There's No Such Thing as a School Lunch. . . . . . in Texas, anyway. And if George W. Bush won't do anything about it, the rest of us are going to have to pitch in and help save the kids! "For just pennies a day you can feed a Texas child." Most of us just take it for granted when we get up in the morning that we'll be eating that day. It might be just a few eggs, a half pound of bacon, several slices of toast and jam, milk, juice, and coffee at breakfast, but it's something. Then when lunchtime comes we're in the mood for another good meal. And of course we end the day with a steak and slice of cheesecake. But in Texas, the kids don't have all our advantages, especially at school. Just take a look at this sad child, pictured on her way home from another pitiful day of school in Texas... Al Gore explains the problem: "In Texas, Bush chose to make large and politically popular tax cuts his number one priority -- at the expense of the school lunch program, children’s health care and other important priorities. The first bill Bush signed in 1999 was an "emergency" $45 million tax cut for the oil industry. His home state now faces a budget shortfall up to $750 million. More than 90 percent of the 1.5 million low-income children in Texas, eligible for free or reduced price lunches, were left out of these programs because Bush had not made them a priority. Texas has the second highest percentage of children without health insurance in the nation. Bush has similar priorities for the nation -- a $1.6 trillion tax cut that leaves no room for important investments." Source (July 15, 2000). Now, what George W. Bush won't do for the children of his state, the rest of us must do. And that's why I'm asking you to send in just $5 a month. You might wonder "What can a measley $5 do?" In fact, it can do a lot! Take a look at the breakdown of our expenses. And consider this simple question: "When so many could do so much for so many for so little, with this big state Texas' children so little and all the time getting littler, shouldn't as many of us as can do as much as we could?" Of course, the answer is yes...unless you're a Republican (in which case you probably haven't read this far anyway, or you "refuse to accept the premise of the question.") Friends, just look what we're up against in GOP misers headed by Governor George W. Bush: Nashville - July 31, 2000 - Newt Gingrich revealed that George W. Bush supports the same out-dated priorities that Gingrich and the extreme Republican Congress supported in 1995. "If you would have had George Bush as President in 1995, there would not have been any fight with balancing the budget," said Gingrich in an interview with MSNBC. Gingrich was referring to the extreme budget proposals in 1995 that were blocked by the Administration and opposed by the American people. Gingrich's 1995 budget would have cut Head Start and Medicare, increased taxes for working families while easing them for the rich, and eliminated investments to put 100,000 new cops on the streets in communities across the nation. 1995 GINGRICH PRIORITIES INCLUDED: * GOP would have denied Head Start to 180,000 children. * GOP would have cut school lunches for needy children. * GOP would have jeopardized America's drinking water with severe cuts in the EPA. * GOP would have put poor children in orphanages. * GOP would have cut food stamps for 14 million children. Source. Oh, my gosh, this is a lot worse than we thought! Now Bush isn't just against school lunches. He wants to jeopardize drinking water and take poor children from their parents and put them in orphanages, which sounds downright terrible. George W. Bush is obviously Simon Legree, Richard III, and Cruella DeVille all rolled into one! So, please, if you could increase your pledge from $5.00 to $10.00, we promise we'll use the extra giving to address some of these other needs. Such as maybe sending some drinking water to Texas, and encouraging parents there to keep their kids. But you're wondering how you'll know we're really helping the kids in Texas? Well, each month you'll receive a picture of your child, so you'll be able to see if there's any progress. We hope the progress you see will be just like we read in The Bible: "Prophesy upon these bones, and say, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live. Then there was a noise, and a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above. Then said God unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, and say, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these, that they may live. So I prophesied, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet." (Ezekiel 37, our special thanks to Sen. Joseph Lieberman for this great reference.) Plus! In addition to the picture of your sponsored child, you'll receive a letter written by the child every month thanking you for your donation! Of course the children of Texas are angry. Who wouldn't be? Try a little experiment: Go without food for several months until you are literally nothing but a skeleton, no skin, no guts, nothing else. And see if it doesn't cheese you off just a little bit...well, maybe CHEESE is a bad choice of words. Then you'll be saying with the children of TEXAS: (Right next to the Sacral Promontory)

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