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Published on May 20, 2010 By Nitro Cruiser In Politics

Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent, or other I believe most reasonable Americans agree that something must be done about the out of control government spending. Until now the only way for the public to participate in their government was to write their representatives or run for office themselves.

This basically floods the offices of representatives and senators with a wide variety of suggestions or grievances that may or may not actually be read by the recipient. A good idea could just as easily get thrown in with the in-actionable rants, there is no way to know. The sender gets a nice "thank you" for your concern and put on the politicians mailing list.

Now there is YOU CUT. Admittedly this is has one focus, but that one issue is of extreme importance in these times. What government spending is not important to you?

This is how it works:

1. Go to the website

2. Each week 5 items will appear. READ each one carefully (or better yet research each on your own). You will only be able to VOTE for ONE issue (one form of government spending you DON'T approve of) of the five for that week.

3. Click on the VOTE box for that particular item (you can also text vote), a small box will appear requesting your e-mail to complete your vote. That's it.

4. You will receive an e-mail the following week with the topic that received the most votes and the outcome of it on the floor of Congress.

Some anti-Republicans will no doubt abhor going to one of their websites. To them I say, the issues are right there, your "exposure' time is minimal, and it's not overbearing to begin with.

I don't know if it will catch on, I hope it does. I'd like to see a non-partisan government website to something similar on a wide range of issues. I would not support this if it were promoting programs, but since its purpose is to seek cuts in spending, I'm all for it and if one doesn't see something they feel should be cut they don't have to vote that particular week. I'm sure most everyone could fine one thing they believe is wasteful, so that shouldn't be a problem. Anyway it's an easy way to get involved.

Here is the LINK

 

You Cut


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on May 27, 2010

The only problem I see is, how many roughly equal dollar amount spending bills come up at any given time?

I still think it'd be feasible to have plenty of them within a similar range (they wouldn't need to be exactly equal, but could be in bands of reasonably similar sizes), and some things wouldn't have to be cut completely either, but only proportionately. Also, not every option would need to be clear cut waste - for example you could have a $1m cut to some niche project, and alongside that you could have a $1m cut to say defence equipment for the army. Otherwise you have the problem of combining peoples preferences for a cut of any kind with what should be prioritised in any cutting.

on May 27, 2010

I still think it'd be feasible to have plenty of them within a similar range

yes.  Do not group a $1million with a Multi Billion.  Million dollar programs are in a class by themselves, whether it is 1, 5, or 10 million.  Billions are in a different class.

on May 27, 2010

It could be a bit of "leading" the vote involved. I believe they have a suggestion "box", might be a good thing to mention.

On a related note seems the number of voters went up from the previous week, so it sounds like the word is getting out.

on Jun 01, 2010

Interested to see how your representative voted on pay raises for themselves and other non-uniformed government workers? Here's the LINK.

The new vote for this week is also up.

on Jun 01, 2010

I went for the largest again this week, but to be honest, I would have picked any cut with Freddie and Fannie on it. They are getting a free pass on both bailouts and accountability. It's sickening.

BTW I did voice a complaint about the disproportional dollar amounts. If they want this to be a legitimate source of public input they need to think about that.

on Jun 01, 2010

This week there was no real contest.  The other programs are not as outrageous (even if they are small), so there was only one real choice.

on Jun 01, 2010

Dr Guy
This week there was no real contest.  The other programs are not as outrageous (even if they are small), so there was only one real choice.

Agreed.

on Jun 18, 2010

I voted today. Prohibit Hiring New IRS Agents to Enforce the Health Care Law. As far as I am concerned all irs employees should be fired and have their asses kicked for helping to rob their fellow countrymen. If you work for the irs you may as well be working for the mob.

on Jun 21, 2010

This week was tough!  Yea, I hated the IRS one, but the Fed Employee tax evasion got my craw more!  I think all over paid pampered federal workers should work under the same rules as the IRS employees.  Fire their asses!

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