DU activists, please help us win the BUDGET CUTS BATTLE! Call or email today! [View All]

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Our goal is to flood Amy Goodman and Rachel Maddow with letters. If you feel inspired to contact others, we have provided a media contacts list as well as one for Congressional representatives. Feel free to tweak the text below as necessary. You can tailor for media or political representatives, and there are more facts listed at the end of this post which you can use to change up your letter. Also, check the replies to this post for more sample letters as written by your fellow DUers.

To the media: Why are you not talking about the way the budget cuts will traumatize millions of poor Americans? Where is the coverage about this outrageous turn of events?

To our Reps: The budget cuts stand to cause further anguish for millions of poor Americans who are already on the edge. What are you doing to stand up and fight for them? Can we count on you to be their voice?

Budget Cut Facts

Cuts $1.1 billion from Head Start depriving services for 218,000 children. <1>

Cuts $1.3 billion from Social Security delaying benefits for 500,000 Americans <1>

Slashes $1.3 billion from community health centers taking primary health care from 11 million patients. <1>

Reduces or eliminates Pell Grants for 9.4 million low-income college students. <1>

Cuts $405 million from Community Services Block Grants affecting 20 million seniors, families with children and the disabled. <1>

Ends job training and other employment services for 8 million Americans. <1>

Poison control centers would lose 93% of their operations funds. <2>

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration would reduce their number of workplace-hazard safety inspections by 8000. <2>

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration will both face cuts, meaning fewer inspectors ensuring the safety of our food supply. <2>

$3.5 billion in Housing subsidies would be lost. <3>

The $60 billion package of spending cuts proposed by Republicans could hinder economic growth, says a Goldman Sachs economist. <4>

$450 million would be cut from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Malaria, and Tuberculosis. <5>

Contacts
Amy Goodman and “Democracy Now!”
http://www.democracynow.org/about/contact

Rachel Maddow
[e-mail]

More media:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=111

Congressional representatives:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt