Mitt Romney's Defense Numbers Don't Add Up To The Rest Of His Platform

Los Angeles Times:

Here's an issue that hasn't been debated much in the presidential campaign but ought to be: How much should we spend on defense?

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Comments

[Irregardless]

04:46 PM on 06/25/2012

Cheney said that the deficit doesn't matter...but since 08, The GOP have complained about the expansion of Gov, Gov spending, and the size of our deficit. All the while ignoring that the Bush Admin created this debt by fighting two wars that we still have yet to pay for. Now Mittens wants to increase defense spending by more than 50% for a military that is already the most powerful the world has ever seen. But here is the kicker,...he has no idea how we are going to pay for it.
This is just an example of the scatter brain logic of Republicans.

[James Shellhammer]

04:36 PM on 06/25/2012

If the truth be told, we already have a surplus of military hardware setting in warehouses all over the world. Do we need for surplus, just to keep American people busy at work, doing really nothing to improve the well being of mankind? Forgot it those pay checks that pay the taxes that pay the paychecks, or another words, keeps the circle going around. This is economy failure, it only promote the war machine. America has bend at war since it was founded, and should come to end soon. We should stop being the big bully on the block.

[AirForce Vet]

04:35 PM on 06/25/2012

Romney wants to increase the defense budget; he wants to increase the number of personnel in the military ranks because he believes an increase in military power will guarantee world peace. Well, Romney, your fuzzy math doesn’t add up and neither does your theory. Increasing the size of the military forces doesn’t and will not guarantee world peace. If anything, it promotes militaristic adventurism, especially in the hands of a militaristic provocateur. By the way Romney, how many of your sons do you put forth as members of “guarantee world peace” theory?

[amaboss52]

04:33 PM on 06/25/2012

Nothing Mitt says adds up so who'd surprised here? I mean his tax cut welfare for his rich cronies will cost the country a fortune, he can't even pay for that hows he going to pay for the MIC expenditures? Proof once again Mitt is a fraud, a puppet who would be willing to cut everything and anything that helps this country in favor of a war and taking care of his cronies.

[fredrdr]

04:00 PM on 06/25/2012

Romney's desire to massively increase the defense budget worries me. He and the other RW hopefuls had a constant drum beat of war. Martin Fischer summed it up "The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war." There are many quotes from true American patriots and heros that echo the thought. Among them would be Generals Eishenhour, Bradly, Marshall and MacAurther. Giants among men who new the true cost of war.

[aofh]

03:54 PM on 06/25/2012

Republicans have been making grandiose promises while skimping on the details since 94. Why would you expect them to stop now?

[alice sophia]

03:20 PM on 06/25/2012

There's a reason alexithymic Mitt doesn't go into details, if he can help it. Funny, even "MITT-MATH" isn't adding up for him.

[BraineyRubble]

03:16 PM on 06/25/2012

Romney's entire campaign:

Obama is Black.

[rchwel]

03:09 PM on 06/25/2012

Another CON businessman who doesn't know math, oh surprise surprise !

OBAMA 2012

[FaceReality2]

03:08 PM on 06/25/2012

Romney is the anti-Christ. Everything he says runs counter to what Jesus said.

[judesuper]

03:08 PM on 06/25/2012

Mittens wants to increase defense spending by more than 50% over current levels, which means $2 trillion in additional spending over 10 years.

One question mittens, where are you going to get the money?? Obviously not from your rich friends that will be receiving the biggest tax cut in history under your (gag) administration. I'm guessing it will be on the backs of, the middle class, the elderly and the poor.

[NovemberScorp]

03:07 PM on 06/25/2012

Nothing about Mittens adds up except to be highly suspecting of him.

[FaceReality2]

03:06 PM on 06/25/2012

"Romney needs to explain how he plans to balance the federal budget while adding trillions in new military spending."

Two thirds of Americans want to cut military spending. But, as usual, the majority of Americans won't get what they want.

[RobbieB]

03:04 PM on 06/25/2012

It's not an "arithmetic problem". It's a lying problem.

[mea25]

02:58 PM on 06/25/2012

Mitt Robme's credo: "PRIVATIZE THE PROFITS AND SOCIALIZE THE LOSSES." As in everything he has done in his past, that credo applies to military service. Mitt Robme toodled around Europe on a bicycle while his peers were dying and being shot at in Viet Nam. And not a one of Rome's five strapping sons has served one day in America's armed forces while two wars have raged for 10 years. That tells you everything you need to know about Robme & Company.