The President may want a grand bargain in which Social Security is cut, the Medicare eligibility is raised and hundreds of thousands are cut from the Medicaid rolls, all for token tax increases. That doesn't mean we do.
Here's my simple four point message for your Senators and US Representative when you call them today (you are calling or emailing them today, aren't you?):
- Do not balance the budget on the backs of the poor, the sick or the elderly:
no cuts to Medicare, Social Security or Medicaid. No raising of the eligibility age.
- Meaningful cuts must come first from the defense budget and business subsidies
- No other cuts without corresponding tax increases on the wealthy
- Jobs. We need jobs.
Do you realize that if 6,000,000 of the unemployed were working the Federal government would realize an additional 30 billion in revenue an year just in Social Security and Medicare tax alone (at a $32,000 per yer salary). Not to mention the unemployment and other federal benefits like food stamps and health care costs that would not have to be paid out, and the increased state, local and othe federal taxes the wage earner would pay.
Yet Congress has spent all its time debating how to screw those in need, rather than figuring out how to help them.
It's enough to make you want to pick up the phone and rant at someone. Why not your representatives?
Here is how you contact your US Representative.
Here are all the Democratic-caucusing Senators and their contact information:
Democratic Caucusing Senators
State |
Name |
Phone |
Email |
Alaska |
Mark Begich |
202-224-3004 |
email |
Arkansas |
Mark Pryor |
202-224-2353 |
email |
California |
Barbara Boxer |
202-224-3553 |
email |
California |
Diane Feinstein |
202-224-3841 |
email |
Colorado |
Michael Bennet |
202-224-5852 |
email |
Colorado |
Mark Udall |
202-224-5941 |
email |
Connecticut |
Richard Blumenthal |
202-224-2823 |
email |
Connecticut |
Joe Lieberman |
202-224-4041 |
email |
Delaware |
Tom Carper |
202-224-2441 |
email |
Delaware |
Christopher Coons |
202-224-5042 |
email |
Florida |
Bill Nelson |
202-224-5274 |
email |
Hawaii |
Daniel Akaka |
202-224-6361 |
email |
Hawaii |
Daniel Inouye |
202-224-3934 |
email |
Illinois |
Dick Durbin |
202-224-2152 |
email |
Iowa |
Tom Harkin |
202-224-3254 |
email |
Louisiana |
Mary Landrieu |
202-224-5824 |
email |
Maryland |
Ben Cardin |
202-224-4524 |
email |
Maryland |
Barbara Mikulski |
202-224-4654 |
email |
Massachusetts |
John Kerry |
202-224-2742 |
email |
Michigan |
Debbie Stabenow |
202-224-4822 |
email |
Michigan |
Carl Levin |
202-224-6221 |
email |
Minnesota |
Amy Klobuchar |
202-224-3244 |
email |
Minnesota |
Al Franken |
202-224-5641 |
email |
Missouri |
Claire Mccaskill |
202-224-6154 |
email |
Montana |
Jon Tester |
202-224-3644 |
email |
Montana |
Max Baucus |
202-224-2651 |
email |
New Jersey |
Frank Lautenberg |
202-224-3224 |
email |
New Jersey |
Bob Menendez |
202-224-4744 |
email |
Nebraska |
Ben Nelson |
202-224-6551 |
email |
Nevada |
Harry Reid |
202-224-3542 |
email |
New Hampshire |
Jeanne Shaheen |
202-224-2841 |
email |
New Mexico |
Jeff Bingaman |
202-224-5521 |
email |
New Mexico |
Tom Udall |
202-224-6621 |
email |
New York |
Kirsten Gillibrand |
202-224-4451 |
email |
New York |
Chuck Schumer |
202-224-6542 |
email |
North Carolina |
Kay Hagan |
202-224-6342 |
email |
North Dakota |
Kent Conrad |
202-224-2043 |
email |
Ohio |
Sherrod Brown |
202-224-2315 |
email |
Oregon |
Jeff Merkley |
202-224-3753 |
email |
Oregon |
Ron Wyden |
202-224-5244 |
email |
Pennsylvania |
Bob Casey |
202-224-6324 |
email |
Rhode Island |
Jack Reed |
202-224-4642 |
email |
Rhode Island |
Sheldon Whitehouse |
202-224-2921 |
email |
South Dakota |
Tim Johnson |
202-224-5842 |
email |
Vermont |
Patrick Leahy |
202-224-4242 |
email |
Vermont |
Bernie Sanders |
202-224-5141 |
email |
Virginia |
Mark Warner |
202-224-2023 |
email |
Virginia |
Jim Webb |
202-224-4024 |
email |
Washington |
Maria Cantwell |
202-224-3441 |
email |
Washington |
Patty Murray |
202-224-2621 |
email |
West Virginia |
Joe Manchin |
202-224-3954 |
email |
West Virginia |
Jay Rockefeller |
202-224-6472 |
email |
Wisconsin |
Herb Kohl |
202-224-5653 |
email |