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What should be cut. Hard to get into everyhtign without being the guy looking at it all.
Foreign aid (that includes Isreal)
Military spending (we do not need that many bases)
Cash for Clunkers and other feel good programs
The $255 LSDP for widows
Stupid "scientific" research (shrimp treamills, pickle research...)
Ethanol subsides
The list could go on for ever.
While you do that you also need to rewrite the tax code and close all the stupid loop holes. Increase the Social Security tax to base it off everything you make not just tax the first 106,800.00 you make a tax year.
Then the Government need to get out of the private sectors way in most things. With the exception of providing awards for scientifically provable inventions and discoveries in medical care, energy independence, space exploration...
Ok shut down the military bases??? Did you know that Hill Air force base is one of the largest employers along the Wasatch Front. Which public company will take it's place? And if not here don't you think there are other locals that need their bases for their local economy.
Cash for Clunkers stimulated the auto industry when they were struggling if you want them to just go away. Which public company will take it's place?
Did you know that the government subsidies Oil? I don't get how you want them to stop with ethanol subsides yet you want energy independence. Do you mean our own oil or getting off of oil. Because true independence would mean that we don't have to use oil foreign nor domestic.
But, yes there is fat out there but we really need to look at reality. We have big money invested in the retirement and as long as there are companies making money and not hiring we are going to have to take care of the poor.