| OBAMA SAID:It will help us close our deficit. (Obama speaking on the so-called ‘Buffett Rule, his proposed capital-gains-tax increase) |
THE TRUTHAccording to the Congressional Budget Office, Obama’s Buffett Rule will raise $3.2 billion per year. That’s what the federal government currently borrows every 17 hours. So in 514 years (the year 2526) it will have raised enough additional revenue just to pay off the 2011 federal budget deficit. If the federal government confiscated the total wealth of the Forbes 400 richest Americans, it comes to $1.5 trillion, or less than the Obama budget deficit for a year. |
| I’ve done more for Israel’s security than any president ever. |
Obama aided Islamic extremists – enemies of Israel -- take-over of Egypt/Libya. |
| Republicans are responsible for my jobs bill not passing |
Democrats rejected Obama’s jobs bill |
| The fence between U.S. and Mexico is “Practically Complete” |
Department of Homeland Security says fence 5 percent complete |
| The rich don’t pay their fair share. |
The wealthiest 5 percent pay 58.66 percent of the taxes, and the top 10 percent pay 70.5 percent of the taxes (2009). |
| “Reform will also rein in the abuse and excess that nearly brought down our financial system. It will finally bring transparency to the kinds of complex, risky transactions that helped trigger the financial crisis.” |
The law signed by President Obama exempts the SEC from disclosing records or information derived from “surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities.” Given that the SEC is a regulatory body, the provision covers almost every action by the agency, lawyers say. Congress and federal agencies can request information, but the public cannot. |
| The jobs bill is paid for. |
There is no guarantee that programs that will increase annual deficits in the near term will be paid for in the long term. |
| Obama said he “will not rest” until the oil leaking from a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was stopped. |
In the next several days, Obama welcomed the college basketball champion to the White House; Obama and Biden posed for photos with the U.S. World Cup Soccer team; Obama traveled to Chicago; went golfing with Joe Biden; played golf again; and spent a weekend on Mount Desert Island. |
| We have run out of places in the US to drill for oil. |
There is plenty of oil that we can get closer to our shores and on land, but Democrat lawmakers have pushed companies off the coast and into deeper waters making it more expensive and dangerous to harvest energy. |
| On Arizona Law 1070: Now suddenly if you don’t have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you can be harassed, that’s something that could potentially happen. |
The Arizona law mirrors the federal law which is not being enforced. Obama is not suing the federal law. |
| "We began by passing a Recovery Act that has already saved or created over 150,000 jobs." |
This assertion is flawed on several levels. At the time of this statement, the U.S. had lost more than 1.2 million jobs since Obama took office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Even if Obama's stimulus bill had actually saved or created as many jobs as he says, that number is dwarfed by the number of recent job losses.In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been “saved or created” with $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says. There's one problem: there is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts. And ABC News found many more entries for projects like this in places that do not exist. Fraud and abuse of government spending associated with the Recovery Act are rampant. |
| Obama says he is a Christian and believes in “collective salvation.” |
Salvation is not a “collective” act. Salvation is a personal act by individuals who separately declare faith in Jesus in Christ. There is no mention in the Bible one can only become a Christian unless someone else does also. |
| “We now have over $9 trillion of national debt we are gonna have to pay back. It’s irresponsible.” |
Obama is responsible for $5 trillion of the national debt. |
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| The health care debate will be covered live on C-SPAN. |
The House and Senate created a law through private meetings without C-Span cameras, as promised. |
| The 2012 GOP budget plan will take health care away from Down syndrome children. |
False. And 90 percent of Down syndrome preborn children in America are killed by abortionists. The abortion industry consistently contributes to the campaigns of Obama and Democrat candidates for office. |
| I will cut the deficit in half by end of my first term. |
The deficit increased every year under Obama. |
| Under Obama’s government medical rationing law, he said no federal funds will be used for abortion. |
There are no promises in the bill preventing federal funding of abortion. |
| “We have launched a housing plan that will help responsible families facing the threat of foreclosure lower their monthly payments and refinance their mortgages. It’s a plan that won’t help speculators or that neighbor down the street who bought a house he could never hope to afford, but it will help millions of Americans who are struggling with declining home values.” |
The Obama administration has not come up with a way to ensure that the bailout money only goes to those who got into trouble. |
| I am not somebody who promotes same-sex marriage, but I do believe in civil unions. |
The Windy City Times, a homosexual paper, reported Obama filled out a questionnaire in 1996 and said: “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.” |
| Americans making less than $250,000 a year will receive a tax cut, Obama promised in 2008. |
The first violation of this promise was the signing of the Tobacco Tax into law. The second violation came with the health care bill. Both raised taxes.Obama is cancelling the Bush tax cuts -- resulting in the largest tax increase in American history, January 1, 2013. |
| Obama denied a close relationship with Bill Ayers, a former terrorist. |
From 1995-1999, Obama led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists. The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. As CAC chairman, Obama was lending moral and financial support to Ayers and his radical circle. Among other feats, Ayers and his cohorts had bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Obama's first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a 1995 gathering at Ayers's home. Ayers parents financed portions of Obama’s education. |
| Obama said he never heard controversial remarks by Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the church he attended for 20 years. |
Obama did indeed know of Wright’s radical sermons and he fully endorsed them. Obama only separated himself from Wright after weeks of pressure and even then said that he didn’t know or hear any radical sermons while he attended the church. Wright also performed the wedding ceremony for Barack and Michelle Obama. |
| My father served in World War II. |
This is a blatant lie. |
| Obama said he won the 2008 Michigan presidential primary. |
Obama was not on the ballot in Michigan. |
| Obama was never associated with ACORN. |
Obama funneled $800,000 to ACORN for their 2008 General Election operations and then lied about it. Obama organized Project Vote activities in Chicago, in 1992 and has trained ACORN operators.Obama as ACORN’s lawyer, sued Illinois in 1993, to weaken voter registration law.Obama as ACORN’s lawyer, sued Citibank in 1994 (Buycks-Roberson case, above), to force them into giving subprime loans to home buyers with poor credit ratings, setting the stage for the mortgage meltdown.Obama promised in 2007 to let ACORN and related groups "help us shape the agenda" of his presidency, by meeting with them after the Nov. 4 election. What is their agenda? "Helping low income people?" In some ways, at least temporarily, but see below.When Obama met with ACORN leaders while campaigning for president in 2008, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education. He said he knew personally the “work you do” and “I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career."In 2011, The Obama Administration gave ACORN spinoff organizations $729,849. |
| Obama said he did not know Tony Rezko, a convicted felon.. |
After his election to the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama approached Tony Rezko, then under active federal investigation, as he sought a way to buy a house. |
| Under Obamacare, Medicaid will not be cut. |
HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services testified that cuts to Medicaid would “jeopardize access” for millions of seniors. |
| Obama said he did not support a single-payer health insurance plan. |
In a 2003 videotaped interview, Obama said: “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan.” |
| Obama denied for months that the GOP had a health insurance reform plan. |
Republicans offered numerous proposals. And Obama later backtracked and claimed he included many of the Republicans’ proposals in his own plan! |
| Domestic oil production is up under this administration. |
The government’s director of the Bureau of Land Management, Bob Abbey, testified to Congress on this very point: Oil production is actually down 14 percent on federal property and down 17 percent offshore from a year ago.The Congressional Research Service report confirms this: In 2011, production on federal property declined by an average of 275,000 barrels per day. |
| “Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a (Obamacare) law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” |
The Supreme Court has invalidated more than 150 federal laws in part or in whole. |
