From Michael Moore: If you can't get through this list without wanting
to throw up, I'll understand. But pass it around anyway. This is the
nail in the Iraq War's coffin for any sane, thinking individual,
regardless of their political stripe.


     (Thanks to Tom Paine.com and the Center for American Progress.)



     To get some perspective, here are some real-life comparisons
about what $87 billion means: $87 Billion is more than the combined
total of all State budget deficits in the United States. The Bush
administration proposed absolutely zero funds to help states deal with
these deficits, despite the fact that their tax cuts drove down state
revenues.

     [Source:Center on Budget and Policy Priorities]



     $87 Billion is more than double the total amount the government
spends on Homeland Security. The U.S. spends about $36 billion on
homeland security. Yet, Sen. Warren Rudman (R- N.H.) wrote, America will
fall approximately $98 .4 billion short of meeting critical emergency
responder needs for homeland security without a funding increase.

     [Source: Council on Foreign Relations]



     $87 Billion is 87 times the amount the Federal Government spends
on After School Programs. George W. Bush proposed a budget that reduces
the $1 billion for after-school programs to $600 million cutting off
about 475,000 children from the program.

     [Source: The Republican-dominated House Appropriations
Committee]



     $87 Billion is more that 10 times what the Government spends on
all environmental protection. The Bush administration requested just
$7.6 billion for the entire Environmental Protection Agency. This
included a 32 percent cut to water quality grants, a 6 percent reduction
in  >enforcement staff, and a 50 percent cut to land acquisition and
conservation.

     [Source: Natural Resources Defense Council]



     $87 Billion is enough to pay the 3.3 million people who have
lost jobs under George W. Bush $26,363.00 each! The unemployment
benefits extension passed by Congress at the beginning of this year
provides zero benefits to workers who exhausted their regular state
unemployment benefits and cannot find work.

     [Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities]



     There you go. In black and white. A few million of you will
receive this letter. Please share the above with at least a half-dozen
people today and tomorrow. I, like you, do not want to see another
approval rating over 50 percent.



     Yours,

     Michael Moore

     Filmmaker


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