Let Me Count The Ways

13 Replies to “Let Me Count The Ways”

1. Reduce by 50% year 1, then 50% year 2…..

2. I’m not sure Reason is the best choice given for ideas

   1. JD – BINGO!!

3. I’m holding my breath.

4. The biggest obstacle to spending cuts is the voting public. Voters want spending cuts only for items that don’t directly affect them, and given the massive reach of federal spending these days, there’s very few voters out there who would not notice spending cuts.

   Other than brief comments from Musk, cutting spending was a topic that came up rarely during the election

   1. “The biggest obstacle to spending cuts is the voting public. ”

      True, that. And chicken-shits on your own side of the congress/senate.

   2. Well, it depends on what the “voting public” is TOLD to believe. The perfect example of government waste is in the election itself….Dems reportedly pissed away over a billion and still left with a 20 million dollar debt and STILL lost. THAT is government in action.

      Also it’s not what the “voting public” receives from government, but rather what government TAKES from the “voting public”.

5. My own local city is receiving a $2 million Grant from the Federal Govt. to create a “Class I” (10 ft wide) bike path on two short streets near our middle school … where 90% of the kids are dropped off and picked up in their mother’s BIG SUV’s … and will still be after the path is built.

   And speaking of whales and birds being expendable in the name of “green energy” … the city is cutting down dozens of mature oak trees to accommodate the bike path. This … in a city where “every oak is sacred” and it takes a Special Hearing and Permit if you want to cut one down.

6. Every department of silly walks and every department infringing on State Responsibilities.
   And then disband all bureaus that are unconstitutional.

7. I read somewhere that simply freezing hiring and spending alone cuts a ton off government budgets due to the natural attrition rate of 5-6% every year (people quitting or retiring).

   Plus gut anything DEI, much of the EPA, the Ukraine war, and demand anyone belonging to Nato needs to pony up their 2% of GDP or you’ll back out your spending proportionally.

   Cut global warming financing. Really. This cutting spending is shooting dead fish in a barrel.

   1. Amen. All of the above ^^^.

      But that alone won’t get rid of the rot and corruption. The commie ticks and the crooked lice have to be quickly picked off and put under boot heels.

8. Just do like in Canada – incoming governments blame outgoing governments who have ruined the government’s finances, so there “just is NO more money to fund this, that and the other thing!”
   Also I like the idea of eliminating entire departments which are NOT the responsibility of the federal government. That gets rid of the current employees and their future pensions. Sadly, the government will still be stuck with paying out the pensions of retired civil servants.
   When I was self-employed, I had to be a “lean and mean employer” Perhaps it is easier to do when I was not eligible for lines of credit (I was a woman, I was self-employed and I was single – no husband to shake down).

9. Trump should go full Milei.