Real Deficit Cutting Ideas

In December a “Bipartisan Commission” of political cronies came up with a multitude of ideas they claim would trim $4 trillion of our $14 trillion national debt, over the next 10 years. If you paid any attention to the details, their ideas, as usual, were long on increased taxes and short on budget cuts.

I have a few suggestions that would accomplish twice the reduction in half the time.

Abolish the Department of Education and return to local control of the education of our children. Established in the 60’s this boondoggle succeeded in dumbing down our system of education while tripling the cost. Currently, we have national, state and county Departments of Education while we’re graduating kids, those who don’t drop out, who can’t read, write or count.

Abolish the U.S. Postal Service. The continued growth of e-mail has resulted in the tripling of the USPS annual debt. FedEx and or UPS would be more than happy to step in and fill the void.

Abolish the Food & Drug Administration. I could write a book on the reasons why, but I’ll limit myself to their most grievous faults. They’ve been a day late and a dollar short in taking action prior to actually recalling tainted foods. Their regulations require drug companies to spend billions in testing and retesting and turn around and complain about the high cost of the end product and arbitrarily limit the length of time of the patented results of that testing.. They deny TERMINALLY ILL patients access to experimental drug tests and are supported by the Supreme Court’s ruling that there is no constitutional right to receive unapproved drugs. What don’t they understand about the term TERMINALLY ILL? What do those people have to lose?? Talk about Death Panels. Explain that to me! FDA functions could be replaced by an expansion of the Consumers Union who do an excellent, and graft free, job of Consumer Testing and Reporting. Cellular intervention to slow aging is a science in it’s infancy. It seems as if the FDA is determined to keep it there. Although I can understand that seniors living longer would devastate Obamacare.

Demand Congressional approval of regulatory agency mandates prior to their
implementation. These groups play fast and loose when forcing questionable
mandates onto private sector companies.

Scrap the or severely modify the Endangered Species program. They sold us on the idea that a handful of animals were in danger of becoming extinct. Now one nut wants the thousands of varieties of Beetles added to the list. Add up the time, money and jobs lost when public projects are litigated and delayed for years simply because someone “says” they saw an endangered species on the site.


In closing I ask that you run through the lengthly list of U.S. Departments, Boards, Commissions, Committees and Agencies, each of which have a staff, sub committees and a substantial budget. Then tell me that we couldn’t get along very well with about 25% of just those listed.

And I’m just getting warmed up!