The House version of the budget that passed at 5:00 am this morning is a nightmare!
Most of the money that is being released to the Gulf Coast is going to incompetent FEMA; to crony-led corporations; to faith-based schools and charities *instead of* to the people who are in desperate need!
Where is the housing? Where is the financial safety net? Where is healthcare? People are being evicted from their homes so landlords can charge exhorbitant rents to people who can pay; people are sleeping in barns and cars; forced to pay mortgates for homes that no longer exist; unable to pay for medications; construction laborers are being stiffed by contractors hired by the companies - like KB&R - that FEMA hired and no one is watching out for laborers.
Tell the SENATE to resurrect and fully fund the
"Democratic Katrina Emergency Relief Plan" - described in full below (
and tell them to get ANWR and provisions to gut campaign finance that passed in the House version OUT of the "budget").
Hurricane Survivors are saying over and over and over that they have been forgotten.
Do you need inspiration to take action on behalf of the hurricane survivors?
Watch "Do They Know Its Christmas?" <http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=4306696>
Then, please send the link far and wide, tell people what is happening *right now* and ask them to call Congress & Senate today!!
Tell Congress: We will not forget. Take Care of the Hurricane Survivors Now!
Call Congress Toll Free: 1-800-426-8073
Tell Congress to resurrect and fully fund the Democratic Katrina Emergency Relief Plan!
On September 8, 2005, Democratic Party Senators introduced: The Democratic Katrina Emergency Relief Plan, which provides the critical medical coverage, housing, education and financial assistance needed to assist the Gulf Coast Victims.
Key elements of the bill include:
* Providing Medical coverage:
o Provide Katrina survivors with health coverage through Medicaid wherever they are now;
o Ease enrollment in states’ Medicaid programs and provide services to survivors without regard to assets or income;
o Guarantee full federal funding for Medicaid for survivors in new states; and
o Provide full federal funding for Medicaid programs in directly-affected states.
* Housing for the homeless:
o Provide emergency housing vouchers for evacuees;
o Expedite applications procedures so evacuees can find housing;
o Provide time for Survivors to find work before tenant contributions are required; and
o Identify federal facilities to house victims.
* Keeping kids in the classroom:
o Award $2,500 grants per student and other assistance to school districts receiving displaced students; and
o Provide temporary assistance to early childhood education programs and agencies receiving displaced children.
* Helping Americans get back on their feet:
o Give the victims a moratorium of 180 days on any loan payments or other obligations to the federal government;
o Waive any limitations on total assistance to individuals;
o Provide mortgage and rental relief to protect Americans from foreclosure or eviction;
o Ease bankruptcy laws for victims; and
o Extend and expand unemployment insurance for victims.
In addition to Senators Feinstein, Reid, and Landrieu, co-sponsors of the bill include Senators Joseph Biden (D-Del.), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Jon Corzine (D-N.J.), Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), Barak Obama (D-Ill.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), Ken Salazar (D-Colo.), and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.).
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