$634,688,279,170
That is the total that I came up with from "Frank’s Fifty", a "cut a program a day" that he had during the campaign. Even for the Feds, that’s a lot of money – and it adds up!
Now – he campaigned on it….what will he do on this? To be fair, not many politicians will even come close to this kind of promise – all they wonk about is "waste and fraud" and leave it as that (the impression being, they are all for cutting spending but absolutely refuse to elaborate on the chance that they’d get called on it. Grant Bosse did it during his campaign, but that’s about it.
My plan, from time to time, is to check in with the Congressman’s office and ask IF he has made any headway on any of these. To be sure, Frank Guinta will be a freshman. To be sure, one guy, no matter how well meaning and the campaign promises made, cannot make this much of a difference (unless the title going along with the name is POTUS, and a lot of the time, not even then).
Be that as it may, the effort should be made, it HAS to be made (every $$ counts when you’re broke, and since the Democrats and Obama ran up a $2+ Trillion dollar credit card this year, we are out of bucks). It’s a start – here is it in least listed first:
| Campaign Day | ||
| Proposed | Item | Cost / year |
| 46 | Terminate the House of Representatives Wheels for Wellness Bike Sharing Program. Saves $22,000 a year. | $22,000 |
| 38 | Flat-screen televisions for the State Department. Saves $37,000 | $37,000 |
| 34 | Effects of cocaine on monkeys. Saves $75,000 | $75,000 |
| 40 | Study of weather patterns on other planets. Saves $298,543 | $298,543 |
| 42 | Study of galaxies formed two billion years after the Big Bang. Saves $314,964 | $314,964 |
| 41 | Study of the atmosphere of Neptune. Saves $456,663 | $456,663 |
| 35 | Effects of “inequality and unfairness” on monkeys. Saves $675,000 | $675,000 |
| 37 | iPods for Utah high school students they get to keep just for graduating. Saves $1 million | $1,000,000 |
And the rest:
| Campaign Day | ||
| Proposed | Item | Cost / year |
| 18 | Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming. DAY 18 SAVINGS: $2 million | $2,000,000 |
| 36 | Studying ants in East Africa & islands in the Indian Ocean. Saves $2 million | $2,000,000 |
| 2 | End "stimulus funding" to pay for road signs promoting the stimulus. Savings: $5 million | $5,000,000 |
| 48 | Terminate funding to promote the sale of name-brand food products and alcoholic beverages. Saves $14.3 million a year. | $14,300,000 |
| 39 | Sports complex in Illinois local residents don’t want. Saves $18 million | $18,000,000 |
| 17 | End Congressional pensions. DAY 17 SAVINGS: $22 million a year. | $22,000,000 |
| 33 | Kansas State House office, parking space. Saves $40 million | $40,000,000 |
| 50 | National Spending Cap. Saves $64 billion a year. | $64,000,000 |
| 49 | Eliminate funding for the Private Sector Technology Research. Saves $70 million a year. | $70,000,000 |
| 5 | The termination of American support of UNESCO. Saves $78.1 million a year. | $78,100,000 |
| 6 | We currently pay for federal workers who charge 100% of their time for working as union reps. Saves $120 million a year. | $120,000,000 |
| 9 | End taxpayer subsidies for Amtrak sleeper cars. Saves $120 million a year. | $120,000,000 |
| 44 | Require all federal employees to fly coach on taxpayer-funded commercial flights. Saves $146 million a year. | $146,000,000 |
| 4 | The immediate suspension of new federal land purchases. Saves $266 million. | $266,000,000 |
| 45 | Require federal employees to wait until age 62 to collect retirement benefits. Saves $267 million a year. | $267,000,000 |
| 47 | Reform of Community Development Block Grant program, remove wealthy communities from donor list. Saves $340 million a year | $340,000,000 |
| 10 | Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration. SAVINGS: $389 million a year. | $389,000,000 |
| 31 | The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. DAY 31 SAVINGS: $422 million a year. | $422,000,000 |
| 14 | IRS agents hired to implement Obamacare. DAY 14 SAVINGS: $1 billion a year. | $1,000,000,000 |
| 20 | Collect all unpaid income taxes from federal employees. DAY 20 SAVINGS: $1 billion. | $1,000,000,000 |
| 28 | Privatize Amtrak. Saves more than a billion dollars a year. | $1,000,000,000 |
| 3 | A freeze of federal employee pay for one year. Saves $2 billion | $2,000,000,000 |
| 23 | Terminate the Conservation Reserve Program. Saves $2 billion | $2,000,000,000 |
| 13 | Terminate the Non-Reformed Welfare Program. DAY 13 SAVINGS: $2.5 billion. | $2,500,000,000 |
| 19 | Prohibit mandated Project Labor Agreements (PLA’s). DAY 19 SAVINGS: $6 billion a year. | $6,000,000,000 |
| 8 | Unsponsored earmarks. Saves $7 billion a year. | $7,000,000,000 |
| 21 | Terminate the Travel and Transportation Reform Act of 1998. DAY 21 SAVINGS: $8 billion a year. | $8,000,000,000 |
| 25 | Ending all Congressional earmarks. Saves $10 billion a year. | $10,000,000,000 |
| 12 | Turn over air traffic control operations to the private sector. DAY 12 SAVINGS: $10.3 billion. | $10,300,000,000 |
| 1 | Defund and replace Obamacare. Saves $120 billion a year over the next ten years. | $12,000,000,000 |
| 29 | Government inefficiencies. Saves $15 billion a year. | $15,000,000,000 |
| 24 | Ending ethanol subsidies. Saves $16 billion a year in lower taxes and energy costs | $16,000,000,000 |
| 7 | Streamline the process for selling excess federal property. Saves $18 billion. | $18,000,000,000 |
| 27 | Cut the corporate tax rate. Saves $18 billion a year. | $18,000,000,000 |
| 16 | Taxpayer-funded vacant buildings. DAY 16 SAVINGS: $25 Billion a year. | $25,000,000,000 |
| 30 | Eliminate the Department of Energy. DAY 30 SAVINGS: $28 billion a year. | $28,000,000,000 |
| 11 | REAL Reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. DAY 11 SAVINGS: $30 billion. | $30,000,000,000 |
| 32 | Return Omnibus spending to 2009 levels: Saves $50 billion | $50,000,000,000 |
| 26 | Federal spending freeze – Saves $53 billion. | $53,000,000,000 |
| 43 | Rollback Department of Labor spending to 2009 levels. Saves $62.5 billion, allows department to re-prioritize spending | $62,500,000,000 |
| 15 | Terminate the federal Department of Education. DAY 15 SAVINGS: $107 Billion. | $107,000,000,000 |
| 22 | Jobless stimulus projects. DAY 22 SAVINGS: $147 billion. | $147,000,000,000 |
| $634,685,400,000 |
