Not all the Mayor's cuts would fall on the neediest.
Budget 2010: where do you think the cuts should fall?
"I don't want cuts to fall on the most vulnerable - quite the opposite," he says.
I suspect at least part of the difference will be in where those cuts will fall.
There is no intelligent view as to whether the cuts should fall.
The cuts would fall most heavily on people at upper income levels.
Those cuts would fall heavily on programs for the poor.
But they then completely fail to address where the cuts should fall instead.
The heaviest cuts fell on social programs and other services.
Because the cuts fall heavily on programs that keep the mentally ill off the street.