USA Program:

The "You Cut" program is one part election-year gimmick, one part direct democracy, and it's intended to spotlight the spending side of the federal deficit problem.

Each week, House Republicans will post online five spending targets. Whichever gets the most votes online or by cellphone, lawmakers will try to force Congress to eliminate the following week.

Citizens will also be invited to suggest cuts. The lawmakers behind the effort, led by Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia, call themselves the "House Economic Recovery Working Group."

"The You Cut project is not about finding the one silver bullet to our debt problems. It is designed, rather, to challenge Washington's culture of spending and replace it with one of savings," says a fact sheet circulating among House Republicans ahead of today's announcement by Cantor, U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Dallas and others. "With a deficit near $1.5 trillion, we don't think it is too much to ask of Congress to spend some time debating bills to actually reduce spending."

Ryan Rudominer, spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said the program should be called "You Lie" instead of "You Cut," because "that's exactly what House Republicans do when they talk about deficits. Republicans have no credibility on the topic."

He noted that Republicans inherited a thriving economy and a budget surplus in 2001.

"The American people deserve better than Republicans' 'do as I say but not as I do' approach to restoring fiscal responsibility," he said.

Song:

"Cut You In" is a song by American grunge musician Jerry Cantrell. It was the lead single from his 1998 debut album Boggy Depot. The song reached #5 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks charts and remained arguably the album's best known track. In its first five days, "Cut You In" was the #1 most added track at Rock and Alternative radio with more than 1,000 spins and an audience of more than nine million. The song received airplay on major New York and Los Angeles radio stations who, in anxious anticipation, jumped the record's official release date. On Billboard's list of Top
Mainstream Rock Songs of the Decade, the song ranked at #16 for the year of 1998.



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