Peace Action

Join the Millions in a Bi-Partisan Effort to Cut Pentagon Bloat

Monday the White House submitted their budget proposal asking for $515.4 billion in the 2009 budget. This figure does not include the approved $600 billion dollars in supplemental spending for the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. This represents a %5 increase to an already over bloated Pentagon budget.

Bush is funding War Not Human Needs. It's beyond time Congress for their priorities straight.

Funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) would be cut $570 million or %22. This would require cutting more than 1 million low-income families and elderly people off the program entirely.
The budget would reduce funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by $330 million.
The budget would cut funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by $433 million.
200,000 fewer children in low-income families would receive federal child care assistance in 2009 than in 2007, under the President’s budget.
Total funding for K-12 education is less than is needed simply to keep pace with inflation.
Cut federal Medicaid expenditures by $18.2 billion over five years.

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February 10, 2010

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Dear Representative

Program for International Policy Alternatives, shows that 65% of the American public believes the federal government should transfer tax dollars out of several areas of the defense budget that have nothing to do with our occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The mean response by Democrats favored cutting $39 billion; the mean response by Republicans $30 billion. Cutting Pentagon bloat is political advantageous before the ‘08 election. I am one member of the Peace Majority writing to you, my representative to demand you stand up to Bush and his wasteful budget for 2009. The country is in a state of emergency and our people cannot afford the budget cuts to health programs like Medicaid and SCHIP which are a lifeline for low income children and the elderly. By cutting the budgets for agencies like the EPA and CDC Bush is making our country vulnerable to the threats of global warming and bio terrorism. Consider this in your review of the Presidents budget request. If you cut the following programs you could trim $40 billion of fat from the Pentagon budget – even before you address the outrageous funding of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. • The F-22 Raptor fighter jet and Virginia Class submarines, designed to achieve superiority over Soviet jets and submarines that were never built; • The V-22 Osprey, a poorly design aircraft which in testing phases has already caused the deaths of 30 American soldiers; • Missile defense (star wars), proposed when terrorists were not our primary enemy; • Bases in Asia, Europe and here at home, now irrelevant to today's geopolitical reality.
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