{"id":8078,"date":"2012-06-18T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2012-06-18T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:48:52","slug":"does-romneys-math-stink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/does-romneys-math-stink\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Romney’s Math Stink?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The more Willard Romney reveals about his plans to extend the economic policies of GW Bush, the more unlikely his predictions appear.  Why?  It\u2019s simple. 1 + 1 <> 3.  Romney\u2019s math appears so bad, that he has experts scratching their heads in consternation.  Does Romney\u2019s math stink?  I think it\u2019s something else.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"18RomneyMath\"Mitt Romney\u2019s pledge to massively increase military spending \u2014 close to a $2 trillion increase<\/a><\/font> over the next ten years and boosting the Pentagon\u2019s base budget to 4 percent of GDP \u2014 combined with his promises to cuts taxes and reduce the national debt is leaving many national security and defense experts scratching their heads, particularly because the presumptive GOP presidential nominee has not said<\/a><\/font> how he\u2019d pay for it. <\/font><\/p>\n

A poll of defense budget experts conducted by Defense News<\/a><\/font> finds that Romney\u2019s pledge to grow the defense budget \u201cappears politically impossible, if technically doable.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

Todd Harrison, a senior fellow for defense budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments said about Romney\u2019s plan:<\/font><\/p>\n

If you put all of the promises together, it doesn\u2019t all add up.<\/font><\/strong><\/span> The administration may change, but the math remains the same. Harrison said. If you want to increase spending on defense over the next decade and reduce the deficit, then that necessarily means sharp reductions in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid or sharp increases in taxes, or some combination of the two<\/strong><\/span>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Indeed, previous increases in defense costs, specifically those incurred by wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, were largely paid for by increasing the deficit instead of through reductions in domestic spending or raising taxes\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

I have no doubt that, while bullying weaker kids at his private schools for the super-rich, Willard also learned how to add and subtract.  Furthermore, in his days as a vulture capitalist, he demonstrated professional skill at calculating profits to be made by firing American workers and shipping their jobs overseas.  So Romney\u2019s math does not stink.  Consider first that Romney is a Republican, and then, that Romney is Romney, and the answer becomes obvious.  He\u2019s lying, as usual.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The more Willard Romney reveals about his plans to extend the economic policies of GW Bush, the more unlikely his predictions appear.  Why?  It\u2019s simple. 1 + 1 <> 3.  Romney\u2019s math appears so bad, that he has experts scratching their heads in consternation.  Does Romney\u2019s math stink?  I think it\u2019s something else. Mitt Romney\u2019s […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}