Please, Republicans, tell us ONE "1" thing you would CUT from the budget....

[LaDairis]

Newt Gingrich spelled out what he wanted to cut.

Why can't the GOP today do that?

Rick Scott came out with a "plan" that cut precisely nothing.

We need to CUT SPENDING.

That is what produced the prosperity of the 1990s - FISCAL CONSERVATISM

 

[Circe]

Newt Gingrich spelled out what he wanted to cut.

Why can't the GOP today do that?

Rick Scott came out with a "plan" that cut precisely nothing.

We need to CUT SPENDING.

That is what produced the prosperity of the 1990s - FISCAL CONSERVATISM

The Education Department! The whole thing, root and branch. That would save a lot of money.

 

[LaDairis]

The Education Department! The whole thing, root and branch. That would save a lot of money.

Or, at least, mandate free market in education by insisting states get no federal money unless the public education monopoly is broken with VOUCHERS so the Democrat VOTER can send his kid to the same school as the DEM ELECTED OFFICIAL who fights vouchers while sending his kids to private school.

Public education is a corrupt and politicized monopoly.

Empower people with freedom and choice is the best way to counter a monopoly.

 

[1srelluc]

Everything except the border should be on the block.....I'd start with a 25% cut across the board. If the dems/RINOs have some pets they want to save then cut some agencies harder to pay for their pets. The Dept. of education could be eliminated altogether, that would free-up 12.5% of the budget.

I figure by 2023 we will be in a full blown recession so austerity measures will have to be taken anyway.

 

[BluesLegend]

Please, Republicans, tell us ONE "1" thing you would CUT from the budget....​

OMG seriously? Okay for starters the heaping pile of PORK in the so called infrastructure bill that has absolutely nothing to do with infrastructure. Want an example? Gobs and gobs of billions for administrative government jobs, oversight, R&D, research grants that bill is full of PORK government patronage jobs, pay offs, bribes for votes it's about growing the size and spending of government.

There I bitch slapped spend-o-holic government.

 

[there4eyeM]

A huge chunk of "defense". Much more can be done with much less. There is far too much emphasis on big targets and not enough on numerous, cheap, small, highly destructive devices. Anyone notice what's happening in Ukraine? $35 billion for a single weapon (the F35), is totally absurd.

 

[LaDairis]

OMG seriously? Okay for starters the heaping pile of PORK in the so called infrastructure bill that has absolutely nothing to do with infrastructure. Want an example? Gobs and gobs of billions for administrative government jobs, oversight, R&D, research grants that bill is full of PORK government patronage jobs, pay offs, bribes for votes it's about growing the size and spending of government.

There I bitch slapped spend-o-holic government.

And how many "Republicans" voted for it??

All the ones FOX NEWS loves....

 

[bripat9643]

Newt Gingrich spelled out what he wanted to cut.

Why can't the GOP today do that?

Rick Scott came out with a "plan" that cut precisely nothing.

We need to CUT SPENDING.

That is what produced the prosperity of the 1990s - FISCAL CONSERVATISM

Dept of Education
FDA
Dept of Agriculture
Dept of Transportation
Dept of Commerce
Depart of Energy
Depart of Housing and Urban Development

As a start.

 

[bripat9643]

A huge chunk of "defense". Much more can be done with much less. There is far too much emphasis on big targets and not enough on numerous, cheap, small, highly destructive devices. Anyone notice what's happening in Ukraine? $35 billion for a single weapon (the F35), is totally absurd.

I won't hold my breath waiting for a prog to make sensible suggestions about defense.

 

[bripat9643]

And how many "Republicans" voted for it??

All the ones FOX NEWS loves....

Did any Republicans vote for it?

 

[okfine]

The Education Department! The whole thing, root and branch. That would save a lot of money.

Without it all that would happen is more dumb republicans.

 

[LaDairis]

A huge chunk of "defense". Much more can be done with much less. There is far too much emphasis on big targets and not enough on numerous, cheap, small, highly destructive devices. Anyone notice what's happening in Ukraine? $35 billion for a single weapon (the F35), is totally absurd.

The F35 costs how much....


At $78 million the fifth-generation F-35A's unit cost compares


Ask Google at that comes up...


And, yeah, in a war, who the hell cares about AIR SUPERIORITY.... when there are "real" problems like racism and global warming...

 

[Canon Shooter]

I would cut much of the foreign aid we send around the world.

We've got our own problems to deal with, and that money would help...

 

[there4eyeM]

The F35 costs how much....


At $78 million the fifth-generation F-35A's unit cost compares


Ask Google at that comes up...


And, yeah, in a war, who the hell cares about AIR SUPERIORITY.... when there are "real" problems like racism and global warming...

Obviously, it was the cost of the weapon, not a single unit, that was referenced. The same amount spent on anti-aircraft missiles would likely give you air superiority that was much more flexible. It is very dangerous to depend on large value, limited military hardware, especially in this age of leap-frog tech.

 

[LaDairis]

Obviously, it was the cost of the weapon, not a single unit, that was referenced. The same amount spent on anti-aircraft missiles would likely give you air superiority that was much more flexible. It is very dangerous to depend on large value, limited military hardware, especially in this age of leap-frog tech.

Planes are hit and miss, and F35 is indeed trending miss...

But in war, air superiority actually does matter....

 

[bripat9643]

Obviously, it was the cost of the weapon, not a single unit, that was referenced. The same amount spent on anti-aircraft missiles would likely give you air superiority that was much more flexible. It is very dangerous to depend on large value, limited military hardware, especially in this age of leap-frog tech.

You're delusional if you believe you can achieve air superiority purely with ground based missiles. a few squadrons of planes can easily knock out all your ground based missiles. What do you believe the USA did during the first Gulf war?

 

[1srelluc]

A huge chunk of "defense". Much more can be done with much less. There is far too much emphasis on big targets and not enough on numerous, cheap, small, highly destructive devices. Anyone notice what's happening in Ukraine? $35 billion for a single weapon (the F35), is totally absurd.

Air Force wants to send 33 F-22 jets to the boneyard....​

Officials want to divest 33 of the service’s oldest F-22s and use that money to instead research cutting-edge combat jet designs under the “Next-Generation Air Dominance” program. If Congress approves the idea, it would send all but three Block 20 Raptors to the “boneyard” at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona, and shrink the overall fleet from 186 to 153 fighters.

Air Force wants to send Tyndall’s F-22 jets to the boneyard

 

[bripat9643]

Planes are hit and miss, and F35 is indeed trending miss...

But in war, air superiority actually does matter....

What does "hit or miss" mean?

 

[there4eyeM]

Your delusional if you believe you can achieve air superiority purely with ground based missiles. a few squadrons of planes can easily knock out all your ground based missiles. What do you believe the USA did during the first Gulf war?

Where was it suggested that all the other airplanes in the arsenal would be scrapped? Read what's said, not what you want it to be.

 

[bripat9643]

A huge chunk of "defense". Much more can be done with much less. There is far too much emphasis on big targets and not enough on numerous, cheap, small, highly destructive devices. Anyone notice what's happening in Ukraine? $35 billion for a single weapon (the F35), is totally absurd.

The F35 will end up costing a lot more than $35 billion. More like $135 billion.