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ajay_jain_tx 8 months ago | reply
Wassermann Schultz, who serves with Congressman Paul Ryan on the House Budget Committee, said, "To suggest that Congressman Paul Ryan is fiscally responsible is ludicrous, because his record doesn't even remotely reflect that." Just take his claim that President Obama failed to advance a deficit reduction plan. What Congressman Paul Ryan neglected to mention was that as a member of the Simpson-Bowles commission, Congressman Paul Ryan voted against the plan.
"On August 29th in his acceptance RNC speech, Congressman Paul Ryan lied. Repeatedly, knowingly, and brazenly, reciting charges that have been universally dismissed as false by news organizations. Republicans just don't care. And they've said so: Two days ago, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney said they're not going to be beholden to fact checks. And boy, did they prove that last night on AAugust 29th 2012."
A few of Congressman Paul Ryan's biggest lies:
On his district: Congressman Paul Ryan blamed President Obama for an auto plant that closed in his district—but the truth is the plant had shut down in 2008, when George W. Bush was president.
On Medicare: Congressman Paul Ryan said that he and Romney would save Medicare for future generations. Their plan would actually replace Medicare as we know it with a voucher system—raising costs for seniors by $6400 per person.
On the deficit: Congressman Paul Ryan said, “President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him.” False.
On the middle class: Congressman Paul Ryan called for “the strong to protect the weak.” But the Romney-Ryan plan would ask for nothing from the wealthiest Americans—instead their plan would raise taxes on middle-class families, and strip key programs like Pell Grants and Medicare, just to provide more tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
Here are the most glaring 6 lies from Congressman Paul Ryan's RNC acceptance speech:
1. “A downgraded America.” Congressman Paul Ryan blamed the president for the nation’s credit downgrade in August 2011 after Republicans threatened to allow the government to default on its debt for the first time in history. But the ratings agency explicitly blamed “Republicans saying that they refuse to accept any tax increases as part of a larger deal.”
2. “More debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined.” Romney has made the almost identical claim, that Obama has amassed more debt “as almost all of the other presidents combined.” But their math doesn’t add up: when Obama took office, the national debt was $10.626 trillion. It has increased to slightly above $15 trillion.
3. Shuttered General Motors plant is “one more broken promise.” Congressman Paul Ryan described a GM plant that closed down in his hometown, Janesville, Wisconsin, and blamed Obama for breaking his promise to keep the plant open when he visited during his campaign. But Obama never made that promise, and the plant shut down in December 2008, before Obama even took office.
4. Obama “did exactly nothing” on Bowles-Simpson. Congressman Paul Ryan said, “He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing.” In fact, Congressman Paul Ryan was instrumental in sabotaging the commission, leading the other House Republicans in voting against the plan.
5. “$716 billion, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama.” Congressman Paul Ryan’s favorite lie is a deliberate distortion of Obamacare’s savings from eliminating inefficiencies. Furthermore, Ryan’s own plan for Medicare includes these savings. Romney has vowed to restore these cuts, which would render the trust fund insolvent 8 years ahead of schedule.
6. “The greatest of all responsibilities is that of the strong to protect the weak.” Congressman Paul Ryan closed the speech with an invocation of social responsibility, saying, “The truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves.” However, numerous clergy members have condemned Ryan’s budget plan as “cruel,” and “an immoral disaster” because of its devastating cuts in social programs the poor and sick rely on. Meanwhile, Ryan would give ultra-rich individuals and corporations $3 trillion in tax breaks.
ajay_jain_tx 8 months ago | reply
Now with the Todd Akin RAPE "doctrine" and the Todd Akin and Paul Ryan connection redefining rape in the FORCIBLE RAPE BILL with 225 House Republican co-sponsors and also the PERSONHOOD BILL can not be dismissed by Romney as just another flip flop! The Romney Ryan ticket is sinking like the Titanic even before the Republican Convention where they are supposed to be NOMINATED next week!
Vote straight Democratic ticket on November and throw the freshman class of 2010 House Republicans out because since 2010 the house Republicans have blindly opposed President Obama!
The fact that Romney/Ryan purposely distort Obama's $716B cut to medicare shows me just how dishonest they are. Especially since the cut is being spent on medical care, it doesn't reduce benefits to seniors.
Compare that to Ryan's proposal that cuts the same amount and the money is used to make up the difference created by tax breaks for th e very rich.
As The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn writes:
The most significant Medicare funding difference between the two sides, at least for the short- to medium-term, is how they handle the savings these cuts generate. Obamacare puts the money back into the pockets of people who need help with their medical bills. A portion of the money is earmarked for children and non-elderly Americans, who, starting in 2014, will become eligible for Medicaid or receive tax credits to offset the cost of private insurance. A smaller, but still significant, portion of the money is for seniors. It helps them pay for prescription drugs, by filling the "donut hole" in Medicare Part D coverage. It also eliminates out-of-pocket costs for annual wellness visits, some cancer screenings, and other preventative services....
Ryan's budget—which, again, Romney has repeatedly embraced and said he would sign—actually takes those new benefits away. The Part D donut hole would open back up. Access to free preventative care would vanish. And where would Ryan and Romney put the money instead? They say it's for deficit reduction. I'd say it's really for their big new tax cuts, which disproportionately benefit the wealthy.
"The $716 billion in cuts do not affect benefits for today's seniors. Instead, they reduce provider reimbursements and are intended to curb waste, fraud and abuse." ----- And I'll bet you ten thousand dollars, Ryan / Romney did NOT mention that little bit of information to the crowd.....
