Republicans Help me put together a list of discretionary cuts that add up to 1.1 trillion dollars?

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First thing is to stop Obamacare before it starts. Even the most delusional members of the Obama administration are no longer pretending that is saves money.

Get rid of the labor department, energy department, labor department and education department. These organizations serve no purpose other than to spread a political agenda. If these people need their message spread they need to pay for it themselves.

Cut the other agencies at a REAL rate of 10%.

I would leave the military at current levels. We have seen that the world remains a dangerous place and cutting the military means paying to rebuild it at a more expensive rate. I would raise the budget of NASA because we cannot afford to slide backwards and I would leave the VA intact because we made a commitment to these people.

Any holes left and I would sell off large chunks of federal land. The US government own 1/4 of all of the land in the US. Sell it off and pay our bills....Show more

We could eliminate the dept of Education because I pay massive local taxes for our schools. The city has a dept, the state, and the fed, and they all do the exact same thing. Push the government to increase funding so they can get larger pensions.
I am also fine with cutting defense spending, foreign aid, and half the programs my state runs for the federal government which are all about patronage.

Do any of you Liberals understand how government operates? Do you realize that the money flows locally and the sharks divide it up? My city replaced a failed government housing program with a bigger, more expensive program that turned around and rebuilt the housing in the same area with just newer buildings. The problems are all still there. There is no solution. The solutions that were suggested are "racist" or "discriminatory" like building homes in the ghetto. That's right. Moving people out of downtown and development in the ghetto is racist, so we cannot do that, so we rebuild exactly where they were, and now have the same problems. PC liberals are idiots....Show more

Well, Obamacare is $780 billion. Think that would help?

------> "President Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday."
=======>>> "Proposed tax cuts for the middle class account for nearly a third of that shortfall.

The CBO and the White House are in relative agreement about the short-term budget picture, with both predicting a deficit of about $1.5 trillion this year -- a post-World War II record at 10.3 percent of the overall economy -- and $1.3 trillion in 2011.

Amazing how some feel that calling the government tax shortage is called an "expense".

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-06/obama-spending-plan-underestimates-deficits-budget-office-says.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=114x76522...Show more

That is the problem in America right now. They had to fix up Social Security. None of the Disability are getting half of what the seniors were suppose to get. Before, they were going to fix that situation and they didn't. It makes no sense of doing these things and giving out things that seniors or elderly need and not the disability need. President Obama and Former Congressman Neil Abercrombie want to fix that rule they have and change it towards that process to disability people and not the seniors. The seniors get money from the jobs, investments,etc. Disability have nothing towards those things. Especially the young ones. They don't pay taxes....Show more

The cuts in the GOP pledge to do the same old crap aka the “Pledge to America” only came up to a little over $100 billion.

Real Libertarians know what the Cato Institute is. Tad DeHaven is a budget analyst on federal and state budget issues for the Cato Institute.

•The document immediately notes that the “lack of a credible plan” to tackle the mounting federal debt causes uncertainty for employers and investors. The problem is the GOP leadership doesn’t have a credible plan to address the debt, or at least this document doesn’t offer one.
•It disingenuously promises to “cut government spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels” when in fact it only intends to do so for a small portion of the overall federal budget. The reduction would apply to discretionary, non-security spending, which only accounts for about 15 percent of total federal spending....Show more