John Boehner Wants To Make Sure He's Not Crying Alone: His List Of Cuts

Lots of cuts, not much deficit relief. Speaker Boehner and his Republican leadership released their list of cuts:

The List of 70 Spending Cuts to be Included in the CR follows:

• Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies -$30M
• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy -$899M
• Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability -$49M
• Nuclear Energy -$169M
• Fossil Energy Research -$31M
• Clean Coal Technology -$18M
• Strategic Petroleum Reserve -$15M
• Energy Information Administration -$34M
• Office of Science -$1.1B
• Power Marketing Administrations -$52M
• Department of Treasury -$268M
• Internal Revenue Service -$593M
• Treasury Forfeiture Fund -$338M
• GSA Federal Buildings Fund -$1.7B
• ONDCP -$69M
• International Trade Administration -$93M
• Economic Development Assistance -$16M
• Minority Business Development Agency -$2M
• National Institute of Standards and Technology -$186M
• NOAA -$336M
• National Drug Intelligence Center -$11M
• Law Enforcement Wireless Communications -$52M
• US Marshals Service -$10M
• FBI -$74M
• State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance -$256M
• Juvenile Justice -$2.3M
• COPS -$600M
• NASA -$379M
• NSF -$139M
• Legal Services Corporation -$75M
• EPA -$1.6B
• Food Safety and Inspection Services -$53M
• Farm Service Agency -$201M
• Agriculture Research -$246M
• Natural Resource Conservation Service -$46M
• Rural Development Programs -$237M
• WIC -$758M
• International Food Aid grants -$544M
• FDA -$220M
• Land and Water Conservation Fund -$348M
• National Archives and Record Service -$20M
• DOE Loan Guarantee Authority -$1.4B
• EPA ENERGY STAR -$7.4M
• EPA GHG Reporting Registry -$9M
• USGS -$27M
• EPA Cap and Trade Technical Assistance -$5M
• EPA State and Local Air Quality Management -$25M
• Fish and Wildlife Service -$72M
• Smithsonian -$7.3M
• National Park Service -$51M
• Clean Water State Revolving Fund -$700M
• Drinking Water State Revolving Fund -$250M
• EPA Brownfields -$48M
• Forest Service -$38M
• National Endowment for the Arts -$6M
• National Endowment for the Humanities -$6M
• Job Training Programs -$2B
• Community Health Centers -$1.3B
• Maternal and Child Health Block Grants -$210M
• Family Planning -$327M
• Poison Control Centers -$27M
• CDC -$755M
• NIH -$1B
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services -$96M
• LIHEAP Contingency fund -$400M
• Community Services Block Grant -$405M
• High Speed Rail -$1B
• FAA Next Gen -$234M
• Amtrak -$224M
• HUD Community Development Fund -$530M

So.... the mentally ill, high speed rail, family planning, children and mothers' health, community health centers, job training for the unemployed, arts, food for women and children, national parks, the Smithsonian, inspecting our food for safety, law enforcement, and even energy gets cut... but not enough to really effect the deficit, and not enough to do anything about the debt. Let me ask this, what is the point of this? This will not lower taxes one-iota, it won't do anything about our debt problem, and it'll actually cost people their jobs. It's no wonder that the public still doesn't like any of the cuts proposed. The Republican "adult conversation" on deficits is a complete, 100% pure garbage, pile of pony loaf. Not only will it not make matters better, in the long term it makes it worse. This isn't about cutting the deficit. This is about making sure the government can't do anything, and making sure the government doesn't work. This list is garbage, and this House Leadership Team is a complete, sad joke. Did they cut the billions in petroleum and agriculture big business get? No. Did they cut the $100 billion plus that the Defense Department wants to cut? No. They instead fed the ignorance that leads many to believe that we can cut International Aid to balance the budget. This isn't just bad policy. It's bad for America's future.