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I’ve said this before and I will say it again, although the brain dead can’t comprehend, (or they don’t WANT to comprehend?? Better to be slaves to the DEM masters?)
“Founded in 1984 by the late industrialist J. Peter Grace and syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, CAGW is the follow-on organization to President Ronald Reagan’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, also known as the Grace Commission. In 1982, President Reagan directed the Grace Commission to “work like tireless bloodhounds to root out government inefficiency and waste of tax dollars.” For two years, 161 corporate executives and community leaders led an army of 2,000 volunteers on a waste hunt throughout the federal government. Funded entirely by voluntary contributions of $76 million from the private sector, the search cost taxpayers nothing. The Grace Commission made 2,478 recommendations which, if implemented, would save $424.4 billion over three years, an average of $141.5 billion a year – all without eliminating essential services. The 47 volumes and 21,000 pages of the Grace Commission Report constitute a vision of an efficient, well-managed government that is accountable to taxpayers.”
http://uhuh.com/taxstuff/gracecom.htm
That was $141.5 billion a year in 1984!
And this should answer any further questions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Peter_Grace
Of course, it’s a link, so I don’t expect certain people to follow. I certainly don’t expect the brain dead “we need more taxes” Dem zombies to see the truth.
Ah Yea–for those of us on a schedule, can you link directly to the list of any SPECIFICS is found? Getting rid of waste fraud abuse ineffective redundant programs is not very informative. I assume there is some actual information somewhere, but it is hidden.
Hard to believe money is actually wasted.
Gee, an hour and no takers? Ha, ha. No takers of a challenge==but all happy to take from the most disadvantaged of society.
Show me a Rich Man or a Puke, and I’ll show you a sh*t head hypocritical lying sack of sh*t. Yes, thats a lot of sh*t. (* to avoid filters).
Argue the heart of the matter or recognize the idiocy of your position. Otherwise you have been captured and are repeating mindless DOGMA!!!
I googled (chart “wealth disparity”) and found this:
http://businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america-2010-4#half-of-america-has-25-of-the-wealth-2
Should concern everyone.
VOTE ALL “NO NEW TAXES” POLITICIANS OUT OF OFFICE.
Here is a “list.” Don’t know how valid it is, but its food for thought:
These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy. $445 million annual savings.
Save America’s Treasures Program. $25 million annual savings.
International Fund for Ireland. $17 million annual savings.
Legal Services Corporation. $420 million annual savings.
National Endowment for the Arts. $167.5 million annual savings.
National Endowment for the Humanities. $167.5 million annual savings.
Hope VI Program. $250 million annual savings.
Amtrak Subsidies. $1.565 billion annual savings.
Eliminate duplicative education programs. H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
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.
John C. Stennis Center Subsidy. $430,000 annual savings.
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.
Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20%. $600 million annual savings.
Essential Air Service. $150 million annual savings.
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.
Beach Replenishment. $95 million annual savings.
New Starts Transit. $2 billion annual savings.
Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts . $9 million annual savings.
Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants. $2.5 billion annual savings.
Title X Family Planning. $318 million annual savings.
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.
Applied Research at Department of Energy. $1.27 billion annual savings.
FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership. $200 million annual savings.
Energy Star Program. $52 million annual savings.
Economic Assistance to Egypt . $250 million annually.
U.S. Agency for International Development. $1.39 billion annual savings.
General Assistance to District of Columbia . $210 million annual savings.
Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. $150 million annual savings.
Presidential Campaign Fund. $775 million savings over ten years.
No funding for federal office space acquisition. $864 million annual savings.
End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services. Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act. More than $1 billion annually.
IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing payments 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 savings.
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 total savings.
Eliminate Mohair Subsidies. $1 million annual savings.
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.
USDA Sugar Program. $14 million annual savings.
Subsidy to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).$93 million annual savings.
Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program. $56.2 million annual savings.
Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs. $900 million savings.
Ready to Learn TV Program. $27 million savings.
Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.
HUD Ph.D. Program.
Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act
TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years
Good for you bobbo!
Now THAT’S more like it. Kudos.
Now add this:
“More than 1000 US Bases and/or Military Installations … In total, there are 255,065 US military personnel deployed Worldwide … These facilities include a total of 845,441 different buildings and equipments. … Adding to the bases inside U.S. territory, the total land area occupied by US military bases domestically within the US and internationally is of the order of 2,202,735 hectares, which makes the Pentagon one of the largest landowners worldwide.”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5564
And nobody, but NOBODY can actually say with certainly just how much this actually costs. The daily operation, servicing, etc.
I bet it’s in the upper hundreds of billions, if not trillions.
The Pentagon makes GM look like a lemonade stand.
#54 More like it doesn’t fit reality. It seem to fit your dogma perfectly though
Ah Yea–thank you. Just to be clear, I wasn’t thinking of you when I wrote about the most disadvantaged among us. But I was thinking of Pedro.
Pure coincidence you both posted.
I wonder how this would change the US economy?
If the loons would ever let it happen. (Not likely)
“you can burn the expensive fuel. You can burn the cheap fuel. You can burn the waste that the fuel produces. And you can even burn the much more dangerous waste produced by other types of reactors. There’s enough leftover U-238 just sitting around to power our entire country for centuries, and by extracting uranium from seawater (which is apparently easy to do), you could provide power to the entirety of civilization until our planet falls into the sun. Or at least, for about a million years.”
One million years of clean energy, for everyone on the planet?
Nah, the environmental death dealers won’t allow it. (They must all be working for the oil companies!)
http://dvice.com/archives/2011/07/traveling-wave.php
If you can devise a method of labeling your opponent as being bad and wrong in some manner, and repeat that endlessly in such a way that it becomes the first thing a majority of people associate with your opponent, then you have gained significant political ground.
Now, if you can do all that while actually BEING that awful thing you accused your opponent of, then, my son, you are a Republican!
I apologize for not linking my list at Post #64. It was in an email.
#69–Buzz==you mean like super scuz bag Joe Walsh, media hound of the Teabaggers? So typical:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/28/281570/rep-joe-walsh-defends-not-paying-117000-in-child-support-this-is-where-real-america-is/
Who is responsible? Every person who voted Democrat or Republican over the last 20 years. The electorate is getting what they asked for and deserve.
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Welcome to reality. It took 50 years but the flow of tribute, that roman empire thing is coming to an end. Money is about to become scarce an those who are reality based need to hold firm.
We are in Ayn,s collapse phase, although the route was slighty different.
We can forever dish out that old cliche but the dinocruds will never acknowledge reality.
You want to know, Who’s Responsible?
Answer:WE ARE!!!
frap it, Costa Rica is looking better every day.
Throw them all out and start over. Riiiight.
Cgp said “We are in Ayn,s collapse phase, although the route was slighty different.”
Nice. The Harold Camping approach to economic management.
I have some questions: Does this chart account for the 2.4 trillion that Barack Obama is asking for in new debt?
And if it did, would it assign it all to Obama, or spread it out over other presidents?
>Do you support the provision of medical and retirement income benefits “basically” at the level they are provided now or for whatever reasons do they need to be cut? Why?
Yes to both parts.
Let’s not forget Reagan’s contribution to the National Debt – he took our 200 year old debt – through the Revolution, the Civil War, WWI and WWII and DOUBLED IT – WITHOUT WINNING A GOBAL WAR IN THE PROCESS !!! He then handed it off to the IMBECILE “W” – who DOUBLED IT AGAIN !!! And in a FINAL FINGER TO AMERICANS, GAVE WALL STREET AND THE BANKS THE “TOO BIG TO FAIL BAILOUTS” !!! So the BLOODY HANDS OF THE REPUKES ARE ***ALL OVER THE NATIONAL DEBT*** !!!
#79 Go take your meds you screaming moron.