.Eric Cantor turns over new cuts to the Freshman Reps .

[White Eagle]

I got this link in an email from my US Rep.
These are some new cuts they want to make.
The cell phone subsidies, the tax supports the “Lifeline/Link-up” program. This helps low income customers get a telephone.
Eliminate the Energy Star Program
Of course take it away so customers have to pay higher electric bills to the GOP's donors.
Eliminate the Printing of the Congressional Record and Federal Register.
Of Course! Hide what they are doing. Take away the record so we can't see it.
And Eric Cantor turned it over to the Freshmen Reps. Lordy.


http://www.majorityleader.gov/YouCut/

When we launched YouCut over a year ago, we could have never imagined how enthused people were by the effort, how engaged they became, and how successful the program would be in achieving its mission of changing the culture of spending into a culture of savings. Millions of votes were cast across the country to encourage the House to cut spending, and that is exactly what we continue to do. Now, as our new majority continues to work to cut spending and grow our economy, it's time to transform YouCut to its next phase. Take a moment to review the options and vote on which spending cut you believe should be sponsored by the YouCut program.

Eliminate Cell Phone Subsidies in the Universal Service Fund
Eliminate the Energy Star Program
Eliminate the Printing of the Congressional Record and Federal Register

 

[CowboyBob]

Unbelievable!

And give more tax cuts to billionaires, ban sharia law, try to ban gay marriage, make it harder for the poor and minorities to vote, slash school funding, do away with health care programs for the elderly, disabled and the poor, slash funding for pell grants, get rid of the NEA, build a wall around our country, destroy unions, make all Americans speak English only, demonize anyone who isn't a white Christian heterosexual wealthy male, and most of all ....... give tax cuts to wealthy corporations and billionaires.

Republican politicians, especially the cowardly opportunist Eric Cantor, walrus-like closeted homosexual Mitch McConnell and the smarmy heartless Eddie Munster look alike Paul Ryan are destroying America from within. We were warned about this years ago.

 

[rareboy]

Wow.

Trillions saved.

 

[BostonPirate]

Eliminate the printing of the congressional Record???

When did THEY ever have the right to stop telling us what they do??????

We are close to becoming the new Evil Empire, and people need to wake the fuck up.

 

[thewiz]

It's amazing that they ran on "Jobs, jobs, jobs" and about the only thing they have done is give a lot of low-middle class folks the shaft.

Their efforts at the state and local level have cost more than 470,000 jobs thus far and a recent report from National League of Cities estimates another 100,000 to 200,000 more will be gone shortly.

One thing the Republicans have done a good job of doing is eliminating employment -- remember the last days of George Bush when 700,000 + jobs per month were disappearing? Of course it's the current administration's fault because they can't create a similar trend in hiring.....

 

[JB3]

Eliminate the printing of the congressional Record???

When did THEY ever have the right to stop telling us what they do??????

We are close to becoming the new Evil Empire, and people need to wake the fuck up.

Its called the internet. Its your friend.

 

[BostonPirate]

The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) drew up its list of essential print titles because these titles “contain critical information about the U.S. Government or are important reference publications for libraries and the public, and their availability for selection in paper format has been deemed essential for the purposes of the FDLP.”

If the print versions of these titles are still important to our libraries and our users, we need to be explaining why. Libraries were caught unprepared when Statistical Abstract and other Census Bureau titles on this list came under attack earlier this year.

http://chicagolawlib.org/govrel/

BOOKS ARE FOR READING NOT BURNING

 

[JB3]

http://chicagolawlib.org/govrel/

BOOKS ARE FOR READING NOT BURNING

Or, we could save the $8 million a year (or more) and just put it online like a civilized country. If that organization is so concerned about print copies being available, they can print them off the Congress.gov website. Otherwise, their criticism is ridiculous. (in this day and age, printing the congressional record is a complete waste of time; anyone that needs it is going to be using a computer for what they're doing anyways)

 

[BostonPirate]

LOL

Print is all many rural libraries have, and in poorer areas, there are few personal computers.

This is once again, a way to leave the poor misinformed and disenfranchised.

 

[JB3]

LOL

Print is all many rural libraries have, and in poorer areas, there are few personal computers.

This is once again, a way to leave the poor misinformed and disenfranchised.

