There are things you tally in the back of your mind as costs -- like, for example, a couple of outliers in the health benefit cost spreadsheet that correspond t

There are things you tally in the back of your mind as costs -- like, for example, a couple of outliers in the health benefit cost spreadsheet that correspond to newborns with urgent medical needs -- and then there are things you kinda-sorta bring up to the media as having caused you to cut benefits back. It doesn't reflect too well on this guy's people skills if something in his brain didn't say, "I'm about to blame sick children for cutting my employees' benefits, maybe I should shut up."