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Two of these three programs are unconstitutional: 1 & 3. Health and Human Services is a state and personal issue, and should be managed within the states or left to the people (friends, churches, and family).
"Forced charity is an oxymoron. It is impossible to feel charitable when the government is confiscating money from one family to give it to another—especially when the federal government keeps over two-thirds of what is budgeted for welfare for its own bureaucracy.
Right now, 72 percent of the federal tax money that goes to federal welfare programs stays with the bureaucracy in Washington, D.C.! That is right, only 28 percent goes to the people who are supposed to get help (Martin Gross, A Call for Revolution). On the other hand, 75 percent to 80 percent of the money raised by many well-run private charities goes directly to the people they are helping.
What does common sense reveal about those numbers? A system based on local, private, or faith-based organizations will do a much better job of taking care of those in need than the system in place today. And at a much lower cost." (Common Sense Revisted, p 23. www.commonsenserevisited.org, 2008)
The 2nd largest slice of the federal budget pie is Department of Defense. Is there really a reason the US has over 730 military bases in 130 countries housing over 500,000 solders? “U.S. forces and policies are completing the radicalization of the Islamic world, something Osama bin Laden has been trying to do with substantial but incomplete success since the early 1990s. As a result, I think it fair to conclude that the USA remains bin Laden’s only indispensable ally.” -Michael Scheuer, Imperial Hubris, Why the West is Losing the War on Terror.
I recommend returning to the nation’s original foreign policy and the policy that should be pursued now were spoken by Thomas Jefferson during his first Inaugural Address in 1801: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” It seems to me that this is the truly conservative position. When we look at our current foreign policy as the fiscal issue it is, then we can not continue this nation building philosophy that has historically been a liberal progressive ideology.
The 3rd largest slice of the federal budget pie is Treasury Debt. This is absurd as the Congress has the sole responsibility to "coin and regulate money" as stated in the Constitution. Why then have we delegated this task to a private institution called the Federal Reserve? As Ted Anderson shares in a popular radio ad: [We the] people grow cotton, weave fabric, engrave ink, embed strips and fibers to protect from counterfeit and carting to a private bank having it lent back at interest, forcing taxes to serve as debt. Is this capitalism or is Jefferson incorrect when stating a central bank issuing a public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army."
A side note here, a Central Banking System is a plank in the Communist Manifesto. If the Constitution authorizes the Congress to coin and regulate money, and we can do so interest free, why would we permit a private company (the Federal Reserve) to do this for us and charge us interest upon the full face value of the money we sold to them at cost? It is absurd and the greatest hoax perpetrated upon the American people!
If these three agencies were brought within the average agency cost (if not eliminated altogether) of the other 21 federal agencies, there would be an immediate reduction of the annual federal budget by nearly 2 trillion dollars (1,900 Billion)!-reducing the debt load of each of the 310+ million Americans by over $6,000! A 2 trillion dollar decrease in expenditures would provide for an immediate 300 billion in federal surplus, and if applied back to the people by way of tax relief, would mean a 28% reduction in taxes. Talk about a STIMULUS!
These are the areas true fiscal conservatives need to hone in on to reduce the size of the federal government in BIG ways. No longer do we need to bicker about million dollar initiatives within 800 billion dollar agencies.
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