You Cut a very interesting web site
Have you ever wanted to give your Congressman a piece of your mind? Now is the time to tell them to stop spending so much of our money. At You Cut , the brainchild of Republican Congressman Whip Eric Cantor, gives you the opportunity to let your Congressman know that you mean business.
YouCut is a first-of-its-kind project designed to defeat the permissive culture of runaway spending in Congress. On the web site, you get to vote, both online and on your cell phone, on spending cuts that you want to see the House enact.
Each week new spending cuts will be revealed where you can vote on the ones you feel need to be brought up on the House floor to vote on cutting funding. Take for instance the latest HUD Program for Doctoral Dissertations. We have financed research on media strategies for housing policy and the use of eminent domain for urban redevelopment. The government, which means you and me as taxpayers, fund stipends for those who want to writer their dissertation on certain government preferred policies. Approximately, $200,000 in grants are awarded per year. By terminating this program, we can save at least $1 million over five years.
If that doesn’t make your blood boil, how about cutting subsidizing Union activities. Some federal employees spend up to 100% of their workweek paid by us the taxpayers doing work for the union. Federal employees unions collect millions in revenue each year and spend significant amounts on political activities and lobbying. We subsidize this. In 2008, the Federal government spent $120 million paying employees for their time spend working on union activities. If the Congress would cut this program, over five years we could save a minimum of $600 million.
When you add up a million here and a million there, this would save us a lot of money of the years. Check out You Cut site and let your voice be heard.
Until later,
Linda
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