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Report: Cutting $2.3 Trillion of Government Waste Would Balance Budget in 3 Years

If Congress were to cut unnecessary and wasteful spending in the federal government, it could balance the budget in three years based on recommendations by Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonpartisan organization.

The report, titled "Prime Cuts 2017," outlines 607 recommendations to cut inefficient government spending that would not only balance the budget within three years but also save taxpayers $336.2 billion in the first year and $2.3 trillion over five years.

"The national debt nearly doubled under former President Obama and is poised to exceed $20 trillion before the end of 2017," the group states. "Wasteful government spending can be cut and the nation can start on a path toward fiscal sanity."

The group evaluates this type of wasteful spending in nearly every agency of the federal government including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Labor Department, the Treasury, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Justice Department, and the Department of Commerce.

At the Department of Health and Human Services, if Congress were to reduce improper Medicare payments by 50 percent in five years, the department could save taxpayers $20.6 billion (about $4.1 billion per year).

"Medicare is plagued with the highest reported amount of improper payments of any federal program," the report states. "Because of its chronic vulnerability to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement, the [Government Accountability Office] has for 20 years designated the Medicare program as ‘high risk.’"

At the Environmental Protection Agency, if Congress were to eliminate the ENERGY STAR program, which is a labeling program to identify energy-efficient products, it could save taxpayers $52 million in just one year.

"A March 2010 GAO report found that the ENERGY STAR program is vulnerable to fraud and abuse," the report said. "The GAO submitted 20 phony products for certification, 15 of which were cleared, including a gas-powered alarm clock."

At the Department of Transportation, if Congress were to eliminate federal subsidies for Amtrak, taxpayers could save $1.4 billion in one year and $5.9 billion in five years. A report found that Amtrak cost taxpayers about $32 per passenger in 2008 and has cost a total of $40 billion since 1971. Amtrak was intended to earn a profit but hasn’t been able to do so.

"By following the blueprint provided by Citizens Against Government Waste Prime Cuts 2017, wasteful government spending would be dramatically cut, and the U.S. would achieve a balanced budget within President Trump’s first term," said Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste. "The only way to put the nation on a path toward fiscal sanity is for leaders to make bold decisions to reduce waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement."

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Georgia Tech Erupts After Cops Shoot Troubled, Knife-Wielding Tranny Student

In another example of how the left has embraced violence and destruction as a way to resolve issues, a mini-riot erupted on the campus of Georgia Tech University on Monday night.

The uprising was a reaction to the campus police shooting of 21-year-old transgender student Scott “Scout” Schultz who was advancing on officers with a knife over the weekend.

According to reports, Schultz may have been intoxicated and suicidal when he made the 911 call and then engaged in what at least at first glance, appears to have been suicide by cop. He had previously made an attempt to kill himself and received counseling. He reportedly left multiple suicide notes.

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There is some dispute over whether the knife was open when Schultz confronted officers as well as if a non-lethal weapon such as a Taser could have been used instead.

But rather than pursue grievances through legitimate channels, the troublemakers took to the streets to engage in acts of vandalism including the burning of a police vehicle. Two officers were injured during the melee.

According to Atlanta’s FOX 5 “Georgia Tech officers injured, SUV torched following vigil”:

Two officers were injured and a police SUV was torched following a candlelight vigil Monday night for a student killed by a campus police officer over the weekend. Three people have been arrested.

It happened near the corner of Hemphill Ave NW near the Georgia Tech Police headquarters just after 9:30 p.m. Campus officials said about 50 people marched from the vigil to the police department.

Two officers were injured, one was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital, but officials said they both should be okay. A police SUV was also set on fire.

“The Atlanta Police Department and Georgia State University Police Department helped restore order relatively quickly. Georgia Tech police arrested Vincent Castillenti, Jacob Wilson, and Cassandra Monden. All three were charged with inciting a riot and battery of an officer,” read a statement from university officials.

“Multiple people who attended made it clear it wasn’t Georgia Tech protesters it was people outside of Georgia Tech,” said witness Kris Harris. “It’s so unnecessary.”

University officials were not able to comment Monday evening on if the three people taken into custody were students.

The shooting of Schultz throws a bit of a monkey wrench into the left’s false narrative that it’s only black males who get shot by police but since he was a transvestite, there will inevitably be a special exception made to turn him into a martyr like Michael Brown.

Schultz’s parents are reportedly planning to sue the university and the police.

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CNN Now Advising ‘Transitioning’ Teens on How to Have Anal Sex

CNN continues to struggle after being forced to fire three members of the network’s ace investigative team over a fake news story on former Trump administration figure Anthony ‘the Mooch’ Scaramucci and a Russian investment fund. The anti-Trump network had to endure the humiliation of having to retract the story and issue a public apology to Scaramucci that inflicted what may be permanent damage on the brand.

