Urgent: Tell Congress to pass a moral budget

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Email from Jim Wallis, Sojourners (http://www.sojo.net/)...

Urgent: Tell Congress to pass a moral budget

As I write this, Congress is deciding on the outlines of this year's federal budget. At stake are billions of dollars for working families and poor children in the United States and around the globe.

For years now, people of faith have been fighting bad budgets that prioritize tax cuts and military spending over social supports for the poorest in our society. This year, Congress has an opportunity to pass a budget that puts people first.

Click here to tell your representative to vote for a budget that honors our commitments to the "least of these."

Last week, I wrote a letter to the United States Senate, joining many others in requesting that senators prioritize poor and working families, children, and the elderly as they determine where our nation commits its energies and resources.

I'm pleased to report that the faith community's voice is being heard: The Senate passed a budget with billions of dollars in new funds for children's health care, food stamps for hungry families, and aid to alleviate extreme poverty in the world's poorest countries.

Now the U.S. House of Representatives is preparing to vote on its own budget resolution, which must match or exceed the Senate's commitment to these pressing priorities. If we can spend $10 billion per month in Iraq, surely we can spend that much per year on health care for needy children.

Can you take just a moment to ask your Representative to do the right thing when it comes to this year's budget?

http://go.sojo.net/campaign/fy08_budget

The funding increases in this year's budget are a step toward the vision for overcoming poverty found in Sojourners/Call to Renewal's Covenant for a New America.

But we still have a long way to go on so many important issues - from ending the war in Iraq, to ensuring that every child in America has health insurance, to welcoming the strangers in our midst with comprehensive immigration reform. What is needed, now more than ever, is a national change of heart - a recommitment to restoring the hope of the poorest families in our society.

So I hope I can continue to count on your support and prayers in the weeks and months to come, as we seek together to "speak out, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the poor and needy" (Proverbs 31: 9). A moral budget is a critical part of this effort.

Thank you for all that you do.

Blessings,
Jim Wallis

P.S. Can you please forward this e-mail to five of your friends and family, urging them to also contact their congressperson?
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1. So, raise your hands if you care about homeless and sick poor people!

NOt everybody all at once, now....