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Title: Let the Distortions Begin (preparing for 2012)
Source:
factcheck
URL Source: http://factcheck.org/2010/12/let-the-distortions-begin/
Published: Dec 23, 2010
Author: factcheck
Post Date: 2010-12-23 14:52:15 by go65
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Views: 2082
Comments: 9
It has been seven whole weeks now since the midterms, and – like you, perhaps – we’ve enjoyed watching football and "Glee" uninterrupted by campaign ads. But that doesn’t mean there’s no campaigning going on. Potential Republican presidential aspirants are off and running, jockeying for exposure on the airwaves and before audiences in key primary states. We have been keeping track, and have noticed some twisting of the truth – already! (We know, you’re shocked.) Sarah Palin revisits her earlier claim of "death panels" in the health care law, attributing the term to a different board than she did before the law was passed. But the claim is just as false: The Medicare advisory board doesn’t have the power to ration care, and its recommendations can be changed by Congress. Mike Huckabee maintains that he never supported a mandatory cap-and-trade system for reducing carbon emissions. But there’s ample evidence in a 2007 speech in New Hampshire — where he referred to "true cap and trade" — that he was endorsing a mandatory program, and has only recently flip- flopped. Mitt Romney’s attempts to differentiate his Massachusetts health care overhaul from the federal law enacted this year ring hollow. The laws have many similarities. And he’s wrong when he says the federal law cuts half-a-trillion dollars from "the private side of Medicare": cuts to the Medicare Advantage program total $136 billion over 10 years. Ron Paul’s claim that the estate tax "especially harms small and family-owned businesses" misses the mark — farms and businesses accounted for less than 10 percent of taxable estates even before the Obama/GOP compromise took effect, and most of them weren’t very small. Also, Paul’s claim of double taxation is only partly true. Much of the value of big estates is capital gains that has never been taxed. Tim Pawlenty writes that since January 2008, private sector employment has declined while public sector employment has increased. But he’s dead wrong about the public sector, where employment has gone down, not up. He used information that was months out of date and distorted by temporary Census Bureau hiring.
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#1. To: go65 (#0)
No need to read further.
Yes, facts don't matter to you, screeds from neo-nazi's hold weight though.
Owe-bama quotes: 2008 - 'J O B S is the only thing we will focus on' 2009 - 'We are going to focus on job creation...' 2010 - 'Now, we are totally focused on creating jobs...' (laughing) Demonstrating running for President is one thing, but actually DOING THE JOB is another thing entirely, and Owe-bama still thinks its just one big campaign, not a J O B.
#4. To: Badeye (#3)
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#2. To: Capitalist Eric (#1)
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#3. To: go65 (#2)
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