Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Bushs FaithBased Funding Initiatives

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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul Bushs Faith-Based
Funding Initiatives

• If a brother or sister is naked and lacks food,
  and one of you says to them, Go in peace keep
  warm and eat your fill, and yet you do not
  supply their bodily needs, what is the good of
  that?
• James 215-16
• Congressman James E. Clyburn
• Congressional District 6South Carolina
• Telephone [phone]

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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul Bushs Faith-Based
Funding Initiatives
There is no new money. The Bush Administration
is playing the old game of Robbing Peter to Pay
Paul. President Bush and the Republicans use
money they cut from significant programs like
Medicaid to fund their faith-based initiatives.

• Bushs Budget
• Medicaid 60 billion cut
• Public Housing Authorities 270 million cut
• Community Development Block Grant 1.16 billion
  cut
• Veteran Mandatory Programs 800 million cut
• No Child Left Behind 12 billion cut
• Proposed Faith Based Funding
• Faith Based Programs 2.385 billion
• In just these five areas alone our communities
  suffer losses in over
• 72 billion of critical federal funding

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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul Bushs Faith-Based
Funding Initiatives
The Human Impact of the Bush Budget
In his State of the Union address, the President
said to Congress and to America, A society is
measured by how it treats the weak and the
vulnerable. By examining the programs and the
services the President wishes to eradicate, we
certainly understand how he measures the least
of these in our society. We will not be fooled
by the Presidents empty rhetoric and shell
games.

• 300,000 working parents will lose food stamps for
  their families
• 25,000 children will be dropped from the Head
  Start program
• 213,000 veterans would be driven out of the
  system due the Bush Administrations raising the
  cost of their health care. In addition, many
  veterans will be have to pay out of pocket costs
  for their prescription drugs
• 300,00 working families will lose child care
• 3 million children will be shut out of
  after-school programs and denied critical
  education services to achieve proficiency in
  reading and math