Dear Lucas,
The budget is a blueprint of our nation's values. Based on their proposal, the House Republicans have warped values.
The Ryan budget sums it up: destroy Medicare and leave seniors and people with disabilities to fend for themselves. They'd give huge tax cuts to billionaires and corporations while slashing the most basic services our fellow Americans rely upon.
President Obama said it exactly right yesterday: The Republican vision is dead wrong, and it's not going to happen as long as he's president - and as long as Democrats hold the Senate. Here's where your help is urgently needed.
The DSCC has an FEC deadline on April 30, and we need to raise $245,000 to ensure we can maintain our majority. If the GOP had just 4 more seats, the Ryan budget would sail through Congress. It's imperative that we stop them.
Help stop the radical Republicans with an immediate gift of $5 or more to the DSCC. More than 90 percent of our donations come from grassroots supporters. We CAN stop them, but not without your help!
President Obama outlined the stakes. In the past decade, the average income of 90% of working Americans dropped. On average, the top 1% are making an extra quarter million each. Yet Republicans demand tax cuts for them. Republicans would slash education, clean energy investments, and even the health care our parents rely on in order to shift more wealth to the extremely wealthy and corporations.
It's not hard to see why. The Citizens United decision means that these same corporations can turn around and spend an unlimited amount in support of candidates. You can be sure that Republicans would be handsomely rewarded for the tax cut largesse.
If President Obama's 2008 campaign taught us anything, however, it's this: A million small voices aren't so small when they speak out in unison. When we stand together - and invest in the beliefs we share - we can make a difference. We have, and we will.
Your gift of $5 or more right now will make a difference. Every dollar you give helps stop the radical Republican agenda and protect our Senate majority. We can stop them, but only if we work together.
Democrats have a vision - and it's a vision entirely different than the bleak future Republicans have put forward. If you believe in our vision, I'm asking you to back it up. Let's stand together and fight.
Sincerely,
Guy Cecil