Speak up!!!

I just received an email detailing the proposed bugdet cuts to pay for Hurricane Katrina. These cuts outlined in the email include the following:

$225 billion cut from Medicaid, the last-resort health insurance program for the very poor.
$200 billion cut from Medicare, the health care safety net for the elderly and the disabled.
$25 billion cut from the Centers for Disease Control
$6.7 billion cut from school lunches for poor children
$7.5 billion cut from programs to fight global AIDS
$5.5 billion to eliminate all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
$3.6 billion cut to eliminate the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
$8.5 billion cut to eliminate all subsidized loans to graduate students.
$2.5 billion cut from Amtrak
$2.5 billion to eliminate the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative
$417 million cut to eliminate the Minority Business Development Agency
$4.8 billion cut to eliminate all funding for the Safe and Drug-Free schools program

You can sign a petition, make phone calls, etc. through this link:http://www.political.moveon.org/rebuild/?id=6042-3278797-ZjrKRrOnw1.OFBBbeufwMg&t=5

It's time to speak up.