We Need Budget Hawks In Congress

It's about time we elected representatives that will vow to manage the Federal Budget in the same manner households (that don't use credit cards!) manage theirs. It's about time the we elect representatives that understand that the money they spend is not theirs!

We all know that federal spending is out of control. So, what do we do about it? Cut, Cut, Cut, that's what.

According to the Louisiana State University Federal Agency List there are some 1,300 federal agencies, count them if you like. You can also go to USA.GOV to for a complete list. According to the 2005 Census, there are some 2.7 MILLION Federal Employees.

So, where to start? How about directly with the Department of Education. Here you have a 62.6 BILLION dollar annual budget and 5,000 employees that could be released TODAY. Someone please tell me why we need some department in Washington D.C. to tell us how to educate our kids. We don't. Besides, that 62.5 billion would go a long way if spent by each state the way they see fit.

Where do we go for the second cut? How about directly the IRS? We could eliminate their 11.6 BILLION dollar budget at 93,000 employees through instituting the FAIR TAX!

OK, what next? What about Freddie, and Fannie? Together those two bastions of financial responsibility have cost tax payers some 145 BILLION DOLLARS according to the
Financial Times and that's just six months into 2010!

So far we've just scratched the surface and one can find over 200 BILLION DOLLARS! So I'm sure some out there would say something like: what about all those people that would lose their jobs if we eliminated those agencies? Well we could send them down to the Arizona Border!

Seriously though, instituting the Fair Tax would take care of any unemployment the elimination of federal jobs would create. No doubt that the best way for the Federal Government to create jobs is to quit taking money from the pockets of those that actually create jobs; small business owners!

So who out there running for office will propose a list of federal departments and agencies that should be shuttered? Please, Anyone?