The Full Monty ... a complete list of Bush's budget cuts.

[Pepperbelly]

Here it is, guys. The list. Take a look and see what you think.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/02/11/national/w163008S18.DTL

[RazzleCat]

1. In a perverse way this makes me giddy

I know several cops who just love the Chimp in Chief. I also live in a red state with a ton of farmers who voted him in. So looking at the "waste" he is cutting, items that are near and dear to them, gives me that see I told ya so feeling. Unfortunately I see way to many programs near and dear to me also getting ax.

[UL_Approved]

2. This is front page material

But it needs a little more information on the side.

Good find, BTW.

:kick:

[PatrioticOhioLiberal]

3. The only saving grace

is the fact that no pResident (or actual President for that matter) has ever gotten all the cuts he wants. And...it shows up the fallacy of the Evil Twig being the "Education" or "Security" prentender in chief.

[flordehinojos]

4. Bush is the kind of man who would NOT stop on the road to aid a fellow

traveler. If anything, he might just take his car and run over the darn bastard who dared to need help out on the road. that is exactly what his budget stands for.

[theHandpuppet]

5. I'll post the Education cuts if fellow DUers could post other categories

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Comprehensive School Reform

Educational Technology State Grants

Even Start

(High School Program Terminations) --

Vocational Education State Grants

Vocational Education National Activities

Tech Prep State Grants

Upward Bound

Talent Search

GEAR UP

Smaller Learning Communities

Perkins Loans: Capital Contributions and Loan Cancellations

Regional Education Laboratories

Safe and Drug Free Schools State Grants

(Small Elementary and Secondary Education Programs) --

Javits Gifted and Talented Education

National Writing Project

School Leadership

Dropout Prevention Program

Close Up Fellowships

Ready to Teach

Parental Information and Resource Centers

Alcohol Abuse Reduction

Foundations for Learning

Mental Health Integration in Schools

Community Technology Centers

Exchanges with Historic Whaling and Trading Partners

Foreign Language Assistance

Excellence in Economic Education

Arts in Education

Women's Educational Equity

Elementary and Secondary School Counseling

Civic Education

Star Schools

(Smaller Higher Education Programs) --

Higher Education Demos for Students w/Disabilities

Underground Railroad Program

Interest Subsidy Grants

(Small Job Training and Adult Education Programs) --

Occupational and Employment Information

Tech-prep Demonstration

Literacy Programs for Prisoners

State Grants for Incarcerated Youth

(Small Postsecondary Student Financial Assistance Programs) --

LEAP

Byrd Scholarships

B.J. Stupak Olympic Scholarships

Thurgood Marshall Legal Opportunity

(Small Vocational Rehabilitation Programs) --

Vocational Rehabilitation Recreational Programs

Vocational Rehab (VR) Migrant and Seasonal Workers

Projects with Industry

Supported Employment

Teacher Quality Enhancement Program

[soup]

11. Byrd Scholarships

going for the throat.

"Don't like my wars? Well, take that!"

[Pepperbelly]

18. I noticed that one, too. nt

[jhain]

6. Justice Dept-Attention First Responders

Dear Fox 'News',
Ask Bush if a good old fashioned neighborhood bucket brigade will save us from a bio attack.

_Justice Department

Byrne Discretionary Grants

Byrne Justice Assistance Grants

COPS Hiring Grants

COPS Interoperable Communications Technology Grants

COPS Law Enforcement Technology Grants

Juvenile Accountability Block Grants

National Drug Intelligence Center

Other State/Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program Terminations

State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP)

[MadisonProgressive]

7. I guess to support those tax cuts for the rich

one needs to find a way to pay for it. This should be an impeachable offense.

[Toots]

8. And with all of these cuts he will still have a record deficit

He won't even come close to paying for his tax cuts with these cuts. Hell he could cut every single social program and would not end deficit spending. These hundred and fifty programs only account for about fourteen billion dollars. Bring the deficit down from 430 billion to 416 billion and it is still a record. Remember under Clinton we were done with deficits and in fact bringing in surplus and we were still able to take care of the people.

