Greetings,

URGENT ACTION:

Missouri Legislators are cutting over $300 million in
health care and critical state services.

Sally Faith and Missouri House Leaders must hear from you
while they're at home on spring recess!

Budget bills move to the House floor next week!

Make four calls right NOW!

1.    Your representative, Sally Faith:  636-946-2796; sfaith@keepfaithingovt.com; Sally.Faith@house.mo.gov

2.      House Budget Chair Allen Icet:  (d) 636-519-0002; Allen.Icet@house.mo.gov

3.      Speaker of the House Ron Richard: (d) 417-781-0206; ronrichard@fastfreedom.net; Ronald.Richard@house.mo.gov

4.      House Budget Vice-chair Rick Stream: (d) 314-822-0556; rstream@rickstream.org; Rick.Stream@house.mo.gov

Tell legislators:   Make NO CUTS to health care and state services!  Use federal recovery act dollars in the core budget!  Protect services and jobs!

Then email us to let us know what you heard!

Remember the 2005 Medicaid cuts and the people still suffering because of them?  It's happening again.  

Allen Icet and Republican House leaders are doing the opposite of what our economy needs.  They are eliminating more than 3,700 jobs and cutting over $300 million in critical state services that laid off workers and families.  These cuts turn away billions of dollars of federal funding to shore up Missouri's economy over the next few years.

These cuts are unnecessary.  Federal economic recovery money is available so that not one service, job or person has to be cut.  But key Missouri legislative leaders refuse to use federal recovery act dollars intended to stabilize state services during the economic downturn.

State budget cuts target health care programs for working parents and children, and other essential services to laid off workers. Many other critical state programs and services are on the chopping block including services for chronically mentally ill children and adults, seniors and people living with disabilities.

At a time when workers and families are struggling just to eat, fill their gas tanks, and heat their homes, more cuts to social services must be stopped!