ARRA News Service
News Blog for social, fiscal & national security conservatives who believe in God, family & the USA. Upholding the rights granted by God & guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, traditional family values, "republican" principles / ideals, transparent & limited "smaller" government, free markets, lower taxes, due process of law, liberty & individual freedom. Content approval rests with the ARRA News Service Editor. Opinions are those of the authors. While varied positions are reported, beliefs & principles remain fixed. No revenue is generated for or by this "Blog" - no paid ads - no payments for articles. Fair Use Doctrine is posted & used.
Blogger/Editor/Founder: Bill Smith, Ph.D. [aka: OzarkGuru & 2010 AFP National Blogger of the Year]
Contact: editor@arranewsservice.com (Pub. Since July, 2006)
    Home Page
   

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)

Thursday, March 14, 2019

No Cuts Allowed In D.C.

by Rick Manning: In Washington, D.C., every spending program and tax break has a constituency that fights for it. This is why they exist, because somewhere, someone believes that Warren Buffett needs a wind production tax credit, and that opera programming should be taxpayer funded.

These constituencies are tightly organized and connected into the D.C. power centers to continue and if possible expand the favored spending.

Do you know who doesn’t have a well-funded lobbying arm? Why, it is the actual taxpayers and limited government conservatives who fight against the tide of the ever expanding government. Groups like Americans for Limited Government, which I head, depend upon the raw power of truth to stand up to the D.C. government growth machine, and the election of Donald Trump to the presidency shows that winning is possible.

In spite of growing deficits, the Trump presidency gives us reason for hope that fiscal sanity may be restored, as for the third year in a row, they have released a budget which provides a pathway to balance. While the fifteen-year time frame may seem like a long time, by comparison, so-called budget cutter Paul Ryan’s proposals often had a four-decade timeline to reach balance.

While the President’s budget proposals are not expected to receive much attention in the House, it is hoped that the GOP-held Senate will at least provide some legislative legs behind them.

At the Department of Energy, the President’s budget makes an 11 percent cut from last year’s appropriated levels of spending partially by protecting taxpayers “by eliminating costly, wasteful or duplicative programs. The private sector is better positioned to provide financing for the deployment of commercially viable projects. As a result, programs proposed for elimination include: the Title XVII Innovative Technology Loan guarantee Program; the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan and the Tribal Energy Loan guarantee Program.”

This simple idea of having the federal government engage in deep initial research and then expediting the private sector’s ability to invest and develop this research into market applications best meets America’s needs by getting science to markets more rapidly.

Another example of this kind of dollar saving spending change is the Energy Department’s decision to put more money into energy storage research and development while cutting a billion dollars from the bloated Office of Science.

By increasing emphasis on specific scientific areas that are critical to our nation’s energy infrastructure and independence like increasing the ability to store electricity which impacts everything from batteries in cell phones to future solar power generation, government research will match both short term and long-term economic needs all while saving millions of dollars.

The Energy Department spending reprioritization has chosen to beef up spending in the area of cyber-security for places like the national labs as well as taking much needed baby steps to harden the electricity grid. While much remains to be done, the Trump Energy budget demonstrates the President’s priorities for our nation’s future, and the cuts themselves show that President Trump may be the only person in D.C. who is taking the overall fiscal challenges our nation faces seriously.

And if you want to understand the professional spending advocacy squad at work and reinforce how hard it is to get Congress to cut anything in Washington, D.C., the funding fight over the Corporation for Public Broadcasting last year should be a reminder of how difficult cuts are.

Immediately after announcing last year’s budget, which proposed phasing out the approximately $500 million in government funding for CPB over two-years you would have thought that Big Bird had been executed on the town square in front of horrified children. 2018 headlines like “Could Trump’s 2018 budget kill Sesame Street’s beloved Big Bird?” created the impression that the President is desperately seeking the elimination of this beloved icon, when the truth was that by their own admission, public funding elimination for PBS would more than be offset by increases in private donations. That’s right, government funding actually would have been more than offset by private donations to keep the programming listeners wanted on the air effectively creating more money for future program development. Rather that dying, Big Bird would thrive if CPB’s federal funding was eliminated.

