Mitt Romney released a new ad today about welfare reform. It's a stone-cold lie.
The ad's narrator says: "Under Obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check."
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The Heritage Foundation today spread a falsehood about a change the Obama administration is instituting in the 1996 welfare reform law that has rapidly spread through the right-wing blogosphere. Letting Heritage and the right wing get away with this lie would do serious harm to people trying to pull themselves out of poverty.
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Before Greece, before Spain, before Germany, France, or even Britain there was Ireland. Just two years ago, the Heritage Foundation placed Ireland in the top ten of its "Index of Economic Freedom." That was two years after the "Celtic Tiger" that was the Irish economy had been effectively neutered.
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The world's been turned upside down by the Supreme Court hearings on the individual insurance mandate. Left is right, right is wrong, and the future is uncertain. There are only two approaches to health care that we know are constitutional: a European-style 'socialized medicine' system, or the old system of uninsured people dying in the streets.
Backwards
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Last year, when the House Republican leadership introduced its budget, they tried to pretend that giant tax cuts for the wealthy and the obliteration of most government functions would create jobs.
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Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games.
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Paul Krugman notes Ireland is still “hailed as a success” (right up there with Latvia), when there was never anything about in Ireland’s austerity policies — or the whole Eurozone embrace of austerity — that anyone could truly call successful. Not with a straight face, anyway. And, from the perspective of a Keynesian like Krugman, [...]
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See if you can spot the common theme in the latest the conservative message machine pumped out today and in the last few days. Heritage Foundation: Obama Keeps Turning His Back on Jobs: This week, President Obama is again set to make a pitch for his latest plan to stimulate the economy, but meanwhile he [...]
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A USA Today/Gallup poll published this morning suggests that “most Americans blame Wall Street for the nation’s economic predicament — but they blame Washington more.” Furthermore, when specifically asked who they blame most for the poor state of the economy, “64% of Americans name the federal government and 30% say big financial institutions.” Conservatives have [...]
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The Census Bureau reports that the percentage of people living in poverty in the U.S. is at its highest level in almost two decades. But not to worry, says the conservative Heritage Foundation: Poor people are doing just fine: Few of the 46.2 million people identified by the Census Bureau as being “in poverty” are [...]
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