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Budget Cuts.

3K views 16 replies 11 participants last post by  vtlpluyr 
#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Agriculture took the third highest cut in the Trump budget.....sounds about right to me.

Regards, Mike

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#3 ·
I'm not having a problem with cuts......if and when I rarely go to either the FSA or conservation offices, first I had to see Obamas mug on the wall, then the realization of what a total waste of money is taking place here. Obscene!
 
#11 ·
I like the fact that the EPA is getting far less money. There is no need for gasoline taxes to go directly to them on a per gallon basis.

Sadly the USDA needs to trim some fat as well. The Rural Development part of the USDA in Maine makes a great looking brochure, prints it up, passes it around and people think the 2 people they helped last year was really 10,000.

Or the fact that 1/2 of 1 percent of the nation is farmers, yet the USDA had 100,000 employees...so do we really need 1 USDA employee for every 15 farmers?

Yep time to cut some fat...

Not to mention 80% of the USDA Farm Bill goes to Food Stamps or whatever they call it now...

Yep time to cut some fat...
 
#14 ·
Far as education, throwing more money at it isn't going to fix poor performance, we already spend more than other industrialized country. For example teachers in Chicago are the highest paid in the nation and overall student performance is abysmal.
 
#15 ·
I think that foreign aid is less that 1% of the total US government budget and less than 2% of the Canadian budget, that is probably divided among multiple departments. It and even welfare are not really the problem.

Sadly the problem (at a very high level) is more about too much money causing too much government, and that being inversely proportional to innovation. Only innovation can drastically decrease costs while improving services. Human nature is such that we do not bother to innovate when we are overloaded with resources. In the US things get a bit more complicated by special interest groups funding campaigns (often these groups fear innovation and push to stifle it as it relates to their sector)... People mention education, the Kahn Academy is the perfect example of innovation. Once the money dries up things will turn around.
 
#17 ·
Mike - forgive me. I was referring to overall government spending and where I perceived the big government problem being (here and in the US)... Welfare is a major problem in and of itself absolutely. In Quebec college is $150 per semester (full time), and aid for students on welfare pretty much makes a college education a free ride even if they need to move out of town. I don't understand why, but they almost never take advantage of it.
 
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