There probably isn’t time to redo the specifics before bringing the bill to the floor – but why is it any different if the money is cut by amendment or not?

They have promised us a vote on a $100 billion cut and now they need to back that up.

They will avoid a lot of primarying if they follow through on this.

compelling reason to stop at the 16. So, cut, cut, cut. Don’t be bashful, don’t be shy. Just cut, cut, cut. Try it, we’ll like it!

Vote the FairTax Bill into Law. In less than a year, we can pay off the Chicoms;
ex-IRS Agents can be sent to our Southern Border to stop illegal immigration of Latinos and Jehadists! Jobless rate will drop to 2% or whatever the rate is, considering those who never work anyhow!

cutting all funding to NPR, Planned parenthood and most of the almost innumerable agencies that are draining us, the host, dry? In my mind this is the time to be bold and daring in suggestions for cuts – show the American people that we are serious and that we did indeed have a plan ready for when we regained power to bring fiscal sanity back to our country.
I work with many people who are voted for Obama, but who don’t like labeling themselves as liberal. Most of them are sick at the thought of how much debt we are accumulating and if the conservatives explain why these cuts have to be made and then show they are serious they will have the support of those people.
To our leadership – be bold and brave, do NOT blink – explain over and over that we are on the edge of a fiscal precipice and that, in the same manner that we would have to do this in our own household if we were spending far more than we take in, we either make these cuts now or they will be forced upon us later. Either we control our own destiny or destiny controls us and runs us into the ground in the very near future.
Please – this is not a game – do not treat it as one. Why did you not come out boldly with cuts as though you had thought this out? Why are you playing around and looking as if you have no plan??????? You wanted to be leaders, so now act as though you deserve that mantle and LEAD.
Thank you.

Defense can and should get cut by a lot as that area is hugely bloated, wasteful, and is directly the result of massive lobbying by defense contractors. That is not to say that we shouldn’t get to $100 billion in non-defense, only that we should also be looking at adding at least $50 billion in defense cuts to that $100 billion in other. Also, as Bernanke stated yesterday, the only way to make this work long term is entitlement reform and that essentially non-defense discretionary cuts won’t be worth a hill of beans in 10 years.

If the Republicans are having a difficult time finding $16 billion in a $4 trillion budget, then God help us all.

A meaningful cut for 2011 would be on the order of $300-500 billion, and then make some *serious* cuts in 2012.

The cuts are there, all the GOP needs to do is listen to Paul “the Hatchet Man” Ryan. If they can’t find $16 billion then its obvious the special interests are holding the GOP back.

Cut subsides to profitable companies like GE, Big Oil, Archer Daniels Midland and so on. These so called partnerships are just income vehicles to pad the bottom line for wallstreet. Who wants to pay for GMA corn or profitable oil companies at the expense of the taxpayer? This puts the GOP over the top and then some! And GE is no longer an American company that pays US taxes.

http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2011/02/10/oil-demand-growth-vulnerable-to-subsidy-cuts/

http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/