Issue Position: Getting the Fat Out of the Federal Budget

Issue Position

We have to reduce the cost of all Federal programs but not at the expense of Social Security and Medicare - these are not entitlement programs. Americans have paid for them already but their government has squandered their money. It is now time for the government to pay the money back. There are billions of dollars of waste in the Defense Department budget ( Ask Tom Coburn- Senate Republican ) . There are billions of dollars of waste in the Agricultural Department budget . There are billions of dollars of waste in our Ear Mark system in which many members of Congress are more than willing participants. This system is in need of severe reform if not outright elemination. Even Medicare reform is needed. We must reevaluate the fees Medicare is paying for procedures such as dialysis and body part replacements- cut the fees but not the services to our senior citizens. And last but not least our Federal government must start the negotiation process with all pharmaceutical companies to bring down the cost of our medicines. We can no longer be the sole profit center in the world for the pharmaceutical companies.

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