joining me now is james peterson and jarrod burnstein. jarrod, these cuts seem bad no matter what party you re from. what s your analysis of this? obviously, bad. for the economy, as you mentioned, remember you don t hear this enough. we have an unemployment rate that s already way too highly elevated, stuck at 8% overall for african-americans, much higher. and what does this kind of policy do? it takes an economy that s already not growing quickly enough and subtracts $85 billion of spending in 2013. that shaves about half a percent off gdp growth. so whether we re talking about a macro level, the numbers i was citing, or a micro level, how this plays out on the ground, you know, poor families losing educational slots, head start slots, childcare slots, nutritional programs for women,