Rand Paul Delivers

Freshman Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) proposed a deficit-busting budget that eliminates the deficit within five years. 

Rand Paul's proposal would eliminate $4 Trillion from the deficit. The plan would cut non-defense discretionary spending down to 2008 levels. It would cut defense spending by six percent. It would eliminate four expensive and unconstitutional departments - the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing and Urban Development.

Here Rand Paul along with Senate colleagues Jim Demint (R-SC) and Michael Lee (R-UT):



Here is Rand Paul on FoxBusiness with Judge Andrew Napolitano talking about the deficit-busting budget.



Rand Paul and his tea party caucus have done more in two months than most Senators have done in two or terms.  See the Senate bill here. 

House Votes to Pull NPR Funding

2011 is not NPR's year.  After the heavily left-wing biased public radio outfit embarrassed itself causing the firings of two senior executives, the U.S. House voted 228-192 to strip federal taxpayer funding of NPR.  Clearly this is a victory for the American taxpayer.

Click here to see how your representative voted.

Geither Stuns Markets with Possible U.S. Backing of World Currency

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner stunned the world markets today with a bombshell that the U.S. might back a world currency.  With this bombshell by Geithner the U.S. dollar plunged against the euro, yen and sterling as Geithner seemed somewhat supportive of China's plan to have a world currency backed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Once Geithner realized the huge gaffe he made, he backpedalled by stating that the U.S. dollar would be the "world's dominant reserve currency ... for a long period of time".  Once he realized how severe his gaffe was on the global markets, he further expanded - "I don't believe that there is a need for a global currency. The reason the dollar is strong right now is because investors consider the United States the strongest economy in the world with the most stable political system in the world."

At least now we know what Geithner really thinks about the U.S. dollar, and why he Geithner has been so passive in keeping the dollar strong.  But what Geithner is doing is keeping China at ease, given they buy so much of our sovereign debt.

Geithner should really be looking for ways to make the dollar strong, rather than looking for the easy way out of exploring a possible world reserve currency not based on the U.S. dollar.  Geithner also needs to exert some fortitude on reigning in the spending at the U.S. Treasury.  Maybe this expectation is too high for an admitted tax cheat.

Obama Supports High Gas Prices If They're Gradually Hiked

The Dust Police Are Coming...

As if America's farmers and businesses don't have enough regulations, the EPA is proposing regulations against farm dust. Farm dust is causing by driving on a dirt road, or by livestock on farm.


All the more reason to defund the EPA in its entirety. But thanks to freshman Congresswoman Kristi Noem (R-SD) who filed an amendment to defund the EPA's dust protection initiative.

GAO Government Audit Highlights Widespread Government Waste

When the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its independent performance audit of the federal government yesterday, jaws dropped nationwide.  For the first time in a long time if not our nation's history, government leaders and the public see now how poorly the federal government is managed.  Now, the real work can begin to reform the federal government and reduce overlapping costs.

On the surface, the report highlight numerous overlaps of multiple departments and agencies performing the same function.  Of course, this makes no financial sense, and this only adds to a bloated government and a tremendous waste of taxpayer money.

The major opportunities outlined in the report hinge on comprehensive reforms in the following areas:

• Identifying and addressing government wide waste of duplication of enterprise architecture, inter-agency contracting, and tax expenditures across the entire federal government system.
• Lowering drug costs (FDA) and eliminating duplicate contracting of drug procurement across multiple agencies (Defense; Veterans Affairs; and Health/Human Services).
• Modernization of government electronic health records and integration of public health record systems nationwide.
• Addressing inconsistent and wasteful duplication of multi-agency efforts for agriculture monitoring.
• Modernization and consolidation of Defense business, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems.
• Implementation of comprehensive department wide procurement program within the Defense department on defense programs to eliminate duplication and waste within the procurement process.
• Consolidation of multi-agency efforts to repel biological or chemical weapon threats; securing nations' borders; and transportation threat monitoring.  Leverage consolidation to address inefficiencies and reduce wasteful spending.
• Reduction of overlap of administration structures and costs of domestic food assistance; homelessness and transportation-disadvantages persons.
• Consolidation of training and education programs within the federal government, that currently are spread out across multiple agencies, departments and programs.
• Conduction and reduction of overlap of the teacher quality program, that currently is spread out by ten agencies and encompassed in 82 federal programs.
• Addressing fragmentation of financial literacy efforts that currently requires twenty agencies to coordinate.

One major area of the report highlight's the government's inability to consolidate the health information networks and drug costs.  And yet the President and Democrats in Congress feel that Obamacare would help contain costs.  Really?
And yes, conservatives we need to address the inefficiencies within the Department of Defense. Thanks to the report, we can now address the redundant procurement and technology systems.   

Now is the time for the department heads (Secretary of Defense, HHS, etc.), and managers of the federal government to think like Corporate America to reduce wasteful spending within the federal government.  Start thinking that the funding for every department, agency and job within the federal government is your money.  Which it is.  And remember, it's a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

The GAO gave you the cheat sheet on what needs to get fixed, so get to work.  Prove to the American taxpayer that you really are frugal with our money.  The next election is in less than two years, and be reminded we are paying attention.  We are armed with information and will pull the lever to whomever will take a hatchet to the federal government to make it work, and cost-effective.

Obama's Deficit Problem

Nobody likes being lied to, but when President Obama speaks on the federal deficit by blaming his predecessor, you better know the facts.  Clearly, Obama either is that clueless or he is in serial denial.  But the facts report a different picture.

Yesterday Obama, while talking about the deficit stated:

Making these necessary investments would be hard at any time. But it’s that much harder at a time when resources are scarce. After living through a decade of deficits and a historic recession that made them worse, we can’t afford to kick the can down the road any longer. So the budget debate that we’re having is going to be critical here in Washington. And so far, most of it’s been focused almost entirely on how much of annual domestic spending — what in the parlance we all domestic discretionary spending — that we should cut. There’s no doubt that cuts in discretionary spending have to be a part of the answer for deficit reduction.

Based on this statement, it is obviously clear that Obama fails to see what affect this programs are having on the federal deficit.  The federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reports that Obama is directly responsible for the tripling deficit since he assumed office in January 2009.  And pictures don't lie.