Election
2012: Should be Based on FACTS
not FALSEHOODS
20 August 2012
Global American Series
Americans are facing a critical election on the path
forward for our country. Therefore, they deserve to make their voting decision
based on real FACTS and not political FALSEHOODS. We don’t need an election
based on misrepresentations.
So it is GOOD that we are having a discussion on Medicare,
taxes and the budget. We finally have an election based on “Big Ideas” instead
of little ones.
However, here is where FACTS come in. One of the first
casualties of facts is the assertion by Romney’s campaign that “Obama has
removed the work requirement from welfare.”
This is “pants on fire” false. When
Romney was Governor of Massachusetts he asked for the same waiver that the
Obama administration has given states to give them more flexibility in meeting
the work requirements. Obama has
actually strengthened the work requirement by 20%. So is the Romney claim a “dog
whistle” call to supporters who think welfare recipients are lazy no- goods?
The second big claim that does not match the facts is Gov.
Romney’s declaration that “Obama took $716 Billion out of Medicare.” It makes
it sound like Obama REDUCED BENEFITS to people.
NOT TRUE. Medicare
recipients have not had one dollar cut from their payments. Obama’s Affordable
Care Act has covered more of the “do-nut hole” for prescriptions. It did lower
payments to insurers (not people) – which extends the life of Medicare by eight
years. Without those changes Medicare would have run out of money by 2016.
By putting that $716 billion on the table (i.e. by paying
the insurance companies MORE) the GOP plan would have the Medicare system run out
of cash in four (4) years -- in 2016.
Obama’s campaign has been sticking with Facts, although the
Priorities USA SuperPAC has painted a picture of Romney’s a plant lay off by
Bain Capital as causing a man’s wife to die of cancer when she died five years
after he lost his job and insurance.
But Romney’s Super PAC’s are no more honest. That is a problem caused by the U.S. Supreme
Court’s “Citizens United” decision that lets SuperPAC’s acquire unlimited
funding to say anything they wish, whether true or false. Unfortunately, 90% of
the SuperPAC ads supporting Mr. Romney during the primary made FALSE statements
about his GOP primary opponents. So we
have a case of the “pot calling the kettle black” when it comes to false
SuperPAC ads.
Campaigns should have a higher standard than that. They
should be policy focused and FACT based.
Unfortunately, facts and truth are in short supply this year.
We are entitled to our own opinions but we need Election
2012 to be made on HONEST FACTS and not FALSEHOODS by the campaigns. If a
campaign cannot win based on truth then it deserves to lose. A campaign win
based on FALSEHOODS is a deceptive win that undermines our democracy -- because
it was based on a lie to the American public.
It is up to the media and all of us to insure that
Americans are given honest truth from which to make their decision this November
6.
NEXT: Will there be an “October Surprise” – an attack by
Israel on Iran’s nuke complex? If so, who would it benefit the most?
Michael Fjetland
Global American Series
Opt in-out (your call)
Comments/Follow at our blog:
Sponsored by Armor Glass International, Inc.
FACT: We save you enough energy to pay for itself over
time while protecting your weakest link from burglars, hurricanes, tornadoes
and solar heat…
No comments:
Post a Comment
Comments from real people welcome. The only comment rule is "BE CIVIL." Let's discuss SOLUTIONS based on real FACTS.
Thanks for your feedback! Click "Subscribe" or "Follow" for notification of future posts. Feel free to Share with your friends.