Sen. Rand Paul: CUT FEDERAL SPENDING ACT of 2011

8/7/2019 Sen. Rand Paul: CUT FEDERAL SPENDING ACT of 2011

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Rand Pauls $500 Billion Spending

Cut Proposal Food Stamps,Defense, You Name itWednesday, January 26, 2011By T. CHRISTOPHER

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Newly elected Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul is ready to

make his presence felt on Capitol Hill, and after looking at his

first piece of proposed legislation, Id say 800 lb guerrilla in the

room would just about sum it up. The bill titled as CutFederal Spending Act of 2011 (cuts right to it doesntit?) is an equal opportunity slasher.

Here is the bill

Here is a summary

I have included the totals below for your enjoyment

Take a look. Lots of zeros here folks.

Legislative Branch: $1,283,000,000

Judicial Branch: $2,434,000,000

Agriculture: $42,542,000,000 Commerce: $5,322,000,000

Defense:

o Military Personnel: $14,000,000,000

o Procurement: $13,300,000,000

o Operations and Maintenance:$22,430,000,000

o Research and Development:

$8,000,0000,0000
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o War Funding: $16,000,000,000

Education: $16,256,000,000

Energy: $27,270,000,000 Health and Human Services:

$26,510,000,000

Homeland Security: $23,765,000,000

Housing and Urban Development: Defunded

Interior: $10,934,000,000 Justice: $9,057,000,000

Labor: $2,803,000,000

Transportation: $42,810,000,000

Army Corps of Engineers: $1,854,000,000

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):$3,238,000,000

General Services Administration:

$1,936,000,000

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA): $4,448,000,000

National Science Foundation: $4,723,000,000

Office of Personnel Management:

$9,070,000,000


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Federal Communications Commission:

$2,150,000,000

Miscellaneous Budget Savingso Collecting Delinquent Taxes From

Federal Employees: $3,000,000,000

o Freeze Federal Government Employee

Pay: $2,000,000,000

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Reduce Federal Government Travel:$7,500,000,000

o Davis-Bacon Repealed: $6,000,000,000

o Prohibit Union-Labor Project

Agreements: $2,000,000,000

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Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)Repealed: $4,481,000,000

o Unused Federal Assets Shall be Sold:

$19,000,000,000

o Reduce Federal Vehicle Budget:

$600,000,000

Repeal of Independent Agencies

o Affordable Housing Program: Defunded

o Commission of Fine Arts: Defunded


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o Consumer Product Safety Commission:

Defunded

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting:Defunded

o National Endowment for the Arts:

Defunded

o National Endowment for the Humanities:

Defundedo State Justice Institute: Defunded

The Social Security Administration and the Department of

Veterans Affairs are not on the list of proposed cuts however

for the year 2011.

I think we all know that the likelihood of this thing passing isslim to none, and Harry Reid fell on Slim when he feinted from

reading this list. That said, I commend Senator Paul for being

first out of the gate with a real proposal that presents real

cuts to government spending. I very much look forward to

the push-back. The dirty little secret that no one wants to talk

about is the inefficiency in Defense spending, so it will be

rather interesting to see how more than $70 billion in cutsthere will resonate with his colleagues.

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Senator Rand Paul Introduces $500

Billion in Spending CutsPublished on 25 January 2011 by RyanH in Press Releases

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WASHINGTON, D.C. In the face of an ever-expanding national debt,

newly elected Senator Rand Paul is taking a bold and proactive

step in protecting our national security and lowering ourdeficit. By introducing $500 billion in spending cuts today to

be enacted over one year Sen. Paul is starting an important

conversation with his Senate colleagues about how to fix our

nations current economic situation.
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I am proud to introduce my own solution to the mounting

debt our spendthrift, oversized government has accrued. By

rolling back to 2008 levels and eliminating the most wasteful

programs, we can still keep 85 percent of our governmentfunding in place, Sen. Paul said today.

