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Originally Posted by BBQMan
The Preamble to the Constitution reads as follows:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
We need to go back and look at each and every program that our Federal Government is involved in and see if it contributes to the duties of the Federal Government as enumerated. Defense is clearly required, but many other things that we do are not. Among them: (1) A national arts program; (2) A national television and radio program; (3) Incentive programs for any action including farm subsidies, oil subsidies, energy subsidies, etc.
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I agree completely, BBQ. But if the three programs you mentioned were totally eliminated it might...
might...cut federal spending by about 1/10% of current federal spending. What do we do to cut to get the rest of the $1.4 trillion in spending cuts or increased revenue needed to balance the budget?
As I've pointed out repeatedly before, we could eliminate
ALL discretionary spending by the federal government (everything that we currently know as "government")
and still not balance the budget.