The Ron Paul Plan: Kill 5 Agencies, Cut $1 Trillion

Ron Paul's plan to slash $1 trillion in federal spending begins and ends at the government bureaucracies he says are most responsible for the mess.

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 As part of his "Plan to Restore America," the Republican presidential    candidate and firebrand congressman from Texas wants to cut out all foreign aid, end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and eliminate five Cabinet-level departments.

"We are in the midst of the worst debt crisis ever in all of history, so I cannot see how we can get out of this by increasing the debt around the world," Paul said in a CNBC interview. "Nobody has proposed any cuts and I don't know how in the world you can get out of the problem of too much spending and too-big government by not cutting anything."

Specifically, he wants to eliminate the departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Interior and Education. While taking an ax to agencies that have become part of Washington's bureaucratic fabric may sound extreme to some, Paul said voters he has met on the campaign trail approve.

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