Then, having been repeatedly bludgeoned by President Trump via Twitter and in press conferences, the network has backed off of the 24/7 Russian conspiracy mongering and trying to fill airtime with other subjects.

Like advising teenagers how to perform sex acts including buggery to assist them with the process of “transitioning” to another gender.

Via The Daily Caller “CNN Debuts Documentary Teaching High Schoolers About Anal Sex, Transitioning”:

CNN ran a story Monday about a new video documentary created by the network that contains scenes of teaching high schoolers about anal sex, performing oral sex, and transitioning to a new gender.

The documentary, titled, “This Is Sex with Lisa Ling,” features a segment titled, “Sex 101.”

In the video, CNN’s Lisa Ling sits in a classroom with high schoolers, listening to a lesson where a teacher quizzes students on the proper term for a woman receiving oral sex, among other graphic questions.

Other topics taught in this classroom include how to use condoms for anal sex between same-sex couples, after which the CNN host characterizes teaching this as “inclusive.”

The teacher also states that she has students transitioning genders, and that she asks them their preferred pronouns. She also discusses how California passed a new law on sex ed that is creating these discussions in the classroom.

It is not explained why exactly a supposed “news” organization is dispensing smutty sex tips as well as propaganda for transgenderism which seem to be an odd fit on the self-proclaimed “most trusted name in news” but traditional American media is the midst of a serious mental breakdown these days.

Not to mention the hypocrisy of a network that just had a host meltdown over the word “boobs” being uttered that is instructing young people on the proper way to enter through the back door.

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Wall Construction Begins Around Eiffel Tower To Protect From Terrorist Attacks

Construction workers began building a giant glass wall around the Eiffel Tower on Monday to shield the historical monument from Islamic terrorist attacks.

Different reports indicate that construction of the wall, announced in February, could cost anywhere from approximately $17–30 million (USD) and will take a little under a year to complete.

The glass wall is intended to replace “temporary metal barriers and prefabricated buildings” that the government installed after deadly Islamic terrorist attacks began rocking the country on a regular basis in early 2015, Deutsche Welle reported.

Builders will erect the 8-foot tall, bullet-proof glass wall on “the two sides of the tower parallel to the river Seine” while the other two sides “will be protected by metal fences designed in the pattern of the tower’s shape.”

The ramped-up security efforts come after several Islamic terrorist attacks have claimed the lives of more than 230 people in the last two years in areas in and around Paris.

“Some 7,000 troops have been deployed under an anti-terrorism operation known as Sentinelle, patrolling streets and guarding tourist hotspots, since the jihadist attack at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in January 2015,” the Economic Times added.

Other major terrorist attacks in the area include the Paris massacre in 2015 that left 130 people dead and the Nice truck attack in July 2016 that left 86 people dead.

In addition to the glass wall, a refurbishing project will launch in 2018 that seeks to repaint the entire tower and replace its aging elevators, as well as build a new reception center in 2021 – all of which is in preparation for the Paris Olympic Games.

At 128-years-old, the Eiffel Tower attracts over six million visitors per year and was Paris’ fourth-most-popular visitor attraction in 2016.

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Nancy Pelosi’s Illegal-Alien Invaders Want Open Borders

The little-known group which invaded a press conference by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is an alliance of four amnesty and open-borders organizations which are based in and near San Francisco.

The roughly 30 protestors broke up Pelosi’s press event, shouting amnesty for “All of us — or none of us.”

The left-wingers said they were protesting Pelosi’s claimed September 13 deal with President Donald Trump for a quick amnesty and citizenship for at least 3.3 million illegals. Nationwide, the population of illegal immigrants is at least 11 million,

The 30-minute invasion wrecked Pelosi’s orchestrated media event where she and several illegal immigrants were intended to present a reassuring and hopeful message on the claimed amnesty. Instead of a calm image of several middle-class ‘dreamer’ migrants, viewers saw a riotous demand for more uncontrolled mass immigration into the United States.

The “Immigration Liberation Movement” was formed by Faith in Action Bay Area, the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance, the East Bay Immigrant Youth Coalition, and a law firm which calls itself Pangea.

The groups try to combine peripheral factions of the left — socialists, illegal immigrants, gays, people trying to live as members of the opposite sex, children of illegal immigrants, Silicon Valley millionaires — to push for open borders, regardless of the huge damage it would cause to the core of the United States.

“We envision a world where the fundamental right to move is respected and appreciated by all,” according to Pangea’s website. “Our view is that all human beings are entitled to respect, documents, and a process through which to move, settle and resettle in the world.”

The site said the Pangea name is copied from the unified Pangea land-mass that existed before the several continents were forced apart millions of years ago.

The political activity does create revenue for social activists. For example, the Pangea law firm employs several lawyers to help block the enforcement of immigration law, saying:

Pangea was created to help fill the great need for the representation of immigrants in both, detained and non-detained, immigration courts.  With over 32,000* immigrants in deportation proceedings in the San Francisco Immigration Court, there is a great need for court and immigration defense services.  Immigrants in removal proceedings need a lawyer because of the complexity of immigration law and the negative consequences of deportation. Also, many immigrants in the court process are eligible for relief or protection under existing laws, and they may have a pathway to citizenship.

