Romney and Santorum Loose Any Moral High Ground via GOP Budget

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP.

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THE NY TIMES

EDITORIAL

A Cruel Budget

Published: March 29, 2012

The budget, developed by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, would cut $3.3 trillion from low-income programs over 10 years, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, even more than the $2.9 trillion in Mr.  Ryan’s first disastrous budget last year.  In February, after embarrassing himself by saying he was “not concerned about the very poor,” Mitt Romney explained that the government’s safety net would take care of them, and he promised to repair any holes in the net. That promise didn’t last very long.   On Thursday,House Republicans approved, on a party-line vote, a disastrous new budget that would leave millions of struggling families desperate for food, shelter and health care — and Mr. Romney has embraced it.

“It’s an excellent piece of work,” Mr. Romney said. (Rick Santorum said it didn’t cut enough.)