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can you say "stimulus"?one does not need to be clairvoyant to know that budgets that add to the debt will continue to add to the debt
yes, we agree on that. What would you cut out of the budget? I would like to see a 30% across the board cut, all agencies, all programs, all lines in the budget. Would you support that?
I would start with a 10% cut across the board, every Dept including the DOD and DHS phased in over the next 5 years. Like it or not, the economy relies on the Fed Govt and to drop it too quickly would be dangerous for the economy. The cutting of the budget needs to be done like a diet, slow and steady over time. That is the only sustainable way to do it.
I choose 10% because I believe every agency has that much fraud, waste and abuse. We need to get rid of the mindset that money has to be spent if it is in the budget. As a Marine I would get in trouble if there was TAD money left by mid-September. We used to send our pilots on unneeded cross-countries to spend all our money. We would go buy 1000s of dollars of unneeded office supplies every August to avoid having money left over. And that was just one small FA-18 squadron. Multiple that time the hundreds of thousands of small agencies and departments in the US Govt.
After the 10% was completed I would then be more strategic in the cuts, as not all agencies are the same.
sounds like the sequester that Obama ignored.
explain how Obama ignored the sequester?
The sequester started in 2013, the stimulus happened prior to that.