The four groups’ goal of open borders would have a huge impact on the United States.

The world’s population is roughly 7.5 billion. That adds up to roughly 20 foreigners for every American, and one European for every 15 non-Europeans.

A 2010 poll by Gallup showed that roughly 6.2 million Mexicans wish to migrate into the United States, as do 23 million Chinese, 17 million Indians, 9 million Ethiopians, 7.8 million people Bangladesh, 77 million people from Brazil, 5 million from Vietnam and many millions more. “If all of the adults worldwide who tell Gallup they would like to move to another country actually did so, the United States could see a net population gain of 60%,” Gallup reported.

 

 

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Trump Slams Iran and Iranian Deal at UN: “Nuclear Deal Is Embarrassment to US” (VIDEO)

Trump Slams Iran and Iranian Deal at UN: “Nuclear Deal Is Embarrassment to US”

President Trump spoke to the United Nations for the first time on Tuesday.

President Trump slammed the flawed Obama Iranian deal.

President Trump: The Iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States have ever implemented. Frankly that deal is an embarrassment to the United States.

President Trump also slammed the murderous Iranian regime:

President Donald Trump: Its oil profits go to fund Hezbollah and other terrorists that kill innocent Muslims and attack their peaceful Arab and Israeli neighbors… We cannot let a murderous regime continue these destabilizing activities while building dangerous missiles… We cannot abide by an agreement that provides cover for a nuclear program.”

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Segregated Dining At Brown University Part Of ‘Racial Reconciliation’

Separate menus also?

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Southern Jim Crow laws might be history but segregation is making a comeback at Brown University.

Brown University has decided to offer a new kind of segregation, but now it’s being billed as “racial reconciliation” as the academic institution promotes segregated “dinner discussion groups” where black students can sit by themselves. Muslim women are also separated from others who are not of their sex and religion.

In the wake of the Charlottesville riots, the university is using a $30,000 grant from the Association of American Colleges and Universities to “break down racial hierarchies and create a positive narrative about race in the community,” reports the The Brown Daily Herald.

The source of the funding is the Newman’s Own Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Brown University Chaplain Rev. Janet Cooper-Nelson will be leading these reconciliation discussions, which she told the Brown newspaper will “allow the women to engage in topics such as the intersection of race, Islam and gender fluidity.”

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Senate Republicans Unveil Bill Allowing Federal Disaster Aid for Houses of Worship

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Republican Sens. Roy Blunt (Mo.), John Cornyn (Texas), Ted Cruz (Texas), and James Lankford (Okla.) on Monday introduced a bill that would make houses of worship eligible for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Public Assistance program grants.

The Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act wold “help ensure houses of worship are able to continue serving local communities when they need it most,” Blunt said in a press release. “It is imperative that they have the resources they need to recover and rebuild. I urge my colleagues to support this bill.”

Houses of worship also “provide vital support services during natural disasters, including food, comfort, shelter, and much more,” he added.

Blunt and his co-sponsors want to amend the Stafford Act, passed in 1988, which regulates federal disaster relief and emergency assistance and excludes houses of worship from receiving grants that fund repair, reconstruction, or replacement of private nonprofit facilities.

“Nonprofits often play a critical role in filling the gaps in assistance, and houses of worship are no different,” Cornyn said in a statement. “Equal treatment in FEMA grant programs for all nonprofits, including religious institutions, must be reached so these groups can continue to help communities in Texas and elsewhere recover.”

Lankford referenced the Supreme Court’s Trinity Lutheran Church ruling from June, which allowed a Lutheran daycare to access state money for rubberized playing surfaces.

“In June, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Trinity Lutheran that ‘the exclusion of Trinity Lutheran from a public benefit for which it is otherwise qualified, solely because it is a church, is odious to our Constitution all the same, and cannot stand.’ Likewise, houses of worship that serve our communities and are impacted by natural disasters like Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, should not be disqualified from disaster assistance simply because they are religious in nature,” Lankford said. “They should be able to apply for these grants just like other entities.”

Cruz said he is “proud” to help introduce the bill, saying, “Religious non-profit organizations, including churches, synagogues, other houses of worship, and community centers should not be excluded from federal disaster assistance just because they are faith-based. This policy is discriminatory and wrong.”

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BOOM! Trump Slams Socialism At UN General Assembly — Faces Awkward Silence (VIDEO)

BEST UNITED NATIONS SPEECH EVER.

President Trump slammed the Venezuelan Socialist Regime at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
President Trump then SLAMMED the Socialist platform.

President Donald Trump: The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. (long pause) From the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venuzela, wherever socialism or communism has been adopted it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure.

You could have heard a pin drop!

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