Take a look at Rand Paul's budget cuts

[ProSense]

Rand Paul's budget cuts (PDF)

Legislative Branch (23%)

Government Printing Office: Eliminated

Judicial Branch (32%)

Agriculture (30%)

While many automatic spending entitlement programs like food stamps will need to once again be re-evaluated for
reform, including eliminating the more than $1 billion in annual erroneous and fraudulent food stamp payments, the
proposal only recommends taking the food stamp program back to FY2008 levels]. This level of funding still
represents a 122 percent increase over the 2000 levels. In addition, the proposal would take farm and crop
subsidies back to 2008 levels as well.

· Eligibility is based on income and assets, with the gross income cutoff set at 130 percent of the poverty level
(28,665 for a family of four). The maximum monthly benefit in 2009 for a household of four was $668 -
$8,016 per year.

Commerce (54%)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Reduce 36 Percent

Defense (6.5%)

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· War funding from 2001 to 2010 has cost the taxpayer $1.109 trillion. That amount doesn’t include the $159
billion that will likely be spent funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for FY2011. The proposal seeks to
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reduce war funding for FY2011 by $16 billion, in other words to provide $144 billion (President Obama has
requested $117 billion for FY2012, $27 billion dollars below our proposed level).

Education (83%)

Energy (100%)

Health and Human Services, Discretionary Only (26%)


The Department of Health and Human Services is the largest department in the federal government. The department
includes programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, as well as other entitlement programs. HHS, and the programs
within, remains one of the government’s largest challenges – and among the largest contributors to our fiscal crisis.
In fact, Medicare alone has a $38 trillion unfunded liability, and will continue to grow until it eventually consumes all
government outlays.

Unfortunately, there are a number of individuals who have failed to set aside savings, or have failed to plan
adequately based on the assumption that they would be eligible for certain entitlement programs such as Medicare or
Medicaid. These programs need to be reformed, not necessarily just cut, and therefore, this proposal does not
include most of the mandatory spending at the HHS. However, because the department is so large, it would have
been negligent to avoid other areas which can provide much needed government savings. This proposal takes
most of the agency’s discretionary programs back to FY2008 levels, and makes further reductions to the
Public Health Service programs.

Food and Drug Administration: Reduce 62 Percent

Health Resources and Services Administration: Reduce 34 Percent

Indian Health Services: Reduce 46 Percent

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Reduce 28 Percent

National Institute of Health: Reduce 37 Percent

Homeland Security (43%)

Transportation Security Administration: Reduce 40 Percent

U.S. Coast Guard: Transfer to Department of Defense at FY2008 Levels

Housing and Urban Development (100%)

Interior (78%)

Land and Mineral Management: Reduce 50 percent

Bureau of Reclamation: Eliminate

U.S. Geological Survey: Reduce 29 percent

National Park Service: Reduce 42 percent

Bureau of Indian Affairs: Eliminate

Justice (28%)

Office of Justice Programs: Eliminated

Labor (2%)

In recent years, the Department of Labor has expanded substantially, with a large of amount of the increased funding
coming from the expansion of unemployment benefits of up to 99 weeks. While this proposal exempts unemployment
benefits from receiving funding cuts, the program will need to be reformed in the future, including a re-evaluation of
the emergency unemployment benefits, as well as the extended unemployment benefits that provide up to 99 weeks
– or nearly 2 years of unemployment benefits. Many economists have warned that prolonged unemployment benefits
can increase unemployment duration by delaying individuals’ incentive to search for work.


The proposal exempts the Employment and Training Administration (including UI benefits), Mine Safety and Health,
Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. However, this
proposal eliminates all other Department of Labor programs.


State (71%)

Transportation (49%)

Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration: Funded at Gas Tax Levels

Amtrak Subsidies: Eliminate

Corps of Engineers (27%)

Environmental Protection Agency (29%)

General Services Administration (85%)

International Assistance Programs (100%)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (25%)

National Science Foundation (62%)

Office of Personnel Management (12.3%)

Affordable Housing Program – Eliminated
Commission on Fine Arts – Eliminated
Consumer Product Safety Commission – Eliminated
Corporation for Public Broadcasting – Eliminated
National Endowment of Arts – Eliminated
National Endowment for Humanities – Eliminated
Privative the Smithsonian Institution – Privatized
State Justice Institute - Eliminated

Federal Communications Commission (22%)

Collection of Delinquent Taxes: Saves $3 billion (Federal Employee/Retiree Delinquency Initiative)

Federal Pay Freeze: Saves $2 billion
Reducing Federal Travel: Saves $7.5 billion

Repeal Davis-Bacon: Saves $6 billion

End TARP: Saves $4.5 billion

Sell Unused Federal Assets: Saves $19 billion

Reduce Federal Vehicle Budget: Saves $600 million


On edit: Isn't it strange that Paul only cut 6.5 percent from the defense budget?

edited extra word

[tabatha]

1. What a dufus.

It is frightening to think of the stupidity now in Congress.

[LeftyAndProud60]

2. What's scary is that his father would do the same thing, yet some liberals are in love w/ the guy.nt

[ProSense]

3. You think it's just his father?

Check LBN.

All anyone has to do is to appear anti-Israel.

[liberal N proud]

4. I am curious...

Of those departments he proposes the least cuts, how many of them have a stake in his district, state or cronies?

Eliminate the printing office :rofl:

Repeal Davis-Bacon just means he wants to return to sweat shop labor rates. :wtf:

The rest just shows he does not have a clue.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. EDUCATION to be cut by 83% that needs headlines!

if he is planning to cut costs on children's education then he has to go!