By removing programs that are beyond the constitutional role

of the federal government, such as education and housing, we

are cutting nearly 40 percent of our projected deficit and

removing the big-government bureaucrats who stand in the

way of efficiency in our federal government, he continued.

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Senator Rand Paul Response to SOTU

Senator Rand Pauls State of the Union Response

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Video & Audio of Senator Rand Pauls

Response to SOTU

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Thank you for joining me today. As we begin the first week oflegislative work in the Senate, there are many issues I look

forward to addressing.

Last week, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the

government takeover of health care. I applaud them for that

and I will fight to see it brought to a vote in the Senate, so we

may end this misguided big-government attempt at solving aproblem better addressed by free-market principles.

As we gather this week for the Presidents State of the Union

address, I am hopeful he will speak to the urgency of the

budget, which should be the first order of business for him and

the new Congress. Washington has gone off the rails with

spending and if we dont act our debt will soon consume us.

The President is likely to introduce more spending which he

wrongly calls investment. We must enact fiscal restraint if
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we are to keep America competitive in the international

marketplace.

With that in mind, this week I will introduce my first budgetproposal, which features over $500 billion in spending cuts.

This is the first step of many, needed to confront the biggest

threat to our national security our countrys perpetual debt.

My proposal includes an overall rollback to 2008 pre-Stimulus

spending levels, plus 10 percent cuts in some defense spending,

and at least 20 percent cuts to a number of other department

and agencies like NASA, TSA, Agriculture, and Department ofEnergy. My proposal also includes elimination of those that

have gone beyond their usefulness or are not fulfilling their

stated missions like Department of Education, GPO, and

International aid programs.

Keeping in line with the idea of putting our economy back on

track, I also plan to introduce legislation that would allow for afull audit of the Federal Reserve. We must take a critical look

at the Feds monetary policy decisions, because it is more

crucial than ever that we have real transparency with our

central bank and the way the American peoples money is

being spent.

And as myself and my fellow freshman members of Congresswere chosen to represent Americans best interests, its

important to constantly gauge our progress in taking back our

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On Thursday, Ill be meeting with Senators Jim DeMint and

Mike Lee, and grassroots Tea Party leaders from across the

country to continue the conversation on how we defeat the debt

and reduce the size of government. This inaugural meeting ofthe Tea Party Caucus will work to enact real change to protect

our country and its taxpayers from an ever-expanding

government.

I hope youll check back next week for an update on what

weve accomplished.

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Theres Only So Many Ways Obama CanSpin Failure

by Daniel Greenfieldon August 9th, 2010

During the 2008 election, the media sold Obama on two key points,

repairing the economy, and bringing new focus and ideas into the war

in Afghanistan. As the summer of 2010 fades, its painfully clear that

Obama has failed completely in both areas.
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Obama has come out on the wrong side of the economy. His

administrations economic policies are based on the insane notion that

the private sector needs to be taxed more in order to fund more

government spending. When its only private sector capitalism thathas a shot at reviving the economy, not government spending. The

Democrats mistook their own tax and spend rhetoric for reality,

tripling the national debt, while ramming through smoking heaps of

pork for themselves and their buddies. And so the economy is a

disaster area, the public is angry, and the only answer the Democrats

have for them is more of the same. But more of the same just wont

cut it.

The Democrats want to keep pushing the message that the problem

with the economy is that the rich dont pay enough taxes. But thats

not the problem with the economy, thats the problem with their

spending bills. America isnt suffering from economic problems

because the people who actually make money arent forwarding it fast

enough to Washington D.C. Thats the problem that Washington D.C.

politicians are suffering from. And theyre not suffering very hardfrom it, because their approach is to just spend the money anyway,

and turn it into debt for the next generation.

And the argument by Dem pols that the people who actually stimulate

the economy need to send them more money, so they can spend it

faster, isnt resonating too well with the general public. Americans

may not be big fans of big banks, but theyre not fans of big pols

either and they know by now that its the pols and the banks whojoined hands in the bailout at their expense. Everything else is just

theater. After multiple bailouts, the Democrats want to turn around

and bash the same banks and companies they bailed out. And that
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plays about as well as two criminals turning on each other in police

custody. He was the one behind it! No it was all his idea.

