Romney will cut Police, Firefighters and Teachers. Claims Teacher Levels haven't changed, lots of dead Weight.

The Romney campaign is sticking with Mitt’s recent teacher bashing gaffe:

Mitt:“(President Obama) says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.” 

Bad areas to make cuts, no doubt about it. But in fact, Romney has only double down on that idiotic statement by claiming schools across the country are needlessly holding onto too many teachers?

Where in god’s name have they been for the last 15 years?

ThinkProgress: Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign isn’t backing off the candidate’s claim that America needs fewer teachers, firefighters, and police officers. Instead, former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu (R), a top Romney campaign surrogate, backed Romney’s call this morning, telling MSNBC that changes in technology and population shifts have made layoffs of teachers and public safety officials necessary. Romney’s original comments left little room for interpretation. 

SUNUNU: If there’s fewer kids in the classrooms, the taxpayers really do want to hear there will be fewer teachers. [...] You have a lot of places where that is happening. You have a very mobile country now where things are changing. You have cities in this country in which the school population peaked ten, 15 years ago. And, yet the number of teachers that may have maintained has not changed. I think this is a real issue. And people ought to stop jumping on it as a gaffe and understand there’s wisdom in the comment.