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