To: John who wrote (54396 ) 7/29/2011 10:30:14 PM From: Oblivious 4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to The "hit" listSome pretty interesting "programs"!! That's for sure!! Wow!! Please keep in mind, that each one is some Senator or Congressman’s sacred cow, although some have been around so long that Senator or Congressman may not be. These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting . Read to the end. Annual Savings Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million America 's Treasures Program. $25 million International Fund for Ireland . $17 million Legal Services Corporation. $420 million National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million Hope VI Program.. $250 million Amtrak Subsidies. $1,565 Billion Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 Billion U.S. Trade Development Agency. $55 million Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy. $20 million Cut in half funds for congressional printing and binding.$47 million John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 Community Development Fund. ( ACORN? ) $4.5 Billion Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid. $24 million Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half. $7.5 Billion Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million Essential Air Service. $150 million Technology Innovation Program. $70 million Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program. $125 million Dept of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization. $530 million Beach Replenishment. $95 million New Starts Transit. $2 Billion Exchange Programs for Alaska , Natives Native Hawaiians , and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusett . $9 million Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 Billion Title X Family Planning. $318 million Appalachian Regional Commission. $76 million Economic Development Administration. ( ? ) $293 million Programs under the National & Community Services Act.$1.15 Billion Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 Billion FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million Energy Star Program. $52 million Economic Assistance to Egypt . $250 million U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 Billion General Assistance to District of Columbia . $210 million Subsidy for Washington Metro Area Transit Auth. $150 million Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years . No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services . Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 Billion 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 WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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 . Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress . Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . $12.5 million Eliminate Market Access Program. $200 million USDA Sugar Program. $14 million Subsidy to Organisation for Econ Co-operation and Develop. (OECD) . $93 million Eliminate the National Organic Certif. Cost-Share Program. $56.2 million Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs . $900 million Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million HUD Ph.D. Program . Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act . TOTAL SAVINGS : $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years My question is, what THE HECK is all this doing in the budget in the first place? America Please Wake UP!!!!! This spending has got to stop!!!! WE NO LONGER HAVE THE MONEY. Your grandchildren will have to pay for this spending. Do you really want to put it on their backs????