Running on the bizarre crypto-economics of Enron advisor and

liberal financial court jester Paul Krugman, the Obama

Administration and the Democratic congress acted as if the mere act

of government spending alone would revive the economy. The more

the better. And its hard to understand whether they actually believed

this insanity, or were just pretending so they could spend unlimited

amounts of money and possibly bankrupt America permanently in the

bargain, ending economic freedom for good. After decades of mocking

Trickle Down Economics and any notion that in hard times, its thegovernment that should cut back, they got the chance to put their

economic policies into action and the state of the nations economy is a

disaster.

While the public was growing increasingly frustrated, the Democrats

began ramming through more social services spending that they had

no way of paying for. By acting like it was the depression all over

again, they helped turn it into a depression. By selectively bailing outsome companies, they rewarded failure and cronyism. And by

building up the bureaucracy, they pushed states and small businesses

deeper into debt, and entangled them in more layers of government

bureaucracy and mandatory spending. Which is exactly the thing you

dont do, if you dont want to destroy the economy.

By putting the boot down, state governments were forced to lash out

at public sector unions. New Jersey Governor Christie became a

national celebrity just by taking on teachers unions. Democrats in

conservative quickly scrambled to follow suit. Suddenly public worker

pensions and compensation plans became a talking point. Those

swollen salaries and compensation packages were red meat to be
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tossed to the public. And it turned out that the public even in Blue

States was much more outraged about public employees pulling in six

figure salaries, or getting paid for doing nothing, than they were

about CEO salaries. Its not the way things were supposed to work inthe liberal handbook, where it was enough to point Michael Moores

camera at a corporate CEOs golden parachute, and watch them be

torn apart by the lions. But its the way things work in real life, where

people are outraged about their mandatory taxes, than about

corporate compensation programs unless those compensation

programs are paid for with their mandatory tax dollars.

Now the unions have turned on the Democrats, and are warning thatthey wont bother turning out for mid-term elections. Yet do they

really believe that after ObamaCares giveaway to SEIU helped nuke

Obamas popularity, that Barry and this even more unpopular

congress are going to be taking any more bullets for unions? But

unions have been a core part of the Democratic strategy. Federal

funding flowing to states and their public sector unions, has meant

that taxpayer have essentially been spending untold billions on anelection machine for the Democratic party. ObamaCare was supposed

to be the next phase, dismantling private health care and turning it all

into one big union shop. This would be a model for taking over any

vulnerable industry, and turning it into a public utility. Socialism

feeding an endless money tap flowing to Democratic politicians

through compulsory donations from workers with no say in the

matter, thanks to Card Check.
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But ObamaCare wasnt everything the SEIU wanted, and its front

row thuggish presence in protest suppression helped bring the ugly

connection between the Democrats and corrupt union thugs into the

living rooms of millions of Americans. Obama has assured the AFL-

CIO that hell keep on fighting for Card Check, but who exactly isplaying whom here? Card Check at this point is the last thing the

Democrats need, particularly those congressmen who are already on

the edge in conservatives states. Card Check has limited popularity

even within the party. And unions are now about as popular with the

general public as cholera on the Orient Express. So either Obama is
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running on a full tank of delusional, and will continue his policy of

trying to ram through the lefts agenda at any political cost, or hes

lying to union bosses. Either way if it happens, Senator Brown will get

a chance to burnish his Republican credentials a little. But either way,the show will only deepen the convictions of independent voters that

the incumbents need to go. Fast and hard.

From ObamaCare and Card Check, to the stimulus plan the

common denominator of Obamas domestic legislation has been to

bulk up government, increase centralized control from Washington

D.C. and spend, spend and spend on his own projects. His doubletalk

has alienated independents and even the left. Meanwhile the right isre-energized and up in arms, a far cry from 2009, when mainstream

media pundits were gleefully predicting the death of the Republican

party. Its the Spending, Stupid, has become the new rallying cry.

