President Obama, Clinton reminded us, “inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash, began the long hard road to recovery, and laid the foundation for a modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses, and lots of new wealth for the innovators.”
“President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. No president— not me or any of my predecessors could have repaired all the damage in just four years. But conditions are improving and if you'll renew the President's contract you will feel it.”
“Are we where we want to be? No. Is the president satisfied? No. Are we better off than we were when he took office, with an economy in free fall, losing 750,000 jobs a month. The answer is yes.” And, to put a FINE POINT ON IT, FOR THE GROWNUPS, CLINTON EMPHASIZED:
“President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. No president— not me or any of my predecessors could have repaired all the damage in just four years.”
“LISTEN TO ME, NOW,” said BUBBA, or as we say around here, ‘TEA PARTY REMEDIAL ED’. Memo To The LYIN’ ROMNEY CAMPAIGN: You’ll have to come up with a better EXCUSE than Romney pollster Neil Newhouse to ABC News — “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers” — BECAUSE THE FACT CHECKER-IN-CHIEF is on the job!
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ON PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS CREATED, DEMS v. REPUGS, 52 YEARS —
“We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think we're all in this together is a better philosophy than you're on your own.”
- “Who's right? Well, since 1961, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24. In those 52 years, our economy produced 66 million private sector jobs. What's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 million.”
“In 2010, as the president's recovery program kicked in, the job losses stopped and things began to turn around.
- The Recovery Act saved and created millions of jobs and cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people. In the last 29 months the economy has produced about 4.5 million private sector jobs. But last year, the Republicans blocked the president's jobs plan costing the economy more than a million new jobs. So here's another jobs score: PRESIDENT OBAMA PLUS 4.5 MILLION, CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS ZERO.
- Over that same period, more than MORE THAN 500,000 MANUFACTURING JOBS HAVE BEEN CREATED UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA— the first time manufacturing jobs have increased since the 1990s.
- The auto industry restructuring worked. IT SAVED MORE THAN A MILLION JOBS, not just at GM, Chrysler and their dealerships, but in auto parts manufacturing all over the country. That's why even auto-makers that weren't part of the deal supported it. They needed to save the suppliers too. Like I said, we're all in this together.
- Now there are 250,000 more people working in the auto industry than the day the companies were restructured. GOV. ROMNEY OPPOSED THE PLAN TO SAVE GM AND CHRYSLER. SO HERE'S ANOTHER JOBS SCORE: OBAMA 250,000, ROMNEY, ZERO.
- The agreement the administration made with management, labor and environmental groups to double car mileage over the next few years is another good deal: it will cut your gas bill in half, make us more energy independent, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and ADD ANOTHER 500,000 GOOD JOBS.”
THE KILLER B'S
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“Student loan reform lowers the cost of federal student loans and even more important, gives students the right to repay the loans as a fixed percentage of their incomes for up to 20 years. That means no one will have to drop-out of college for fear they can't repay their debt, and no one will have to turn down a job, as a teacher, a police officer or a small town doctor because it doesn't pay enough to make the debt payments. This will change the future for young Americans.
I know we're better off because President Obama made these decisions.”
RYAN WHIFFS ON JOBS — STRRRR-IIIII-KE ONE!!!
OBAMACARE —
“The Republicans call it Obamacare and say it's a government takeover of health care that they'll repeal. Are they right?
Let's look at what's happened so far:
- Individuals and businesses have secured more than a billion dollars in refunds from their insurance premiums because the new law requires 80 percent to 85 pecent of your premiums to be spent on health care, not profits or promotion. Other insurance companies have lowered their rates to meet the requirement.
- More than 3 million young people between 19 and 25 are insured for the first time because their parents can now carry them on family policies.
- Millions of seniors are receiving preventive care including breast cancer screenings and tests for heart problems.
- Soon the insurance companies, not the government, will have millions of new customers many of them middle class people with pre-existing conditions.
- And for the last two years, health care spending has grown under 4 pecent, for the first time in 50 years.
MEDICARE, ALLEGEDLY “ROBBING” IT OF $716 BILLION —
“Here's what really happened:
- There were no cuts to benefits. None.
- What the president did was save money by cutting unwarranted subsidies to providers and insurance companies that weren't making people any healthier.
