Residents and Groups Protest PA Budget cuts

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by Baba Bob Shipman | 07.01.2010

Coalition of groups and individuals voicing disagreement of proposed 2010 PA Budget cuts. Todays Inky and papers across the nation touted PA. fete of drafting a budget signed by both parties and houses in state government. This budget is short of what the PA governor Ed Rendell proposed but the editing is close enough the the incumbents will not fell a backlash caused by additional tax cuts in a election year.

Residents and groups protest PA Budget cuts, that are proposed and is waiting for the governor to sign. Governor Rendell is still in a wait and see mode. Gov. Ed Rendell and he says he'll sign it , eventually.

Read more: from the phillydotcom sitehttp://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20100701_ap_rendelldelayssigning28bpabudget.html#ixzz0sT4eUgvC

This is a dead document if the federal branch houses of Representative and the U.S. senate does not approve the bill known as the jobs bill. People representing nonprofits that aid libraries, schools, disabled people and others rallied against Harrisburg's budget today at noon at City Hall (7/1/2010),

The FMAP bill has been shot down 3-4 times and the future does not seem to hold much light at the end of the tunnel.

This makes the PA bill look like swiss cheese if the projected funds don't trickle down in as much as $852 million bucks. If that happens more serve cuts are projected.

Some signs said "Tax Walmart and Don't Tax the people tax the corporate giants." "Stop the Cuts," chants could be heard for blocks around the Dilworth Plaza protest area. Many protesters found some shade and that made the gathering seem smaller than it was. The organizers began serving cups of spring water to the crowd.

Rendell delays signing $28B Pa. budget, thus the speakers encouraged the attendees to "fax, call and email their elected officials both in Harrisburg and Washington DC.

Coalition of groups and individuals voicing disagreement of proposed 2010 PA Budget cuts

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This email just came in(Planning meeting scheduled)

Submitted by Baba Bob Shipman on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 4:29pm

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:42:29 -0400
Subject: THANK YOU for making today's rally a success--and keep the momentum
going July 8th!
From: SEPA Budget
To: SEPA Budget

We had a very powerful rally today.

Well over three hundred people turned out--a special shout-out to the Center for Literacy and the literacy community, Liberty Resources, II99 AFSCME, and the Vote for Homes Coalition for turning out so big. But many, many organizations brought strong contingents, and it added up.

Speaker after speaker from all over the region and all walks of life spoke with one voice about the missed opportunity to close tax loopholes and raise new revenue to prevent budget cuts.

Attend a meeting to plan next steps and

hear from local Congressional offices about FMAP

Thursday, July 8, 1-3 pm

United Way Building, 1709 Ben Franklin Parkway

Please RSVP to sepabudget@gmail.com

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