[Peace-discuss] CALL TODAY! TELL CONGRESS NO CUTS IN VITAL SERVICES

[Ricky Baldwin]

If they cut social services now, they are almost not
human.

--- Coalition on Human Needs
<chn at democracyinaction.org> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:16:52 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Coalition on Human Needs
> <chn at democracyinaction.org>
> To: baldwinricky at yahoo.com
> Subject: CALL TODAY!  TELL CONGRESS NO CUTS IN VITAL
> SERVICES
> 
> Earth to Congress: How can you even think of cutting
> aid to the hungry and uninsured?
> 
> Call Now!  September 8 and 9
> 
> Call Your Senators and Representative:
> 1-800-426-8073
> Use this toll-free number (generously provided by
> the American Friends Service Committee) to be
> connected to the Capitol Switchboard on September 8
> and 9.  If you can't get through on this number,
> please call the Capitol Switchboard directly at
> (202) 224-3121; for TTY (202) 225-1904.
> 
> Tell Them: 
> 
>   Please oppose reducing or eliminating services in
> Medicaid, Food Stamps, TANF and other critical help
> for vulnerable people. The federal government must
> provide help for Katrina victims.  These new
> responsibilities mean that cuts to vital programs
> that provide food, health care and income to the
> poor, the sick, and those with disabilities are out
> of the question. (Such cutbacks are being considered
> as part of a budget reconciliation bill in
> September.)
> 
>    Republicans and Democrats alike are recognizing
> that this is hardly the time to impose the biggest
> budget sacrifices on the sick, the poor, people with
> disabilities, the elderly and children by cutting
> supports while expanding tax cuts for the wealthiest
> Americans and corporations. Please say no to
> "reconciliation budget" bills that cut the very
> programs and tax dollars needed now.
> 
> BACKGROUND:  By September 16, congressional
> committees have instructions to cut $35 billion from
> mandatory programs. Medicaid, Food Stamps, Medicare,
> the Earned Income Tax Credit, TANF, and SSI for
> elderly and disabled are all mandatory programs.
> Medicaid could be cut by as much as $10 billion.
> Food Stamps are also threatened. And by September
> 23, Congress has told tax writing committees to
> prepare another $70 billion in unwise and unfair tax
> cuts that will be paid for by denying vitally needed
> assistance and by borrowing and deepening the
> deficit. Because of Hurricane Katrina, there have
> been bipartisan calls for indefinite postponement of
> this timetable.
> (http://www.chn.org/pdf/reconciliationdelay.pdf)Your
> calls are especially important to add to the
> momentum to postpone consideration of dangerous
> cuts.
> 
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