Massive Failure in Gulf Demands Massive Response

Your work helped force Sen. Frist to retreat from his effort to repeal the estate tax, but the Republican-led Congress still intends to pursue tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires!

Contact Congress NOW and Tell Your Elected Officials :

Demand that Congress get to work to fund the health care, housing, employment and education needs of the victims of Hurricane Katrina and abandon all plans to extend and give additional tax breaks to the wealthy and abandon their budget plans to cut health care and nutrition programs for low-income families.

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The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has opened a window onto a debate that has been raging for years over the role of the federal government in meeting the needs of its people. The massive outcry for a more effective government response to this natural disaster is a resounding repudiation of those who have sought to cripple the government by cutting off its resources.

Four years ago, Grover Norquist, a leader of a cadre of activists who have waged a sustained campaign to weaken the federal government, declared, "My goal is to cut government… down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." The woefully inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina shows the danger of the philosophy of Norquist and his allies in the Bush administration and on Capitol Hill.

Under the Bush administration's priorities, Americans are increasingly vulnerable to calamity and the government is increasingly unable to protect them. Americans are now demanding a federal government that can respond to the major challenges it will always be called upon to answer. With your help, People For the American Way will compel Congress to deliver.

We are determined to force the Bush administration and Congress to end the right-wing crusade to strip away government protections from those least able to defend themselves in order to turn over ever larger portions of this nations riches to the wealthy. We are contributing to and supporting a comprehensive effort to repair the damage done to our government's ability to respond to Americans' needs.

Now, however, we must make the Congressional leadership understand that they cannot carry on as if nothing has happened. You helped win a victory on Tuesday, forcing Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to retreat from his effort to repeal the estate tax. But the Republican-led Congress still intends to pursue this and other tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires and to cut programs that help meet the health care and nutrition needs of low-income families. Write your senators and representative and demand that Congress address our national priorities. Tell them to:

1. get to work to fund the health care, housing, employment and education needs of the victims of Hurricane Katrina;

2. abandon all plans to extend or give additional tax breaks to wealthy individuals and corporations that drain our ability to meet important national priorities; and

3. abandon their budget plan (called budget reconciliation) to cut health care and nutrition programs for low-income families.


--Your Allies at People For the American Way

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www.PFAW.org/go/priorities