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http://capwiz.com/rif/issues/alert/?alertid=11150206
Visit this link to send a letter to your congressman/woman, senator, and state representatives about continuing funding for Reading Is Fundamental, a program that, among other things, provides free books for low-income children.
From Jonathan Lyon's journal:
George Bush's $3.1 trillion budget proposal for 2009 eliminates the funding for the Reading is Fundamental book distribution program. This program, which would cost 26 million dollars next year, has provided more than 300 million books to over 30 million underprivileged children since its founding in 1966.
Instead, Bush has proposed to raise military-spending to levels not seen since World War II. He proposes $515 billion for Pentagon's day to day operations, higher than the total combined military spending of every other country in the world (and this doesn't include supplemental requests).
We're spending enough to make the Pentagon the 10th richest country in the world, but we can't spend what amounts to 0.005% of this on a program that distributed books to nearly 4.5 million children last year?
