"Oh my god. That's just crazy," ... "Really that is wacko."

[progressoid]

What a Tea Party budget looks like

With Washington buzzing with proposals to cut the budget, Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Michele Bachmann -- two high-profile Tea Party members -- have each released laundry lists of spending cuts.

The numbers in their proposals are staggering. Paul wants to slash $500 billion in fiscal year 2011, which only has eight remaining months. Bachmann lists more than $400 billion in cuts.

...snip...

The cuts:

legislative branch -- 23%
federal courts -- 32%
Agriculture Department -- 30%
Commerce Department -- 54%
Health and Human Services -- 26%
Homeland Security -- 43%
Interior Department -- 78%

The legislation also lists programs for elimination. How about ... the Affordable Housing Program, the Commission on Fine Arts, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the State Justice Institute.

"Oh my god. That's just crazy," said Isabel Sawhill, an economist who studies fiscal issues at the Brookings Institution. "Really that is wacko."

http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/26/news/economy/tea_party_budget/

[justiceischeap]

1. As of yesterday he has unilateral control over the budget numbers too

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/demon-pass-how-the-new-house-rules-are-like-the-slaughter-solution.php

[lonestarnot]

2. So what do we do about crazy?

:crazy:

[CanonRay]

3. I see Defense is conspicuously absent

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5. indeed. many fithly rich people get filthy rich sucking at the pentagon's teat

"welfare queens" got nothing on defense contractors, and "welfare queens" don't contribute nearly as much to key political compaigns.

[madmom]

6. so how bout we start calling them WARfare queens?

[northoftheborder]

8. good one

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9. +1111!!!111

[unblock]

4. crazy works for republicans, has for years.

having staked out this insane position, they can "compromise" and accept a fraction of what they're talking about now, claim to be bipartisan and reasonable by agreeing to less, and still destroy the fabric of the country and plenty of little people while further enriching their already insanely wealthy benefactors.

[northoftheborder]

7. good one