PBS Host Decries Spending Cuts: "Reward the Rich, Punish the Poor"

PBS host Tavis Smiley, on the April 17 Meet the Press, cast efforts to curb spending as "rewarding the rich and punishing the poor." Smiley decried: "Budgets are moral documents....And I’m not so sure that this is not anything more than an immoral document where the poor are concerned....We avoided a shutdown of government, but we effectively locked out the American people, namely, the poor. And I don’t understand why it is in this town that every debate about money always begins and ends with how we can further reward the rich and more punish the poor.”