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Why do the Democrats prefer to let America go over the fiscal cliff than to let the senate vote on the budget?
Republican Budget Cuts
Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list.
These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. Read to the end.
* 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 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.
* 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.WHAT THE HELL IS THISABOUT?
* 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.WHAT???
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.
*Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
* 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 doing in the budget in the first place?
The Republicans have sent a 'Plan B', but as usual, the Democrats would rather blame than even look at it.
14 Answers
- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
There’s no stopping them now.
Democrats dominate the major media:
Pro-Republican Fox News has one tenth the viewers of the Big Media:
5/25/11 huffingtonpost.com: NBC Nightly News averaged 9.469 million viewers, ABC's World News 8.380 million; CBS Evening News 6.204 million; among cable networks, Fox News 2.556 million. Those figures don’t include MSNBC, CNN and Hollywood biggies who shill for the democrat party. The facts prove the bias:
1) How Americans saw the mainstream media (TV and print) election coverage in 2008:
-Rasmussen poll: 69% for Obama, 6% for McCain
-Pew Research poll: 67% for Obama, 11% for McCain
-Sacred Heart University poll: 68% for Obama, 9% for McCain
-Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll: 67% for Obama, 11% for McCain
2) University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy survey of journalists, nationwide, during the 2008 election: 52% supported Obama versus 19% for McCain.
3) 9/2009 Sacred Heart University Polling Institute: 69.9% agreed the national news media are intent on promoting the Obama presidency while 26.5% disagreed.
4) 9/23/10 Pew Research poll: 43% of those who perceive bias say it is liberal; 23% say they see conservative bias.
5) 9/29/10 Gallup poll: Distrust of the media Edges Up to Record High
Perceptions of liberal bias still far outnumber perceptions of conservative bias: 48% say the media are too liberal; 15% say they are too conservative.
6) 9/22/11 Gallup poll: 60% perceive bias, with 47% saying the media are too liberal and 13% saying they are too conservative.
7) 8/15/12 Rasmussen Poll: 59% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Obama has received the best treatment from the media so far; 18% think his Republican challenger has been treated better.
8) How many Republican presidential candidates has the New York Times endorsed since 1960? None. Not one.
Democrats dominate the "education" system, from K to PHD:
1) Who gets the K-12 unionized government teachers’ campaign cash?
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php%E2%80%A6 Top All-Time [campaign] Donors, 1989-2012:
-The National Education Association (largest government teachers’ union) gave $43,613,263: 71% went to democrats, 5% to Republicans.
-The American Federation of Teachers (second largest government teachers’ unions) gave $34,698,466: 86% went to democrats, 0% to Republicans.
2) What’s the political make-up in our universities?
3/29/05 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A842...
-72% of higher education teachers are liberal, 15% conservative
-50% identified themselves as democrat, 11% republican
-At elite schools: 87% are liberal, 13% conservative.
3) April 2012 http://www.nas.org/images/documents/A_Crisis_of_Co... a report on the dominant political views in American universities by the National Association of Scholars:
-“The extent of the tilt to the left has been growing and has now reached a magnitude not remotely matched in the past. In some areas it is so extreme that it amounts to virtual exclusion of any but left-of-center faculty members.”
-At the U. of Cal. Berkeley campus there were 350 full professors registered as Democrats to only 42 as Republicans, a ratio of 8:1; among associate and assistant professors the ratio is 49 democrats for each Republican.
Democrats dominate government unions:
10/22/10 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB200014240527023033... Wall Street Journal: The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections. It gave 0% to Republicans between 1989 and 2012.
Is it any wonder why so many democrats vote to dump the Constitution in favor of a European style welfare state?
1) 2/4/10 http://www.gallup.com/poll/125645/Socialism-Viewed... 61% of liberals have a positive view of socialism.
2) 6/2/11 http://www.gallup.com/poll/147881/Americans-Divide... 71% of democrats favor re-distributing wealth.
3) 9/6-9/2012 http://www.gallup.com/poll/157481/majori%E2%80%A6 a poll on those who believe government should have more control over our lives: Republicans 15%; Independents, 29%; Democrats 67%.
4) And they finally got their national health care, the foundation of all welfare and socialist states.
With Obama’s upcoming Supreme Court appointments democrats will own the courts.
It's over.
Ben Franklin: "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
- Anonymous5 years ago
It's there to create jobs. There are way too many people living in the United States!! It's you're real problem. Most are dummies with no education and can do only meaningless tasks. Thus, dummy jobs started popping up. It's best to let America fall and see where they land. Get ready because it's coming quickly. You are all about to be living like hillbillies soon. Very soon. There are only a few ways out and you guys are not smart enough to accept them so you choose to fail!
- ndmagicmanLv 78 years ago
The Republicans Plan B is a joke. It has all the spending cuts but has scaled back the increased taxes on the wealthy big time.
The Senate, last July, already passed a bill that would end the fiscal cliff nonsense, why has the GOP controlled House not even brought it up for discussion on the floor of the House?
- StevensonLv 68 years ago
It is and has been a two party effort to get us to this point,no matter the outcome. Who knows, maybe the cliff was in the plans by both from the beginning..
- Thomas JeffersonLv 48 years ago
The Senate doesn't take up the issue until the House has passed a budget and their dysfunctional leader can't even get HIS OWN people to support his plan! LMAO
- Anonymous8 years ago
Dude, are you REALLY that clueless? Plan B went up in flames. Boehner yanked it, not allowing a vote on it because he knew it wouldn't pass. Have you really not been following the news or do you already know all of this and this is simply your way of jerking off?
- Anonymous8 years ago
As usual the answer is right in front of them. If they could push their over-inflated ego out of the way they may see it. So easy to see but so difficult to answer
- ?Lv 78 years ago
Do you not know that the big bucks republican backers are the only reason the republicans won't budge?
- ?Lv 58 years ago
Really man? it's not the Senate's fault.
The plan B was a joke, all it was=cut support for welfare kids.
You need to get that Tea Party out of there, it's ruining your party.