Call to Action: Cut, Cap, Balance Vote Tomorrow

Posted by Pam on July 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Hello Friends and Fellow Patriots,

Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 19th, the US House of Representatives will be voting on the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011. Even though President Obama has vowed to veto this bill, it will make a statement to our country that our representatives are ready to take a stand for:

Substantial cuts in spending
Enforceable spending caps
Congressional passage of a Balanced Budge Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that includes a spending limitation an a super-majority vote to raise taxes before the debit ceiling can be raised.

Please contact your Representative today to ask for him to co-sponsor and vote Yes on the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011.

Here are some facts that you can use to support this stance:

The debt held by the public has more than doubled in just the past five years. Interest paid on the national debt is expected to more than triple over the next ten years.
Many economists believe the US faces a Greek-style debt crisis within the next five years if we do not get our fiscal house in order very soon.
The federal government has hit the $14.292 trillion debt limit set in February 2010. Raising the debt ceiling without significant spending cuts is simply a tax increase on future generations.
Moody’s Investors Services has said the AAA rating of US government bonds is in jeopardy unless Congress passes “a budget that includes long-term deficit reduction.”
Standard & Poor’s has said it will downgrade US debt if the US doesn’t 1) cut spending substantially and 2) REFORM the way it budgets, to control future spending.
The Cut Cap and Balance Act (CCB) would meet the tests set forth by Moody’s and S&P, so we never again face this kind of debt problem. In short, “CCB=AAA.”
The Cut, Cap, and Balance Act is a long-term deficit reduction package that will ensure we get back on the path of fiscal sanity and are not downgraded from our AAA bond rating.

For your convenience, here are the US Congressmen from Palm Beach County and their contact information. To email them directly, just click on the link after their name.

Tom Rooney (R-16)

https://forms.house.gov/rooney/webforms/issue_subscribe.html

Washington Office Tel: (202) 225-5792 Fax: (202) 225-3132

Stuart Office (772) 288-4668 Fax: (772) 288-4631

Ted Deutch (D-19)

https://teddeutch.house.gov/Forms/WriteYourRep/default.aspx

Washington Office Tel: (202) 225-3001 Fax: (202) 225-5974

Boca Raton Office Tel: (561) 988-6302 or (561) 732-4000

Allen West (R-22)

https://forms.house.gov/west/webforms/contact-form.shtml

Washington Office Tel: (202) 225-3026 Fax: (202) 225-8398

West Palm Beach Office Tel: (561) 655-1943 Fax: (561) 655-8018