Obama LIES! (About Foreign Policy and the Economy)

Foreign Policy Lies: (& National Security)

The BIGGEST LIE: We were told for two weeks that The attack on the Libyan consulate in Benghazi was a “demonstration” against a video that was “unflattering” to Muslims when the White House knew within a few hours that it was a terrorist attack. It was TWO WEEKS before they admitted that it was a Terrorist attack.

Ironicallly on 10/24/2012 while campaigning in Davenport Iowa Obama said: “all of this speaks to something that's really important, and that is the issue of trust. There's no more serious issue on a presidential campaign than trust. Trust matters," and yet Obama had been lying to the American people for two weeks. All that mentioning the video did was bring more attention to the fact it existed. On its own merits the video never would have seen any success. It’s because of the president drawing attention to the video that unrest in Islamic countries increased and the world became even more unsafe. In effect the president shot first and aimed later or shot the wrong place even after aiming. Either way America is more unsafe due to Barrack Obama’s poor judgement.

OBAMA SAID:  "I’ve done more for Israel’s security than any President ever"
Obama aided Islamic Extremists take over of Egypt/ Libya – Weapons pour into Gaza

Obama's Presidency: Four Good Years for Hamas

Reports indicate the dual presidencies of Obama and Egypt's Mohamed Morsi have been very good for Hamas. In fact, the militant Islamist organization that was in dire straits financially just a few years ago, now has strong financial backing and looks forward to warring against Israel for many years to come. 26 Oct 2012,

Economy: (Obama care, deficit, budget cuts, etc.)

OBAMA SAID:  "Number one, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit. … That wasn’t me.” –

The FACTS:  The Associaated Press Fact Checkers said: “Congress, under Democratic control in 2007 and 2008, controlled the purse strings that led to the deficit Obama inherited.Obama supported the emergency bailout package in Bush’s final months — a package Democratic leaders wanted to make bigger.”

"That wasn't me," President Barack Obama said on his 100th day in office, disclaiming responsibility for the huge budget deficit waiting for him on Day One.

It actually was partly him -- and the other Democrats controlling Congress the previous two years -- who shaped the latest in a string of precipitously out-of-balance budgets.

And as a presidential candidate and president-elect, he backed the twilight Bush-era stimulus plan that made the deficit deeper, all before he took over and promoted spending plans that have made it much deeper still.

OBAMA SAID:  "The health care bill will not increase the deficit by one dime."

The FACTS:  According to New York Post-Oct 27, 2012

It will result in higher insurance premiums, fewer jobs, and sets the stage ... now estimates that ObamaCare will cost more than $1.76 trillion by 2022. ... ObamaCare could end up costing as much as $2.7 trillion over the next 10 years and add as much as $823 billion to our growing national debt.

OBAMA SAID:   10/15/2012 Obama said that “we got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system."

The FACTS:   According to the Congressional Budget Office, however, the government will lose about $24 billion on the bailout. In fact, CBO reported that as of now $65 billion in TARP  (Troubled Asset Relief Program) funds remain outstanding.

OBAMA SAID:  "The Health Care Package will pay for itself"
So where will lawmakers find the money? 

The FACTS:  President Obama proposed a $634 billion "reserve fund," paid for by higher taxes on the wealthy, but even if that passes, experts say it won't be enough to cover even half the cost of comprehensive health-care reform over the next 10 years. Hospitals and doctors are also bracing for what they expect will be efforts to cut the reimbursements they get for treating patients under Medicare and Medicaid

OBAMA SAID:  “Under Gov. Romney’s definition … Donald Trump is a small business.”

The FACTS:  "If Trump ends up getting a cut from Romney, it would be because he’s a taxpayer, not because  Romney "defines" him as a small businessman.

OBAMA SAID:  Because of Obamacare, “over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up — it’s true — but they’ve gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years.”

            

The FACTS:  Obama vastly exaggerated the impact of his health care law on the costs. Experts say that's due to the recession, not the law.

OBAMA SAID:  "Romney and Ryan will gut pell grants for low-income college students."

The FACTS:  Actually, the Ryan budget calls only for “limiting the growth” of spending for the program, and Ryan has said the maximum grant of $5,550 would not be decreased.

OBAMA SAID:  "My budget will cut the deficit by $4 Trillion over 10 years."

