FCNL: Budgets Must Be Moral Documents

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Legislative Action Message

 

FCNL: Budgets Must Be Moral Documents

 

 

All Americans should be deeply concerned about the values reflected in the

President’s budget request submitted to Congress earlier this week. For the next

few days, newspapers across the country will be reporting the details of this

budget. That offers us an opportunity to write letters to the editor questioning

whether the federal budget is the best reflection of our nation’s values. We

believe it is not:

 

This budget promises endless war and increasing insecurity.

This budget will only make life harder for many on the edge of poverty.

This budget promises only increasing disparity in wealth, incomes, and

opportunities between the haves and the have nots.

This budget ignores ominous trends in the degradation and depletion of the

earth’s resources.

 

Congress must stand up and challenge these misplaced priorities. The President’s

budget priorities do not reflect the values shared by most Americans.

 

Act Now: Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper while the

president’s budget is in the news. Express your concern that the President’s

budget priorities do not reflect your values. Talk about how the President’s

budget priorities will harm your community.

 

Congress now has the responsibility to either accept the budget the President

has proposed or rewrite it. Congress should rewrite it. In your letter, call

upon your members of Congress BY NAME to provide leadership and draft a budget

that better reflects our nation’s core values. (Your representative and senators

read newspapers in their districts very closely)

 

You can send your letter directly from FCNL’s web site: Go to

http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/alert/?alertid=6950511 & type=ME for a sample

letter.

 

Background: In introducing his budget proposal this week, the President called

upon all Americans to recognize the need to sacrifice in a time of war. But the

plan he presented clearly places the greatest burden of sacrifice on those who

can afford it least and on those who have no say in today’s debate – future

generations.

 

Poor and low-income households are being asked to sacrifice the most through

reduced government aid and services.

Low- and middle-income households today and future generations will pay the

price of inadequate and reduced investments in education, health care, energy

conservation and renewable energy, scientific research, and public health and

safety.

Future generations are being asked to pay the mounting trillions in

government debt and for the cumulative degradation and depletion of our

environment and natural resources.

Seniors will pay the price for today’s tax cuts in the decades ahead when

Congress finds it does not have the resources to meet the nation’s obligations

under the Medicare and Social Security Systems.

 

All this while the President proposes to grant the wealthiest few permanent tax

cuts totaling hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming years.

 

For information on how the President’s budget will affect your state, visit the

National Priorities Project web site at

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget.

 

For more information on how to write a letter to the editor go to

http://www.fcnl.org/getin/resources/letters_editor.htm.

 

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We seek a world free of war and the threat of war

We seek a society with equity and justice for all

We seek a community where every person's potential may be fulfilled

We seek an earth restored.

 

 

 

 

 

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