Fw: [Norton AntiSpam] Bush's budget disaster in New York

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From: "DNC Grassroots Action Team"
To: "Miriam Vieni"
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 12:27 PM
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Bush's budget disaster in New York

DNC Action Alert
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Dear Miriam,

New York residents are facing severe cuts if George Bush's new budget
becomes law -- but you can help stop it in its tracks.

Bush recently unveiled his reckless plan to privatize Social Security, and
now he's touting a budget that slashes key programs that help New York's
working families.

Bush plans devastating cuts to America's top priorities, from homeland
security to health care to education to benefits for veterans and much more.
Despite these cuts, this budget is a fiscal disaster, with Bush's trademark
irresponsibility pushing America deeper into the red with another record
deficit.

And this budget is a huge disaster for New York. Here are just a few of the
cuts New York faces under Bush's 2006 budget:

HOMELAND SECURITY

* The Bush 2006 budget cuts $420 million to state and local funding for
homeland security, including a $49.4 million cut for New York. These cuts
will take police and firefighters off your streets.

* The Bush budget cuts the COPS program, which has put 11,927 officers on
New York streets, by 96 percent.

HEALTH CARE

* The Bush budget cuts $45 billion from Medicaid, enough to provide health
care to 1.8 million children. New York's share of these cuts is $6.1
billion.

* Bush's budget cuts the very same community and rural health care programs
he touted during the campaign.

EDUCATION

* Bush underfunds his own No Child Left Behind Act by $13.1 billion in his
budget. In New York, that means a shortfall of $1 billion, leaving behind
296,648 New York children.

* Bush promised to fund Pell Grants in his State of the Union address, but
his budget is $6.6 billion short. That's $508.8 million less than what's
needed in New York, a real burden for the 358,375 students in New York who
receive the grants.

OTHER PRIORITIES

* Bush cuts $9.3 million from New York job training programs in his 2006
budget.

* The Bush budget would require many veterans to pay a new $250 annual
"user fee" to use the Veterans Administration health care system, and would
double the prescription drug co-payment for the 1,361,164 New York veterans.

* Bush cuts New York clean water programs by $42.7 million.

* Bush's 2006 budget also cuts the Low Income Heating Energy Assistance
Program -- which helps low-income families afford heating fuel in the
winter -- by $234.4 million, including $29.3 million cut for New York
residents.

And Bush's irresponsible budget is a record $427 billion in the red,
increasing each New York family's share of the federal debt by $37,870.

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TAKE ACTION

Take action today to help stop Bush's disastrous budget in its tracks. Write
a letter to the editor of your local paper explaining why Bush's budget is
such a disaster for America.

Be sure to include some of the facts about New York above, or download our
full report here for even more useful information.

http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v001/www.democrats.org/pdfs/2006_budget/NY.pdf

Write your letter here:

http://www.democrats.org/action/200503010001.html?psc=demnews

And be sure to tell your friends to join in. Forward this email to all your
friends in New York, or tell them to find the report for their own state
here:

http://www.democrats.org/bushbudget/

Sincerely,
The DNC Grassroots Action Team

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