**** Keep Fighting The President's Cuts! **** Call 1-800-459-1887 ****

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Email update from the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org)...

Keep Fighting The President's Cuts!


The fight to stop the President's cuts is working! Please don’t let up now.


Call your Representative toll-free at 800-459-1887 starting Monday, May 1, and say:

"Please oppose any proposal that forces cuts in human needs programs by setting spending as low as the President's budget. Funding set this low is a direct threat to children, seniors, and working families who need food, housing, Head Start, and education. Please support funding levels high enough to prevent cuts. Don't cut services to pay for tax giveaways to millionaires."

Use the toll-free number above to reach the U.S. Capitol Switchboard and ask to be connected to your Representative's office. (The person at the switchboard can figure out who your Representative is if you're not sure). When you’re connected, please give the message above. Say what’s most important to you by selecting some or all of the examples in italics or mention other vital services of concern to you.

Background: Logjam in the House. The U.S. House Representatives was unable to complete its budget resolution before the April recess in part because moderates could not support the deep cuts it required. Now Congress is back, and they are still having difficulty putting together enough votes to pass a budget. That is good news.

Don’t let up now! Even if the budget remains stuck, moderates will be under tremendous pressure to drop their objections to cutting nutrition, education, housing, and other vital services. But if members of Congress hold firm, they can prevent harmful cuts.

What keeps members of Congress holding firm? Your calls!

Why this message is needed: With or without a budget, Congress has to set total spending for all annually funded programs, with the Appropriations Committee then dividing up the total among defense, international, and domestic programs. If they can’t use the budget to set funding levels, the House may insert a total spending figure into the first appropriations bill they take up. There are reports that the House leadership will try to take the total from the President’s budget – a figure so low it will force cuts in domestic programs like education, nutrition aid, housing, Head Start and job training. These cuts were rejected in the Senate, and they are why House moderates have been opposing the House budget so far. House members must continue to hear how important it is to reject cuts.

The toll-free number is provided courtesy of the American Friends Service Committee which has launched a budget campaign, http://www.afsc.org/economic-justice/sos/ AFSC welcomes groups to circulate and use the toll-free number in support of non-partisan budget goals and without linking the alert to a website soliciting donations or actions which may be used to support partisan lobbying or work.


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Please also sign the Emergency Campaign for America's Priorities (ECAP) petition to Congress @ http://www.actnow.org/

For more info on the FY 2007 Budget, please visit the Coalition on Human Needs @ http://www.chn.org/

[oscar111]

1. RECOMMEND AND KEEP KICKED!!

THANKS

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2. *** PLEASE CALL THESE REPS *** (possible swing votes)...

The following Republican Representatives are considered possible swing-votes -- they could buck their leaders and stop the budget cuts from passing:

Don Young + (AK)

Rick Renzi * (AZ)

Bob Beauprez (CO)
Marilyn Musgrave (CO)

Nancy Johnson * (CT)
Chris Shays * (CT)
Rob Simmons * (CT)

Mike Castle * (DE)

Mark Foley (FL)
E. Clay Shaw (FL)

Jim Leach * + (IA)

Timothy Johnson (IL)
Ray LaHood * (IL)

Edward Whitfield * (KY)

Wayne Gilchrest * (MD)

Vernon Ehlers (MI)
Joe Schwarz * (MI)
Fred Upton * (MI)

Jim Ramstad * (MN)

JoAnn Emerson * (MO)

Walter Jones (NC)

Tom Osborne + (NE)

Jeb Bradley + (NH)

Frank LoBiondo (NJ)
Christopher Smith (NJ)

Heather Wilson * + (NM)

Jon Porter * (NV)

Sherwood Boehlert * (NY)
Sue Kelly (NY)
John R. Kuhl * + (NY)
John McHugh * (NY)
John Sweeney (NY)
James Walsh (NY)

Steve LaTourette * (OH)
Bob Ney * (OH)

Philip English + (PA)
Mike Fitzpatrick (PA)
Jim Gerlach * + (PA)
Melissa Hart + (PA)
Timothy Murphy + (PA)
Todd Platts * (PA)
Curt Weldon * (PA)

Ron Paul + (TX)

Members marked with an * signed a letter to House leaders asking for a 2 percent increase in domestic spending for the programs that are funded annually. To see this letter, click here: http://www.chn.org/images/FinalLettertoHastert.pdf.

Members marked with + signed a letter to House leaders asking that the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) be preserved. To see this letter, click here: http://www.chn.org/images/csfpletter.pdf.


http://www.chn.org/issues/opportunityforall/housebudgetresolution.html

[oscar111]

3. Amounts cut, by bush in this current year, not upcoming ones...

As best i recall from various sources...

Last summer bush's proposed budget for this current financial year was said to cut enough from Food Stamps to up the number of hungry from twelve to thirteen million.

Three weeks ago, the USDA said "38 million americans are on the edge of hunger". 38 on the edge, and 13 million IN hunger is a failed economy. Toss the GOP.

We must remember to tie these failed policies of hunger and homelessness... to the Republican party, not bush. We are running against the GOP... bush is not running anymore.

Also last summer, the SF Chronicle reported that bush's budget for the current year planned to toss another quarter million families onto the street. Upping homelessness by a million. In any one year, three million are homeless at one time or another, as they move out of it, and others fall into it. One million in any one night. One million was before the article in the SFC. Now, it must be quite a few more... possibly two million if the article was correct.

They die at twice the normal rate, according to a recent study.

