Muscle and Bone - A Shout Out!

The Mail Trib's OpEd for today includes an unintentional shout out to something I used in my candidate questionaire for the SEIU (or was it for the OEA... let me tell you, the questionaires blur together after a while)

We don’t want to hear about pots of money squirreled away, or rampant waste and overspending. If enough "hidden" dollars could be scraped together to retain dozens of teachers, school districts would be doing that. Instead, they are cutting muscle and bone.

For months we've been hearing that all we need to do to address the budget problems is 'cut fat'... well... the fat is gone folks, this is no longer liposuction. Are there any more medical analogies I can exhaust?