Locking the debt ceiling

JeffK wants the USA government to limit taking on additional debt. He wants the government to stop spending money on these TLAs: EPA, DOE, USDA, DHS, BEA, BLM.

JeffK's article here.

Have you thought it through Jeff?
Without the EPA it would be a free for all to pollute the land.
Without the DOE doing planning, your future energy would be in doubt.
Without the USDA there would be no food standards. Who would stop somebody from adulterating food. Snake oil salesmen would make a comeback.
DHS. OK Jeff, you have a valid one there. While failing to catch terrorists it serves to inconvenience innocent people.
BEA: Somebody needs to monitor the economy.
BLM: Again, this manages the environment by controlling land use. Left to businessmen they would pulp the trees, rip coal from surface mines and what was left turned over to suburban housing.
Even the UN makes a valuable contribution to World peace but Jeff would abandon all these things. Apart from the DHS these are all agencies that make the country a better and safer place.

Why is there a huge debt anyway? Jeff blames it on the government which is sort of true. The government failed to regulate the banks properly. It was the banks playing Las Vegas with the economy and losing and requiring a huge injection of cash to stop the banking system from collapsing. Did any bankers get punished for destroying the economy? No (except for Bernard Madhoff). Put some of them in jail and see if they dare gamble again.

What ways could money be saved instead? Jeff mentions foreign aid and this is a more worthy target. A couple billion to Egypt? Oh dear. That doesn't look so wise now. And why does the USA give billions of dollars to Israel? Surely for that kind of money Obama could ask Israel to stop building on occupied land and make serious peace with the Palestinians? We had such high hopes for Obama. Instead he vetoes a UN resolution that would criticize the Israeli settlements. Also the many billions going down the drain to Iraq after a war that should never have been fought.

There is plenty that can be cut without cutting things that benefit the country.