Budget Cuts Proposed by Republican Paul Ryan

Sent to me by a friend. The question at the end goes to both
Democrats and Republicans.  Merle

No wonder we're broke.  Absolutely Jaw Dropping

PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET  CUTS

A List of Republican Budget  Cuts

Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on  this list .

These are all the programs that the new  Republican House has proposed cutting.

Read to the  end.

* Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual  savings.

* Save America 's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual  savings.

* International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual  savings.

* Legal Services Corporation -- $420 million annual  savings.

* National Endowment for the Arts -- $167.5 million  annual savings.

* National Endowment for the Humanities --  $167.5 million annual savings.

* Hope VI Program -- $250 million  annual savings.

* Amtrak Subsidies -- $1.565 billion annual  savings.

* Eliminate duplicating education programs -- H.R. 2274  (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon ,  eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.

* U.S.  Trade Development Agency -- $55 million annual savings.

*  Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings.

*  Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual  savings.

* John C. Stennis Center  Subsidy -- $430,000 annual savings.

* Community Development Fund  -- $4.5 billion annual savings.

* Heritage Area Grants and  Statutory Aid -- $24 million annual savings.

* Cut Federal  Travel Budget in Half -- $7.5 billion annual savings

* Trim  Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% -- $600 million annual savings.

*  Essential Air Service -- $150 million annual savings.

*  Technology Innovation Program -- $70 million annual  savings.

*Manufacturing Extension Partnership  ( MEP ) Program -- $125 million annual  savings..

* Department of Energy Grants to States for  Weatherization -- $530 million annual savings.

* Beach  Replenishment -- $95 million annual savings.

* New Starts  Transit -- $2 billion annual savings.

* Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians,  and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts -- $9 million annual  savings

* Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants -- $2.5 billion annual  savings.

* Title X Family Planning -- $318 million annual  savings.

* Appalachian Regional Commission -- $76 million annual  savings.

* Economic Development Administration -- $293 million  annual savings.

* Programs under the National and Community  Services Act -- $1.15 billion annual savings.

* Applied Research  at Department of Energy -- $1.27 billion annual savings.

*  Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership -- $200 million annual  savings..

* Energy Star Program -- $52 million annual  savings.

* Economic Assistance  to Egypt -- $250 million annually .

* U.S. Agency for International Development -- $1.39 billion  annual savings.

* General Assistance to District of  Columbia -- $210 million annual savings.

* Subsidy for  Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority -- $150 million annual  savings.

* Presidential Campaign  Fund -- $775 million savings over ten years .

* No funding  for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual  savings.

* End prohibitions on  competitive sourcing of government services.

* Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -- More than $1 billion  annually .

* IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to  deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for  taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its  budget -- $1.8 billion savings over ten years.

* Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal  employees -- $1 billion total savings. WHAT'S THIS  ABOUT?

*  Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees -- $1.2 billion  savings over ten years .

* Sell excess federal properties  the government does not make use of -- $15 billion total  savings.

* Eliminate death  gratuity for Members of Congress. WHAT???

* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies  -- $1 million annual savings.

* Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings. WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL

* Eliminate Market Access  Program -- $200 million annual savings.

* USDA Sugar  Program -- $14 million annual savings.

* Subsidy to Organization  for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) --  $93 million annual savings.

* Eliminate the National Organic  Certification Cost-Share Program -- $56.2 million annual  savings.

* Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs -- $900 million  savings.

* Ready to Learn TV Program -- $27 million  savings..

* HUD Ph.D. Program.

* Deficit  Reduction Check-Off Act.

* TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten  Years

My question is, what is  all this doing in the budget in the first place ?

Maybe this is why the Democrats are  attacking Paul Ryan.

Please Send to everyone you  know..

 

"An elective despotism was not the  government we fought for," - Thomas  Jefferson