[MadisonProgressive]

20. I'm well aware of that

I was just pointing out the inherent evil behind giving those huge tax cuts and making cuts to punish mainly the non-rich in order to convince the United Simpletons of America that he's fiscally responsible.:grr:

[katinmn]

9. Agriculture Department: terminated and major reductions

TERMINATED:

_Agriculture Department

AMS Biotechnology Program

Forest Service Economic Action Program

High Cost Energy Grants

NRCS Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations

Research and Extension Grant Earmarks and Low Priority Programs
MAJOR REDUCTIONS:

_Agriculture Department

Federal (In-House) Research

Forest Service Capital Improve and Maintenance

Forest Service Wildland Fire Management (incl. supp. and emergency funding)

Biomass Research and Development

Broadband

CCC - Bioenergy

CCC - Market Access Program

Farm Bill Programs (EQIP

Farm Bill Programs (CSP)

Farm Bill Programs (WHIP)

Farm Bill Program (Farm and Ranchland Protection)

Farm Bill Programs (Ag. Management Assistance)

[soup]

10. I don't understand why the entire list can't be posted.

Wouldn't it be considered a public record?

Gotta love the blogger who noted the following:

Fedlog: The List, Finally

By Tom Shoop
[e-mail]

Welcome to our blog for government. Check back often - and chime in with your own tidbits.

Saturday, Feb. 12

11:58 a.m. ET
The List, Finally. In the dark of night, under cover of the impending weekend, OMB has finally done it: released the list of 154 programs that it proposes to eliminate in the fiscal 2004 budget. For this White House (like all other White Houses) Friday night's the night to bury the news you don't want widely reported.
http://govexec.com/fedlog/index.htm

[theHandpuppet]

12. HHS Dept, Housing and Urban Development, and Dept of the Interior

Health and Human Services Department



HRSA Children's Hospitals GME Payment Program



HRSA Health Professions



HRSA Rural Health



SAMHSA Programs of Regional and National Significance



State, Local & Hospital Bioterrorism Preparedness Grants



Housing and Urban Development Department



Housing for Persons with Disabilities



Native American Housing Block Grant



Public Housing Capital Fund



Interior Department



Bureau of Indian Affairs School Construction



National Heritage Area Grants



Payments in Lieu of Taxes



USGS, Mineral Resources Program

[bush_is_wacko]

13. WOW! Question...

I don't see the veterans program cuts the Dem's are talking about. Do you know were that is?

There are about five on that list that I agree need to be cut, but only because private industry is way ahead in technology on those issues or it is simply insane to prop up an industry that should be able to stand on it's own. Amtrak and telecommunications industry should not be propped up by the American government, so I do agree with those cuts and from what I know this has been discussed MANY times before.

The rest of the list is just pure disenfranchisement of poor, minority, and middle-class America. We are in big trouble if this gets pushed through!

This guy is slime!
:puke:

[TahitiNut]

14. This list does highlight the abysmal bureaucracy

Each and every one of these is a 'Program,' which means that within the agency or department there is a 'Program Office' with a Director or similarly high-ranking functionary with a staff and subordinate "Offices" doing nothing but going through the paces of overseeing, funding, defunding, and perpetuating the 'rice bowl' of a 'program' that may, in fact, overlap and replicate actual and real activities that many other 'programs' also oversee and manage.

Federal 'programs' are like tumors. No matter how well-intended, they all get their own top-down embedded bureaucracy that's separate and distinct from what might be regarded as the management hierarchy. People in the front-line trenches are typically required to account for their time under a range of 'overhead' (what one might typically regard as operational) and programmatic cost accounting codes. The internal politics of having one's job time covered by one or more "program budgets" is as arcane as it can possibly be. Individual contributors working for government or a contractor can wind up spending enormous amounts of time merely searching for and obtaining authorization to have their 2,000 hours/year paid for by the plethora of fiefdoms, every one of which spends more time covering its administrative butt than actually accomplishing anything. When programs have funding cuts, it's the money that reaches the individual contributors that gets reduced the most. It's organic - just like the human anatomical response of ensuring that blood reaches the brain even at the cost of hands and feet. Sadly, all these bureaucratic 'brains' are more reptilian than human. Who gets laid off first? The front line employees.

