September Call-In Days on Budget Cuts

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September 8 and 9 CALL-IN DAYS on Budget Cuts

Alert Your Networks!

STOP FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS TO THE HUNGRY AND UNINSURED

OUR GOAL: Flood Capitol Hill with thousands (millions!) of phone calls from

citizens speaking out about budget cuts. The American Friends Service

Committee (AFSC) has generously donated a toll-free line to connect

advocates to their Senators and Representatives on September 8 and 9.

FORWARD THIS ALERT to your networks, friends and family:

Use the message we suggest below OR tailor the message. Let's work together

to generate a massive response.

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STOP FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS TO THE HUNGRY AND UNINSURED

http://www.chn.org/images/.thumbs/.redphone.gif> September 8 and 9

Call-In Days

Call Your Senators and Representative: 1-

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.

Tell them:

http://www.chn.org/images/.thumbs/.redphone.gif> Please oppose

reductions or eliminations of services in Medicaid, Food Stamps, TANF and

other critical help for vulnerable people. (Such cutbacks are being

considered as part of a budget reconciliation bill in September.)

http://www.chn.org/images/.thumbs/.redphone.gif> It is wrong to impose

the biggest budget sacrifices on the sick, the poor, the elderly and

children by cutting supports while expanding tax cuts for the wealthiest

Americans and corporations.

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.

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