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Rep. Cantor started the YouCut website to solicit input from We the People on ways to cut the federal budget. The problem, however, is that it’s difficult to know what to suggest except in the broadest sense because We the People don’t know on what our government spends our money. I guarantee you that if the entire budget, excepting anything that impacts national security, were put online with the budgets of every agency and department listed down to paperclips and sticky notes we’d find plenty to cut. We just need the ability to look. I recommend each budget line have three options for us to choose, No Change, Cut Back, and Eliminate (or something similar) we could vote democratically for items to cut. Let’s get RedState to champion this idea. What say you?

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  • bobmontgomery

    the Department of the Interior, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Consumer Protection Agency, Freddie and Fannie, the NIH, the NEA, the NEH, half of the USDA and half of the FDA, 750 Federal judges, fifty more agenicies and one hundred ‘commissions’. Thousand of Executive Ofice of the President employees, thousands of Congressional staffers.

  • carolina

    Maybe an email campaign to Boehner:
    speakerboehner@mail.house.gov ,and to Cantor via his youcut site, and to each of our respective GOP representatives/senators would get some action. It’s worth a shot.

    • http://charlemagne-the-hammer.blogspot.com/ DerKrieger

      I submitted via YouCut but think it will be lost in the volume of ideas submitted. I really like the e-mail campaign to Boehner idea.

      Let’s do it!