Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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Republicans Unveil Sunset Caucus to Reduce the Federal Budget
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Posted by:
Michele Bachmann at
3:40 PM
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Members of Congress often rail against the loss of taxpayer dollars to waste, fraud, and abuse. They are always ready to sharpen their image of fiscal responsibility by calling for greater savings by eliminating excessive spending. But the vigilance of too many Members stops there. Today, my colleagues and I in the Republican Study Committee unveiled the Sunset Caucus to provide an easy opportunity for Congress to reduce the federal budget.
The Sunset Caucus is designed to shrink our ballooning government budget by eliminating federal programs, offices, and agencies that are duplicative or obsolete.
As Ronald Reagan once said, “a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.”
As a member of the Sunset Caucus, I will select some program or agency that has outlived its usefulness, duplicates other government programs or that Congress never had any business creating in the first place. The fight for the taxpayers has to start somewhere.
The average federal program duplicates five other programs. For example, there are about 60 separate welfare programs, approximately160 job training programs, and over 300 economic development programs. When American families are struggling to make ends meet, Congress should be looking for ways to tighten the government’s belt too, and this is a good place to start.
If we can’t make the easy decision to cut this kind of wasteful spending, is it is any wonder the American people are doubtful of Washington’s intentions to make the so-called “difficult choices.”
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where was this group 6 years ago? |
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isn't the creation of this caucus 6 years too late? where were you then? i think that this is a lot of hot air from those who were "big government republicans" a few years ago. |
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A police officer walked up to the prostitute and told her that she was under arrest because it was against the law to sell vagina. She told him that she wasn’t selling vagina she was selling condoms.with free vagina samples. |
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of spending like drunken sailors and running the country up to 10 trillion in debt, the GOP is finally serious about fiscal responsibility?
Riiiiiiiiight. And all those guys in prison really do find Jesus. |
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Certainly looks like he is working on it . Does it not,moron? |
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Are You one of those blithering baboons who say something like, 'President Hussein has outspent all the other presidents combined!' |
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Obama is not even through his first year. moron |
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In fact, Bush's last year outspent Obambi's first year.
Let's compare spending between Obambi and George Bush. Please feel free to let me now of any omissions!
Bush in his last year of spending.
Obambi in his first year of spending.
All numbers in Billions of dollars.
------------Bush------Obambi----
Budget---3100------3500
Stimulus---------------499
Tarp--------700
AIG---------120
Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag started off a briefing for reporters by saying Obama's White House had inherited two different $1 trillion deficits from Bush. The first one, caused by the crumbling economy, represented the difference between what the country's economic output should be and what it will be this year; the second was the actual federal budget deficit left by the previous administration. If the government simply stuck to Bush's policies for the next 10 years, Orszag said, the deficit would eventually reach $9 trillion. |
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Herr Obama has intentionally not released a valid copy of his birth certificate. His strategery is to keep the 'Moron Brigade' distracted. It seems to be working. |
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Bachmann ROCKS!!!
Get out the word and promote this thing on every blog and publication that you can!
Let's force ALL our representatives to take public positions on this caucus.
It's time for us to get loud and vocal about every single issue like this.
Let's pay the Left back for 40 years of demonstrations and screaming tactics.
It's our turn now. Pump up the volume! |
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Has anyone ever checked the Democrats for US citizenship? How about our Commander In Chief, with all due respect, especially since now that he has been elected he claims his family is Muslim!
I believe the Sunset Clause to fiscal responsibility was advocated by then Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, seems expansion rather than promises of curtailing Government Waste has occurred.
When is this Nation going to hold its' Elected Official's accountable, maybe a reduction in pay or a performance bonus for cost savings is in order.
Gerald Cleverley |
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....the federal deficit stood at an awful 526 BILLION dollars.
Since ODummer took office, the deficit has more than TRIPLED to an unfathomable 1.8 TRILLION dollars........
How's that "Hope 'n Change" workin' for 'ya???? |
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whose time has come!we should start cutting or defunding all of the programs that duplicate other programs as soon as possible. It's what the rest of us do when we're broke. |
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The lefty puerco is spinning her petite(Right!!)self into butter. So shrill. So high chair pounding. So faux real, Duuuude. |
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about? I didn't say b-52. I said f-22. Gates (bush's boy) wants to stop using them. And Congress hasn't cut anything. So the discussion is for naught.
