It’s a raw deal. Announcing the budget deal he made with Speaker of the House John Boehner last week, President Barack Obama said, “We protected the investments we need to win the future.”

The future of America cannot be more directly represented than in the babies we produce. Whether you think we ought to have more babies or less babies, and whether or not you agree with who is having babies and how, one thing ought to be clear: Once the babies are made, we ought to take care of them so that they can lead happy and productive lives. Babies who are born malnourished because their mothers didn’t have a proper diet when they were pregnant have a more difficult time leading happy and productive lives than other babies. So do people who don’t get enough of the right food to eat when they’re very young. It’s a fact that these people end up having more difficult lives where they can’t compete as well as they would have if they had been adequately nourished, and it’s not their fault.

The Women Infants and Children program (WIC) is a sensible government investment that earns a solid economic return. Children who are nourished through the program have fewer medical expenses and contribute more to society as adults. Yet, the WIC program is being cut by 500 million dollars under the budget deal approved of by Barack Obama, Harry Reid and John Boehner.

Sadly, that money isn’t even going into deficit reduction. Instead, it’s going to the military. The budget deal agreed to by Obama, Reid and Boehner increases military spending by 800 million dollars.

The U.S. military already has the largest military budget in the entire world, larger than the entire rest of the world’s military spending. It doesn’t need that 800 million dollars.

The generation of babies who have just been born into poverty, through no fault of their own, need food.

No, Barack Obama did not protect the investments we need to win the future. He ought to be ashamed of himself for accepting this deal.