HOW TO BALANCE THE BUDGET AND PAY OFF THE DEBT... GET RID OF THESE THOUSANDS OF ADVISORY BOARDS!!!

EDIT - OOPS... I obviously made a big boo-boo on my math and the figure should have been BILLION's, not TRILLION's... but still, that is a LOT of money and should still be cut from the budget.  Obviously, I should have double and triple checked my math before posting this one!  :-P

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So... I was just watching Fox News Channel reporting about Obama naming Immelt to head a new "Advisory Board" and in their follow-up reporting, they found that the Federal Government has OVER 1,000 different advisory boards with over 74,000 members sitting on these various boards. FNC further reported that just in the year 2000, the taxpayers paid OVER $200 MILLION for theses boards and that figure grew to OVER $350 MILLION in 2010 and is expected to be OVER $400 MILLION in 2011.

So... a little math and just between 2000-2010, the taxpayers paid AROUND $3 TRILLION for these boards. Now, with the national debt being over $14 TRILLION AND GROWING BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS, if we just got rid of all these boards, we would save OVER $4 TRILLION over the next 10 years but more importantly, if we did NOT have all these political patronage boards in the first place, we would not have a national debt at all. If we wasted AROUND $3 TRILLION in the past 10 years, extrapolating that even further back, I'm pretty sure we've spent MORE THAN $14 TRILLION over the past 50-70 years... the time frame that Washington, DC and all of the crooked-assed politicians started growing by leaps and bounds and pissing away so much of the taxpayers money on bullshit and frivolous programs... including these thousands of boards.

The President should end all of these boards by executive order but since he has been creating more and more boards in the past two years, I'm sure he won't... so it's up to the Republicans and hopefully some Democrats in Congress to pass legislation and budgets that defund these boards so they'll all just go away.

And... since I'm sending this email to ALL of my politicians from Louisiana and Washington, how about Louisiana getting rid of all of their bullshit boards and committees that cost us money at the state level. We elect you politicians to do YOUR JOB... not to hire boards and committees to do your job for you. If you can't do the job, then quit and let us hire/elect someone who can do the job without stealing more of our hard earned money!!!!

Lenny Vasbinder

NOTE - THIS WAS ALSO SENT TO ALL OF MY POLITICIANS USING THE TEA PARTY CITIZEN ACTION CENTER.  http://www.votervoice.net/Core.aspx?AID=1219&APP=GAC&SiteID=0&IssueID=21315

HEY POLITICIANS... YOU DO NOT NEED MORE MONEY IF YOU FEEL YOU NEED MORE SECURITY

After hearing all the politicians begging for more of our hard earned money, under the guise of wanting more personal security following the Tucson, AZ shootings and murder by a deranged left-leaning nut-job, I waited a week and finally decided to send the following email to ALL of my elected officials using the Tea Party Citizen Action Center's email service for Louisiana residents.  I don't know if this type of service is available in other states but I LOVE the fact that it's available to those of us in Louisiana. 

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From: donotreply@votervoice.net [mailto:donotreply@votervoice.net]

Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 10:20 AM

To: Leonard Vasbinder

Subject: Confirmation of: YOU DO NOT NEED MORE MONEY IF YOU FEEL YOU NEED MORE SECURITY

***Please do not reply to this email--this confirmation simply lets you know that your message was sent.***

Leonard Vasbinder:

Your message has been sent to the following recipients:

* President Barack Obama
* Vice President Joe Biden
* Senator Mary Landrieu
* Senator David Vitter
* Representative Steve Scalise
* Governor Bobby Jindal
* Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne
* Secretary of State Tom Schedler
* Attorney General Buddy Caldwell
* Senator Conrad Appel
* Representative Kirk Talbot

The content of your message is as follows:

Dear [The message(s) you sent had each recipient's name here]:

IN LIEU OF THE RECENT SHOOTING OF CONGRESSWOMAN GIFFORDS, I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF POLITICIANS CLAMORING FOR MORE MONEY IN THEIR BUDGETS FOR ADDED SECURITY.

YOU ALREADY GET ENOUGH TAX PAYER MONEY AND INSTEAD OF THE 5% DECREASE THAT BOEHNER IS PUSHING, IT SHOULD BE MORE LIKE 25%. RE-ALLOCATE YOUR MONEY... GET RID OF YOUR EXCESS STAFFERS... GET RID OF YOUR EXTRA OFFICES AND ALL THE EXPENSE THAT GOES WITH EACH OF THEM. THEN, AFTER THE 25% REDUCTION IN YOUR BUDGET, IF YOU'VE BEEN PRUDENT WITH YOUR CUTS, YOU'LL HAVE ENOUGH FOR A BODY GUARD... BUT THEN WHY SHOULD YOU GET ONE???

SOLDIERS PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE AND DON'T HAVE BODYGUARDS. POLICE OFFICERS PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE AND DON'T HAVE BODYGUARDS. BOTH OF THOSE PUBLIC SERVANTS ARE IN FAR MORE DANGEROUS SITUATIONS AND DON'T HAVE BODY GUARDS... SO WHY SHOULD YOU? DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU ARE SPECIAL OR MORE IMPORTANT THAN A SOLDIER OR POLICE OFFICER? WELL YOU'RE NOT!!!!!

NOW GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE AND GO OUT AND HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS AND MEET AND LISTEN TO YOUR BOSSES... THE CITIZENS WHO HIRED YOU TO DO YOUR JOB... NOT TO PISS AWAY MORE OF OUR HARD EARNED MONEY!!!

Sincerely,

Leonard Vasbinder