Cuts in programs which serve the "under-employed" are terrible.  These are folks doing their best to "make it" and who are certainly deserving of assistance.  Secondly, cutting youth intervention programs is a great way to, instead, spend more in the future when those young men and women you didn't help "graduate" into the criminal justice system as adults.  ....and, of course, it's fine for folks who have the money or the insurance to afford treatment for drug and alcohol addiction, but let's cut funding for such treatment for the "underclass" receiving such treatment.  Nice going, Democratic leaders, you should be proud.  without my regards, Gary Crum