Cut the Budget.

There are so many talks about cutting the Budget lately. I have been seeing many re-posts on my Facebook page about cutting the salaries of the lawmakers. Does this fix the problem? No, not really.

Though I am of the opinion that they are paid way too much, the math really shows that it does not solve the issue. On the 3.83 Trillion Dollars that the budget covers, the payroll for all of Congress and the President comes to abt $88 Million dollars. This breaks down to less than 2/1000th of a percent of the budget for the year. I agree that they should be at least cut in half, but there are so many other areas to cut. Here is my list (so many people are going to hate this)

• Foreign aid - Cut out
• Not for profit funding (i.e. Planned Parenthood, Acorn, and any other organization that gets money from the government no matter the affiliation) - Cut out
• Welfare - create screening and require those who issue to screen cutting out those who are unemployed, on drugs, or has a criminal background. 
• EPA (along with many other agencies) - Cut out
• Any governmental advertising - Cut out
• No new Governmental vehicles outside of the Military. 
• No new Governmental projects (civic or otherwise) til the debt is GONE.
• No new Pork spending for the congress
• No new research funding for useless research (i.e. mating habits of three toed newts) logical funding projects must be approved on a single bill every year.
• Along with many other item removals.
• Oh yeah, and cut the pay for any Governmental Lawmaker in half.