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2011-02-08 Home Front: Politix

Paul Ryan to lock in cap on discretionary spending

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Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-08 10:50|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 The mod that put in the yellow part of the article (Fred?) makes some good points.

I think this is just managing what was already passed and dealing with the now before setting up the next budget. However, I would love to see a systematic plan from the Republicans on exactly how they are going to prune the spending.

We have more departments than ever and they constantly do little more than make the rest of our lives even more complicated and expensive.

More and more stories of corruption and incompetence from all agencies are coming out and expect to see that this is only the tip of the iceberg (see ATF running guns to Mexico for starters).

Get a plan guys, for now it just looks like a guy with a hedge trimmer whacking at the overgrown shrubbery, but there needs to be a plan for getting rid of the plants that you just don't need, take up space and suck up all of your fertilizer and water at the expense of your garden.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-08 12:28|| 2011-02-08 12:28|| Front Page Top

#2 The mod that put in the yellow part of the article (Fred?) makes some good points.

That is indeed Fred.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-08 17:43|| 2011-02-08 17:43|| Front Page Top

#3 In the 'real world' such departments or organizations would have to justify their existence once in a while and point to some actual, measurable, and dependable, results (as in Revenue or benefit to their clients).

What has the Department of Education actually produced? By all accounts our kids are dumber than ever (and definately dumber than most of the rest of the planet). Seems to me that the DOE's main accomplishment is to dumb down the American student.

Ditto for Energy - the Department Of Energy's main purpose is to stifle any and all means of domestic energy generation.

Homeland Security is more interested in groping as many men and women (both comely and ugly) as possible at the Airports than actually securing our wide open southern border.

And Don't get me started on the EPA - who's main focus recently seems to be crying over spilled milk and regulating cow farts.

And of course I resemble Fred's remark on the results of the 'President's Council on Physical Fitness'...

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-02-08 19:07|| 2011-02-08 19:07|| Front Page Top

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