MAKE YOUR PHONE CALLS TODAY !!!!!! or don't complain, there is no time like the present

The Fed budget vote is here, speak your mind, be invovled or dont complain

Obama has unleashed his massive campaign machine to push his budget. MoveOn.org and others are trying to flood D.C. withcalls to pass this budget.Here is your contact information (call your Senators andRepresentative first):
Sen. Schumer 202-224-6542Sen.
Gillibrand 202-224-4451Rep.
Slaughter 202-225-3615

Numbers for the "Mod Squad" in the Senate:
Evan Bayh (IN): 202-224-5623
Mark Begich (AK): 202-224-3004
Michael Bennet (CO): 202-224-5852
Thomas Carper (DE): 202-224-2441
Kay Hagan (NC): 202-224-6342
Claire McCaskill (MO): 202-224-6154
Mary Landrieu (LA): 202-224-5824
Joe Lieberman (CT): 202-224-4041
Ben Nelson (NE): 202-224-6551J
eanne Shaheen (NH): 202-224-2841
Also... these Republicans who are on the fence:

Arlen Specter (PA): 202-224-4254
Olympia Snowe (ME): 202-224-5344

Talking Points:

#1--I OPPOSE the Obama budget and any budget that increases taxesduring these tough economic times (Obama's budget has anestimated $2 trillion in new taxes).

#2-- I OPPOSE the Obama budget because it increases our federaldebt by over $9 trillion. We must STOP the spending.

#3-- I OPPOSE the Obama budget and any budget that imposessocialized health care or the carbon tax. The budget shouldnot be used to launch these massive government programs.

#4-- I OPPOSE the Democrats' use of the "reconciliation process"to allow simple majority votes in the Senate to pass thesemassive expansions of government. I demand a real debateon these issues!taking just a few moments of your time to call your New Yorksenators and representative--demanding they refrain from supportinga budget that dramatically raises taxes and spending while imposingmassive new government programs.

This is not the kind of lasting legacy we need to leave for ourchildren and grandchildren--and our elected officials need tohear that!

or send an email or a fax something like this is fine

Dear

Stop the Spending, VOTE NO, this budget does not represent us the people, We understand that cuts will have to be made and times will be tough but in the end we will emerge a stronger, leaner more efficient country and look more like America.

The Budget should not be the launching pad for socialized medicine, it should be voted on separately and on its own merit. As well This budget has an est. 2 trillion dollars in new taxes, and though I am far from rich, it is just plain wrong. Federal government is stepping all over the tenth amendment and as states we should be rejecting it on that alone but this massive budget will increase the federal debt by over 9 trillion dollars. This is not the change we need in America.

I know you all didn’t exactly read the Recovery /stimulus act so I wanted to point out that this budget is fiscally irresponsible, we are being chastised by Putin and the Chinese about going down the socialist road, that is pretty bad. Us citizens are paying attention and taking names and with the mid-term 2010 elections coming we are not going to forget how each of you all voted. And among other things like besides what I have mentioned already President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress have gone on a spending and debt spree that the country cannot afford.

Under the Obama budget, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the national debt will double over the next five years; and it will triple over the next 10 years to $17.3 trillion.Under the Obama budget, CBO projects that the national debt will soar over the next 10 years from 40 percent of GDP today to a shocking 82.4 percent. (Ronald Reagan left office with the national debt at 42 percent of GDP). The president's budget also states that total federal borrowing will grow by $2.7 trillion this year alone, an increase of 27 percent in one year!

Stand up and speak out, Vote No

Respectfully,


and for just a bit o extra info if you want/need it

Ten Tax Facts for Tax Day Tea Parties 03/31/2009 http://www.ipi.org/

President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress have gone on a spending and debt spree that the country cannot afford. As a result, a spontaneous grassroots movement is emerging from every corner of the nation with a message for Congress and the president:

Stop spending us into an inevitable spiral of debt and higher taxes … now!To that end, groups of Americans will be meeting in towns and cities across the nation on April 15 for “Tax Day Tea Parties” (think Boston Tea Party, not biscuits and fine English china).

These “Ten Tax Facts” are our effort to make sure the American people are well- informed as they gather together to express their concern about the direction Washington is headed.

#1 .Under the Obama budget, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the national debt will double over the next five years; and it will triple over the next 10 years to $17.3 trillion.