Over time, the vast majority of government 'programs' become politically-entrenched vestigial organs. If they have gut-wrenching language in their charters and funding documents like "God," "Mother." or "Apple Pie" they have the highest likelihood of staying in place even if, for years, they've not directly accomplished a damned thing other than run around and harvest happenstance re-characterizations of activities that're taking place merely through everyday operations. Working in such an environment after being in well-controlled (no matter how perverted in some ways) Fortune 500 companies is a lot like being Through The Looking Glass ... a kind of bizarre Oz.

[johnaries]

15. It's been stated many times that the long-term result of Reagon's

tax cuts was the high deficit which resulted in major budget cuts.
Neo-cons have been wanted to get rid of all Federal Social programs for decades.
This is why Bush never wanted to do anything about the deficit.
These cuts were the strategy behind his policies, all along. Or, maybe I should say the "strategery".

:nuke: :grr: :scared:

[BornaDem]

16. I don't see on the list any cuts to Medicaid that have been....

talked about. Did I miss them or does anybody have any info that I missed?

[Name removed]

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[Sugarbleus]

19. Excellent all-in-one-place find!

It seems like a HUGE list of cuts or kills...is it possible ALL these things could possibly be touched?

There were a small few I'd not miss, but cripes there were some valid agencies asked to be cut or killed that I find INSANE!

Thanks again. I'm booking this piece.

[Pepperbelly]

21. thanks.

:D

[ElsewheresDaughter]

22. here is a simplified complete list........

Programs Eliminated or Cut in the 2006 Bush Budget

(Feb. 12) - Here are the 154 programs that President Bush wants to eliminate or cut in his 2006 budget proposal. Bush would terminate 99 programs and make major spending reductions in 55. Separately, the administration listed eight major reforms Bush proposed that also would produce spending cuts.

Of the terminations, Bush has recommended 59 of them before. Twenty-seven of the 55 programs targeted for spending reductions have been previously submitted to Congress.

TERMINATED:

Agriculture Department

AMS Biotechnology Program

Forest Service Economic Action Program

High Cost Energy Grants

NRCS Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations

Research and Extension Grant Earmarks and Low Priority Programs

Commerce Department

Advanced Technology Program

Emergency Steel Guarantee Loan Program

Public Telecommunications Facilities, Planning and Construction Program

Education Department

Comprehensive School Reform

Educational Technology State Grants

Even Start


(High School Program Terminations):

Vocational Education State Grants

Vocational Education National Activities

Tech Prep State Grants

Upward Bound

Talent Search

GEAR UP

Smaller Learning Communities

Perkins Loans: Capital Contributions and Loan Cancellations

Regional Education Laboratories

Safe and Drug Free Schools State Grants


(Small Elementary and Secondary Education Programs):

Javits Gifted and Talented Education

National Writing Project

School Leadership

Dropout Prevention Program

Close Up Fellowships

Ready to Teach

Parental Information and Resource Centers

Alcohol Abuse Reduction

Foundations for Learning

Mental Health Integration in Schools

Community Technology Centers

Exchanges with Historic Whaling and Trading Partners

Foreign Language Assistance

Excellence in Economic Education

Arts in Education

Women's Educational Equity

Elementary and Secondary School Counseling

Civic Education

Star Schools


(Smaller Higher Education Programs):

Higher Education Demos for Students w/Disabilities

Underground Railroad Program

Interest Subsidy Grants


(Small Job Training and Adult Education Programs):

Occupational and Employment Information

Tech-prep Demonstration

Literacy Programs for Prisoners

State Grants for Incarcerated Youth

(Small Postsecondary Student Financial Assistance Programs):

LEAP

Byrd Scholarships

B.J. Stupak Olympic Scholarships

Thurgood Marshall Legal Opportunity


(Small Vocational Rehabilitation Programs):

Vocational Rehabilitation Recreational Programs

Vocational Rehab (VR) Migrant and Seasonal Workers

Projects with Industry

Supported Employment

Teacher Quality Enhancement Program

Energy Department

Hydropower Program

Nuclear Energy Plant Optimization

Nuclear Energy Research Initiative

Oil and Gas Programs

Health and Human Services Department

ACF Community Service Programs

ACF Early Learning Opportunities Fund

CDC Congressional Earmarks

CDC Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant

CDC Youth Media Campaign

Direct Service Worker Delivery Grants

HRSA Emergency Medical Services for Children

HRSA Health Facilities Construction Congressional Earmarks

HRSA Healthy Community Access Program

HRSA State Planning Grant Program

HRSA Trauma Care

HRSA Traumatic Brain Injury

HRSA Universal Newborn Hearing Screening

Real Choice Systems Change Grants

Housing and Urban Development Department

HOPE VI

Interior Department

BLM Jobs-in-the-Woods Program

LWCF State Recreation Grants (NPS)

