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The unkindest cut

You know the president's $100 million in budget cuts was a silly, insulting-our-intelligence move when even The Associated Press piles on:

Cut a latte or two out of your annual budget and you've just done as much belt-tightening as President Barack Obama asked of his Cabinet on Monday.

The thrifty measures Obama ordered for federal agencies are the equivalent of asking a family that spends $60,000 in a year to save $6.

And here, from the Heritage Foundation, is a nice graphic how those cuts stack up against some other numbers:

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