Romney Say's He'll "Slay The Deficit Beast"

Joseph Smith and the Wives

Big Love Mitt Romney, whose family immigrated from Mexico illegally, says the first thing he'll do to slash deficits is repeal the Affordable Care Act.  This would pose a huge problem, however.  The official government accounting office, Congressional Budget Office, says the ACA is deficit neutral.  Repealing it would increase the deficit.

Romney's next steps are to kill Amtrak, PBS, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. All three of those programs represent roughly 1/100th of ONE percent of the federal budget.

So Romney is going to repeal ACA, a move that would add $230 billion to the budget deficit over 10 years.  And then cut three popular programs that account for 0.014% of the federal budget.  That's not slaying any beast.  That's actually making the deficit worse.  But maybe "slay the deficit beast" is Mormon code for 'I won't bring the sister wives to the White House.'