Help Stop Nuclear Weapons Funding(Barf Alert!)

Action Alert! Oppose the President's Funds For More Nuclear Weapons. Tell your representative. On Monday, President Bush submitted his 2006 budget request to Congress. The request eliminates dozens of domestic programs, including funding for education, environmental protection, and grants to local police, firefighters and emergency rescue services. Not surprisingly, the administration proposes significant spending increases for the military—an indication that average Americans will suffer the costs of unilateral military policies and new nuclear weapons programs for years to come—unless we act now.

Encourage your representative to challenge President Bush’s 2006 budget request.

If concerned citizens voice their opposition to funding a new generation of nuclear weapons and cutting domestic programs, the final budget for 2006 will look much different from the one the president outlined on Monday.

In the 2006 budget, the Bush administration requests $419.3 billion for the Department of Defense--$19.2 billion more than the current level. However, this figure is deceptively low: it does not include funding for the nuclear weapons activities of the Department of Energy, nor does it include the costs of ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In mid-February, the President is expected to request another $80 billion in supplemental funds for the ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Last year, after a bi-partisan Congress twice rejected the administration's previous requests of nearly $37 million to fund development of several weapons - the "bunker-buster" bomb and a low-yield bomb or "mini-nuke" - the Bush administration began quietly looking for ways to restore new nukes funding.

If you go to their site, with some careful editing and a CA zip code, you can send a pro-Bush, pro-defense e-mail to a Congresscritter on their dime! LOL Here's mine: Subject:I want more nuclear weapons I’m writing to urge you to support several aspects of President Bush’s 2006 budget request. The president plans to spend more on the military ($419.3 billion), but not enough, in my opinion. He wants to start building a new generation of nuclear weapons and resume nuclear weapons testing, which is a good idea, as far as it goes. This will make our country safer and makes sense. Meeting the nuclear threat from rogue nation like N. Korea, Iran, and others, not to mention al Queda, requires a commitment to international cooperation and nuclear nonproliferation, as well as new weapons systems, and a missile shield, which should be deployed at all possible speed.

Please write to let me know that you will support the President’s budget request and support policies that really will make America - and the world - safer.

"an indication that average Americans will suffer the costs of unilateral military policies and new nuclear weapons programs for years to come"

They don't sound to confident that the democrats will be in power anytime soon.

The request eliminates dozens of domestic programs, including funding for education, environmental protection, and grants to local police, firefighters and emergency rescue services. Not surprisingly, the administration proposes significant spending increases for the military

If only all of this were true....

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