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[Alex G]

The Internal Contradictions of Mitt Romney
February 14, 2012, 8:50 am
Paul Krugman

And by “internal”, I mean in the same paragraph:

“This week, President Obama will release a budget that won’t take any meaningful steps toward solving our entitlement crisis,” Romney said in a statement e-mailed to reporters. “The president has failed to offer a single serious idea to save Social Security and is the only president in modern history to cut Medicare benefits for seniors”.

Yep, Obama has failed to resolve the problem of excessive entitlement spending; furthermore, he’s cutting entitlement spending!

It gets even better when you bear in mind that Romney has endorsed the Ryan plan, which would abolish Medicare as we know it and replace it with an underfunded voucher scheme.

Has there ever been a candidacy this cynical?

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/the-internal-contradictions-of-mitt-romney/