Ezra Klein: Mitt Romney’s budget in less than 150 words

[babylonsister]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/mitt-romneys-budget-in-less-than-150-words/2011/08/25/gIQATzJRaR_blog.html

Mitt Romney’s budget in less than 150 words
Posted by Ezra Klein at 05:40 PM ET, 02/25/2012


Money comes into the federal government through taxes and bonds. The vast majority of it is then spent on old-people programs, poor-people programs, and defense.

Mitt Romney is promising that taxes will go down, defense spending will go up, and old-people programs won’t change for this generation of retirees. So three of his four options for deficit reduction — taxes, old-people programs, and defense — are now either contributing to the deficit or are off-limits for the next decade.

Romney is also promising that he will pay for his tax cuts, pay for his defense spending, and reduce total federal spending by more than $6 trillion over the next 10 years. But the only big pot of money left to him is poor-people programs. So, by simple process of elimination, poor-people programs will have to be cut dramatically. There’s no other way to make those numbers work.

[lovemydog]

1. increased homelessness

greater suffering

Hey Mitt - fuck you!

[Iceberg Louie]

2. That's ok, though.

Mittens doesn't care about poor people, though. He believes they're doing just fine. So why worry about maintaining their programs. Or, as Little Ricky put it, "mak(ing) 'blighted' people's lives better by giving them other people money."

[babylonsister]

3. Hey, Iceberg Louie, welcome to DU! nt

[LiberalFighter]

4. Wouldn't one word be enough?

Bankrupt