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Romney campaign continues lies on Medicare

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan plan to end Medicare as we know it. Now, as voters react, Romney responds by lying about the President’s record on Medicare.

The Obama campaign hits back against the lies that Romney is trying to spread saying the Affordable Healthcare Act “cuts $700 billion from the Medicare Trust Fund,” which isn’t true.

The $700 billion isn’t cut from seniors, it’s cut from inefficiencies and payments to hospitals. According to the Congressional Budget Office, Obama’s plan cuts a reduction in the expected rate of growth, not cutting budgets to the elderly. Benefits will be improved.  Money is NOT being taken from seniors benefits.

Check out Soledad O’Brien calling out Romney surrogate John Sununu for repeating the same GOP talking points over and over, as if by repetition he could make his assertions true.

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Obama campaign on Paul Ryan’s budget plan

Remember, all the cuts (education, Medicare, Medicaid) are to help pay for a tax cut for the wealtiest. The “theory” is that the wealthy would take those funds and create jobs.

However – ten years into the Bush tax cuts and we’re not seeing the jobs that were promised by THOSE tax cuts.

So why believe more tax cuts for the wealthy would create jobs now?

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Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan picked as GOP VP nominee

Congressman and Vice-Presidential nominee Paul Ryan

Congressman Paul Ryan was announced today as Mitt Romney’s running mate in the 2012 election.

Here’s the short version of Paul Ryan’s positions on issues of note:

  • Voted against repeal of DADT
  • Voted twice for the failed Federal Marriage Amendment
  • Voted in favor of the Marriage Protection Act that would have Federal courts from even considering overturning DOMA
  • Voted against the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009
  • Paul Ryan’s budget plan – The Path To Prosperity – would turn Medicare into a voucher system whereby the government would give a set amount to seniors and tell them to go find private insurance using those funds.
  • Ryan’s plan would slash food stamps for poor Americans
  • Ryan’s plan would raise taxes on those who make less than $30K, but give a 12.5% tax cut to the wealthiest
  • Ryan supports privatizing Social Security. For seniors whose retirement is tied to the stock market, many would have seen their retirement savings decimated in the stock market crash of 2008
  • In all, 62 percent of the budget cuts proposed by Ryan would come from low-income programs.

So there you go.  If that sounds good to you, make a run with Romney and Ryan.

If not, think about the fact that:

  • We’ve had 26 consecutive months of job growth coming out of the the worst recession in decades 
  • The war in Iraq had ended
  • We are leaving Afghanistan
  • A major reason those wars happened – Osama bin Laden, who organized the attack on 9/11 – was captured and killed under the Obama Administration
  • DADT is history 
  • The stock market has doubled
  • Millions of people have better health coverage than they did three years ago

There’s your choice.

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President Obama hits back at Romney “welfare” distortion

This ad hits back at the Mitt Romney ad released earlier this week which falsely accused President Obama of weakening work requirements for welfare recipients.

In reality, the Obama administration is simply giving states the ability to experiment with new work programs, along the lines of a reform that Romney himself requested in 2005.

As the directive from the Department of Health and Human Services states, “HHS is encouraging states to consider new, more effective ways to meet the goals of [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families], particularly helping parents successfully prepare for, find, and retain employment.”

HHS says it will cancel waivers that do not further TANF’s goals.

CBS’s AdWatch said of Romney’s ad, “It’s a leap to assume that governors and legislators will seek to return to ‘plain old welfare’ and that the Obama administration will give them the go-ahead.”