Obama offers to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid 3

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The Washington Post revealed this weekend that the White House has a current offer “still on the table” to make billions of dollars of cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Democratic Leaders in Congress, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, grudgingly agreed to the deal, according to the Post.

Tell Obama, Reid, and Pelosi: hands off Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Obama should veto any budget that does not increase taxes on the wealthy. But missing from the entire budget discussion is the existence of absurdly bloated military spending.

Military spending takes over half of discretionary spending and is protected by the silence of both parties and the media.  Military spending hurts the economy, rather than boosting it. Military spending makes us less safe, destroys the environment, erodes civil liberties, concentrates presidential power, blocks progressive initiatives, and kills large numbers of people.

And polls show the majority of Americans want military spending cut.

Tell Obama, Reid, and Pelosi to cut the military instead of human needs.

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David, Aimee, Sarah,
and the Roots Action Team

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