While the President was unable to eliminate CPB off of taxpayer funding last year, it will be interesting to learn if he is coming back for another bite of that apple as more details are released on the budget in the weeks ahead. Quite simply if we cannot stomach defunding half a billion dollars each year to pay for liberal talk radio coupled with television programming for rich people then it is hard to imagine making the tougher choices to bring the budget to balance.

If the President chooses to recommend ending funding for public broadcasting in this budget request, listen to the howls from elites across the nation defending this luxury, and you will understand why it is so difficult to cut anything in D.C.

And until those of us who are seeing our nation heading over a fiscal cliff raise our voices loud enough to drown out the yelps of the privileged and connected, Congress will continue pressing the accelerator toward the cliff and the President will wonder why the public did not join him in this fight.

Quite simply, if the people want to cut the budget, they have to demand it with a single-issue ferocity that it forces the politicians of both parties to act in the nation’s interest. Ultimately, America it is up to you. You elected Congress, now you need to make them work for you by cutting the budget and restoring fiscal sanity to America. The President has done his job, now he needs you to do yours.
------------------
Rick Manning is the President of Americans for Limited Government.

Tags: Rick Mannning, Americans for Limited Government, No Cuts Allowed In D.C. To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
Posted by Bill Smith at 10:30 AM - Post Link

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home


View U.S. National Debt

Don't miss anything!
Subscribe to the
ARRA News Service
It's FREE & No Ads!

You will receive a verification email
& must validate you subscribed!

You Then Receive One Email Each AM
With Prior Days Articles / Toons / More


Also, Join & leave conservative posts & comments on
Facebook.com/ARRANewsService


Recent Posts:
Personal Tweets by the editor:
Dr. Bill - OzarkGuru - @arra
#Christian Conservative; Retired USAF & Grad Professor. Constitution NRA ProLife schoolchoice fairtax - Editor ARRA NEWS SERVICE. THANKS FOR FOLLOWING!

Action Links!
State Upper & Lower House Members
State Attorney Generals
State Governors
The White House
US House of Representatives
US Senators
GrassFire
NumbersUSA
Ballotpedia

Facebook Accts - Dr. Bill Smith
Pages:
ARRA News Service
Arkansans Against Big Government
Alley-White Am. Legion #52
Catholics & Protestants United Against Discrimination
End Taxpayer Funding of NPR
Overturn Roe V. Wade
Prolife Soldiers
Project Wildfire 4 Life
Republican Liberty Caucus of Arkansas
The Gold Standard
US Atty Gen Loretta Lynch, aka Eric Holder, Must Go
Veterans for Sarah Palin
Why Vote for Hillary (Satire)
FB Groups:
Arkansas For Sarah Palin
Arkansas Conservative Caucus
Arkansas County Tea Party
Arkansans' Discussion Group on National Issues
Blogs for Borders
Conservative Solutions
Conservative Voices
Defend Marriage -- Arkansas
FairTax
FairTax Nation
Arkansas for FairTax
Friends of the TEA Party in Arkansas
Freedom Roundtable
Pro-Life Rocks - Arkansas
Republican Network
Republican Liberty Caucus of AR
Reject the U.N.

