[NASW Alaska Chapter Listserve] FW: We can beat a BAD federal budget, call Rep. Young now!

[Pauline Richard]

Help is needed to stop a very bad decision by our Congress. Please contact
Representative Young and voice your concern.
 
 
Pauline Richard, LMSW
Interim Executive Director
AK-NASW
401 E. Northern Lights Blvd, Ste. 205
Anchorage, AK. 99503
(907) 332-6279 Tel.
(907 332-6270 Fax
-----Original Message-----
From: Grisco Mary Civ 3 MDG/SGOC [mailto:Mary.Grisco at ELMENDORF.af.mil] 
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:06 AM
To: Grisco Mary Civ 3 MDG/SGOC; Health Policy List Serve
Subject: We can beat a BAD federal budget, call Rep. Young now!



Over the past couple of weeks, more than two dozen HYPERLINK
"http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=100642948&url_num=1&url=
http://www.chn.org/issues/opportunityforall/housebudgetresolution.html"
\nmoderate House members who can prevent a bad budget from passing have been
saying NO to cuts in services. 
HYPERLINK
"http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=100642948&url_num=2&url=
http://www.chn.org/issues/opportunityforall/housebudgetresolution.html"http:
//www.chn.org/issues/opportunityforall/housebudgetresolution.html



But late Wednesday, the House Budget Committee approved a budget that
ignores the growing opposition to cuts - and ignores the needs of millions
of Americans. It will force cuts in human needs programs. Its funding for
annual appropriations is $9 billion short of the cost just to keep up the
current level of services next year - for education, food packages for the
poor, housing, child care, meals on wheels, and many other services. It
forces $4 billion in cuts over 5 years from a category of funding that
includes basic entitlements such as unemployment insurance, Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families, or income support for poor elderly or people
with disabilities.

The budget is expected to reach the House floor sometime next week.  If
members who voted against the last round of painful reductions are joined by
those who have gone on record against cuts now, it cannot pass in its
current harsh form.

Please Call Your Representative – use the toll-free number:  

 (800) 459-1887   

"I am calling to urge Rep. __________ to vote against the Budget Committee's
budget resolution.  It forces cuts in nutrition aid, health care,
education/training, housing, and other essential services.  Its funding is
so low that vulnerable people - infants, struggling workers, the elderly -
will lose needed services.  Please support efforts to restore funding for
domestic programs.  This budget sacrifices essential priorities for tax
breaks that favor the rich."

 

Please hold your Representative accountable - from Thursday, March 30 until
the House vote is taken.
The House budget's funding for annually appropriated programs is close to
the amount proposed by the President.  That means cuts!   Just a few
examples of harmful cuts in the President's budget:  



*	Food aid eliminated for 420,000 seniors and 50,000 young children
and moms:  the President would eliminate the Commodity Supplemental Food
Program. 

*	Education for the disadvantaged would be cut by $2.4 billion. 

*	650,000 fewer children will receive subsidized child care in 2011
than in 2000. 

*	For more details about what the President proposed:  HYPERLINK
"http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=100642948&url_num=3&url=
http://www.chn.org/pdf/FY07BudgetAnalysis.pdf"http://www.chn.org/pdf/FY07Bud
getAnalysis.pdf 

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.

 

Posted by

Mary Grisco, MPA
Executive Director

All Alaska Pediatric Partnership

PO Box 230567

Anchorage, AK  99523

(907) 580-3180; fax (907) 580-2454

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