Budget Cuts Pending - Act Now!

Well, you don't necessarily have to act now, but here's the situation, as I understand it:

The House is planning to make $50 billion in cuts to the budget, mostly taking the money from government services to the poor and middle class. Food Stamps were recently removed from the chopping block, but Medicaid is still on the table.

House Republicans handily reason that because of the costs of recovering from Hurricane Katrina, it's more fiscally responsible to cut other programs. At the same time, however, they're planning to keep $70 billion worth of tax cuts. Here's a little write-up of how much Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy could cost us, compared with the one-time cost of recovering after Katrina.

So the plan, in other words, is to take the money that was going to poor and middle-class people across the country, and use it to help the hurricane survivors, all the while maintaining the sacred tax cuts that have exploded our national debt.

Irked? Here's the site to write to your Representative.