2.1 Trillion Isn't Enough?

[YogsVR4]

Originally Posted by fredjacksonsan

Thanks There is plenty of room to lower spending - it's not an income problem.

Now, if we can get a few tens of millions of voters to agree with us

[2strokebloke]

Eliminate the department of transportation and let the states take care of their own (why should the federal government get it before its sent back to the states).

Bad idea - one just has to look at the fact that mopeds - which are not regulated by the federal government abide by a different set of laws in pretty much every of the 50 states (if they even have any regulations at all). Just what America needs is a destroyed infrastructure. I'm not saying it couldn't work, it'd just be alot harder.

Cut military spending! They just waste it on crap they never use anyway - we still have unused jeeps that were supposed to go to Korea, and tons of nuclear weapons rotting away burried underground - that's billions and billions of dollars wasted on absolutely nothing worthwhile.
The big problem, is that these budgets allways give agencies millions of dollars for "misc" items! Who's going to spend millions of dollars on paperclips and staples? Seriously - I think we all know that it's just going into government officials pockets.
We also have way too many agencies that we could consolidate into one another to save lots of money and make the government operate more efficiently and probably with less red tape as well.

Of 23 major government agencies, 12 would see their budget authority reduced next year, including cuts of 9.6 percent at Agriculture, 5.6 percent at the Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites), 6.7 percent at Transportation and 11.5 percent at Housing and Urban Development.

It funny that he's cutting money on things that are actually useful and good for our country - not to say that they don't already have enough money in the first place, but he'd be smarter to cut spending elsewhere (that is the agencies that already spend the most).