Addressing Anti-Government

ActionsFebruary 14, 2011

1742 Connecticut Ave., N.W.Washington, D.C. 20009(202) 234-8494

Gary D. BassValentine’s Day Crisis

Source: 8/6/10 at http://calculatedriskimages.blogspot.com/2010/08/employment-recessions-july-2010.html

Source: OMB Watch, based on Dept of Labor data

House FY 11 Continuing Resolution:

Comparison to FY 10 EnactedIn Millions of Dollars

($70,000)

($60,000)

($50,000)

($40,000)

($30,000)

($20,000)

($10,000)

$0

$10,000

Non-Security Discretionary

Spending Cut

$65.5 Billionor

-14.2%

Security Spending Increased

$4.7 Billion or +0.7%

Bye Bye, Big Bird. Hello, E. Coli.Examples of House Budget Cuts

• Meat and Poultry Inspections CUT: $88 million– IMPACT: Furloughing federal inspectors, requiring plants to shut down for 6 to 9

weeks. RESULT: Loss of $11 billion in economic activity• FDA CUT: $241 million

– IMPACT: Furloughing &/or RIFs of hundreds of workers including those inspecting domestic & foreign foods; also reductions in food and medical products coming in from overseas

• Cops & Law Enforcement CUT: $1.3 billion– IMPACT: Eliminates the COPS (community policing) hiring program; 5,200 fewer

criminal justice jobs• Head Start CUT: $1.1 billion

– IMPACT: More than 200,000 children kicked out of Head Start; thousands of Head Start teacher out of work; cuts to research, training and technical assistance

• Homeless Veterans CUT: $75 million– IMPACT: Eliminates housing vouchers; 10,000 given out last year; there are an

estimated 75,000 homeless veterans many from Iraq and Afghanistan wars – many battling drug and PTSD issues

• Pell Grants for College Students CUT: Freezes Funding– IMPACT: Maximum grant to be reduced by more than $800 per student because

of growth in number of eligible students & levels of financial need.• AmeriCorps & Corp for Public Broadcasting CUT: Eliminated

“When you have this meat ax,it just doesn’t work.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) reaction to House spending cuts

• IDEA Grants to States $558 million• Title VI-B State Grants: Supported Employment $29 million• Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons

with Disabilities $210 million• Projects with Industry $19 million• Recordings for Blind & Dyslexic $13 million• Special Olympics $8 million• Community Health Centers $1,000 million• Maternal & Child Health Block Grant $50 million• LIHEAP $390.3 million• Community Services Block Grant $341 million• Child Care Development Block Grant $39 million• Section 202 Housing for Elderly $551 million• Public Housing funds $1,221 million• Employment & Training State Grants $1,397 million

Source: GAO

, Alternative Assumptions,

2010Baby Boomers Come of Age:

Deficit Explodes

Under Continuation of Current Policies Debt Will Exceed 300 Percent of GDP in 2050

Source: Center on Budget & Policy Priorities calculations based on CBO data .

Source: GAO

, Alternative Assumptions,

2010What’s Causing Deficits?

Health Care Costs

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DP

• Regulations as “job killers”• Rep. Darrell Issa’s more than 170 letters to

companies and trade associations to identify rules to kill or modify

• This week 7 House hearings; last week 4 hearings

• More than 9 hours House floor discussion about regulations impact on job creation

• REINS Act

Attack on Federal Regulations

Starve the Beast

“I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax ReformJune 25, 2003

The president will find the new Republic majority in the House “standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.”

John Boehner, expected Speaker of the Houseafter November 2010 elections

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” - Helder Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Brazil (1909-1999)

A Proposed Agenda

• More Revenue• Smart Entitlement Reform• Protect Human Needs Discretionary

Programs• Stop Attacks on Federal Regulations

Passing the ADA

Passing Rosa’s Law

Passing Affordable Care Act