Bush's California Budget Busting

From a DNC email from earlier this week. Well worth a read and recognizing just what Bush has in store for this state. And he likes and fears Arnold! What would happen if we had Gray Davis going toe to toe with the Tard from Texas?

Here's the breakdown:
Homeland Security

* The Bush 2006 budget cuts $420 million to state and local funding for homeland security, including a $84.6 million cut for California. These cuts will take police and firefighters off your streets.
* The Bush budget cuts the COPS program, which has put 15,801 officers on California streets, by 96 percent.

Health Care

* The Bush budget cuts $45 billion from Medicaid, enough to provide health care to 1.8 million children. California's share of these cuts is $4.7 billion.
* Bush's budget cuts the very same community and rural health care programs he touted during the campaign, even though more than 200,000 California residents have lost their health care coverage since Bush took office due to his failures.

Education

* Bush underfunds his own No Child Left Behind Act by $13.1 billion in his budget. In California, that means a shortfall of $1.7 billion, leaving behind 420,086 California children.
* Bush promised to fund Pell Grants in his State of the Union address, but his budget is $6.6 billion short. That's $759.9 million less than what's needed in California, a real burden for the 528,609 students in California who receive the grants.

Other Priorities

* Bush cuts $12.5 million from California job training programs in his 2006 budget.
* The Bush budget would require many veterans to pay a new $250 annual "user fee" to use the Veterans Administration health care system, and would double the prescription drug co-payment for the 2,569,340 California veterans.
* Bush cuts California clean water programs by $27.6 million.
* Bush's 2006 budget also cuts the Low Income Heating Energy Assistance Program -- which helps low-income families afford heating fuel in the winter -- by $234.4 million, including $10.5 million cut for California residents.

And Bush's irresponsible budget is a record $427 billion in the red, increasing each California family's share of the federal debt by $39,010.
Take Action

Take action today to help stop Bush's disastrous budget in its tracks. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper explaining why Bush's budget is such a disaster for America.

Be sure to include some of the facts about California above, or download our full report here for even more useful information.

Write your letter here:

http://www.democrats.org/action

And be sure to tell your friends to join in. Forward this email to all your friends in California, or tell them to find the report for their own state here:

http://www.democrats.org/bushbudget

Sincerely,
The DNC Grassroots Action Team