Senator Mark Pryor wants our ideas on how to cut federal spending. Take a look at this video clip below:
Senator Pryor has asked us to send our ideas to him at cutspending@pryor.senate.gov and I have done so in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Here are a few more I just emailed to him myself at 8:35 pm CST on April 10th.
Mark Pryor made some comments on April 6, 2011 on the floor of the U.S.Senate concerning the possible federal government shutdown. I will provide all of his comments in my next few posts. Here is a portion below:
It is our time to lead. This may be the greatest challenge of our generation, of any of us who are in this chamber who are serving either in the House or Senate right now.
We have been going done the path of expanding the federal government for over 80 years now. To be a true leader, you must change the direction of the country. We no longer need to be raising the amount of control we give the federal government in our lives. That is what the whole Tea Party uprising was about Boston so many years ago.
If you want to just continue down this same path then JUST IGNORE ALL THESE GOOD SUGGESTIONS YOU GET CONCERNING CUTTING THE FEDERAL BUDGET. You asked for them with this youtube video clip (as seen above) and now I have started giving them to you.
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. A former special assistant to Ronald Reagan. He has some great insights in his article “It’s time for a government shutdown,” Forbes, April 4, 2011.
HUD is a piggy bank for developers. No form of residential or commercial building goes unsubsidized. Yet the epicenter of the financial crisis was the mass of federal housing subsidies. Interior also enriches interest groups. Most of the land that it manages should be sold off. Environmentally sensitive refuges could be transferred to environmental groups.
The Transportation Department is little better. There are some legitimate interstate transportation issues, but most roads and bridges should be a state and local responsibility. Transportation bills have been among the most ostentatiously wasteful pork dispensed by Congress. There’d be little harm in leaving DOT permanently closed.
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Another famous Arkansan below.
the battle of new orleans..the original version was done by this man jimmie driftwood,
Jimmy Driftwood
Inducted in 1996
(1907-1998) – Noted folk singer and songwriter who was born on a farm near Mountain View. While serving as superintendent at Snowball, he wrote his big hit “The Battle of New Orleans.” He is also known for another composition, “The Tennessee Stud.” Today, Jimmy Driftwood’s Barn in Mountain View is the setting for performances.
So many people have asked me about the full clip. Here it is!! The late and great Jimmy Driftwood home on his ranch in Timbo, Arkansas playing on his famous guitar! This is a tune that he called “Guitar Medley”. Although Jimmy had a bad accident a couple of months before this was taped he could still play the guitar in a very uniquely way!!
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