[nfbmi-talk] Fw: Extend Unemployment Aid By Cutting the War Budget

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Subject: Re: Extend Unemployment Aid By Cutting the War Budget


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> Dear Miriam,
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> Urge Congress and the President to extend unemployment benefits by using 
> the
> money in the war budget that President Obama didn't ask for.
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> Just over a week ago, the Senate failed to pass a three-month extension of
> assistance to the long-term unemployed due to disagreements over how to 
> pay
> for it. While many object to offsetting an extension of unemployment
> assistance with cuts elsewhere, there is no plausible political path now 
> for
> extending assistance to the long-term unemployed that does not include an
> offset.
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> Fortunately, the roughly $6 billion cost can be covered by cutting $5.7
> billion from the war budget that never belonged there in the first place.
> [1] The President never requested this money; Congress put the money there
> to pay for Pentagon contractor pork that wouldn't fit in the base Pentagon
> budget. If that money isn't redirected to some useful purpose, it's going 
> to
> be wasted on Pentagon contractor pork.
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> Sign our petition to Congress and the President telling them to use the 
> $5.7
> billion of unrequested funding in the war budget to help 1.7 million
> unemployed Americans and their families rather than waste it on Pentagon
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> The war in Afghanistan is a waste of resources as well as lives. We should
> bring our troops home and use the money for human needs instead. But if we
> want to cut the war budget, we have to start somewhere, and the easiest
> place to start is by cutting the money that President Obama didn't even 
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> References:
> 1. Extend Unemployment Assistance by Cutting the War Budget," Robert 
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> Huffington Post, February 17, 2014,
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