What should the government cut?

[Getback]

Has anyone noticed that while the government wants us all to cut back on about everything and they haven't sacrificed a thing. What would you cut to make the government more effecient?

I'll start. I would cut about every educational program and let the local communities decide what they want.

[Chalenge]

I would start with taxes in fact lets cut the IRS. Who needs them?

[Hangtime]

What would you cut to make the government more effecient?

Any agency that uses an acronym to describe itself.

[lyric1]

Loans from a Communist nation.

[mietla]

Everything, let's start over again. We have a pretty damn good blueprint on our hands.


Force an election where none who has served already can run (no incumbents), or just pick 435 + 100 names out of the phone book. Those elected/selected get their last month's salary + inflation. Can serve one term only and then back to where you came from. No bennies, just the extension of what you had before your term. NOTHING extra after you leave.

Now, this is what I call a service to your country.


Abolish all laws as of some future date, and then before that happens, force a vote on all of them. The obviously good/productive ones will pass over and over. Pork and socialist crap will fail every time.

[Jackal1]

   
What should the government cut?

As for Congress, their throats would be a great start.

[storch]

here it is


 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Cut

[WWhiskey]

  there enforcement ability 

[lazs2]

I believe that any program that has a "department" in front of it or any program that uses initials to describe itself should go first.   

There are only two things the government should do and that is raise an army and provide for the courts.  they can have federal marshals for the courts.

lazs

[Ripsnort]

Loans to any nation.

Fixed!

[kamilyun]

All 'law enforcement' agencies with overlapping roles.  Too many guys with guns on a mission.

As a side note, though, isn't the biggest cost to our gov't Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security?  Those programs need some serious work and I'm not sure there's a good answer for that.  You could probably take a level of bureaucracy out by making them entirely state run.

[lazs2]

yep.. the government should never have gotten into those businesses in the first place.

they can fix social security tho.. just raise the age for bennies to 80 and don't give any to anyone who never paid in.

lazs

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

The Department of Education, completely.
The Internal Revenue Service, by 90% (it doesn't take much to administer a flat tax).
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, again by 90%.


That's a start.

[CAP1]

Has anyone noticed that while the government wants us all to cut back on about everything and they haven't sacrificed a thing. What would you cut to make the government more effecient?

I'll start. I would cut about every educational program and let the local communities decide what they want.

federal, state, county, borough, township, or all of the aforementioned?

[CAP1]

Everything, let's start over again. We have a pretty damn good blueprint on our hands.


Force an election where none who has served already can run (no incumbents), or just pick 435 + 100 names out of the phone book. Those elected/selected get their last month's salary + inflation. Can serve one term only and then back to where you came from. No bennies, just the extension of what you had before your term. NOTHING extra after you leave.

Now, this is what I call a service to your country.

dude.......THAT is genius, and kind of an obvious solution. it's a crying shame it can never happen though.

knowing that they'd go back to what they came from/created? the govt would become the epitomy of effeciency.

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