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OK TB, time to get to the bottom line

I'm sick to death of the entire "I hate big government" crap the GOP always spews. WHAT SPECIFICALLY are you proposing to cut? I want programs and dollar figures. I DON'T want the standard GOP bullshit like:

"End big government and get it out of the way of business"

"Cut discretionary spending"

"cut waste and fraud."

"Cut entitlements"

WHAT specific programs that fall under discretionary spending will you cut and/or eliminate? NAME them! How much will it save?

How much do you think it will save cutting waste and fraud? A lot I'm sure but when Obamacare cuts $50B/year in waste the GOP tried to block it!

I want to know how much and where you propose cutting medicare and social security, and how much money it will save.

How much money are you going to cut out of public education? Yeah, I can't wait to get back America back to the 19th Century.

I'll tell you where I would start: End corporate tax breaks, subsidides and other corporate welfare (estimates are roughly $100B/year). I'd end the wars and use the money saved to pay down the debt (roughly $150B/year). I'd cut the SAC part of the Triad nuclear defense that is still a holdover from the Cold War. (this is the least effective element of the triad and would save about $100B/year)

Yeah I'd eliminate earmarks. Woo Hoo! $11B.

I'd let the Bush tax cuts expire for EVERYONE and that would prevent another $4T being tacked on to the debt.

You turn.

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