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January 31, 2006

ACTION ALERT

by at 1:48 pm.

Tomorrow, February 1st, Congress will take a final vote on a bill called Budget Reconciliation. If passed, this bill will cut $12.7 BILLION dollars from student loan programs (creating about $2000 in additional debt for every student each year).

This will be the largest cut to student aid in history!

This will make it even harder for us, our younger siblings, and all our friends to get a college education.

There is something you can do to alter this, and the best part is it’s totally free.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY!!!

Join all of us from across the country in our National Day of Action by calling your Representative TODAY to tell her/him to “Stop the Raid on Student Aid!”

Dial: 1-800-574-4243.

Phone Script: Hello, my name is _____ and I am a student at _____. I am calling to urge Representative _____ to vote against budget reconciliation because it will force students and parents to pay thousands of dollars in additional interest on their student loans. Thank you for your time and I look forward to your support.

For more information on this issue, and to find out who represents you, please look at these two websites:

Campaign for America’s Future: http://www.ourfuture.org

United States Student Association: www.usstudents.org

STOP THE RAID ON STUDENT AID!!!!

3 Responses to “ACTION ALERT”

  1. waittilnextyr Says:

    Now how else do you expect Bush to pay for this?

    By 2010, when (and if) the Bush tax reductions are fully in place, an astonishing 52 percent of the total tax cuts will go to the richest one percent—whose average 2010 income will be $1.5 million. Their tax-cut windfall in that year alone will average $85,000 each. Put another way, of the estimated $234 billion in tax cuts scheduled for the year 2010, $121 billion will go just 1.4 million taxpayers.

  2. Lynne Says:

    What I wouldn’t give to just MAKE $85,000 in my household…LOL

    Sad, isn’t it?

  3. waittilnextyr Says:

    Unfortunately,

    House Clears Budget-Cut Bill for Bush By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer

    WASHINGTON - The House on Wednesday narrowly approved Congress’ first attempt in eight years to slow the growth of benefit programs like Medicaid and student loan subsidies, sending the measure to President Bush.

    The bill passed by a vote of 216-214, largely along party lines. Republicans hailed the five-year, $39 billion budget-cutting bill as an important first step to restoring discipline on spending. Democrats attacked the measure as an assault on college students and Medicaid patients and said powerful Washington lobbyists had too much influence on it.

    The measure is a leftover item from the GOP fall agenda. Bush is eager to sign it into law.

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