Urban

WASHINGTON - President Obama unveiled a $3.83 trillion budget plan on Monday that aims to tighten purse strings - but still serves up pretty good payouts to New York.

A big part of the local spending will come in the form of extra Medicaid cash - some $3 billion for New York State and up to $600 million for the city.

"That's the mother lode," said Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn, Queens), who hailed the blueprint as among the best for cities in a generation.

"It's clear we have the first urban President since John F. Kennedy," Weiner said.

That's a real shame since, as Sniffy-Wiffy likes to point out, "real Americans" don't live in cities (and of course such a thing is not insulting at all to say.)