Proposal To Save 8 Billion Dollars A Year On Government Expenses

When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers.  The remaining workers need to find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as well.  Wall Street and the media normally congratulate the CEO for making this type of “tough decision”, and his board of directors gives him a big bonus.

Our government should not be immune from similar risks.

Therefore Here’s some suggestions: Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to 218 members (Two per state and four for the eight biggest states) and Senate members from 100 to 50 (one per State-) Also reduce remaining staff by 25%.

Accomplish this over the next 8 years.(Two steps/two elections) and of course this would require some redistricting.

Some Yearly Gains Include:

$44,108,400 for elimination of base pay for congress.(267 members X $165,200 pay/member/ yr.)

$97,175,000 for elimination of the above people’s staff. (estimate $1.3 million in staff per each member of the House, and $3 Million in staff per each member of the Senate every year)

$240,294 for the reduction in remaining staff by 25%.

$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork barrel ear-marks each year. (those members whose jobs are gone. Current estimates for total government pork earmarks are at $15 Billion/yr)

The remaining representatives would need to work smarter and would need to improve efficiencies. It might even be in their best interests to work together for the good of our country?

We may also expect that smaller committees might lead to a more efficient resolution of issues as well. It might even be easier to keep track of what your representative is doing.

Congress has more tools available to do their jobs than it had back in 1911 when the current number of representatives was established. (Telephones, faxes, computers, cell phones; to name a few)

SUMMARY OF THIS OPPORTUNITY:

1-$44,108,400 reduction of congress members.
2-$282,100, 000 for elimination of the reduced house member staff.
3-$150,000,000 for elimination of reduced senate member staff.
4-$59,675,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining house members.
5-$37,500,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining senate members.
6-$7 ½ billion “pork” reduction added to bills by removing half of Congress!

That’s a savings of over $8 billion just to start; and there’s a good chance they would work faster and harder –and get along with each other.

Congresspersons should have to serve 20, 25 or 30 years- like everyone else- in order to collect retirement benefits. (No telling how much we would save on that.) Now they get full retirement after serving only ONE term.

Is this a joke – – – or maybe not?

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