WAND - Women's Action for New Directions

Most Americans believe the federal budget is out of whack. The Common Sense Budget Act gets it back on track.

December 2006

When you allocate money in your household budget, you use common sense. You make sure that what matters gets paid for: child care, health care, shelter, food. And you DON'T spend money on what doesn't make sense.

Wouldn't you like to use this kind of common sense on the federal budget? First, take care of basics like education; THEN, see if there's enough money for the blinking fence.

YOU CAN. The Common Sense Budget Act gives us the chance to start over with the federal budget. To rearrange the slices on the pie so that what matters get funded; and what doesn't gets cut.

And it won't cost a penny more. It doesn't raise taxes, it just reallocates the pie. It takes 17% of the enormous Pentagon budget and shifts it over to human beings.

It would:

1) provide health insurance to our children who lack it
2) rebuild our crumbling public schools over 12 years
3) retrain a quarter million workers
4) cut our reliance on foreign oil in half over ten years
5) increase funding for homeland security and medical research
6) save millions of lives of starving kids in impoverished nations
and 7) begin to reduce the deficit.

That's only good news. And we can do it. We just need your help.

Why is this man smiling?
He's remaking the federal budget -- one dollar at a time. Click here to take action!


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