THIS COUNTRY IS BROKE

 IT’S TIME TO TRIM THE FAT

These are all programs the new Republican House has proposed cutting:

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings.

(Most Public Broadcasting is a bunch of Liberal Propaganda.)

Save America's Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings. (What Treasures? Any why does it require $25 Million a year to save them?  

International Fund for Ireland . $17 million annual savings. (We are funding Ireland on borrowed money??? Why???)

Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings.

National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings. (I’ve seen some of the subsidized art.  What a terrible waste of BORROWED money)

National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings.

Hope VI Program.. $250 million annual savings. (I don’t even know what this is, but I bet it’s not worth spending borrowed money on.)

Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings.  (if there is a need for Amtrak, and if it is managed properly, it will survive without subsidies.)

Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last
Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3
billion annually. (“duplicative” – meaning???)

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. (What are they printing and binding???)

John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings. (What do they do???)

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 (ABSOLUTELY!)

Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings. (ABSOLUTELY!)

Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings. (ABSOLUTELY!)

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. (What do they do with this $$$?)

Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings. (Not STATE’s responsibility???)

New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings. (What is this???)

Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts. $9 million annual savings (What???)

Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings.
(Not the State’s who use them, responsibility???)

Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings. (Family Planning? Families need help planning? Hmmm)

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. (And they do what???)

Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings.

FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.
(What? Seriously? Fuel Partnership is what???)

Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings. (Another “energy program”???)

Economic Assistance to Egypt . $250 million annually. (What For???? They have more $$$ than we dream of!!!!)

U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual
savings. (International development – US Agency – meaning???)

General Assistance to District of Columbia . $210 million annual savings. (For what????)

Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings. (Again, not the STATE’s responsibility?)

Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years.
(DUMP QUICKLY!!!)

No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings. (You have got to be kidding me!!!)

End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
(Good grief, what is this???)

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. (ABSOLUTELY!)

Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees. $1 billion total savings. (My what a novel idea.)

Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees.
$1.2 billion savings over ten years. (ABSOLUTELY!)

Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of.
$15 billion total savings. (ABSOLUTELY!)

Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress. (What????)

Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings. (What is this???)

Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. $12.5 million annual savings

Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million annual savings. (Used for???)

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. (National Organic Certification???)

Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million
savings. (ABSOLUTELY!)

Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings.. (What???)

HUD Ph.D. Program. Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act. (Ph.D Program
for HUD???)

TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years- Question: why are
these in the budget in the first place?