  
The FACTS:  “Drawing down spending on wars that were already set to wind down and that were deficit financed in the first place should not be considered savings. When you finish college, you don’t suddenly have thousands of dollars a year to spend elsewhere — in fact, you have to find a way to pay back your loans.”

In addition, the president’s plan includes another $1 trillion in savings from the Budget Control Act that had been agreed to as part of the deal with Congress to raise the debt ceiling. That’s not new savings, but accounts for already agreed-upon savings.

OBAMA SAID:  "I cannot guarantee that those  (Social Security) checks will go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it." 

The FACTS:  It just so happens that the Social Security trust fund is holding $2.6 trillion of special issue Treasury bonds, which are backed by the full faith and credit of the government and are even subject to the debt limit. In other words, the trust fund puts Social Security in the first tier of creditors, along with Wall Street and the Chinese, while most other federal spending programs would have to scramble for what is left. So, in his haste to scare retirees, the president pointed to a program that is in fact one of the least likely to cut benefits even if the debt limit is not increased.

Obama LIES (about Taxes)

TAXES:

OBAMA SAID: "Rich doesn’t pay their fair share."

FACT:  according to the National Tax Payers Union:
The top 50% (people who make and ajusted gross income of over $32,396) pay 97.75% of the taxes collected.  While the bottom 50% (those whose AGI is under $32,396) pay only 2.25%.

OBAMA SAID: "Virtually every Senate Republican voted against the tax cut last week"

FACTS:
According to the Senate Roll Call, twenty Republicans voted for the measure to proceed, including Idaho's Mike Crapo and James Risch.On the other hand, every Democrat but one voted against it, including Washington's Patty Murray  and Maria Cantwell. Only John Kerry (D-MA) did not vote. Not one single Democrat voted for the tax cuts..Nevertheless, Obama took to the podium to falsely declare just the opposite

OBAMA SAID:  “Every idea that we’ve put forward are ones that traditionally have been supported by Democrats and Republicans alike.”
Like Raising taxes?

  

THE FACTS: Obama proposes to pay for his jobs bill by raising taxes, something traditionally opposed by Republicans and, in the form Obama proposed it, even some Democrats. Senate Democrats were so allergic to Obama’s approach, which relied largely on limiting deductions that can be taken by individuals making over $200,000 a year and couples making more than $250,000, that they’re eliminating it and replacing it with a new tax on millionaires.

OBAMA SAID:  You have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach. Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts. So the notion that somehow the American people aren’t sold is not the problem

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' preferences for deficit reduction clearly favor spending cuts to tax increases, but most Americans favor a mix of the two approaches. Twenty percent favor an approach that relies only on spending cuts and 4% favor an approach that uses tax increases alone.

Obama LIES (about Unemployment and Jobs)

Unemployment/Jobs:

OBAMA SAID:  "GOP Responsible for Obama Jobs Bill Not Passing"

FACTS:  Dems Rejected Obama's Jobs Bill, but AP Blames the GOP Nonetheless
 October 11, 2011  It is the Democrats who can't pass this bill. It's the Democrats who don't have the votes. It was Mitch McConnell's idea to push for a quick vote on this. He wanted to illustrate the fact that Obama does not have Democrat votes. And right on cue, here comes the AP blaming Republicans for blocking the president's tax bill.

OBAMA SAID:  "Jobs Bill Paid for" 

THE FACTS: Obama did not spell out exactly how he would pay for the measures contained in his nearly $450 billion American Jobs Act, but said he would send his proposed specifics in a week to the new congressional supercommittee charged with finding budget savings. White House aides suggested that new deficit spending in the near-term to try to promote job creation would be paid for in the future – the “out years,” in legislative jargon – but they did not specify what would be cut or what revenues they would use.

Essentially, the jobs plan is an IOU from a president and lawmakers who may not even be in office down the road when the bills come due. Today’s Congress cannot bind a later one for future spending. A future Congress could simply reverse it.

Currently, roughly all federal taxes and other revenues are consumed in spending on various federal benefit programs, including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans’ benefits, food stamps, farm subsidies and other social-assistance programs and payments on the national debt. Pretty much everything else is done on credit with borrowed money.

So there is no guarantee that programs that clearly will increase annual deficits in the near term will be paid for in the long term.

