***PLEASE*** stop more tax cuts for the wealthy, budget cuts for the poor.

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Please stand up for 'the least of these' & send a letter to Congress @ http://go.sojo.net/campaign/moral_budget

Thank you!

From Sojourners...

Stand Up for a Moral Budget

The week of Oct. 17 to 21, Congress will make decisions about the federal budget that could hurt millions of poor people. Unless their hearts and minds are changed, Congress will vote in coming weeks to do two things: cut $35 billion from Medicaid and Food Stamps, low-income health care and nutrition programs; and pass new tax cuts of $70 billion, which primarily benefit the wealthy. Some political leaders want to make even more cuts to low-income programs, and the president recently called for increasing cuts to those programs by $50 billion - to a total of $85 billion.

That political leaders still plan to make these cuts - even after the depth of poverty that Katrina has exposed - is morally unconscionable. We need better leadership and better moral logic.

Budgets are moral documents. A nation's budget reflects its priorities. Now is the time to put those priorities in order - to draw a line in the sand against unjust policies and stand up for the common good.

Join us in urging Congress not to cut taxes for the wealthiest at the expense of "the least of these."

Please send a letter to Congress @ http://go.sojo.net/campaign/moral_budget

[I Have A Dream]

1. Done & RECOMMENDED! n/t

[Sapphire Blue]

4. Thank you for caring enough to take action!

[I Have A Dream]

8. That's all that we can do at this point. If enough of us make our...

voices heard, it CAN make a difference!

Thanks for posting this!

[Dark]

2. Sorry, but

repubs control everything. And, unlike outsourcing and borrow&spend policies, cutting taxes and government programs are two things republicans actually believe in.

It's going to happen.

[Sapphire Blue]

3. So you won't stand up & demand that they vote for a just budget?!?!?!?

You will just be silent & let them continue their brutality without voicing any opposition?!?!?!?

Please, please, please reconsider, and stand up for social justice!

[Dark]

5. I'm simply saying don't get your hopes up. n/t

[Sapphire Blue]

6. My hope is that millions of people, like you & me, will send a message...

... to Congress that we will no longer stand for the continued brutal & callous policies of this administration... that they represent & work for us, and it's about damn time that they do their jobs... they need to consider the commonwealth, not crony wealth.

Please join me in sending this message!

[Metta]

7. Done and recommended. nt

[Sapphire Blue]

9. Thank you for caring & taking action!

... and welcome to DU! :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:

[Sapphire Blue]

10. kicking & asking for more to send a letter to Congress... Thanks!

[wellstone dem]

11. Thank you

Thank you for this important post. After Hurricane Katrina, I thought it would be a while before we had to fight this battle again.

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12. You're welcome

Not only do we have to continue to fight this battle, but we have to fight the apathy that has seemingly returned.

Can anyone tell me how it is possible to move on past a brother or sister who is suffering w/o doing something to help? Are we not complicit when we remain silent?

Please, please, please everyone... sign this letter... it only takes a minute for your voice to be heard.

[wellstone dem]

13. I sent the letter and recommended this thread

and forwarded this to others.

[Sapphire Blue]

14. Thanks (again) & another kick... hoping that others will sign the letter.

[Sapphire Blue]

15. kicking again... in eternal optimism

[I Have A Dream]

16. Kick

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[Sapphire Blue]

17. kick

:kick:

[Wilms]

18. Done. Kick. n/t

[Sapphire Blue]

19. Sunday kick

[ignatius 2]

20. Done, thanks for the link and for caring so much about this.

It seems to me the tax cuts last year,of which 65% went to those making $400,000 and up, should be rescinded to help pay for Katrina,Bush's illegal war and to help balance the budget instead of taking from those who have nothing.

The moral compass of this country is broken and all the so called "religious right" is a bunch of crap..money,money,money is all they care about.

I look at countries like Argentina,Haita,Mexico,India and others where so much of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, with little or no middle class to speak of and it seems to me this is where this country has been headed for quite some time. With the tax cuts of the last few years lining the pockets of the rich and more and more of the middle clss jobs being sent overseas, it has been put on fast forward and the chasm between the haves and have nots is exploding.

I become very sad when I think of the future of our country if we don't speak up and say.."Stop this now!!." Thanks for posting and I can not imagine why more peple on this board are ignoring this. It doesn't seem like the DU communitry I have known for the last 4 years. Come on guys..send the damn letter and let congress know that enough is fucking enough.

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21. Thank YOU for caring enough to join me in sending this letter to Congress!

:hug:

It truly breaks my heart that this thread is not receiving more responses, while at the same time, I am uplifted by the positive responses it is receiving. There are caring people here, and I appreciate each of you!!! :grouphug:

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22. Still kicking for more letters.

[Pushed To The Left]

23. Done! n/t

[Sapphire Blue]

24. Thank you!

[cry baby]

25. done, Kick

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26. Thank you!

[Sapphire Blue]

27. kick... again... in eternal optimism

[cry baby]

28. certainly worth another kick...