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To: longnshort who wrote (678077)	10/9/2012 4:37:27 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572563

"did you look at the fact checkers" No. Look, a campaign source is not something that I will make a lot of effort in checking up on. There are people who get paid lots of money to obfuscate reality, and they are good at it. Romney's claim that about half of the "green" companies that got stimulus money have failed. Out of like 30, 3 have failed. Which is better than Romney did when at Bain. There was the free trade agreements that I already covered. He revived the "death panel" nonsense. He claimed that Dodd-Frank labels certain banks as too big to fail and gives them a blank check. Which is totally false. It does identify the largest, riskier banks. But they are required to follow stricter rules, not given a blank check. He greatly exaggerated the number of unemployed.. He also claimed that Obama doubled the deficit. Actually, he cut it a little from where it was when he took office. He claimed that pre-existing conditions are covered under his heath plan. Romney's own campaign debunked that right after the debate. Mitt claims that 20 million people will lose their health insurance under Obamacare, citing a CBO report. That report offered that as one scenario out of 5 possible. The most likely scenario was far under that. And it is similar to estimates done by other groups. And even that is countered by other factors, like people deciding there was a better deal on the exchanges than offered by their employer. The CBO estimates the number of uninsured will actually drop by 2 million. Mitt implies that Obamacare will cut $716 billion in benefits from Medicare. That is not the case, that is coming from cutting out over-payments to providers and negotiating lower payments. Most of those are here. Including debunking some of the claims on the GOP site that you copied. politifact.com Romney claims his tax cuts won't cost $5 trillion, that he will make it revenue neutral but cutting out deductions for those making more than $250k. The problem is, there aren't $5 trillion in deductions for people with those incomes. Far from it. Romney claims that gas prices have doubled since Obama came into office. Which is true. But not because of any policies by the Obama administration. There is very little a president can do to affect gas prices long term. Romney claims that under Obama the number of oil and gas leases on federal land have been cut by 50%. According to the BLM it is somewhere between 20% and 37%. And that figure is still higher than it was under Bush II. Should I go on?