#2. Under the Obama budget, CBO projects that the national debt will soar over the next 10 years from 40 percent of GDP today to a shocking 82.4 percent. (Ronald Reagan left office with the national debt at 42 percent of GDP).

#3. The president’s budget also states that total federal borrowing will grow by $2.7 trillion this year alone, an increase of 27 percent in one year!

#4. The budget President Obama proposes for this year increases federal spending by an incredible 34 percent over the previous year, with a total of $4 trillion in federal spending, the highest ever.

#5. The federal budget deficit (not the national debt) would reach $1.845 trillion this year, according to the CBO, the highest ever. That would be more than seven times Reagan’s largest budget deficit of $221 billion, which caused so much consternation among Reagan’s critics.

#6. The CBO estimates that this Obama budget deficit will total an astounding 13.1 percent of GDP, more than one-eighth of the entire U.S. economy, for the federal budget deficit alone! Under George Bush, the federal deficit for 2008 was 3.2 percent of GDP. The deficit for fiscal year 2007, in the last budget adopted when Congress was controlled by Republican majorities, was $162 billion, or 1.2 percent of GDP.

#7. The Obama budget also includes $1 trillion in tax increases on the upper 5 percent of income earners, mostly tax rate increases. But the top 5 percent of income earners already pays 60 percent of all income taxes.

#8. The Obama budget projects that revenues from the corporate income tax will more than double in 3 years, increasing, in fact, by more than 124 percent.

#9. Another $645 billion tax increase comes from President Obama’s anti-global warming cap and trade system, which is essentially an energy tax on the production and use of carbon energy, such as oil, natural gas, and coal.

#10. While the Obama administration claims to have cut $2 trillion from the budget over 10 years, fully $1.5 trillion of those “cuts” actually represents the troop drawdown in Iraq, which was already scheduled to occur under the Bush administration. Of the remaining $500 billion in budget “savings,” fully $311 billion is categorized as “interest savings” but is actually an additional tax increase on upper income earners.It’s not as if you can’t stimulate economic growth while at the same time cutting government spending. President Reagan did it. Reagan adopted budget cuts soon after he entered office equal to close to 5 percent of the federal budget at the time. Even with his defense buildup, total federal spending declined from a high of 23.5 percent of GDP in 1983 to 21.3 percent in 1988 and 21.2 percent in 1989. That’s a 10 percent real reduction in the size of government relative to the economy. Reagan’s policies conquered inflation and started a 25-year period of economic growth, which would look awfully good today.




ALSO
“Senate Moderates and Conservative Democrats”

House Budget Committee
Phone: 202-226-7200 Fax: 202-225-9905
budget.democrats@mail.house.gov




