PumpkinSeed
please.... could you find someone who's actually implemented a successful budget plan on some level, to be creating these things that affect not only millions in this country, but families across this earth! represent us as you'd want to be represented. I plan to be rich, and yes, I plan to take advantage of tax breaks for business owners, but YES, I GLADLY pay my taxes because I TRUST it goes to serve my neighbors in this great hurting land. =================================
As soon as tomorrow morning, the House of Representatives will consider a
Republican amendment to permanently slash funding for basic health care,
nutrition and education services for the poor. The budget proposal already calls
for $35 billion in cuts, but top Republicans want to push it up to $50
billion. Meanwhile, the same budget proposal calls for $70 billion in
new tax breaks, largely for the wealthy.1 It's reverse Robin Hood politics—robbing the poor to pay back the rich. So today we're aiming to send 50,000 personal messages to
Congress in 24 hours—round II of our emergency budget campaign. We're
asking them to vote against the expanded cuts this Thursday, and oppose any
budget package that slashes services for the poor while handing out tax breaks
to the rich. Can you send a short note right now? http://www.political.moveon.org/budget?id=6158-6363735-8H5uDlxNJ3xeVSu9UNt8Qw&am p;t=2 The good news is that a national backlash is rapidly building against the
Republican attack on the poor—and it's already having an impact. Monday and Tuesday MoveOn members joined a national "virtual march" to stop
the budget cuts and phoned in over 25,000 calls to Congress.
Your efforts helped secure a major victory when the Senate agriculture
committee, "fearing a backlash," announced yesterday it would abandon plans to
take food stamps away from nearly 300,000 needy families.2 The hypocrisy of the Republican plan to slash programs like Medicaid, food
stamps, and student loans while offering new budget-busting tax breaks to the
wealthy is being recognized across the country. As the New York Times wrote in a
recent editorial: "Congressional Republicans are trying to invoke the cost of reconstruction
from Hurricane Katrina to justify cutting even more deeply and cruelly into
programs that help the poorest Americans...The same lawmakers who cheered on
President Bush's reckless tax cuts for the affluent, killing the surpluses and
creating mammoth debt, are trying to transform themselves into responsible
budgeteers."3 Local papers are also speaking out. Florida Today observed: "These are the same lawmakers who bought whole hog into a huge, pork-ridden
transportation bill this summer, and who have no interest in rolling back any
of President Bush's tax cuts for affluent Americans. If fact, they'd add more.
For shame."4 The Portsmouth Herald of New Hampshire asks simply: "Do they really think we are so mean-spirited that we would take food from
hungry children to offset the profligate tax cuts and spending that have us
$300 trillion in debt?"5 And a new national poll shows that the general public, by a margin of
67% to 24%, believes that the Republican budget plan is simply wrong.6 Despite the clear public rejection of their priorities, Republican leaders
think they can hide their dump-the-poor, serve-the-rich formula behind the
complexity and technical nature of the budget process. It's up to the people to
show them that they aren't fooling anyone, and America deserves better. The first step is to help swing tomorrow's vote in the House.
Please take a minute to write your representative, urging them to vote against
expanding the budget cuts to $50 billion, and ask them to oppose any final
budget package that slashes vital services to the poor while handing out tax
breaks to the wealthy. If we can hit our goal of 50,000 personal letters in 24 hours, we can make
sure they get the message loud and clear. You can write and send your letter online in just a few minutes, by going
here: http://www.political.moveon.org/budget?id=6158-6363735-8H5uDlxNJ3xeVSu9UNt8Qw&am p;t=3 Thanks for all that you do. –Ben, Joan, Tanya, Micayla and the MoveOn.org Political Action
Team Sources: 1 "Congress to consider sweeping budget cuts" Houston Chronicle
10/18/05 2"Senate panel drops plan to cut food stamps" The New York Times
10/13/05 3 "Budget Cowardice in the Capitol" The New York Times
10/13/05 4 "The shameful switch" Florida Today 10/18/05 5 "Starving the needy to offset costs is not the answer" The
Portsmouth Herald 10/18/05 6 "Gunning for the poor" Harold Myerson Op-Ed Column in the
Washington Post, 10/19/05 Support our member-driven organization: MoveOn.org Political Action is
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Dear MoveOn member,
Tomorrow the House of
Representatives will vote on expanding deep cuts to basic services for the
poor. We're aiming to send in 50,000 personal notes in 24 hours—can you
write a personal message right now?
October 19, 2005
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3400874
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/politics/19cong.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/13/opinion/13thur4.html
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1005
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1007
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