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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
Obama’s Numbers (Quarterly Update)
Posted on April 16, 2013
Reviewing some key statistical measures of Barack Obama’s presidency so far, we find: The economy has added more jobs since Obama took office than it did in his predecessor’s entire eight years in office. Despite the improved economy, the number of people receiving food-stamp assistance has continued to grow, and now more people have been added to the food-stamp rolls …
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Tagged Barack Obama, debt, immigration, jobs, oil, taxes, unemployment
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Cornyn’s ‘False’ Rhetoric
Posted on April 12, 2013
Sen. John Cornyn alleged President Obama has told the families of Newtown shooting victims that the Republican party “doesn’t really care about their loss.” But Obama never actually said that. Cornyn’s misrepresentation of Obama’s comments came during a speech on the Senate floor on April 11, just before the Texas …
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Obama’s and Rubio’s Health Care Claims
Posted on February 21, 2013
Managing Editor Lori Robertson tells Connecticut Public Broadcasting about President Barack Obama’s and Sen. Marco Rubio’s health care claims in the State of the Union address and Republican response. Obama said the Affordable Care Act “is helping to slow the growth of health care costs.” Experts say it has helped, …
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Tagged Barack Obama, health care, Marco Rubio
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Obama’s Preschool Stretch
Posted on February 20, 2013
President Obama exaggerates the potential benefits of his ambitious plan for universal preschool, as he first outlined in the State of the Union and repeated elsewhere since then: Obama says every dollar invested in “high quality” preschool can return “seven dollars later on” but that is based on an economic analysis of a small, two-year program that targeted disadvantaged youth …
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Tagged Barack Obama, education, Preschool, President Obama, State of the Union
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The ‘Obamaquester’
Posted on February 19, 2013
This Republican talking point aims to blame President Obama for more than $1 trillion in automatic, across-the-board cuts in domestic and defense spending that — without action by Congress — are scheduled to take effect on March 1. But the reality is that the pending cuts would not be possible had both Democrats and Republicans not supported the legislation that included them. …
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Tagged Barack Obama, John Boehner, sequester, sequestration
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FactChecking Obama’s SOTU
Posted on February 13, 2013
President Obama put a rosy spin on several accomplishments of his administration in his 2013 State of the Union address. The president claimed that “both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion.” But that’s only an estimate of deficit reduction through fiscal year 2022, and it would be lower …
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Tagged Barack Obama, manufacturing, minimum wage, SOTU, State of the Union
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Did Obama Flip-Flop on Gun Control?
Posted on February 5, 2013
Wayne LaPierre, chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association, incorrectly claimed Obama pulled a bait-and-switch, promising during the campaign not to take away anyone’s guns, but now supporting an assault weapons ban. Obama is not now seeking to take away anyone’s existing guns, and he has for years consistently …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
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Tagged assault weapons ban, Barack Obama, gun control, Guns, National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre
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Fudging on the Fiscal Cliff Deal
Posted on January 4, 2013 , Updated on Jan. 4, 2013
In a Web video, President Barack Obama leaves out some key facts about the fiscal cliff deal, possibly leaving the wrong impression about its impact on taxpayers and the deficit: Obama boasts that “middle-class families” will not have to “pay upwards of $2,000 more in taxes this year.” That’s accurate …
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Tagged Barack Obama, federal budget, Fiscal Cliff, taxes
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No Government 401(k) Takeover
Posted on December 11, 2012
Q: Is the Obama administration attempting to eliminate private 401(k)s and IRAs and create a “national retirement system”? A: No. Obama endorses a proposal that would require businesses without retirement plans to establish private IRAs for their employees and deposit a percentage of wages into the accounts. Employees could opt …
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Tagged 401(k), Barack Obama, IRA, national retirement system, National Seniors Council
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Did Undelivered Military Ballots Give Election to Obama?
Posted on November 9, 2012
Q: Did military absentee ballots arrive a day late, swinging the election in favor of President Obama? A: No. This rumor is based on a satirical post on a blog that specializes in “faux news.”
