to farms, green initiatives, research, etc.
Instead, Obama asked for an increase to spending by the Dept of Education. Boehner and Cantor have agreed when the USA has the highest cost per student of any country in the world and the lowest scholastic achievement in science and math of any industrialized country. They should be eliminating the Dept of Education, not increasing it.
This Republican led House of Representatives had a chance to de-fund Obamacare which would save all of America a trillion dollars in the next 10 years, and it did not do it. Yes, they passed a repeal of Obamacare, but they knew full well that it would not get through the Senate. So now that they have the chance to de-fund it, they failed because of Boehner and Cantor. These RINOs speak with forked tongues.
These RINOs are jokes. Get rid of them. And get rid of any other ones who do not help the conservative cause, like Rubio if he does not run for VP in 2012. And if Boehner has some personal problem that allows the Obama administration to blackmail him, then Boehner needs to quit as speaker now.
Michael Master is the author of “Save America Now!” It can be ordered at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616235756
