Roadmap For America Plan - Guiding Principals
Roadmap For America Plan - Top Item to Implement
(Many details for these ideas are provided in the resources and links below)
Other resources and ideas:
- We The People need to vote smarter!
- Government needs to become a smaller portion of the overall economy.
- Economic growth needs to become less dependent upon credit expansion.
- True capitalism needs to be re-established by reforming 'too-big-to-fail' policies and regulations, and allowing 'creative- destruction' to provide for the efficient use of risk and capital.
Roadmap For America Plan - Top Item to Implement
(Many details for these ideas are provided in the resources and links below)
- Eliminate baseline budgeting which allows for automatic increases in spending each year.
- Eliminate continuing resolutions to force congressional debate and approval for any spending bill.
- Make proactive changes to future Social Security benefits. Eliminate 'file and suspend' and other creative filing options.
- Reform social security disability to eliminate fraud. Require estate recovery and additional accountability for social disability qualification.
- Implement further means testing and estate recovery with Medicare and Medicaid.
- Downsize Federal Government agencies and create an independent oversight process to monitor federal spending.
- Shrink the size and control the Federal Reserve has over the money supply and interest rates. Require more detailed oversight by Congress.
- Establish a balanced budget amendment.
- Establish Incentives to encourage reductions in welfare and unemployment applications.
- Remove health insurance from the employer world.
Other resources and ideas:
- A Plan To Cut Government Spending - The Cato Institute provided a 2014 report with some general ideas to downsize government spending. (www.cato.org)
- The Budget Book 106 Ways To Reduce The Size and Scope of Government - The Heritage Foundation provided this 2015 update with detailed ideas of ways to reduce the size and scope of government. (www.heritage.org)
- Prime Cuts 2015 - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released this report to serve as a resource for paring down a bloated federal budget. (www.cagw.org)