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FISCAL CLIFF? SEND A MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA, CONGRESS. OPPOSE AUSTERITY!


SUPPORT OUR SOCIAL INSURANCE PROGRAMS. CUT THE MILITARY BUDGET, NOT PROGRAMS THAT HELP PEOPLE



As you’ve surely heard, there are several critical issues coming to a head over the next month and a half in Washington. Peaceworks encourages you to follow this set of issues and make your voices heard. Over the next several weeks we will be posting more info on this here in our updates, on our website and on our Facebook page. For now, here’s a sample message we’ve shared with the President:

Dear President Obama,

Congratulations on your reelection. I am writing to implore you not to make any deal that drives our economy off a cliff. If there’s one spending category where our deficit can, and should, be cut, it’s wasteful, unneeded military expenditures. We currently spend vastly more than is needed for our nation’s defense, so deep cuts, even deeper than required by the sequester, would be beneficial.

Please, Mr. President, do not even consider proposals to cut our social insurance programs—Social Security and Medicare—or Medicaid. Likewise, programs that invest in people, education, green energy and infrastructure should be maintained. The proper prescription is more progressive taxation and cuts to the bloated Pentagon budget, not cuts to programs that help people and the environment. Thank you,

You can post your comments to the President  CLICK HERE

You can also post similar messages to our Congressional delegation including: 


Sen. Claire McCaskill: CLICK HERE  

Sen. Roy Blunt: CLICK HERE


Rep. Vicky Hartzler: CLICK HERE

If you have a different U.S. representative, you can find their contact info HERE