Action Now Urgently Needed on Federal Budget

As we enter the "Age of American Socialism" neither candidate for President is talking about what kind of cuts they would make to keep the ugly head of inflation from rising after all their campaign promises. Whether McCain wins or as the polls, pundits and prognosticators predict, Obama wins, both will need to deal with a bloated federal budget. Herewith are some areas that can be cut in order to secure a better future for our country.

Eliminate the Department of Education
It makes no sense to send our hard earned monies into Washington, D.C. only to have the Feds skim their cut and re-deploy what crumbs are left back to the states to further whatever education goals legislated by Congress. All of the loan and grant programs can easily be administered by the Treasury. Since that department has now declared itself as the official lender of the U.S. Government. The rest of the programs deployed by the Educrats can just be axed. Since the department was originated during the Carter administration, all of the great innovations in Education have originated at the state and local level. This is where the action happens, this is where it should stay.

Cut the State Department by 25%
The next Secretary of "foggy bottom" can figure out where specific cuts should occur. He or she can begin by throwing a bone to the Jeffersonians that continually warn against foreign entanglements and stop funding programs that aid nation-states whose purposes run counter to our national interests.

Cut the Agriculture Department by 20%
Whoever the Ag Department Secretary might be they should embrace free-market principles and shrink this department accordingly. We are no longer an agrarian nation, though we can be considered the bread basket to the world. Fewer and fewer people are involved in agricultural as technology and productivity have steamlined those numbers. Clearly the bloated must go.

Cut the Defense Department by 10%
Begin by rooting out the wasteful spending within. Then reduce the number of troops based in foreign lands. If a country seeks our continued presense there, then they should be willing to pay for that privilege.

Though it is unlikely that the current congress, even after the election on Tuesday will make cuts such as these, it is incumbant upon fiscally conservative back-benchers to continually press for such cuts. Someone has to sound the alarm that the U.S. Government debt time bomb will soon explode our Nation into dust.