Five ways Eric Cantor (R-VA) could pay for Joplin aid

Five ways House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) could pay for Joplin aid

|Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-national/five-ways-majority-leader-eric-cantor-r-va-could-pay-for-joplin-aid#ixzz1NN40ui31

#1 – Oil company subsidies, #2 – Allow the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans to expire, #3 – Accept the Pentagon’s own recommended cuts for
defense spending, #4 – Allow Americans to purchase a "public option" health insurance plan, and #5 – Cut ethanol subsidies

More @ the link.

Heck that's only 7 billion dollars.

How about Cantor's pet project, the F-35 fighter that the Pentagon doesn't even want. The 2,443 airplanes will cost $382 billion.


http://www.styleweekly.com/TheReportersNotebook/archives/2011/03/29/cantors-pork-vote-is-hush-hush

asking for our ideas on what to cut.

http://majorityleader.gov/YouCut/YourIdea.htm

My submission, I used the OP's ideas with numbers added and the other suggestions from responders. Here's the list so far.

End Oil subsidies $3.65 Billion
End Coal Subsidies $230 Million
Tax the wealthy the 2%ers $81.5 Billion
Cut the F-35 Fighter Jet $382 Billion
Pass a Public Option $11 Billion
End Ethanol Subsidies $7 Billion
End Cotton Subsidies 3 Billion

Lets all help Eric out and give him some rational cuts to explore, if we can get 100's of people to just copy and paste the list on his webpage, we could call it a deficit bomb. This is way more than the measly cuts he has listed. Plus it would probably drive them nuts.