Your editorial highlights the critical need for Community Service Block Grants.

But what many Utah residents may not know is that Congress is about to vote on cuts to health-care and nutrition programs for vulnerable children and their families that threaten the well-being of more than 200,000 Utahns.

To add insult to injury, Congress is planning these cuts to partially fund more tax cuts to benefit millionaires. This means programs that feed and provide medical care to Utah's children will face more cuts in the future because there won't be enough money to pay for them.

We got a firsthand look right here in Utah at how programs like food stamps and Medicaid help people in crisis when we took in evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. And we know from recent child poverty data that many working families can't afford to pay for food or health care without help.

How in good conscience can Congress ignore their plight, cut programs that benefit them, and turn around and shell out $70 billion in tax giveaways to millionaires?

Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not the way to go.

A. Patrice Schell

Policy Analyst, Voices for Utah Children

Salt Lake City