Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Romney's Lies Revisited

Eventually Ted Cruz will tell many more lies than Romney but it is important that we take one of the biggest Republican liars and use him for a yardstick. When it comes to pants on fire lies, Cruz has already beaten Mitt Romney.

UPDATE!  Click here to read about Ted Cruz's Criminal Financial Schemes and Romney Style Tax Evasion.

All False statements involving Mitt Romney

"Regulations have quadrupled. The rate of regulations quadrupled under this president."

"In one year, (President Obama) provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world … into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1."

Says President Obama has "doubled" the deficit.

"Right now, the (Congressional Budget Office) says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as Obamacare goes into effect next year."

The "48, 49 percent" that supports President Barack Obama are "people who pay no income tax."

President Obama’s lawsuit claims it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period.

President Obama was saying success "is the result of government," not "hard-working people," when he said, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

Says stimulus money went to buy electric cars from Finland as a payback to Obama supporters.

" ‘Obamacare’ puts the federal government between you and your doctor."

Says Dow Chemical decided to build a plant in Saudi Arabia rather than Oklahoma due to the impact of environmental regulations on the supply of natural gas.

"Obamacare … means that for up to 20 million Americans, they will lose the insurance they currently have, the insurance that they like and they want to keep."

"Obamacare adds trillions to our deficits and to our national debt."

When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, "we didn’t just slow the rate of growth of our government, we actually cut it."

Says Barack Obama "is the only president to ever cut $500 billion from Medicare."

"The president gave the (auto) companies to the UAW."

"This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip."

Says President Barack Obama has opened up no new trade relationships with other nations.

Eliminating "Obamacare" ... "saves $95 billion a year."

Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it couldn’t build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state.

False

All False statements involving Mitt Romney

Repealing the health care law "would save $95 billion in 2016."

Says Barack Obama "never worked in the private sector" before he was elected president.

Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it "can't build a factory in a non-union state."

"This is the slowest job recovery since Hoover."

"Today there are more men and women out of work in America than there are people working in Canada."

Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."

"He (Obama) has done several things well. Most of those things are places where he changed his view from where he had during the campaign. So, for instance, he's left our troops in Iraq and they're being more successful there. He boosted our effort in Afghanistan, which is the right course to take. He did not close Guantanamo, thank heavens."

"I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector."

"I don't have lobbyists running my campaign."

"I just talked about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor, the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."

The Red Sox waited "87 long years" to win the World Series.

"The Z-visa that was offered in that Senate bill let everybody who's here illegally, other than criminals, stay here for the rest of their lives."