Cutting the Federal Budget

You might have seen in the news this past some news about some commission giving their recommendations on how to reduce the deficit.  I didn’t read much into it, as I know it is nothing but garbage that won’t address the real issues we have.

There’s more useless and wasted money in the federal government than anyone could probably ever account for.  Why are we giving billions to terrorists states?  Why are we funding NPR?  Well here is my “recommendations” for cuts in the government.

Note:  Numbers I’m using here are from the most recent budgets and accounting that I could find.  They might not be completely exact, but the point is still valid.

• Cut $100 billion from the Department of Defense.  Conservatives might get jumpy at this one, but they need to get a grip and realize the DoD, like any other federal department, is full of waste.  I don’t advocate cutting important military operations, but we can cut back on foreign bases, consolidate operations, etc.
• Eliminate HUD.  That is $48 billion right back for a department that has become nothing more than another entitlement management agency.
• Abolish the Department of Education.  The DoE is the perfect example of a useless government bureaucracy.   Education should be a State matter, and there’s another $68 billion cut.
• Cut 90% of Foreign Aid.  This is a hard number to get a total for, which means it is probably an extremely insane amount being spent. The best number I could find is that the U.S. spends roughly $26 billion per year on foreign aid.  We should cut most of this back with only a small reserve.
• Stop funding the United Nations.  The U.S. gives the U.N. over $3 billion a year in funding.  I don’t need to explain how corrupt and ineffective the U.N. is, and further funding should be stopped.
• No more money to NPR.  We pay nearly $500 million to fund NPR, which gets incredible amounts of money from left-wing loons like George Soros. 

These are just a few examples, but I can pretty much guarantee you won’t find these on the liberal list of deficit reduction.  There are many other ways like freezing federal pay and stopping bailouts of labor unions.  Of course we really didn’t even address the most wasteful programs like all the entitlement programs that are only getting bigger.