National Park Service Statutory Aid

Rural Fire Assistance (BLM, NPS, FWS, BIA)

Justice Department

Byrne Discretionary Grants

Byrne Justice Assistance Grants

COPS Hiring Grants

COPS Interoperable Communications Technology Grants

COPS Law Enforcement Technology Grants

Juvenile Accountability Block Grants

National Drug Intelligence Center

Other State/Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program Terminations

State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP)

Labor Department

Migrant and Seasonal Farm Worker Training Program

Reintegration of Youthful Offenders

Transportation Department

National Defense Tank Vessel Construction Program

Railroad Rehabilitation Infrastructure Financing Loan Program

Enviromental Protection Agency

Unrequested Projects

Water Quality Cooperative Agreements

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Hubble Space Telescope Robotic Servicing Mission

Other Agencies

National Veterans Business Development Corporation

Postal Service: Revenue Forgone Appropriation

SBA: Microloan Program

SBA: Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Participating Securities Program


MAJOR REDUCTIONS:

Agriculture Department

Federal (In-House) Research

Forest Service Capital Improve and Maintenance

Forest Service Wildland Fire Management (incl. supp. and emergency funding)

Biomass Research and Development

Broadband

CCC - Bioenergy

CCC - Market Access Program

Farm Bill Programs (EQIP

Farm Bill Programs (CSP)

Farm Bill Programs (WHIP)

Farm Bill Program (Farm and Ranchland Protection)

Farm Bill Programs (Ag. Management Assistance)

IFAS

Renewable Energy

Rural Firefighter Grants

Rural Strategic Investment Program

Rural Business Investment Program

Value-added Grants

Watershed Rehabilitation

NRCS Conservation Operations

NRCS Resource Conservation and Development Program

Water and Wastewater Grants and Loans

Commerce Department

Manufacturing Extension Partnership

Education Department

Adult Education State Grants

State Grants for Innovation

Energy Department

Environmental Management

Health and Human Services Department

HRSA Children's Hospitals GME Payment Program

HRSA Health Professions

HRSA Rural Health

SAMHSA Programs of Regional and National Significance

State, Local & Hospital Bioterrorism Preparedness Grants

Housing and Urban Development Department

Housing for Persons with Disabilities

Native American Housing Block Grant

Public Housing Capital Fund

Interior Department

Bureau of Indian Affairs School Construction

National Heritage Area Grants

Payments in Lieu of Taxes

USGS, Mineral Resources Program

Justice Department

Federal Bureau of Prisons Construction Program

High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program

Juvenile Justice Law Enforcement Assistance Programs

Labor Department

International Labor Affairs Bureau

Office of Disability Employment Policy

Workforce Investment Act Pilots and Demonstrations

State Department

Assistance for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union

Transportation Department

FAA - Facilities and Equipment

FAA - Airport Improvement Program (Oblim)

FRA - Next Generation High Speed Rail

Treasury Department

Internal Revenue Service - Taxpayer Service

Environmental Protection Agency

Alaska Native Villages

Clean Water State Revolving Fund

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Aeronautics: Vehicle Systems Program

Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter

Other Agencies

Archives: National Historical Publications & Records Commission

U.S. Institute of Peace, Construction of New Building

MAJOR REFORMS

Agriculture: Rural Telephone Bank

Commerce: Economic and Community Development Programs

Homeland Security: State and Local Homeland Security Grants

Homeland Security: Transportation Security Administration, Recover Aviation Security Screening Costs Through Fees

Labor: Job Training Reform, Consolidate Grants Program

Transportation: Amtrak

Army Corps of Engineers (Civil Works): Performance Guidelines for Funding Construction Projects

U.S. Agency for International Development and Department of Agriculture: International Food Aid