* 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 duplicating
education programs -- H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored byRep. 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.
* Freedom CAR 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
some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the
Treasury, instead of allowing it 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 death gratuity
for Members of Congress.
*
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 Organization 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..
* HUD Ph.D.
Program.
* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
* TOTAL SAVINGS:
$2.5 Trillion over Ten Years
My question is, what is all this crap doing in the budget in the
first place?
Monday, September 3, 2012
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