The only possible defense against it, would be an actual economic

recovery. But the best the media can do is peddle a fake economic

recover that fools no one.

Theres only so many ways Obama can spin failure, and hes lostbadly on the economy. The attempts to refocus the publics attention

on some other domestic issue, have only backfired. Americans back

Arizona over Obama on illegal immigration. Theyre tired of the

Obamas endless celebrity tours, and they have a limited interest in

Michelle Obamas arugula and caviar weight loss recipes. And that

just leaves foreign affairs.

The problem with foreign affairs is that it requires capable crisis

management. Obama and his backers have tried out a Great

Celebrity Theory of History, in which endless foreign trips and

televised speeches would lead to actual accomplishments on the

ground. As it turned out, leadership doesnt work that way. You cant
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become a leader by reading things from a teleprompter in foreign

countries. All that gets you is some media coverage. And eventually an

image ofimpotence, Which is exactly what Obama has come out with,

along with a Nobel Prize that even he couldnt credibly argue that hedeserves.

During the election, we were sold the idea that Obama would bring a

renewed focus to Afghanistan. As it turned out, Obama ignored

Afghanistan, left the Bush Administrations policies in place, because

he didnt have any actual ideas. This led to friction with McChrystal,

and his eventual firing. Obamas deadline only emboldened the

Taliban. His undermining of Karzai backfired spectacularly, forcingthe administration to make nice. At the moment there is no policy on

Afghanistan. None whatsoever.

The surge has faltered, weighed down by harsh Rules of Engagement

that are supposed to win the hearts and minds of the locals, and by a

lack of any deep support from the administration. There is no Afghan

support worth speaking of, because unlike Iraq, Afghanistan never

even had the trappings of a modern state. There are calls within theadministration to cut a deal with the Taliban, other calls to pressure

Pakistan or cut a deal with Iran. And the sum total of all these ideas is

static and noise. And above all else, a sense of ineptness that the

enemy is capitalizing on. Obama still wants a pullout, but without the

negatives. And yet the recent TimeMagazine cover of a woman

mutilated recently by the Taliban, part of the uptick in Taliban

atrocities, shows there will be a political cost for doing so.

Obamas Afghanistan policy has been a model of indecisiveness,

refusing the instant pullout that the left wanted, and also avoiding the

full scale commitment that made a difference in Iraq under Bush. And

all that adds up to it is pain, suffering and more US military
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casualties. The inability to fully commit to an engagement is worse

than not committing at all. Obamas approval for a half-hearted surge

has not accomplished anything definitive, and the air of weakness that

accompanied it has only emboldened the Taliban. US troops areoperating under restrictions that are getting them killed, without

actually dramatically transforming the attitudes of the locals.

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camera and being non-threatening. Which is exactly the wrong skill

set when youre fighting a War on Terror. And the people around him

are too busy fighting it out over their overlapping levels of authority

and contradictory ideologies to be of any real help. While the oldhands in the military are trying to make the best of a bad situation,

his radical foreign policy hands are busy selling out the country. The

Baird resignation just makes it obvious that the in-house politics are

unworkable. And theres still no foreign policy. Just a muddled

combination of left wing radicalism and Clinton era moderate

appeasement.

Obama has failed miserably on both of his key areas. The economy isa disaster. So is Afghanistan. The 2010 elections wont fix that, but if

the American people come out in force, it will help inhibit the fallout

from his disastrous mismanagement of the United States government.

Obama was given complete autonomy and decisive majorities in

congress. He used them frivolously and greedily. His mismanagement

of the countrys domestic and foreign policies is both irredeemable

and irresponsible. I said back in November 2008, that the key towinning is to hold Obama accountable for his failures. And now the

day is drawing closer, when he will be held accountable for everything

he has done and everything he has failed to do. Theres only so many

ways Obama can spin failure, before he gets tossed out with the rest of

the dirty laundry.

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