SSsssooo what would you cut.???????

[yubba]

It seems that our poor president, is have-ing a deer caught in the headlights moment, over what too cut in the national budget, you guys seem pretty smart maybe you can help our Country Clubber in Cheif out.
I'd cut the treadmills for shirmp. And maybe the Department of Energy with all the millions put in, not one watt put out. Though I kind of feel bad for putting shirmp out of work maybe, they can get a batter job at Red Lobster.

[antikristuseke]

I would probably start by cutting your internet access

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

I would probably start by cutting your internet access

[STEED]

Ask David Cameron for $900,000 Trillion...Hey that a***hole is giving money way.















Please don't I was just being cheesed off.

[mookiemookie]

• cut foreign aid in half
• eliminate farm subsidies
• reduce the military to pre-Iraq size, bring all combat forces home from Iraq & Afghanistan
• give the Army 5 years to close half of all foreign bases
• cap Medicare growth
• reduce Social Security benefits for high income earners
• re-institute the Estate tax, but exempt the first 3 million of any estate

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

• cut foreign aid in half
• eliminate farm subsidies
• reduce the military to pre-Iraq size, bring all combat forces home from Iraq & Afghanistan
• give the Army 5 years to close half of all foreign bases
• cap Medicare growth
• reduce Social Security benefits for high income earners
• re-institute the Estate tax, but exempt the first 3 million of any estate

I agree with all but the last. I can't stand estate taxes, it's just not right that the govt can come in & grab property just because someone dies and leaves it to an heir. Much of it was already taxed.

But hey, we agree on the first few, that's a start!

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

• cut foreign aid in half
• eliminate farm subsidies
• reduce the military to pre-Iraq size, bring all combat forces home from Iraq & Afghanistan
• give the Army 5 years to close half of all foreign bases
• cap Medicare growth
• reduce Social Security benefits for high income earners
• re-institute the Estate tax, but exempt the first 3 million of any estate

Good choices. But on a side note, you are obviosly not from a farm state, the mid-West demmicrates aren't going to roll over for that one. (Don't cut my benefits bro !)

I'll add to your list:

• Anything to do with the arts. (This is just fluff, go pay for your own hobby) (auf weidersehen PBS)
• maybe mothball a good portion of the armo(u)red forces. I'd close all the foreign bases except for Korea.
• I'd come up with some sort of hollywood tax
• I'd cut all congressional perks. (no more million dollar pensions) Limit trips to congress member and one staffer.
• I'd send Nancy pelosi the bill for her travels.

[TLAM Strike]

Cut all foreign aid to any country with a name ending in -stan.

[Growler]

Originally Posted by yubba

It seems that our poor president, is have-ing a deer caught in the headlights moment, over what too cut in the national budget, you guys seem pretty smart maybe you can help our Country Clubber in Cheif out.
I'd cut the treadmills for shirmp. And maybe the Department of Energy with all the millions put in, not one watt put out. Though I kind of feel bad for putting shirmp out of work maybe, they can get a batter job at Red Lobster.

Hey, if we hooked up generators to the shrimp treadmills, we'd make electricity - there goes your Energy Department!




I'll just go on ahead back to the bar now, if anyone needs me.

[Onkel Neal]

No more $300 hammers.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

No more $300 hammers.

What about $1000 toilet seats?

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

I would probably start by cutting your internet access

[Platapus]

1. Close many/most of the 800 US military bases overseas and move the military back to the United States.

Advantage 1: US military members would be spending money in the United States and not in some foreign country. Good for the US economy and more tax revenue.

2. Rotate the stateside military to patrol duty on the northern and southern border of the United States. They would not be stationed near Entry Portals but would be deployed to the non-EP sections of our borders. The military would NOT be there to enforce immigration laws (Posse Comitatus). The military would be there to protect our borders from attack. No one can object to a country using its military to guard borders from potential attack

3. Station Border Patrol people behind the military deployment.

If someone crosses a border without going through an EP, the military will capture them as a potential enemy combatant. Once the military determines that they are not (due to lack of weapons), the military turns the person over to the Border Patrol so that they, as per their warrant, determine whether this person is in the country illegally and take appropriate legal actions. Military and LE are kept separate.

Advantage 2: Border Patrol does not have enough people nor the technology to actually patrol a border. They are set up to enforce the laws. Let the military do what they do best (patrol areas) and let the Border Patrol people do what they do best (enforce laws).

3. Deploy the navy to patrol our northern and southern borders where there is more wet stuff. The navy is good at patrolling where there is wet stuff, the Border Patrol is not. We are concerned with Semi-submersibles entering our wet stuff, put the navy there. They would operate the same as the land border military mission - detect, engage, capture, evaluate, transfer to border patrol for legal action.

I think it is time that we realize that sometimes the best defense is a good defense. Let's use the military to actually defend our nation's borders.

I think the military would much rather be deployed to the northern or southern border for 3 months than AF for more than 12 months.

That's what I would cut.

[Castout]

Cut . . . . . let me see. . . .cut the United States into two.. Orchestrate a rebellion that would succeed. Make the new state New United States of America. It would absolve all debts to the previous United States of America. You can't collect debts from a non existent state. Or leave Texas as the only remaining state of the old USA. Let them pay the debt.


And start anew with NUSA.


Or better yet invade and annex Ireland let them be part of USA then all states but it secede. Let the State of Ireland pay the debt.

[Task Force]

I would cut some 0s off the national debt, and put it on a giant white board in front of the white house.

and when someone asks "wheres my money!" Id point at the white board and say "we owe you nothing, look at how small our 30$ national debt is." and we only owe 30$ to the local store!

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Task Force

I would cut some 0s off the national debt, and put it on a giant white board in front of the white house.

and when someone asks "wheres my money!" Id point at the white board and say "we owe you nothing, look at how small our 30$ national debt is." and we only owe 30$ to the local store!

brb, writing a letter to my credit card company