- He used the saving to close the donut hole in the Medicare drug program, and to add eight years to the life of the Medicare Trust Fund.
RYAN WHIFFS ON MEDICARE — STRRRR-IIIII-KE TWO!!!
When he starts complaining about the STRIKE ZONE, ELVIS THE UMP SETS HIM STRAIGHT:
“When congressman Ryan looked into the TV camera and attacked President Obama's "biggest coldest power play" in raiding Medicare, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. You see, THAT $716 BILLION IS EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF MEDICARE SAVINGS CONGRESSMAN RYAN HAD IN HIS OWN BUDGET. IT TAKES A LOT OF BRASS ...”
STRRRR-IIIII-KE THREE!!! PAUL RYAN, YER OUTTA HERE!!!!
“[Mitt Romney] will re-open the donut hole and force seniors to pay more for drugs, and reduce the life of the Medicare Trust Fund by eight years. So now if he's elected and does what he promised Medicare will go broke by 2016. If that happens, you won't have to wait until their voucher program to begins in 2023 to see the end Medicare as we know it.”
ROMNEY WHIFFS ON MEDICARE — STRRRR-IIIII-KE ONE!!!
MEDICAID CUT BY ONE-THIRD —
“But it gets worse. They also want to block grant Medicaid and cut it by a third over the coming decade. Of course, that will hurt poor kids, but that's not all. Almost two-thirds of Medicaid is spent on nursing home care for seniors and on people with disabilities, including kids from middle class families, with special needs like, Down syndrome or autism. I don't know how those families are going to deal with it. We can't let it happen.”
ROMNEY WHIFFS ON MEDICAID — STRRRR-IIIII-KE TWO!!!
WELFARE WORK REQUIREMENTS —
“Now let's look at the Republican charge that President Obama wants to weaken the work requirements in the welfare reform bill I signed that moved millions of people from welfare to work.
Here's what happened. When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent.
You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.
But they keep running ads on it. As their campaign pollster said "we're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers." Now that is true. I couldn't have said it better myself— I just hope you remember that every time you see the ad.
THE DEBT, ONE WORD: “ARITHMETIC” —
“Let's talk about the debt. We have to deal with it or it will deal with us.
- President Obama has offered a plan with $4 trillion in debt reduction over a decade, with $2 of spending reductions for every $1 of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.
- The President's plan is better than the Romney plan, because the Romney plan fails the first test of fiscal responsibility: The numbers don't add up.
- It's supposed to be a debt reduction plan but it begins with $5 trillion in tax cuts over a 10-year period. That makes the debt hole bigger before they even start to dig out. They say they'll make it up by eliminating loopholes in the tax code. When you ask "which loopholes and how much?" they say, "See me after the election on that."
1) they'll have to eliminate so many deductions like the ones for home mortgages and charitable giving that middle class families will see their tax bill go up $2,000 year while people making over $3 million a year get will still get a 250,000 dollar tax cut; or
2) they'll have to cut so much spending that they'll obliterate the budget for our national parks, for ensuring clean air, clean water, safe food, safe air travel; or they'll cut way back on Pell Grants, college loans, early childhood education and other programs that help middle class families and poor children, not to mention cutting investments in roads, bridges, science, technology and medical research; or
3) they'll do what they've been doing for thirty plus years now— cut taxes more than they cut spending, explode the debt, and weaken the economy. Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left. We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down.
President Obama's plan cuts the debt, honors our values, and brightens the future for our children, our families and our nation.”
ROMNEY-RYAN WHIFF ON THE DEBT BIG TIME — STRRRR-IIIII-KE THREE!!!
THE BIG DOG SIGNS OFF (FOR NOW), MISSION ACCOMPLISHED:
“My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of
country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all
society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of
shared opportunities and shared responsibilities— a "we're all in it
together" society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. If you
want every American to vote and you think it's wrong to change voting
procedures just to reduce the turnout of younger, poorer, minority and disabled
voters, you should support Barack Obama. If you think the president was right
to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as
children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote
for Barack Obama. If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle
class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive
and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and
prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.
I love our country— and I know we're coming back. For more
than 200 years, through every crisis, we've always come out stronger than we
went in. And we will again as long as we do it together. We champion the cause
for which our founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor—
to form a more perfect union.”
of you have sat, and perhaps thought, with us!
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