courseofhistory
Rookie
- Aug 7, 2012
- 1,230
- 179
- 0
- Banned
- #1
His budget would decimate the middle class and the poor. If you are not wealthy, you'll see higer taxes and fewer benefits. If that isn't voting against your interests if you favor Romney, I don't know what is. His is a plan that doesn't take inidviduals into consideration--just a blanket overall budget which will only benefit the wealthy. Go for it! I don't need pell grants or any of the other things it will slash so if he wins, I'll sit back and watch the decline of the middle class and the worsening economy because of it. People will have less spending power and will have more of a struggle to get training and education, thus making them less employable. I know many are buying into the mantra of handouts vs. personal responsiblity/working hard, but it is much more complicated than that and the more trouble we have for the middle class and the poor to make ends meet, find decent paying jobs, etc., the harder it is on the economy and country as a whole. Do I care, not so much since I won't be affected much by any of it. However, I do hope Romney doesn't win!
Romneys budget plan is a fantasy
Romneys budget plan is a fantasy
...
Consider what the Romney campaign, then, is saying: If Romney is elected, then by his third year in office, every single federal program that is not Medicare, Social Security, or defense, will be cut, on average, by 40 percent. That means Medicaid, infrastructure, education, food safety, road safety, the postal service, basic research, foreign aid, housing subsidies, food stamps, the Census, Pell grants, the Patent and Trademark Office, the FDA all of it has to be cut by, on average, 40 percent. If Romney tried to protect any particular priority, it would mean all the others have to be cut by more than 40 percent.
...This is simply not a credible budget plan, and Romneys fast retreat from Ryans most unpopular cuts makes it even less credible. And yet Romney, who has never released the specific cuts that would make his numbers add up, repeatedly touts it on the campaign trail, and the media dutifully reports his promises to cut federal spending by more than $500 billion in 2016, and in fact to balance the budget by the end of his second term, which would require far larger cuts than what Ive outlined here, despite the fact that everyone basically knows these cuts arent credible and will never happen.
...