Patriots
Exchange
Links

Request Via
Article Comment

Links to ARRA News
A Patriotic Nurse
Agora Associates
a12iggymom's Blog
America, You Asked For It!
America's Best Choice
ARRA News Twitter
As The Crackerhead Crumbles
Blogs For Borders
Blogs for Palin
Blow the Trumpet Ministry
Boot Berryism
Cap'n Bob & the Damsel
Chicago Ray Report - Obama Regime Report
Chuck Baldwin - links
Common Cents
Conservative Voices
Diana's Corner
Greater Fitchburg For Life
Lasting Liberty Blog
Liberal Isn't Amy
Marathon Pundit
Patriot's Corner
Right on Issues that Matter
Right Reason
Rocking on the Right Side
Saber Point
Saline Watchdog
Sultan Knish
The Blue Eye View
The Born Again Americans
TEA Party Cartoons
The Foxhole | Unapologetic Patriot
The Liberty Republican
The O Word
The Path to Tyranny Blog
The Real Polichick
The War on Guns
TOTUS
Twitter @ARRA
Underground Notes
Warning Signs
Women's Prayer & Action
WyBlog

Editor's Managed Twitter Accounts
Twitter Dr. Bill Smith @arra
Twitter Arkansas @GOPNetwork
Twitter @BootBerryism
Twitter @SovereignAllies
Twitter @FairTaxNation

Editor's Recommended Orgs
Accuracy in Media (AIM)
American Action Forum (AAF)
American Committment
American Culture & Faith Institute
American Enterprise Institute
American Family Business Institute
Americans for Limited Government
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Tax Reform
American Security Council Fdn
AR Faith & Ethics Council
Arkansas Policy Foundation
Ayn Rand Institute
Bill of Rights Institute
Campaign for Working Families
CATO Institute
Center for Individual Freedom
Center for Immigration Studies
Center for Just Society
Center for Freedom & Prosperity
Citizens Against Gov't Waste
Citizens in Charge Foundstion
Coalition for the Future American Worker
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Concerned Veterans for America
Concerned Women for America
Declaration of Am. Renewal
Eagle Forum
FairTax
Family Research Council
Family Security Matters
Franklin Center for Gov't & Public Integrity
Freedom Works
Gingrich Productions
Global Incident Map
Great Americans
Gold Standard 2012 Project
Gun Owners of America (GOA)
Heritage Action for America
David Horowitz Freedom Center
Institute For Justice
Institute for Truth in Accounting
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Judicial Watch
Less Government
Media Reseach Center
National Center for Policy Analysis
National Right To Work Foundation
National Rifle Association (NRA)
National Rifle Association (NRA-ILA)
News Busters
O'Bluejacket's Patriotic Flicks
OathKeepers
Open Secrets
Presidential Prayer Team
Religious Freedom Coalition
Renew America
Ron Paul Institute
State Policy Network
Tax Foundation
Tax Policy Center
The Club for Growth
The Federalist
The Gold Standard Now
The Heritage Foundation
The Leadership Institute
Truth in Accounting
Union Facts



Blogs For Borders

Reject the United Nations

Presidential Prayer Team

Thousands of Deadly Islamic Terror Attacks Since 9/11


FairTax Nation on FaceBook
Friends of Israel - Stand with Israel
Blog Feeds
Syndicated - Get the ARRA News Service feed Syndicated!
ARRA Blog Feed

Add to Google Reader or Homepage

Add to The Free Dictionary

Powered by Blogger


  • To Exchange Links - Email: editor@arranewsservice.com!
  • Comments by contributing authors or other sources do not necessarily reflect the position the editor, other contributing authors, sources, readers, or commenters. No contributors, or editors are paid for articles, images, cartoons, etc. While having reported on and promoting principles & beleifs beliefs of other organizations, this blog/site is soley controlled and supported by the editor. This site/blog does not advertise for money or services nor does it solicit funding for its support.
  • Fair Use: This site/blog may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Such material is made available to advance understanding of political, human rights, economic, democracy, and social justice issues, etc. This constitutes a 'fair use' of such copyrighted material as provided for in section Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law. Per said section, the material on this site/blog is distributed without profit to readers to view for the expressed purpose of viewing the included information for research, educational, or satirical purposes. Any person/entity seeking to use copyrighted material shared on this site/blog for purposes that go beyond "fair use," must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
  • © 2006 - 2020 ARRA News Service
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.