He does Not Go Far Enough! The Ron Paul Plan: Kill 5 Agencies, Cut $1 Trillion

That could be a $1,000,000,000,000 savings, year after year! Even if it is half that, it would compound the savings every year instead of taking it and creating greater compounded debt.

He should also eliminate EPA and FDA. These two other wastes they call agencies, especially the subjective and over-empowered regulatory mess called the EPA. The only thing it is protecting now is its own bloated bureaucracy! Government FAT is the first priority to go on a diet!

As for other departments, Paul would cut funding by 40 percent in the Food and Drug Administration and by 30 percent for the Environmental Protection Agency. The Department of Defense would lose $832 billion during Paul’s first term in office, most of which would be saved from his plan to end all foreign wars and foreign aid.

The Ron Paul Plan: Kill 5 Agencies, Cut $1 Trillion - US Business News - CNBC

Tuesday, 18 Oct 2011 By: Jeff Cox

Ron Paul's plan to slash $1 trillion in federal spending begins and ends at the government bureaucracies he says are most responsible for the mess....

"We are in the midst of the worst debt crisis ever in all of history, so I cannot see how we can get out of this by increasing the debt around the world," Paul said in a CNBC interview. "Nobody has proposed any cuts and I don't know how in the world you can get out of the problem of too much spending and too-big government by not cutting anything."

Specifically, he wants to eliminate the departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Interior and Education.

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