“When Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure that we’re, you know – that he’s just being America’s accountant and trying to be responsible… I mean this is the same guy who voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that costs as much as my health care bill – but wasn’t paid for,” Obama said on April 15, 2011.
In 2008, Ryan released his "Roadmap for America's Future," which described his sweeping vision for how to gut America's main entitlement programs of Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid. The plan made him a hero among conservative circles, and Ryan eventually remade it as his "Path to Prosperity" plan, which President Barack Obama and Democrats have criticized for embracing tax cuts for the very rich while slashing government programs that help the poor. (It wasn't just Democrats who criticized Ryan. While running for president, Newt Gingrich called Ryan's plan "right wing social engineering," which probably helped kill Gingrich's bid.)
President Obama actually helped raise Ryan's profile on the right by critiquing the Congressman's budget, and just last year, Ryan was reportedly mulling his own run for president.
Critics have called Ryan’s 2011 proposal the “end of Medicare as we know it,” and that’s true. Until now, Medicare has operated as a “fee-for-service” system; under Ryan’s plan, it would operate more like a voucher system, although Ryan and his aides have resisted this term. Medicare would cease to pay for health services directly, instead operating as a board that approves a menu of health plans for public sale and doles out predetermined lumps of money to people enrolled in Medicare, to help them buy those plans.
After its release, the president called Ryan’s plan “fairly radical” and posited that it would “change our social compact in a pretty fundamental way,” ABC’s David Kerley reported.
“I guess you could call that bold. I would call it short-sighted,” Obama told 500 Facebook employees and 200 other attendees at a town-hall meeting held at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., in April 2011. “Nothing is easier than solving a problem on the backs of people who are poor or people who are powerless or don’t have lobbyists or don’t have clout.”.
ajay_jain_tx 8 months ago | reply
Bill Clinton full DNC Speech 2012:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzDhk3BHi6Q&feature=colike
President Barack Obama DNC Speech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd8MFmUDbg4&feature=colike
Michelle Obama DNC Speech 2012: "How hard you work" More Important than INCOME!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVGAI8o5i4o&feature=colike
Elizabeth Warren's Remarks at the 2012 DNC
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNcbg1EU_bI&feature=colike
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro DNC Speech "It starts with education"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jx3m7jk1CY&feature=colike
Gov. Deval Patrick's DNC Speech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_3SL0LYySw&feature=colike
Mayor Cory Booker DNC Speech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8XlOL_mkwk&feature=colike
Sandra Fluke - DNC SPEECH
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCp3CWpiPUE&feature=colike
Mayor Rahm Emanuel: We Have a 'Once-in-a-Lifetime President'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h49sG12fLrU&feature=colike
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards DNC Speech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wXJJxWCu_A&feature=colike
Sister Simone Campbell DNC Speech (Nun on the bus)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw-m8Hfj4rw&feature=colike
Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) DNC Speech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6a1avwl0cs&feature=colike
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid DNC Speech 2012
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UGop1b93gE&feature=colike
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Mitt Romney and his flip-flops over the years:
mittromneyflipflops.com/#javascript:void(0)
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From The New York Times:
OPINIONATOR: The Crackpot Caucus
It's not just Todd Akin. Many Republicans cling to ignorance that would get their ears boxed even in a medieval classroom.
nyti.ms/Q6w9Tm
========================================================
Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-tru...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-tru...
The author of the above article, Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. He’s the author of five books, most recently The Great Derangement and Griftopia, and a winner of the National Magazine Award for commentary.
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-tru...
On Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and Private Equity
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/on-mitt-romn...
ajay_jain_tx 8 months ago | reply
@Reince You are the WORST Republican Party Chairman ever!!
Bill Clinton full DNC Speech 2012:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzDhk3BHi6Q&feature=colike
President Barack Obama DNC Speech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd8MFmUDbg4&feature=colike
Michelle Obama DNC Speech 2012: "How hard you work" More Important than INCOME!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVGAI8o5i4o&feature=colike
Elizabeth Warren's Remarks at the 2012 DNC
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNcbg1EU_bI&feature=colike
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro DNC Speech "It starts with education"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jx3m7jk1CY&feature=colike
Gov. Deval Patrick's DNC Speech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_3SL0LYySw&feature=colike
Mayor Cory Booker DNC Speech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8XlOL_mkwk&feature=colike
Sandra Fluke - DNC SPEECH
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCp3CWpiPUE&feature=colike
Mayor Rahm Emanuel: We Have a 'Once-in-a-Lifetime President'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h49sG12fLrU&feature=colike
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards DNC Speech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wXJJxWCu_A&feature=colike
Sister Simone Campbell DNC Speech (Nun on the bus)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw-m8Hfj4rw&feature=colike
Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) DNC Speech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6a1avwl0cs&feature=colike
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid DNC Speech 2012
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UGop1b93gE&feature=colike
========================================================
Mitt Romney and his flip-flops over the years:
mittromneyflipflops.com/#javascript:void(0)
========================================================
From The New York Times:
OPINIONATOR: The Crackpot Caucus
It's not just Todd Akin. Many Republicans cling to ignorance that would get their ears boxed even in a medieval classroom.
nyti.ms/Q6w9Tm
========================================================
Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-tru...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-tru...
The author of the above article, Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. He’s the author of five books, most recently The Great Derangement and Griftopia, and a winner of the National Magazine Award for commentary.
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-tru...
On Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and Private Equity
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/on-mitt-romn...