2 Meanwhile, looking for budget-slashing opportunities, President Obama recently cut 2012 funding for the Diesel Emissions Reduction Program, which gives EPA grant and loan authority to fund the retrofitting or replacement of existing diesel vehicles.
But recording and identifying recipients using biometric data, such as face, fingerprint and iris scans slashes the opportunity for fraud.
While claiming to be working in the interests of "fiscal responsibility" the radically pro-corporate wing of the Republican Party is slashing the rights and opportunities of working Americans while letting big business get away scot free.
"We had good build-up play in the first half without threatening too much but in the second half we got into good areas, we hit the bar, passed up opportunities, slashed things over the bar and maybe picked the wrong choice at times.
So the money is there to fund a long-overdue raise, lower class size, and move us closer to fully staffing every site with full-time nurses, pupil services and attendance counselors, librarians, arts teachers, psychiatric social workers and early childhood education programs, and restoring already slashed adult education opportunities.
The party's deputy leader, Simon Hughes, insisted long-term solutions lay in supporting communities by offering opportunities and redistributing wealth, not slashing help from the state.
In 1996 and 1997, when oil stood high, it had an opportunity for wide reform, not least a slashing of the 1.3m-strong public workforce, but did not take it.
The second function was to show that the Tories own a plan to bring opportunity to all, not just a knife for slashing budgets.
"This new scheme is a fantastic opportunity for householders to make money, cut fuel bills and play their part in slashing carbon-dioxide emissions," says Dave Timms, green homes campaigner for eco-action group Friends of the Earth.
The Rangers had an opportunity to tie the game at 13:23 of the third, when Zhitnik was called for slashing.
Fionn Carr raised the tempo with a slashing midfield run and with Kieran Murphy going off his feet at a ruck, McFadden converted the kicking opportunity.
