Ann Powers for the Los Angeles Times was critical of Slash's inclusion on the song, and she described it as an "afterthought".
"They slash critical investments in education and public safety, cost us jobs, and crush opportunity for middle-class families".
Fresno's city and county budgets have been decimated by the economic crisis in California and nationwide, and local officials have been forced to slash critical health and human services.
"Failure to act would either raise the specter of sequestration, which would indiscriminately slash critical domestic programs and take a broad sword to the Pentagon budget, or the unseemly spectacle of Congress spending the next year attempting to write itself a get-out-of-jail-free card," the group wrote.
The second is fiscal austerity -- the idea that the best response to an economic downturn is to "tighten our belts" and slash critical government spending that we "no longer can afford".
Failure to act would either raise the specter of sequestration, which would indiscriminately slash critical domestic programs and take a broad sword to the Pentagon budget, or the unseemly spectacle of Congress spending the next year attempting to write itself a get out of jail free card.
Conservation organizations sued the US government for slashing critical habitat.
From downtrodden economies causing thousands of job cuts to critical services being slashed across our communities, we're dealing with some heavy stuff.
"Articulate, witty, very clever, freewheeling, she became a master of the slashing critical style of the politicized literary intellectuals," William Phillips, Mr. Rahv's co- editor, wrote in his memoirs.
State governments, after all, are already slashing critical social services.