OBAMA SAID:  "We began by passing a Recovery Act that has already saved or created over 150,000 jobs.” – caught cooking the books and now changed to ‘jobs supported’ versus ‘created/saved’
AP fact Checker

FACTS:   This assertion is flawed on several levels. For starters, the U.S. has lost more than 1.2 million jobs since Obama took office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Even if Obama's  stimulus bill saved or created as many jobs as he says, that number is dwarfed by the number of recent job losses.

OBAMA SAID:  "Recovery Act will save or create jobs"
ABC News reported on Nov. 16, 2009:

            Millions of the Recovery Acts dollars have been spent for jobs in districts that DON”T EXIST!

            140.5 million in 1^st Congresssional district of the U.Virgin Islands (doen’t exist)

            48.7 million  was spent by the 99^th congressional district in the U.S. Virgin Islands (doesn’t exist)

            47.7 million was spent by the 99^th congressional district of Puerto Ricio (doesn’t exist)

35 million was spent byt the 99^th congressional district of the Northern mariana Island (doesn’t  exist)

We’re not just talking off shore:

19 million was spent for 15 jobs in congressional districts in Oklahoma that don’t exist

10.6 million was spent on 39 jobs created in non existent districts in Iowa

Get the picture????What I want to know is…where is that money really going???

OBAMA SAID:  "The American automobile industry has come roaring back…So now I want to say what we did with the auto industry, we can do it in manufacturing across America. Let’s make sure advanced, high-tech manufacturing jobs take root here, not in China. And that means supporting investment here. Governor Romney … invested in companies that were called ‘pioneers’ of outsourcing. I don’t want to outsource. I want to insource."

FACTS:  We need to look no further than General Motors’ own figures to  learn that GM outsources almost two thirds of its jobs overseas. Less than one in five GM vehicles are manufactured in the United States.
To be exact: GM’s December 31, 2011 annual report shows General Motors of North America accounting for 98,000  of the 207,000 GM jobs worldwide. But 12,000 of these jobs are in Canada and 11,500 are in Mexico.  Accordingly, GM has 74,500 jobs in the United States and 122,500 abroad, even after Obama’s touted surge in Detroit jobs.  Almost two thirds of  GM’s jobs are in other countries.
GM’s outsourcing is not a slip. GM clearly states that foreign investment and  outsourcing of jobs are an integral parts of its growth strategy

“75 years ago, General Motors came to our country with a dream to fulfill: turning Mexico into a prosperous nation for the benefit of millions of families. Today, after 75 years into the adventure, we have achieved goals that seemed unattainable, thanks to the efforts and dedication of Mexican talent. During the 75 years GM Mexico has been in operation, the subsidiary has produced 7 million vehicles, 20 million engines, and 4 million transmissions. GM Mexico employs 11,500 direct and about 90,000 indirect employees.”
So it now appears that GM’s goal is to make Mexico prosperous, not the good old US of A!

OBAMA SAID:  “You Didn’t Build that”
Obama: "I am always so struck by people who think, wow, it must be because well I’m just so smart …. it must be because I worked harder than anyone else … let me tell you something, if you have a business, you didn’t build that … somebody else made that happen!"

One response: Shame on you Mr. President! My brother worked 10 years as a heating and air conditioning man before making the big step of opening his first business! The road has been, to say the least, rough! In the early years, my brother and sister even sacraficed their own paychecks (barely making ends meet) to make sure the employees of the company took home a paycheck so they could feed their families! My brother has never taken a vacation (1 day when my mom passed back in 2004). He is constantly worrying about health insurance for his employees and so much other red tape involved for small business owners. So much for small business owners …. we know what it’s all about and it has nothing to do with what Obama has “done for us” … rather what we can do for him!

OBAMA SAID:  Obama, in the same speech above was referring to the fact that small businesses needed other things to flourish, like roads, electricity, teachers who educated the business owners… the whole infrastructure. The small businessman didn’t create that, the government made that possible

No it didn’t!  the TAXES that we the people paid, paid for all that.  So if that small business man has been paying his taxes all along, HE helped create the infrastructure needed to run his business.

It’s about equal opportunity and what you do with that opportunity. Infrastructure and teachers are there for all Americans, so ANYONE could start and build a business, but not everyone does. Give credit when and where credit is due… to those willing to take a chance on their dream.