JOE LIEBERMAN
DC PHONE: (202) 224-4041
DC FAX: (202) 224-9750
HARTFORD PHONE: (860) 549-8463
clarine_nardi_riddle@lieberman.senate.gov
frank_rowe@lieberman.senate.gov
BEN NELSON
DC PHONE: (202) 224-6551
DC FAX: (202) 228-0012
OMAHA PHONE: (402) 391-3411
OMAHA FAX: (402) 391-4725
senator@bennelson.senate.gov
melanie_rogge@bennelson.senate.gov
Tim_Becker@bennelson.senate.gov
Melanie_Rogge@bennelson.senate.gov
jonathan_coppess@bennelson.senate.gov
CLAIRE McCASKILL
DC PHONE: (202) 224-6154
DC FAX: (202) 228-6326
SPRINGFIELD PHONE: (417) 868-8745
SPRINGFIELD FAX: (417) 831-1349
senator@mccaskill.senate.gov
Angela_Elsbury@McCaskill.senate.gov
sonya_wendell@mccaskill.senate.gov
sean_kennedy@mccaskill.senate.gov
MARY LANDRIEU
DC PHONE: (202) 224-5824
DC FAX: (202) 224-9735
BATON ROUGE PHONE: (225) 389-0395
BATON ROUGE FAX: (225) 389-0660
EMAILS TO CONTACT:
senator@landrieu.senate.gov
Jane_Campbell@landrieu.senate.gov
Kate_Nicolai@landrieu.senate.gov
sarada_peri@landrieu.senate.gov
scheduler_landrieu@landrieu.senate.gov
EVAN BAYH
DC PHONE: (202) 224-5623
DC FAX: (202) 228-1377
INDIANAPOLIS PHONE: (317) 554-0750
INDIANAPOLIS FAX: (317) 554-0760
EMAILS TO CONTACT:
tom_sugar@bayh.senate.gov
josh_sargen@bayh.senate.gov
chris_murray@bayh.senate.gov
Eric_Kleiman@bayh.senate.gov
BLANCHE LINCOLN
DC PHONE: (202)224-4843
DC FAX: (202)228-1371
LITTLE ROCK PHONE: (501) 375-2993
LITTLE ROCK FAX: (501) 375-7064
elizabeth_burks@lincoln.senate.gov
anna_taylor@lincoln.senate.gov
OLYMPIA SNOWE
DC PHONE: (202) 224-5344
DC FAX: (202) 224-1946
BOSTON PHONE: (207) 622-8292
BOSTON FAX: (207) 622-7295
EMAILS TO CONTACT:
John_Richter@snowe.senate.gov
Anna_Levin@snowe.senate.gov
MARK BEGICH
DC PHONE: (202) 224-3004
DC FAX: (202) 228-3205
ANCHORAGE PHONE: (907) 271-5915
ANCHORAGE FAX: (907) 258-9305
EMAILS TO CONTACT:
amanda_clausen@begich.senate.gov
leslie_ridle@transition.senate.gov
requests@begich.senate.gov
senator@begich.senate.gov
SUSAN COLLINS
DC PHONE: (202) 224-2523
DC FAX: (202) 224-2693
AUGUSTA PHONE: (207) 622-8414
AUGUSTA FAX: (207) 622-5884
EMAILS TO CONTACT:
Steve_Abbott@collins.senate.gov
Holly_Nesbit@collins.senate.gov
HERB KOHL
DC PHONE: (202) 224-5653
DC FAX: (202) 224-9787
MADISON PHONE: (608) 264-5338
MADISON FAX: (608) 264-5473
(Can’t find any email)
ARLEN SPECTER
DC PHONE: (202) 224-4254
DC FAX: (202) 228-1229
HARRISBURG PHONE: (717) 782-3951
HARRISBURG FAX: (717) 782-4920
EMAILS TO CONTACT:
Scott_Hoeflich@specter.senate.gov
Maria_Plakoudas@specter.senate.gov
Christopher_Bradish@specter.senate.gov
thomas_dower@specter.senate.gov
MARK WARNER
DC PHONE: (202) 224-2023
DC FAX: (202) 224-6295
NORFOLK PHONE: (816) 756-3140
NORFOLK FAX: (816) 756-3144
(Can’t find email)
KAY HAGAN
DC PHONE: (202) 224-6342
DC FAX: (202) 228-2563
RALEIGH PHONE: 919-856-4630
RALEIGH FAX: (919) 856-4053
EMAILS TO CONTACT:
Senator_Hagan@hagan.senate.gov
Crystal_King@hagan.senate.gov
Forest_Michaels@hagan.senate.gov
Sadie_Weiner@hagan.senate.gov
JEANNE SHAHEEN
DC PHONE: (202) 224-2841
DC FAX: (202) 228-3194
CONCORD PHONE: (603) 271-3242
CONCORD FAX: (603) 271-6316
(Can’t find email)
BILL NELSON
DC PHONE: (202) 224-5274
DC FAX: (202) 228-2183
JACKSONVILLE PHONE: (904) 346-4500
JACKSONVILLE FAX: (813) 346-4506
EMAILS TO CONTACT:
dan_mclaughlin@billnelson.senate.gov
christopher_day@billnelson.senate.gov
susie_quinn@billnelson.senate.gov
bill_nelson@billnelson.senate.gov
THOMAS CARPER
DC PHONE: (202) 224-2441
DC FAX: (202) 228-2190
WILMINGTON PHONE: (302) 573-6291
WILMINGTON FAX: (302) 573-6434
EMAILS TO CONTACT:
Jim_Reilly@carper.senate.gov
Erin_Walls@carper.senate.gov
chris_prendergast@carper.senate.gov
beth_osborne@carper.senate.gov
TOM UDALL
DC PHONE: (202) 224-6621
DC FAX: (202) 228-3261
ALBUQUERQUE PHONE: (505) 346-6791
ALBUQUERQUE FAX: (505) 346-6720
EMAILS TO CONTACT:
pablo_duran@tomudall.senate.gov
Tom_Nagle@tomudall.senate.gov
Donda_Morgan@tomudall.senate.gov