Friday, October 17, 2008
Posted by: John Campbell at 3:54 PM

Many of you watched the final presidential debate on Wednesday night, and the candidates were asked, “What would you cut from the federal budget”.  If the answers given were unsatisfactory to you, the National Taxpayer’s Union (NTU) and Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), have teamed up to provide lists that show exactly where the waste is, and what needs to be cut. 

Don’t take my word for it, CAGW for instance lists 701 areas that can either be cut or dramatically reduced, totaling $1.9 trillion over five years.

National Taxpayer's Union

Citizens Against Government Waste – Prime Cuts

CAGW and NTU Joint Press Release



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karmic backlash writes: Friday, October, 17, 2008 4:16 PM
Hatchet a solutions?
How will a hatchet work on those? It'll no doubt take out everything in the vicinity of what is deemed waste. I like the scalpel idea - and it would serve Palin's children with special needs policies more than a hatchet job.
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paddy o'furniture writes: Friday, October, 17, 2008 5:18 PM
No no no no no no no no no
Congressman Campbell, 70% of your constituency opposed the "bail-out," yet you voted in favor of it.....TWICE!
You have forfeited your right to represent me in anything.
You will never get another vote from me. If that means we have a Dem in your place, so be it.
Perhaps he will represent the wishes of the people he was elected to represent.
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Pasadena Phil writes: Friday, October, 17, 2008 9:41 PM
John, you could've voted "no" on bailout
Did you? No. You are just as guilty as anyone for what is about to happen to the national deficit. You are just another of the entrenched class of criminals in government. You all have your own lines of BS but in the end, you all do the same thing.
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Patrick  writes: Saturday, October, 18, 2008 1:28 AM
Cut Job
The challenge Congressman Campbell is not showing your constituents in the 48th congressional district what needs to be cut. The challenge will be to find enough legislators with the gumption to weld the knife. With a soon to be realized liberal super majority, all you will to work with will be a group of dull blades.

Good Luck


P Taylor/Huntington Beach
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DocForesight writes: Saturday, October, 18, 2008 1:29 AM
Paddy and PasaPhil
For as much as I disapprove of the "Rescue" plan (and so far the lack of exposing the governmental role in the debacle), I don't think it's entirely fair to judge the plan a failure yet, nor to paint Cong. Campbell as a traitor of the taxpayers.

From what I've read and heard of his assessment, it may turn out better than most pundits claim. Larry Kudlow mirrors this assessment -- is he also unworthy of reading or listening to?
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Pasadena Phil writes: Saturday, October, 18, 2008 12:44 PM
Doc
I do this for a living and I am proud to say that my clients are doing very well in this crisis because I had been preparing them for this for the past three years. It was THAT obvious.

Unlike Kudlow and our Congress, I actually read all versions of the bailout bills. There is nothing in it that will save the banking system. It not only does not solve any of the many problems, it indemnifies the criminals who made it happen. I recommend that you read the bill before making any comments. Just for fun, try to find the piece of pork that induced Campbell to vote for it.

We either believe in free markets or we don't. What we are living through is a comprehensive failure of socialist government. The solution is not more socialism. We need to force a couple of million home "owners" out of their homes and back to being renters NOW. THAT is how you get the real estate market to find a bottom NOW.

Let a few banks fail. The off-balance sheet SIVs were outright fraud! We can start arresting hundreds of these crooks now and seize their looted gains in the hundreds of billions.

And where is the fourth estate in this? Call for grand jury investigations of Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, Phil Gramm, and the rest of those corrupt thieves.

THAT is how investor confidence will be restored. Everything else will fall in place.

This is NOT a liquidity crisis yet that is what the government is telling us as they print trillions of dollars to hand out to thieves. We are witnessing what happens when the delicate balance of "free" markets is shocked by the discovery that the system is being rigged by the very crooks who are supposedly protecting us: government and banks themselves.

Kudlow is one of those people who must be made to lose.
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Pasadena Phil writes: Saturday, October, 18, 2008 12:55 PM
Doc
Also, because of the massive new government cash giveaways defending the criminals, there is now no way to avoid what will become a very deep and long recession. We could have simply ripped the bandage in one quick pull but instead, we are going to have to go through the torture of a slow, painful process. We are going to get angrier and angrier as the truth unfolds and the angst goes on with no end in sight. If you want to start recovery fast, start campaigning to slash government. Eliminate the travel, the free cars, the "spokesmen", the private chefs, the bloated pensions. Get government OUT OF OUR LIVES! WE can handle this. The government can't fix potholes. Why do we think they can do the other things right?
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Virginia Patriot writes: Saturday, October, 18, 2008 1:16 PM
Vote Out ALL Incumbents
The only way to root out the corruption in our government is to throw them all out.
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JD writes: Sunday, October, 19, 2008 9:54 AM
Throw them all out! Burn baby burn!
I agree with the previous posters. I'm going to get so upset about the 2% I disagree with and vote in someone I disagree with 98%!

And people wonder why we're a perpetual minority party, because we constantly eat our own in the general election. Why not throw someone out in the primaries?
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John Campbell is a member of the House Financial Services Committee, and has taken a leadership role in addressing the country's top economic issues. Campbell serves as a member of the Joint Economic Committee, and House Committee on the Budget. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from UCLA and a Master's Degree in Taxation from USC.

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