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We start with the most useless government agencies we can find. The Department of Education, the Department of Agriculture, The Department of Health and Human Services, The Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Labor, the Environmental Protection Agency, the FCC and Amtrak. For the sake of argument, let's say that together, they consume $250 billion a year.

Congress' job? They would be required to cut spending for these ridiculous bureaucracies according to the following schedule (which I had a lot of fun creating -- all numbers in billions).


2012      250 
2013      210 
2014      190 
2015      160 
2016      140 
2017      120 
2018      110 
2019      100 
2020       90 
2021       75 
2022       60 
2023       50

Pay-cuts? Layoffs? Closing unnecessary facilities? Who gives a crap? That's for them to figure out.

How do you like Cap-and-trade now, Democrats?