We can't just talk dollars when you talk about these cuts. These are impacting real people. Bush's budget makes cuts in services that people need, while continuing tax breaks worth trillions of dollars that go overwhelmingly to the wealthiest among us.

The outpouring of opposition to cuts in services needed by vulnerable families shows that more and more people across the nation want Congress to back the right priorities. People understand that it makes no sense to cut education, nutrition, and other vital services so that the wealthiest among us can receive billions more in tax breaks.

When it comes to poor people, states are not always anxious to get them the benefits they're entitled to, even though they are dollars that go into that state's economy. In this case, you've got people who would get benefits that would come from an additional pot of money the state is not now tapping. States should be maximizing the revenues they were legitimately able to get from the federal government.

I believe people have already formed an opinion. That opinion is based on the reporting and that opinion is based on absolutely no facts and no evidence, and that is unfortunate.

If you start to target people based on a corpus of data, it can be abused in various ways internally and externally by organizations and government agencies.

The day of reckoning for that industry has arrived. People are disgusted by the prices they have to pay, and they're disgusted by the practices of the industry.