Yay, spending cuts!

House Republican minority whip Eric Cantor has now released a fun online interactive tool. It allows participants to choose their favorite spending cut, and the winners will be voted on in the house sometime in the future. How fun! Lets take a loot at some of these cuts:

1.) Presidential Election Fund

2.) Taxpayer subsidized union activities

3.) HUD program for doctoral dissertations

4.) Welfare

5.) Community Development Block Grants

This all seems really fun. Lets take a pick; do you want to cut funding for presidential elections so corporations control our elections? How about reduce wages and benefits? Maybe eliminate your safety net if you are unemployed and cannot find a job? Or maybe tell your community to fend for itself if its economically disadvantaged?

This interactive tool masks the true cost of spending cuts. Spending cuts should be the last option on the table when our taxes are at our lowest levels since the Truman administration. Why are we even considering the most painful option first, without even considering raising our unrealistically low taxes? When we have to make painful decisions, we should not even be considering spending cuts during a recession. And if you're going cut welfare for poor Americans, lets have the decency not to make a game out of it.