Operation Offset - list of budget cuts to "pay" for reconstruction

[central scrutinizer]

http://johnshadegg.house.gov/rsc/RSC_Budget_Options_2005.doc

Read 'em and weep - Grover Norquist's wet dream come true. It takes only 23 pages to outline the complete trashing of the social contract.

“Give us a quiet room, copies of the spending bills, a box of red pencils, and watch what happens.”

Table 7: Summary of Total Savings
(Savings from Baseline, in Millions of Dollars)
2006 5-year savings 10-year savings

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Title I: Tough Choices for Tough Times -70,711 -193,017 -526,096
Title II: Restraining Foreign Aid -2,652 -14,594 -37,822
Title III: Reprioritization of Federal Spending -21,530 -127,265 -307,180
Title IV: Containing the Federal Bureaucracy -1,178 -6,334 -16,363
Title V: Eliminating Corporate Welfare -5,280 -23,472 -49,806
Title VI: Rational Reforms to DOD and DHS -741 -5,217 -12,407
TOTAL -102,092 -369,899 -949,674

[rodeodance]

1. what is the cost of Jr's 7 trips for photo-ops thus far?

[liberal N proud]

2. Didn't see anything about cutting the war chest

[TheFarseer]

3. or freezing salaries for Congressmen. . . . . . . . . . .

[GeorgeGist]

4. No sacrifice to small for the rich...

just don't ask them to pay for being the ones who profit most from living in the USA.