Boehner Congressman Wrong!

Evan Almighty is being repeated only this time the wolves are the American People!

The Tea Party keeps getting blamed for wanting to end "Obamacare" but at least they wanted to tweak it instead of just kill it. They had some good ideas like letting people on Medicare opt into the healthcare coverage members of congress get. The rest, well they got what they wanted and here is the list too many members of congress took on.

Eliminates four Cabinet agencies — Energy, Education, Commerce, and HUD — and reduces or privatizes many others, including EPA, TSA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac.

Ends farm subsidies, government student loans, and foreign aid to countries that don’t support us — luxuries we can no longer afford.

Saves Social Security and greatly improves future benefits by shifting ownership and control from government to individuals, through new SMART Accounts.

Gives Medicare seniors the right to opt into the Congressional health care plan.

Suspends pension contributions and COLAs for Members of Congress

End all foreign aid to countries that don’t support us

Eliminate all earmarks.

Trim annually appropriated spending to 2010 levels (one-time, 2.5% across-the-board savings, prior to other reductions).

Eliminate the Department of Education.

Eliminate the Department of Energy (transfer nuclear research and programs to Defense).

Eliminate HUD.

Eliminate Commerce Department business & economic development subsidies.

Eliminate Department of Commerce ethanol & unproven energy technology subsidies.

Eliminate the Legal Services Corporation.

Devolve most EPA duties to the states, cut the agency's budget by 50%, and fold it into the Interior Dept. Save, first year: Privatize the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA).

Shutter the Small Business Administration.

Privatize air traffic control

Eliminate certain federal job training programs.

Retire the AmeriCorps paid-volunteerism program.

Eliminate Title 10 family planning grants.

Eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts.

End urban mass transit grants.

Privatize Amtrak and end rail subsidies.3

Repeal Davis-Bacon labor rules.

End the welfare payment component of the Child Tax Credit program.

Reduce Bureau of Land Management by 50% from FY 2010 level.

Eliminate the Bureau of Reclamation.

Reduce U.S. Geological Survey by 20% from FY 2010 level.

Reduce number of federal workers to the 2008 level.

Cut the federal employee travel budget to $4 billion (half of FY 2000 spending).

Cut federal employee pay by 10 percent.

Consolidate 2,100 federal data centers and server warehouses down to 1,100 over 3 years.

Reduce unused or under-used federal building space by 25%.

By legislation, terminate all of the President's policy "czar" positions.

End all “green” technology initiatives. Let the private sector do the innovating.5

Social Security

Create optional SMART Accounts for new workers born after 1981

Increase the number of work-years used to calculate a senior's Social Security benefit level at retirement.

Tighten eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance.

UPDATE

Veteran Republicans Accusing Tea Party Lawmakers Of Staining GOP
CBS News
October 11, 2013

DES MOINES, Iowa — From county chairmen to national party luminaries, veteran Republicans across the country are accusing Tea Party lawmakers of staining the GOP with their refusal to bend in the budget impasse in Washington.

The Republican establishment also is signaling a willingness to strike back at the Tea Party in next fall’s elections.

“It’s time for someone to act like a grown-up in this process,” former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu argues, faulting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Tea Party Republicans in the House as much as President Barack Obama for taking an uncompromising stance.

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is just as pointed, saying this about the Tea Party-fueled refusal to support spending measures that include money for Obama’s health care law: “It never had a chance.”

The anger emanating from Republicans like Sununu and Barbour comes just three years after the GOP embraced the insurgent political group and rode its wave of new energy to return to power in the House.

Now, they’re lashing out with polls showing Republicans bearing most of the blame for the federal shutdown, which entered its 11th day Friday. In some places, they’re laying the groundwork to take action against the Tea Party in the 2014 congressional elections.
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