[golfguru]

6. A much better method of cutting spending is to...

do a across the board cut of 5 to 10%. That way pain is distributed equally
and judiciously. This selective cutting is illogical and will never pass.

[Dokkie]

7. That

would be the most acceptable but am not sure if thats the most efficient methods, some programs actually need more spending and other need to be eliminated. Lastly eliminating the Dept of education doesn't equate to the abolishment of public education, the greatest generation were trained and educated without one and they turned out just fine. And in his cut to dept of education, he proposed 0 and I said ZERO cuts to pel grants and financial aid to students so until he starts interfering with the public schools in Nebraska or any other states for that matter, he carry on with his cuts.

Food stamps should be increased and FCC cut to 0% IMHO and thats about the only thing I think I would change in his proposed cut. Bravo for the bit about foreign aid

[golfguru]

12. I understand your POV completely except

who can determine who deserves more and who needs less.
The arguments will never cease. OTOH very hard to argue
against the same cut for everybody.

[okieinpain]

14. 20 percent for the military, end the war in afghanistan, and shut

down some of the aircraft carrier battlegroups.

[golfguru]

17. And close 800 military bases outside United States

[ProSense]

9. Across-the-board spending cuts are

a recipe for disaster. People need to think and look at the reality, benefit and economic impact of each program. Across-the-board cuts means equal cuts to defense and education.

[golfguru]

13. please see my response above

to Dokkie.

[craigmatic]

8. Seems like a good dem would be able to hit him hard in 2016 on the proposed AG cuts.

[greymattermom]

10. Kentucky?

So how much would this cost Kentucky? The Courier-Journal should do the calculations if they haven't already.

[ProSense]

11. While eliminating several agencies, Paul is cutting the war budget by less than President Obama. Why

does Rand Paul want to cut all foreign aid but only 6.5 percent from defense?

From the OP:

· War funding from 2001 to 2010 has cost the taxpayer $1.109 trillion. That amount doesn’t include the $159 billion that will likely be spent funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for FY2011. The proposal seeks to reduce war funding for FY2011 by $16 billion, in other words to provide $144 billion (President Obama has requested $117 billion for FY2012, $27 billion dollars below our proposed level).

[jtuck004]

15. Where's the part about growth? Or does he just cut every year 'till everyone is dead? n/t

[LibDemAlways]

16. He's clearly an idiot. Only area of agreement I have with him is

cutting TSA's budget. I'd actually eliminate it and replace it with intelligent security that doesn't assume everyone is a terrorist.

Scary, though , that people voted for him. He's a waste of DNA.

[mikekohr]

18. Native Americans Are Our Nations Most Poverty Stricken People and Paul wants to cut 46%

from IHS and eliminate the BIA?

From International Brotherhood Days http://www.brotherhooddays.com/interestingfacts.html

562 land areas in the United States exist as federally recognized "Indian Reservations." 68). Contrary to popular public belief only about 30 of these communities receive any form of federal services.

Of all ethnic groups in the United States, Native People are the most economically disadvantaged, 22% live below the poverty level, nearly double the national rate of 12.4%.
Seven of the ten poorest counties in the United States fall within various "Indian reservations." Of these seven poorest counties, three are on the reservations within the borders of the state of South Dakota, home to many of the Lakota people.
Over the the last forty years, Shannon County in South Dakota, has been our country's most poverty stricken county. Shannon county is comprised of The Pine Ridge Reservation.
Pine Ridge has the nation's lowest per capita income, the highest percentage of families below the poverty rate, the highest percentage (63.1%) of persons below the poverty level, and the second highest percentage of children below the poverty level.
Indian Health Services reports suicide rates that are triple that of the national average.
Harvard School of Public Health reports that the life expectancy of Lakota People living on Pine Ridge Reservation to be the lowest in the United States, and only in Haiti is the life expectancy lower than the Lakota of Pine Ridge in the entire Western Hemisphere.
The average life expectancy of a man on Pine Ridge is 61, 16 and 1/2 years lower than the national average. At 70 years of age the life expectancy of a Lakota woman on Pine Ridge is 13 and 1/2 years less than the national average.
Unemployment on Pine Ridge Reservation ranges between 80% and 95% of the population of about 22,000 people.
The average household occupancy on Pine Ridge is 17 people. There are over 900 families on waiting lists for housing. Many of those fortunate enough to have a house live in sub-standard structures.
Thirty-three percent of homes do not have electricity or running water. Twenty-two percent of all homes are in need of major repairs or need to be replaced.
Seventy percent of Lakota people living on Pine Ridge Reservation do not have access to transportation.
Nationally, telephone service reaches 98% of the populace. On reservations phone service only reaches between 46% and 55% of Native people. On the Pine Ridge Reservation more than 70% of the homes are without phone service.
Native People are victimized by violent crime at a rate that is more than twice the national average. Approximately 70% of these violent crimes against Native People are committed by people of a different race. This cross-race victimization rate of Native People is substantially higher than black or white victims.
Approximately 30% of all Native People have been a victim of violent crime. This figure is probably much lower than reality however. Many Native People are reluctant to report crimes because of indifferent or racist attitudes they face in the criminal and the judicial systems.
It has been estimated that nearly 20% of American Indian deaths are alcohol-related. This compares to a national average of 4.7%. 64).
It has been estimated that over 54% of American Indians abstain from alcohol entirely, this compares with 27% for the general population.

[rasputin1952]

19. This one term idiot can do some damage...

but not much; virtually everyone sees this moron for what he is...a complete asshole.

If much of what he proposed actually happened, the country would cease to exist.

[JoePhilly]

20. Where are his numbers on how many people join the ranks of the unemployed on DAY 1??

That's the question to ask him.