After the Rant

After thinking about the budget overruns, impending debt meltdown and our inoperable US Congress, I have a few quick fixes.  Let's KISS.

These are all the programs that the new Republican House could cut.

• 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.
• 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 annua  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 -- $15  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 I  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.
• 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.

And with a little extra thought we could:

• Eliminate aid to Palestine & any other country or organization that indulges any form of genocide.
• Reduce by at least 50% all funding of U.N. organizations.
• Eliminate at least twice as many pages of laws and regulations as are created.
• Set a 4 year max-term limit on every federal job.
• Require that unused election funds are returned to donors.
• Reinstitute Pershing's policy of burying Muslim combatants with a porcine body part ... preferably after they're dead.  Just thinking.  Probably not a good idea, but . . .

WOW!  I'm not even a member of a Washington Think Tank.  Just someone thinking about the good of the country and not the good of Washington.  Boom!