showdown ppt final
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This powerpoint reviews what’s at stake in the Budget showdown with clear slides and narrative. It reviews the four principles progressives have joined together to fight for and action steps you can take get involved and make a difference.TRANSCRIPT
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SHOWDOWN
IN WASHINGTON
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It’s our future at stake
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Working families and the middle class are getting crushed
Over the last 30 years the super-rich grabbed more at our expense.
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While mega corporations cut our wages and benefits and shipped our jobs overseas.
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The middle class is the engine of the economy
The economy moves forward when people have good jobs, can educate their kids, afford their health care and retire in security.
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We build the middle class by decisions we make together.
INVEST IN PEOPLE
Opportunity and security for families.
CREATE GOOD JOBS
Pave the way for businesses to innovate meet the future.
STRONG COMMUNITIES
Common sense rules that benefit businesses and communities.
DECISIONS TO
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We’re not broke - we’ve been robbed!
Taxes on the super-rich cut in half.
Corporate taxes at historic low as share of federal revenues.
States cutting schools, health care, firefighters.
Congress approved cuts of $1.5 trillion in 2011.
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“The best way to attack the deficit is to put America
back to work.” Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
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The Election is over – and now it’s time for Washington to make big decisions
If the President and Congress don’t take action by early in 2013, automatic spending cuts and tax increases will mean:
A double dip recession – driving the economy into reverse again.
4.4 million Americans will lose their jobs.
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States will decide too
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A Showdown Between 2 Visions
Prosperity for all – working families and
the middle class
More for millionaires and CEOs
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Two visions – Four choices
1. Fair Taxes
2. Security for our seniors
3. Vital services for our families
4. Good jobs
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1. Fair Taxes
• End Bush tax cuts for incomes over $250,000.
• Saves more than $1 trillion – use that protect vital services for low-income people, working families and the middle class.
More for millionaires and CEOs – the House Republican budget
• Give millionaires a $160,000 tax break.
• New tax loopholes for corporations that ship jobs overseas.
Prosperity for working families & the middle class
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What choice would you make?
Under the House Republican budget
1 YEAR of cuts in nutrition to 400,000 moms, babies and kids (WIC)
Cost $833 million
1 WEEK of tax cuts to 300,000 millionaires
Cost $866 million
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2. Security for our Seniors
No cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
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Medicare for our seniors
NO cuts in Medicare benefits
• Keep Medicare’s guaranteed benefits and eligibility at 65.
• Add 8 years to the Medicare trust fund.
Cut benefits in Medicare
• Turn Medicare into a voucher for private insurance. Delay until age 67.
• Cut 8 years off of the Medicare trust fund.
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Social Security for our seniors
No cuts in social security
• Extend the life of Social Security until 2075 by limiting the cap for upper income people.
Cuts In social security benefits
• Cuts in benefits –Cut benefits to middle-income seniors by 15%. Included in the Simpson-Bowles deficit plan.
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Medicaid for our seniorsProtect Medicaid for seniors in long term and home care
• Keep federal promise to support Medicaid funding for– Long-term care. – Health coverage for families
and individuals.
Cuts in Medicaid for the most vulnerable seniors
• Slash federal funding for state Medicaid programs, limits federal funds to states no matter how many seniors need care.
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3. Vital services for our families
Protect our families
• Keep unemployment insurance for people out of work for more than 6 months.
• NO cuts to food stamps.• Protect student loans, Head
Start, Meals on Wheels and other vital programs.
Hurt our families
• Cut unemployment benefit for people out of work for more than 6 months.
• House Republican budget in first year of cuts:– Cut 75,000 kids off of Head
Start.– 1.3 million college kids lower
or no Pell Grants for tuition.– House Republicans voted to
eliminate the program that funds Meals on Wheels.
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4. Good jobs for AmericaInvest in jobs for working
families and the middle classHouse Republican budget cuts
4.1 million jobs• Huge cuts in services - $404
billion in just 2 years – would mean that 4.1 million Americans would lose their jobs in 2013 alone.
• Jobs to rebuild our infrastructure.
• Jobs for teachers, firefighters, caring for children and seniors.
• Green jobs – making our homes and buildings energy efficient and investing in renewable energy.
• Youth jobs.• Job opportunities for people who
need more experience or education.
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Jobs not cutsWe have tough choices to make on the Deficit.
Let’s make smart ones.
Ending long-term unemployment benefits:
12,000 jobs gone
Automatic spending cuts: 11,000 jobs gone
End Bush tax cuts for working families and the middle class:
4,000 jobs gone
End Bush tax cuts over $250,000:
2,000 jobs gone
Number of jobs gone for every $1 billion in deficit reduction:
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Jobs not cuts What choice would you make for 2013?
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Showdown in WashingtonProsperity for working families
and the middle class• End the Bush tax cuts for
incomes over $250,000.• No cuts to Medicare, Medicaid
and Social Security.• Protect vital services for our
families.• Get America back to work.
More for Millionaires and CEO’s
• More tax breaks for millionaires.
• Cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
• Slash programs that working families count on.
• Try trickle down… again!
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What is the deadline?
But Congress must act by early in 2013 to avoid:
•Double dip recession•4.4 million more jobs gone
It’s NOT the end of the year
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Danger: Grand SwindleBeware the so called “Grand Bargain” being pushed by big corporations, like Bank of America.
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We need to ask the president and members of congress
Whose side are you on?
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We choose: prosperity for all
Here’s how you can send a message to the President and your member of Congress:
I choose prosperity for all! www.usaction.org/showdown
Prepared by USAction
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TAKE ACTION! Build state and local
coalition on 4 planks
Talk to members, friends and neighbors
Share stories of the impact on our families
Contact your Members of Congress.
Expose who’s behind more for millionaires.
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Build the state and local coalition around 4 planks
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Talk to members, friends and neighbors
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Collect and share stories of the impact on our families
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Contact your Members of Congress.
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Expose who’s behind the more for millionaires & less for us.
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