Let's call their bluff---Why not just cut $100bn in GOP districts?

[kpete]

Why not just cut $100bn in GOP districts?
by John Aravosis (DC) on 2/17/2011 11:20:00 AM

If the House Rs want to cut $100bn out of this year's budget, let them - in their own districts back home. The Rs would have us believe that this is what people voted for. Let's call their bluff, and do a little experiment to see who's right. Ds don't think that this is what people voted for, so we won't cut spending in our districts. Rs, on the other hand, will cut programs in their districts to the tune of $100bn, or more if they like. Then, at the end of the year, let's revisit whose constituents are happier. After all, if all this money is just being wasted, the Rs surely can't complain about cutting it in their own districts.

I know it sounds like a "modest proposal," but at this point, why not just give the Republicans what they want and see how their constituents like it? Call their bluff. And school the true believers, like Rand Paul, in what actually happens when you claim spending is wasted but it's really not.

Oh, and make sure you put the country on notice that if the economy slides backwards it's because of the GOP cuts.
http://www.americablog.com/2011/02/why-not-just-cut-100bn-in-gop-districts.html

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. Awesome idea!

I wish there was a way to actually make it happen.

[sasha031]

2. the link show the increase from 2009-2010 increase for LIHEAP funds

some of the largest increases have gone to red state small government teabaggers.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x419042

[onehandle]

3. I'd like to see Democrats target pork in Boehner's district.

Get on the House floor and filibuster, highlighting how much we are adding to the debt, just in his district.

That, unwanted by the military, fighter engine could be just the beginning.

[GoCubsGo]

4. Works for me.

And, I live in one of the reddest of the red districts--whose #1 employer is the US Dept. of Energy. Go for it, assholes! Let these fucks who elected you experience what I did, when their boy, George, cut my job.

[DrToast]

5. Propose a law that says states can't receive more in federal aid than they pay in tax dollars

Now I don't expect that to pass, nor would I want it to, but perhaps it would show some states how dependent they are on blue states. Smells like socialism!

[LiberalFighter]

8. Alaska for one.

[hughee99]

9. Given that D.C. gets $6.64 for ever $1 collected

I can't imagine that politicians would ever pass this.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/138473-federal-spending-per-dollar-of-tax-collected-by-state/

[calimary]

6. And there should be a bill introduced that mandates - those reps who want to overturn

"Obamacare" are legally obligated to renounce their own taxpayer-paid health care coverage.

And if these republi-CON governors who want to take the meat axe to everyone's jobs, benefits, and other safety nets, they should start with THEIR OWN salaries and benefits. Has Wisconsin's governor mentioned how much of a pay cut he plans to take?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. If everyone in a given district voted the same way, maybe. N.T.

[ncteechur]

10. I like it.