Friday, June 3, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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?
GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE
From The Pittsburg Tribune-Review
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
It's most unsettling to the cluckers of climate change when one of their own leading adherents, who formerly toed the line, becomes skeptical and drop-kicks the "science."
Meet David Evans.
A scientist with six university degrees, Mr. Evans consulted for the Australian Greenhouse Office (today's Department of Climate Change) from 1999 to 2005. He studied carbon in plants, debris, forestry and agricultural products.
But while aboard the global-warming train, he found that the wheels got increasingly wobbly.
"The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro-thin half-truths and misunderstandings," he says. "I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence, was once an alarmist, but am now a skeptic."
Empirical evidence from the '90s showed that CO2 is not the primary driver of global temperatures, Evans says. "(R)ather than admit they were wrong, the governments, and their tame climate scientists, now outrageously maintain the fiction that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant."
Naturally, Evans has been vilified by other "experts" because of his remarks. But, as with other skeptics, his assertions are dismissed, not debated.
It is, as Evans says, a comfortable gravy train for all aboard.
Off the 'gravy train'
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
It's most unsettling to the cluckers of climate change when one of their own leading adherents, who formerly toed the line, becomes skeptical and drop-kicks the "science."
Meet David Evans.
A scientist with six university degrees, Mr. Evans consulted for the Australian Greenhouse Office (today's Department of Climate Change) from 1999 to 2005. He studied carbon in plants, debris, forestry and agricultural products.
But while aboard the global-warming train, he found that the wheels got increasingly wobbly.
"The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro-thin half-truths and misunderstandings," he says. "I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence, was once an alarmist, but am now a skeptic."
Empirical evidence from the '90s showed that CO2 is not the primary driver of global temperatures, Evans says. "(R)ather than admit they were wrong, the governments, and their tame climate scientists, now outrageously maintain the fiction that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant."
Naturally, Evans has been vilified by other "experts" because of his remarks. But, as with other skeptics, his assertions are dismissed, not debated.
It is, as Evans says, a comfortable gravy train for all aboard.
HOW INSANE TO WANT ILLEGAL ACTIVITY
TO BE A CRIME
The term, “illegal alien” is a formal term defined in the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which was enacted in 1986 and which supposed was to put an end to illegal immigration once and for all.
Unfortunately, this law was never enforced and, as a result, 25 years later America is overwhelmed with an additional 12-25 million illegal aliens. The number may be even be larger than that, perhaps MUCH larger.
Sadly, liberals see illegal aliens as a veritable gold mine of potential voters who could keep electing them to power as long as the goodies continued to be doled out. President Obama has made a number of attempts to push amnesty into law, even arguing that America owes amnesty and a path to citizenship to “illegal aliens who are law-abiding.”
“Illegal aliens” and “law abiding” do not seem compatible. How can you be “law abiding” while breaking the law? This is the reason liberals refuse to call them “illegal aliens”. They prefer the term “undocumented” because at least it SOUNDS legal.
And, the notion that America owes anything to those who have come here illegally is pure, unmitigated bunk!
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