Write Congress about Furloughs

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Do something about Furloughs!

Send an email message to your Senators and Congressperson.

How to...

Either copy this sample letter (in order to paste it later), or just read it as a sample:

Dear ,
The Senate and the House Appropriations Committees have approved significant cuts to the President’s proposed FY 2007 Social Security Administration budget. SSA Commissioner Jo Anne Barnhart has advised that these cuts would prevent the agency from completing critical workloads and would force SSA to close its doors for two weeks next year. The equivalent of 6,000 positions would have to be eliminated. Overtime, which SSA depends upon to process workloads due to excessive staff losses, will be severely diminished.
Basic services for the elderly and infirm will be denied as Congress prevents the agency from spending its own FICA-financed funds. Instead, this money is being used to pay for tax cuts for the rich, no-bid Halliburton contracts, and the war in Iraq.
I urge you to contact the Senate and House appropriators and fully fund the Social Security Administration.
Please advise me what actions you will take to ensure that Social Security will continue to provide services to the elderly, infirm and others who depend upon monthly SSA and SSI checks.
Sincerely,
At the next step, you will click on a link to a list of Senators by State or the House site contact page. You will then be able to search for your Senator or Representative. There will be a link to a "web form" to send them E-mail. If you chose to copy the above message, you can then paste it in the Message area, format it, modify it, add to it, or delete from it. Make the message your own. Or write your own message entirely. Don't forget to address the message properly: Use Dear Senator, Dear Congressman, or Dear Congresswoman. Enter your name at the end and be sure you've given your PRIVATE email address.
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