Helpless in a Hurricane: Mitt Romney's Five Dumbest Budget Cuts

rollingstone.com — As Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast this week, the so-called "Frankenstorm" exposed the dark underbelly of Mitt Romney's plans to delegate core federal responsibilities to the states and to blindly impose a 5 percent, across-the-board budget cut to all discretionary programs "excluding military." The true impact of a Romney presidency would be a federal government ill-equipped to coordinate a response to a regional natural disaster like this one, and agencies hobbled in their ability to provide storm forecasting, emergency housing – even Superfund cleanup in the toxic aftermath of a storm. Here are the five most damaging cuts that a President Romney would seek "on Day One" from the agencies that are essential for federal storm response.

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