YouCut….0.16% of the Budget
Have you heard of Eric Cantor’s new ‘You Cut’ idea?
YouCut – a first-of-its-kind project – is designed to defeat the permissive culture of runaway spending in Congress. It allows you to vote, both online and on your cell phone, on spending cuts that you want to see the House enact.
Great! The Republicans are getting serious about deficit spending. Let’s take a look at what programs to cut we can vote on.
- Presidential Election Fund – 260 million in savings
- Taxpayer Subsidized Union Activities – 600 million in savings
- HUD Program for Doctoral Dissertations – 1 million in savings
- New Non-Reformed Welfare Program – 2.5 billion in savings
- Eliminate Wealthy Committees From CDBG – 2.6 billion in savings
Well this isn’t quite the level of budget cutting I was expecting. Is this all the items the Republicans could find to cut? Out of a 3.8 trillion dollar budget they could only find 5.96 billion to cut? This amounts to less than .16% of the total federal budget as comic Colin Cohen of ‘As The Capitol Burns’ YouTube channel illustrates:
If Republicans expect to convince fiscal conservatives they are serious about deficit reduction they will have to do a lot better than this pathetic effort.
Until I hear more Republicans speak of significant budget deficit reduction (like Ron Paul) I’m not buying the Republican establishment’s new found fiscal religion.
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