[JesseHousman]

...fewer people will have access to important programs that provide day care, meals, home rehabilitation. Such services do more than make life easier for recipients.....

Exactly.

[BenLurkin]

It is time to fire the nanny state.

[johnmilken]

Yeah. Make everyone pay their own way.
Am psyched that this admin might actually stop propping up the feckless and the lazy.

[FreedomFarmer]

Heart of Targ is a fine meal with Romulan Ale!

[o_zarkman44]

There is no such thing as a free lunch when I get the bill.
If poor people didn't get the subsidy, they would seek other ways to survive, like getting a job. Daycare subsidy might be ok if the parent is working or attending college to qualify for better employment. But people have to realize that if there is wasteful spending, everyone on the teat is going to feel the cuts.

And in government terms, a cut in funding usually means that they will not recieve as much money this year as they asked for, but might have to make do with the same amount they got last year. A cut in funding usually means there will be no new money available, not less as is the inference.

[proudpapa]

"The Bush administration has proposed deep cuts in funding..." for big cities that overwhelmingly voted against him.

[justshutupandtakeit]

This sounds like good news but I doubt that it will go as far as it should given the certain hysterical opposition which it is sure to generate in the RATmedia. It is after all squarely aimed at the RAT source of power.

[Sonny M]

I'll believe it when I see it.

Also there is a cut in spending, and there is slowing the growth.

I want a cut.