A good start for cutting the Fed Budget:

[george68hemirr]

A good start for cutting the Fed Budget:


These are all the programs that the new Republican House of Representatives have 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 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. WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 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..
HUD Ph.D. Program.
Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.

TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years


My question is, what is all this doing in the budget in the first place? :toetap: :toetap: :toetap:

 

[69hemibeep]

Add all foreign aid to the list :toetap:

 

[Roadcuda]

The only ones that I would not agree with are the cuts to rail transportation. With the way this lousy government is forcing fuel prices up, people are going to need alternate forms of transportation. And people have already forgotten that when 9-11 shut down all air travel the only long distance travel option that was not shut down was rail. And you don't have to be groped to get on a train like you do to get on a plane!

 

[sixgunrunner68]

The only ones that I would not agree with are the cuts to rail transportation. With the way this lousy government is forcing fuel prices up, people are going to need alternate forms of transportation. And people have already forgotten that when 9-11 shut down all air travel the only long distance travel option that was not shut down was rail. And you don't have to be groped to get on a train like you do to get on a plane!

I agree with you to a point. Believe me, I'm all for government subsides to the rail car industry since 90% of the products my company manufactures is for the local transit authorities and their vendors, so it keeps me in work. However, I drive to work every day and taking the train is not an option, if it were I'd use it. Basically what I'm trying to say is that people who are using the rails as their choice for commuting do so because they can, and it's more cost effective for them to do so. I'm not so sure that there will be a significant change in mass transit use over the population due to gas prices. Keeping in mind that transit fees rise as well. Since you're from Conn. I'm sure you've seen the constant debates over fare increases with Metro North and the NYCTA. It's neverending. :cents:

 

[Jim S.]

Mohair Subsidies? :crazy:

Amtrak is a good thing to keep around but, our city light rail is kind of a joke. It only goes from downtown Mpls. to the airport and the mega mall. We have to spend $13 million a year to keep it operating. Not too much rider ship. After dark bring a gun. They are building another leg to downtown St. Paul which will cost $33 million a year. In the mean time a lot of business's are closing along the torn up busy street they are building it on. Including "Porky's" which was a local drive-in and hang out for muscle cars.

 

[69hemibeep]

Mohair Subsidies? :crazy:

Amtrak is a good thing to keep around but, our city light rail is kind of a joke. It only goes from downtown Mpls. to the airport and the mega mall. We have to spend $13 million a year to keep it operating. Not too much rider ship. After dark bring a gun. They are building another leg to downtown St. Paul which will cost $33 million a year. In the mean time a lot of business's are closing along the torn up busy street they are building it on. Including "Porky's" which was a local drive-in and hang out for muscle cars.

Our light rail must be modeled after yours, even with fuel prices as they are they have cut back on trains do to lack of use :yesnod:

 

[Roadcuda]

The 3 of you all have good points. There are some areas where while the idea may have been good, the choice of where these light rail systems were built was a poor one. Ct wants to build a 9 mile bus way along side of the main rail line that they say will move 7000 people a day and take cars off one of the major highways that is always jams up at rush hour. The cost just to build is $585 million, that does not include operating costs which I'll bet wont's be covered by fares. Because of where the city that this will start from is, to where it ends, I just don't see how this will accomplish what they claim it will. For a 1/4 of that cost they could up grade an existing rail line that would connect 4 large cities and every small community in between that covers a 35 or 40 mile corridor. Other problems with this is that Amtrak who owns that line that will run alongside has future plans to as a third line in this area and upgrade this section to high speed rail. The other problem is that there is talk to of a major highway rebuild in the area where the busway will end, which would mean that end of it would have to be rebuilt. Just plain stupid. As far as long distance travel goes they already subsidize both highways, and air travel to some extent, so that makes it hard to understand why they are always going after just passenger rail. If they take that alternative away, it will overload the remaining forms of transportation which is already close to the breaking point with overbooked flights and deteriorating, and overcrowded roads. Sorry for being long winded as you can tell this just bugs the sh!t our of me. BTW, I would use rail too but there is no line that goes by where I live. Ironically, I have a 3 mile ride to work, and the main line is right behind the plant, with the closest station just 3/4 of a mile away!

 

[ACME A12]

I use the rail system whenever I am in Europe...but it is a joke here...for all of the aforementioned reasons...

There was a push to get a rail system installed down here...Feds got involved...new Govenor told them to take their funds and everything else that came with it somewhere else...