I say again; if they want it so badly, that organization can print them. (oh, and care to give a cite that those poor rural libraries actually have congressional records in their inventory? I highly doubt that) This isn't a class issue, this isn't a rich vs. poor issue. That's a sideshow you're trying to use to mask how ridiculous it is that you're defending the printing of a record in a day and age when such a thing is laughably unnecessary.

 

[Kulindahr]

Eliminate the printing of the congressional Record???

When did THEY ever have the right to stop telling us what they do??????

We are close to becoming the new Evil Empire, and people need to wake the fuck up.

The point there is that it's available online -- and that tens of thousands of copies are mailed out to places that do nothing but put them on a shelf to gather dust.

 

[JB3]

The point there is that it's available online -- and that tens of thousands of copies are mailed out to places that do nothing but put them on a shelf to gather dust.

Its common sense things like this that could save a lot of money. That, and how many people really honestly use the Record outside of lawyers, college students, and maybe the occasional school kid?

 

[Kulindahr]

LOL

Print is all many rural libraries have, and in poorer areas, there are few personal computers.

This is once again, a way to leave the poor misinformed and disenfranchised.

Thanks to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a library without computers available to the public is hard to find.
And if they want a hardcopy, there is an interlibrary program through which a library with the equipment can print from online and send it to a requesting library.

Heck, in a small Oregon town last summer, population 3800, I stopped to use their wireless -- the library had a dozen computers, half from the Gates Foundation and the other half from the high school when they were replaced there by the Gates Foundation; and all the linkages and wiring and everything for the computers, printers, and wireless routers were from the Gates Foundation.

Here, population 5000, the library has forty computers -- again, via the Gates Foundation (again, some indirectly).
The high school here turned down two dozen brand new computers from the Foundation -- because they didn't have anyone left to donate the old ones to! (They're working on donating them to retired folks; once that's set up, they'll accept new ones.)

 

[Kulindahr]

Its common sense things like this that could save a lot of money. That, and how many people really honestly use the Record outside of lawyers, college students, and maybe the occasional school kid?

That was the impetus for this: the GAO found that the majority of places that were being sent copies automatically never even touched them.

I'm wondering if a provision, that was in the original version, to still print for anyone who orders a bound copy, is still there.

 

[Kulindahr]

On a different piece of this: I think the Energy Star program could be turned over to a not-for-profit on the order of UL. If the dealer down the street is right, manufacturers have to pay into the program anyway; just raise the payments to cover the cost of the program.

 

[JB3]

That was the impetus for this: the GAO found that the majority of places that were being sent copies automatically never even touched them.

I'm wondering if a provision, that was in the original version, to still print for anyone who orders a bound copy, is still there.

Who knows. Just went and researched it a bit, and it costs $200 per volume of the record. The Record from 2007 had 26 volumes, for a total of 36,000 pages.

Hell, Democrats and everyone else should be embracing this as an ENVIRONMENTAL bill, to save hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper, and millions of gallons of ink, every single year.

 

[Kulindahr]

Who knows. Just went and researched it a bit, and it costs $200 per volume of the record. The Record from 2007 had 26 volumes, for a total of 36,000 pages.

Hell, Democrats and everyone else should be embracing this as an ENVIRONMENTAL bill, to save hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper, and millions of gallons of ink, every single year.

A piece in the paper here estimated how many trees this would save, but I forget the number.

At the time, I thought, "Why are we making paper from trees, anyway? Hemp makes a stronger, more durable, and cheaper paper without anywhere near as much waste along the way, or the level of nasty chemicals."

 

[archive]

A piece in the paper here estimated how many trees this would save, but I forget the number.

At the time, I thought, "Why are we making paper from trees, anyway? Hemp makes a stronger, more durable, and cheaper paper without anywhere near as much waste along the way, or the level of nasty chemicals."

Come one man, you know the answer to that.

 

[Kulindahr]

Come one man, you know the answer to that.

Yes -- because Puritans and bigots are too lazy and self-righteous to change something that is harmful to us, even though the evidence shows they're being fools.

There was a politician here in Oregon a while back who called for the state to legalize industrial hemp production, and include a provision in the law that anyone interfering with said production in any fashion would be jailed and held without bail. Of course it didn't go anywhere -- even though the estimated effect said it would provide the state with some 2k new jobs.

 

[jjonn3]

My concern about not printing the Congressional Record is how easy it is for digital text to be altered....

History can easily be re-written without something in print.

Not every library needs it - but there needs to be at least a few copies of record around to keep both sides honest.