And I'm still waiting to see proof for the ACORN "billions". Carl Sagan is dead. |
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BIG Bird with them contrail thingies..? They were built in the 1950's, Babycakes, and can still blow up little commies.
Now, we must proceed with the F-22. |
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See that big ole bird up there with the 4 contrails.....
.....that's a B-52. |
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Michelle,
Here is my list of agencies to dump: everything except defense, justice, and the CIA. Voila.
Best wishes and good luck. |
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proof that billions are going to Acorn.
And isn't the F-22 being shelved at the DOD's request? "Defense Secretary Robert Gates has proposed buying 187 of the planes. But that's dozens fewer than Lockheed and its supporters in Congress had hoped for. Part of Gates' proposed $534 billion defense budget represents a shift away from outdated, Cold War weapon systems to futuristic programs aimed at unconventional foes."
Besides, looks like no one is shelving the F-22 yet.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jHdMA5CgN hX8hQIgLJSNGBUXby7wD98SLCPO0 |
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the F-22, shall we.
Luv...Luv is what I feel for The Bamma. :-) |
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Try starting with Congress..... |
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Fixing our budget problems is not difficult. It simply requires the courage to be unpopular... also known here in Texas as "testicular fortitude."
Step 1: Constitutional amendment for congressional term limits (1x6 yr term for Senate, 3x2 yr term for House)
Step 2: Constitutional amendment for balanced budgets, yet cannot be "balanced" through mere tax hikes
Step 3: Constitutional amendment to abolish IRS and replace it with flat tax, fair tax or consumption tax
Step 4: ACTUAL BUDGET CUTS to ALLLLLL federal government departments, bureaus, agencies, divisions, offices, etc... REAL cuts (not "cuts in rate of growth") of 10% the first year... all agencies will "do more with less," and let the individual agencies figure out how to "make it work" on only 90% of last year's budget
Step 5: Freeze all federal budgets at that amount for five additional years after the first year's initial cut... this will have the combined effect of cutting the federal government by 28-40% (assuming a 3-5% annual rate of growth, which is considered "normal" for the federal government, plus the initial 10% cut)
Step 6: During this six year period, commission tiger teams from congress to evaluate EVERY federal government mission, branch, division, agency, bureau or cabinet... seeking to eliminate fraud, waste and redundancy... to satisfy a pre-determined cut of at least 30% of all federal agencies/bureaus/divisions/missions
... or, as I like to call it: "FOLLOWING THE EFFING CONSTITUTION!" |
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taormina, Jillianiana, Frank, Shriek, or any other Lefty to criticize Rep. Bachmann for this common-sense posting and legislation? |
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...Dept of Education, NEA, and Homeland Security. The first is a function of the states, the second is function of nothing, and the third is a gigantic waste. |
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These are the numbers that need to be repeated ad nauseum.....
The deficit has increased by $1.678 trillion or 1,035.8% in the little more than two years since the Democrats took control of the Congress.
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The President’s budget calls for the public debt to double within five years and to triple within ten years.
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This year’s deficit is projected to be $1.84 trillion—four times the next highest deficit in U.S. history.
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The federal government will borrow 46 cents for every dollar it spends in FY 2009.
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The Democrats, in just two years, have presided over a $8.6 trillion deterioration in the country’s budget outlook—from a projected ten-year surplus of $800 billion in January 2007, to projected deficits (over the same period) of $7.8 trillion. |
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finally a congressman with the where- with- it- all to recognize that an extension on a phone in a completely unrelated office is not a government program. An empty office or a single person who does little or nothing at all and gets tax payer dollars to do.
Is there a record of how many programs and offices there are in Washington(and states)???
Most of them are a bunch of acronyms repeated by politians and we never really know what they are or what they do and from where.
Some clarity please. |
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eliminating ACORN and it's mestastized offshoots?
Oh well, one can dream.
I hope it works but the Democrats are in business of growing government and their power; they won't like it very much for the Republicans to bring up their malfeasance by way of eliminating their pet departments. |
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