See my posts in the forum Poverty, for more detailed sources and stats.

Bush's taxcuts for the rich totalled over 350 Billion. To end all hunger, takes only 12 Billion.

Homelessness would be ended by 4 Billion.

Urge the representatives to roll back the taxcuts for the rich and end all hunger and homelessness overnight. The 334 Billion left over could be used to cover all citizens with health insurance, IIRC. See the link to True Majority.. Ben of Ben and Jerry's icecream IIRC... The oreos video said something like several billion would get the health insurance for all of us.

http://www.truemajority.org/oreos

Now, listen to Huey Long and his famous speech.... it was taped live.

{WARNING .. link to this site only if you know tekkie matters.. I seem to have been disconnected from the internet when i went to this George Mason University site. If you have no trouble with it, or if you do, pls send me a DU personal message PM.. and let me know} PS .. GM U. is in maryland.


http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5109


PS could someone repost this thread in a topic forum, like Economy? This forum, GD, moves so fast that this important OP and thread will disappear from page one in hours. In Economy, it will be visible for weeks.

[oscar111]

4. Good email newsletter on FOOD and hunger issues, weekly.....

http://www.frac.org/

keep informed.

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5. Thanks, oscar111, for the links & valuable info; you are a DU treasure!

[oscar111]

9. Hi, sapphire, good to see you and another of your great OP's

cheered me up to see your post. Keep fighting the good fight, as they say!

Maybe we will win a few things with a dem House and Senate, eh?

[oscar111]

7. Homeless death rate twice normal rate.. link to NYT article

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/nyregion/31homeless.html?ex=1296363600&en=472758a9311001c8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[oscar111]

11. HEALTHCARE.. details

Just looked at the Oreos video again...

says 5 billion would insure children.. did not say that would cover ALL who need it. So i am not sure how many would be helped.

Here are healthcare figures from other sources...

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We all spend a total of 1. 6 trillion on it.
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.4.... point four.. Trillion is just for handling
the paperwork of insurance forms of private insurance companies. Kucinich planned to save that with a nationalized health system.

Nationalizing all four corners of health could cut the total to .6 ... point six... Trillion total.
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Corners are

drs
hospitals/nursing homes
Big Pill
insurance
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BIG SAVINGS.
Nationalized health would be able to cap doctor incomes ... to drive out the greedheads, who deliver lousy service anyway...
able to run hosps and NH's on a nonprofit basis, saving vast amounts there.. recall , hosp rooms are now ... did i hear a thousand dollars a day? Is that right?

National Health would be able to cut the cost of pills ...


...able to end all insurance forms now filled out by patients.. any cost bills would be internal to the system, between the attending doctor and a regional fundflow center.

Twenty four nations outlive us. All pay less.

ROLLBACK WOULD FUND HALF OF ALL THIS REFORM

That 334 billion in the reply above, my reply, left over from rolling back the taxcuts for the rich... would thus cover half of what is needed for the elegant new system i have read about in Kuchinich and Kerry's last campaign documents and the Canadian system.

England and Germany have HOUSECALLS.

New Zealand has or had, ... a 24/7 free national phone to ask a real doctor any health questions.

DOCTORS IN EACH AMBULANCE
One EU nation had doctors ride each ambulance, not our practice of nothing but a driver, or at most a medic {what is their exact title? They are analogous to the military field medic, IIRC}
After all, when do you MOST need a real doctor? ANSWER: when you are so banged up that you are tossed into an ambulance. Not forty minutes later when the ambulance gets thru rush hour jams to the ER.. but IN THAT ambulance.

NO MORE SLEEPLESS STUDENTS IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM
National health could also end the barbaric practice of having ER's interns work forty eight hours with no sleep, cutting open your chest to operate... it isn't a pretty thought, is it?

Happens every day, as things stand now.

We are paying with our lives for this mess.

And what are interns.. mere students.. doing in an Emergency Room? When do you most need a doctor with silver hair and forty years of skill under his belt? Why in the ER, of course.

Putting students there is, frankly, insane.

QUESTION:
Would you want a sleepless student driving that eighteen wheeler coming at you in the opposite lane on the highway?

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6. McHugh voted against the last budget bill. His district is far from a rich

one and he normally keeps that sort of in mind when casting his vote.

Anyway, he's my rep and I'll be writing him about this, after all he might be disappointed if he didn't hear from me at least a few times a month. :evilgrin:

[oscar111]

8. Your represen. is unconvinced/ a QUICK answer for him

He/she says,

"Rollback taxcuts for the rich? But we must have taxcuts for trickledown to be a massive engine to kick the economy into overdrive and bring more of today's workers' paradise that you are enjoying"

A. Wages lower now than '80. {adjusted for inflation}. Trickledown is a flop. Hoover's trickledown caused the Great Depression.

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"but how then do we spark the economy?"

A. The real economy is measured by the middle class's income. Raise that by ending the runaway factories.. NAFTA.. and ending outsourcing to Asia. Then end all joblessness by a new WPA, share-the-work, and new co-ops. {see sig}. When none are jobless, the total income of the middle class will obviously rise. Harnessing those now unharnessed will increase economic output.. the GDP. Keeping factories and tech jobs here will keep our tekkies skills from rusting, ensuring a US lead in hi tech.

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10. Quick kick a roonski, and Recommend. I do like to see the real Americans

take back the country from the * admin bastards.

Go the Americans!

:headbang:

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12. Thursday kick

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13. Friday kick

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