<div class="gmail_quote">National MoveOn made a little mistake, and left out the part about military spending. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">But I fixed it. :)</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The sign-up is here:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="http://www.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=131728">http://www.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=131728</a> <br>
<br><br><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MoveOn.org</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"MS Mincho"">
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Political
Action</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MEDIA
ADVISORY FOR:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> August
16, 2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CONTACT:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Robert Naiman, <a href="tel:217-979-2857" value="+12179792857" target="_blank">217-979-2857</a>, <a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">C-U MoveOn Members to
Hand Out ‘Romney-Ryan Pink Slips’ in Champaign Thursday, </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Part of National Effort
to Distribute 1 Million Pink Slips</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ryan Budget Endorsed by
Romney Would Kill 1 Million Jobs in 1 Year, <br>
129,000 by Cutting Domestic Spending to Protect Military Spending</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Urbana,
Illinois — MoveOn members will distribute 1 million pink slips across the
country Thursday to inform voters about how Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget
plans would cost 1 million jobs in just 1 year - killing more than a hundred
thousand jobs by shifting money from domestic spending to military spending -
and Champaign-Urbana will be part of the action.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MoveOn
members in Champaign-Urbana will meet at 9AM at 301 N Neil Street in Champaign on
Thursday and will hold signs and be available to the media before they split up
to deliver pink slips to voters. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Ryan
budget, endorsed by Mitt Romney, would end Medicare and slash public education
spending and economic investment, asking the middle class to pay more yet
offering more tax cuts to the rich, while increasing military spending. The
nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute projected this approach would kill more
than 1 million jobs in 2013 and more than <a name="1392c8fd280c37b2_OLE_LINK1">4.1</a> million
jobs by the end of 2014. [1] </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">At least 12.9%
of this job loss - 129,000 jobs in 2013, and 530,000 jobs by the end of 2014 - will
come from replacing planned cuts to military spending with increased cuts to
domestic spending. A 2011 study by the University of Massachusetts' Political
Economy Research Institute showed that every time you replace a billion dollars
in domestic cuts with a billion dollars in military cuts, you decrease the job
loss from cuts by at least 25.8%. [2] Current plans to cut spending call for a
50/50 split between domestic cuts and military cuts, but Romney and Ryan would
replace the military cuts with domestic cuts. If the Romney-Ryan plan were
changed just by restoring the 50/50 split, that would eliminate at least 12.9%
of the job loss from the Romney-Ryan plan. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“Mitt Romney
and Paul Ryan would be great for the 1%, but they’d be a nightmare for America's
working families,” said Robert Naiman, a MoveOn member from Urbana. “We’re
distributing these pink slips so voters know how many jobs Romney and Ryan's
budget would destroy, and how much of that destruction would come from cutting
domestic spending to increase military spending.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MoveOn.org
Political Action members across the country are organizing hundreds of events
on Thursday in which they’ll deliver the pink slips to voters. MoveOn members
and others will also be able share an online version of the pink slip with
their friends and family members via email and social media.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WHAT: Sign-holding and media availability
before distribution of Romney-Ryan pink slips</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WHO: MoveOn.org Political Action members</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WHEN: from 9AM to 9:30 AM, Thursday, August
16, 2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WHERE: 301 N Neil Street in Champaign</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">###</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MoveOn.org
Political Action is a political action committee powered by more than 7 million
Americans from every state and every congressional district. Since its founding
in 1998, MoveOn members have volunteered tens of millions of hours for
progressive candidates. MoveOn members believe in the power of grassroots
action to make our country a more progressive place and elect candidates who
will fight to put the American Dream back within reach for all Americans.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">References: <br>
<br>
1. "Ryan’s budget cuts would cost jobs," Ethan Pollack, Economic
Policy Institute, March 21, 2012, <a href="http://www.epi.org/blog/paul-ryan-budget-discretionary-cuts-cost-jobs/" target="_blank">http://www.epi.org/blog/paul-ryan-budget-discretionary-cuts-cost-jobs/</a></span></p>
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<br>
2. "The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending
Priorities: 2011 Update," Robert Pollin & Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Political
Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, December 2011,
<a href="http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/published_study/PERI_military_spending_2011.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/published_study/PERI_military_spending_2011.pdf</a></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><br>-- <br>Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
<a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><br> </font></span></div>