Thursday, February 24, 2011

Just the Facts M'am...

Republicans wanted to cut $100 billion from government spending in 2011. Democrats said that would jeopardize our safety. It doesn't matter what we KNOW about the left and border security - they say it, the media prints it, and the argument is framed.

If, in 2011, the Government ONLY paid for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Military and "Security", plus the interest on our National Debt...our elected leaders would still fall $1.14 trillion short of balancing the budget. (Rand Paul)

Did you get that?

If we cut:

The Department of Education (2008 - $56 billion, 2011 Obama proposed $71.5 billion)

The Department of Agriculture (2008 - $20 billion, 2011 Obama proposed $132.3 billion)

The Department of Commerce (2008 - $6.5 billion, 2011 Obama proposed $9.3 billion)

The Department of Transportation (2008 - $12.1 billion, 2011 Obama proposed $75.3 billion)

The Department of Labor (2008 - $10.6 billion, 2011 Obama proposed $102.8 billion)

The Department of Health and Human Services (2008 - $69.3 billion, 2011 Obama proposed $82 billion)

...and on, and on...cut them 100% - we still couldn't balance the budget.

*The Department of Health and Human Services has a Civil Rights Division, with a budget of $44 million.
*The Department of Labor has a "Wage and Hour" Division, with a budget of $244 million
*The Department of Education has a NEW program called "Race to the Top" that got $4 billion from the stimulus, and now has a $1.3 billion annual budget.
*The numbers come from Obama's proposed budget.  Each Department has "discretionary outlays" and "mandatory outlays" - which muddies up the accounting in 2008 vs 2011... but the longer we wait to do something drastic...the more money will get shifted from the former to the latter.

1 comment:

LL said...

It's all completely out of control.

We need to have an amendment that requires a balanced budget. PERIOD. Any war funding can be handled on a case-by-case basis but we need to limit expenditures to income.