Mitt Romney may not be...

..."concerned about the very poor," but according to Ruth Marcus, he should be:

Especially about what would happen to them with a President Romney in the White House and his policies in effect.

Romney promises to repair any holes in the safety net, but his programs would shred it further. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that Romney's promise to increase defense expenditures while capping total federal spending at 20 percent of gross domestic product would require across-the-board cuts of 17 percent by 2016.