Cool idea from Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA):
Today, we are launching YouCut – a first-of-its-kind project designed to defeat the permissive culture of runaway spending in Congress. It allows YOU to vote, both online and on your cell phone, on spending cuts that you want to see the House – YOUR HOUSE – enact. That’s right, instead of Washington telling YOU how THEY will spend YOUR money, YOU can tell THEM how to save it. After several days of voting, on Monday, May 17th, we will announce the first winner and later that week House Republicans will call for an up-or-down vote on the spending cut. We will repeat this cycle every week for the rest of the year.
You go here to see the menu of possible cuts and cast your vote. I like this. This is a useful tool to engage people in thinking about what can be cut – and allowing what we hope will be much more powerful GOP caucus in January to know where we, the people stand.
As for me, I cast my first vote for eliminating taxpayer subsidized union activities. Public sector unions are bankrupting our States and cities, and I see no reason for them to get a dime of federal money.
Have at it – and lets keep it up week after week.
Now, if we could just get our liberals to be a bit honest and put out a “YouWaste” website so that liberals can vote on what they want money spent on, we’d get a nice contrast for the Fall.
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