Romney doesn't care about 47% of americans

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badgenome said:

Soundwave said:

You'd have to do both. And you'd have to cut the military budget (which is ridiculously massive) in the process. But no one wants to say that.

There is an inherit irony in though in Romney crapping on low income people, when he's hiding his wealth in the Caman Islands to keep in from being taxed.

People like that are the ones who are in all honesty are withholding the real money, not the average joe who's scraping by on 30k/year.

Attacking Romney as unserious because he wants to restore the sequestration cuts to military spending would be a legitimate point, but it's one no one seems interested in pursuing. Probably because it's very politically problematic. But again, since there is nowhere near enough money to be raised by any tax hike, it seems silly to even dwell on it as much as we do. You cannot close the deficit by raising taxes, while you can close it entirely by cutting spending - although doing so would require a lot of cuts that are, again, politically problematic.

Cut what exactly?

The "cut spending" rhetoric is equally bankrupt IMO. A welfare program or programs that help out low income single moms (for example) is not what's causing the bleeding in the first place. The funding for these programs is a drop in the bucket.

The military, social security, and medicare are the big three. No politician has the balls to serious cut any of those, and really maybe they shouldn't.