Help save the head start program

hevusa · 12-16-2005, 03:13 PM

To fund tax cuts for millionaires, Congress is poised TODAY to remove 35,000 kids from HeadStart – widely regarded as one of the government’s most successful programs at lifting people out of poverty.

Two years ago, TrueMajorityACTION members swung into action and successfully stopped proposed cuts then. Amazingly, the budgeteers have chosen the Holiday Season to launch yet another attack on Head Start. So our friends at the National Head Start Association are mounting another defense of the kids living in poverty who benefit from this program.

Please take just a minute to check this out and take action. It’s fast, easy and the right thing to do this season.

http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/head_start_cuts

Duane Peterson
TrueMajorityACTION

Here is a message from the National Head Start Association on this effort:

Congress is considering imposing an across-the-board spending cut to ALL programs. There are any number of bills they may try to slip the cuts onto as Congress works to finish its business and leave town for the year. Our country is better than this *- we can't allow further cuts to the programs that millions of vulnerable Americans count on. Across-the-board budget cuts deserve an "up or down vote" on their own merits * not by trying to slip them in by adding them to popular, “must pass” bills.

Contact your congressspeople and ask them to fight the inclusion of across-the-board cuts in ANY bill. This is NOT the way to cut deficits * on the backs of poor and at-risk Americans!

http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/head_start_cuts

The table below reflects estimates of how many Head Start children will have to be cut as a result of a one percent across-the-board cut in spending. The cuts could be as much as two percent, which would double the number of children and families affected in your state. Please help us fight this injustice! The cuts could be included on any bill that comes to the House and Senate floor today, tomorrow, or over the weekend.

Erika Argersinger
Associate Director, Government Affairs
National Head Start Association

sgtdmski · 12-18-2005, 04:28 PM

Thats right folks, Congress is looking to cut spending....what exactly does that mean??? Well instead of the 4% increase in spending on programs that is reflected in the budget, Congress only wants the increase to be 3%. It amazes me how in political terms a cut in spending actually amounts to a programs still getting a increase. Shouldn't a cut represent actually receiving less money this year than in the past year???

Read the information carefully, the table reflects estimates....which means it is based not on true facts and figures, but instead numbers plugged into a formula. Where do these numbers come from, assumptions based upon the number of persons affected by the program in the past, inflated to reflect future participation. Once again we see the politics of fear being used, hey isn't this exactly what you harp the current administration about using?

dmk

sami · 09-25-2006, 10:55 PM

Something that actually helps turns poor savages into human beings SHOULD be cut......... (Actually, I know lots of kids who really benefited from the program and it is very worth while.....and some do "cut" programs, not just lessen the increase....)

hkbajwa · 09-26-2006, 02:02 AM

Anyhow the US should reduce military spending first. How many billions are being spent on the counter productive war in Iraq? Yeah that's right.. COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE.

I cannot understand why removing a dictator in a foreign land that poses no threat is given a higher priority than the welfare of american citizens... just a thought

sgtdmski · 11-27-2006, 01:23 AM

But again, this estimate was based upon future projections. In other words they were assuming, and guess what folks they made asses of you because again they were wrong. Isn't it amazing how when the Republicans make reforms those on the left come crying to the press how doom and gloom are just around the corner, Welfare Reform in 1994 ring a bell? And the press is so quick to pick up on the story, and yet when their predictions fail to materialize nothing is reported until the next doom and gloom scenario is predicted. Great job of reporting the news.

dmk