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Originally Posted by Rockin' Flames
The Heritage Foundation put out a great article of areas to cut in the federal government and measures to take. Take a read through this for a way to start cutting spending by $343 Billion. |
Two questions. 1. Did you read the report? 2. Did you understand the report and the myriad of agencies that these cuts would affect?
This report is a complete hatchet job, passing all responsibility and budget requirements of issues that should be handled at the federal to the state and sticks it to the poor while giving more and more to the rich. Based on where it came from I'm not overly surprised, but seriously, this is so flawed it hurts to read. A lot of the measures aren't really cuts by transfers to the state level, increasing the regional spending requirement and debt load on the states. It isn't a plan to cut a lot of spending but is nothing more than fancy parlor trick to shuffle the debt around. Also the cuts that are there affect programs that keep jobs in depressed economic regions or allow for poor people to improve their standard through training and education. The cuts to the arts have always been a target for the conservatives, which is something I don't understand. The arts are a big way of protecting our culture and passing it along to future generations. The arts is part of what makes us human. The reasoning behind cutting that doesn't make sense. Finally, a lot of the cuts would impact the small business owner, especially in agriculture, and put money directly into the coffers of the corporate farms. I don't think that report makes much sense and is not what America is about.