House GOP Lists $2.5 Trillion in Spending Cuts

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http://www.usnews.com/news/washington-whispers/articles/2011/01/20/house-gop-lists-25-trillion-in-spending-cuts

By Paul Bedard

Posted: January 20, 2011

Moving aggressively to make good on election promises to slash the federal budget, the House GOP today unveiled an eye-popping plan to eliminate $2.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years. Gone would be Amtrak subsidies, fat checks to the Legal Services Corporation and National Endowment for the Arts, and some $900 million to run President Obama's healthcare reform program.

What's more, the "Spending Reduction Act of 2011" proposed by members of the conservative Republican Study Committee, chaired by Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, would reduce current spending for non-defense, non-homeland security and non-veterans programs to 2008 levels, eliminate federal control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, cut the federal workforce by 15 percent through attrition, and cut some $80 billion by blocking implementation of Obamacare.

[gateley]

1. And there goes America. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

2. WSell, it hasn't exactly been signed into law yet.

[gateley]

8. Granted, but that sure seems like their goal. nt

[indepat]

3. America has been in the RW cross-hairs for decades: fruition is near

:shrug:

[gateley]

9. But they love to wave that Constitution around.

I wonder if they even realize what their vision would bring.

[indepat]

13. Tis certainly not a vision of a society wherein the government promoted the general welfare

rather than corporate welfare. ;)

[Skidmore]

4. So what jobs are they going to give to all the unemployed people

they want to displace in the labor market? When you are digging a hole, get more shovels and dig it deeper.

[Turbineguy]

6. You give them jobs

you'll just give them an incentive to work. Please pay attention here.

[affrayer]

5. You Do Realize You Double Dipped.

....and some $900 million to run President Obama's healthcare reform program.

....cut the federal workforce by 15 percent through attrition, and cut some $80 billion by blocking implementation of Obamacare.

Further they not only want to throw 32 million American citizens off health care but they are actually increasing the deficits.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/06/cbo-health-care-repeal-deficit_n_805192.html|CBO: Health Care Repeal Would Up Deficit By $230 Billion>

WASHINGTON -- Repealing health care reform will add $230 billion to the deficit over the next decade, leave 32 million fewer people with insurance and lead to higher costs for those who are covered, the Congressional Budget Office said in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) Thursday.

In other words, this is another republican boner idea...

[Jackpine Radical]

12. For shame. Since when do you have the right to reality-test

Republican assertions?

[affrayer]

14. The thought that there are people who actually agree with such sentiments

Makes me want to cry...

Do you remember how for a whole year we had public debate over healthcare?

Do you remember how the republicans tried to shut those discussions down with disruptive behavior?

Just two days ago the republicans "secretly" voted in the House to repeal health care with little or no debate?

But you do remember that the republicans complained there wasn't enough debate and amendments when healthcare was first passed?

[gatorboy]

7. Didn't notice anywhere on the list where the Republicans felt the need to slash THEIR healthcare.

[spanone]

10. grandstanding

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Empty Bluster

Never going to happen. They don't really have the backing of even their own voters.

I know you remember all of Gingrich's bluster in the 90's. How much of that was ever really enacted? Just a tiny slice.
GAC