million dollars out of the ag department budget. start with that 2.2 billion-dollar program that is riddled with fraud and abuse. that s why i want the republicans to give them flexibility and then call the agriculture secretary up to capitol hill and say why are you cutting. bill: embarrass him. shame the politicians into doing the right thing. bill: shame is a good weapon. i mean in the agricultural committee vilsack is spending million dollars of dollars on sensitivity sessions that we showed last week. that say hey, you can t stop any illegal aliens coming in from mexico because they should be running arizona texas and new mexico. that s what we re paying for now. take the secretary of the interior salazar. i m not going to call monument close campground. take some of those hundreds
that s a 14% increase in spending. you can t tell me having had four years to back to back to back to back of big budget increases we can t pull back just a little bit. the republicans do have to go on the offense and the way to go on the offensive is to pass a measure that gives the cabinet secretaries flexibility not to make this cut across the board but instead to make it from the less essential accounts inside their individual departments so we end this foolishness of ray la hood saying i have to cut 5,000 air traffic controllers in order to meet my sequestration, my budget cut target. look, he has got stupid things in there like $72 million a year for alaska trains. site seeing trains. he has a million dollars in his budget for sidewalks in florida that lead from nowhere and go nowhere. he has $22 million to buy trolleys for a development a resort in missouri.
his analysis. this is not a good way to cut government spending. we need to restrain government spending. we need to not do it across the board. but this is the only tool the administration was willing to give us. and they are not willing to negotiate over smart cuts to the budget. all they want is more money to spend. better toe have some small cut 2.4% of the entire budget than to have no cuts at all. bill: all right. and the republican party simply cannot cave again or you don t have a republican party. this is is the line they can t cross; is that correct? i think that s right. but i do think the republicans ought to go on the offense. realize. this after the sequestration cuts. after the automatic across the board cuts the federal government will be spending $3.554 trillion. more than being spend last year. last year was 3,538; 3% increase in spending. since 2009, the budget is up $447 billion a year.
million dollars out of the ag department budget. start with that 2.2 billion-dollar program that is riddled with fraud and abuse. that s why i want the republicans to give them flexibility and then call the agriculture secretary up to capitol hill and say why are you cutting. bill: embarrass him. shame the politicians into doing the right thing. bill: shame is a good weapon. i mean in the agricultural committee vilsack is spending million dollars of dollars on sensitivity sessions that we showed last week. that say hey, you can t stop any illegal aliens coming in from mexico because they should be running arizona texas and new mexico. that s what we re paying for now. take the secretary of the interior salazar. i m not going to call monument close campground. take some of those hundreds
cut our way to prosperity. i want to disagree with those who say we have a spending problem. it is lamb false argument to say we have a spending problem. we have a budget deficit problem we have to address. i am not going to keep cutting the discretionary budget, which, by the way, is not out of control, despite what you hear on fox news. bill: huhuhu senator landrieu and others are wrong. it is out of control. the debt is approaching $17 trillion. here is how bad it is in 2003 the u.s. spent just above $2 trillion. this year, the estimated spending will be $3.6 trillion. a 75% rise in spending in a 10-year period with no inflation. and what do we have to show for all that spending? the economy is not much