New Romney ad forecasts cost of "four more years"
A Republican glimpse into the future offers voters "five reasons we can't afford four more years of Barack Obama," says a new 30-second TV ad by Mitt Romney's campaign, titled "The Obama Plan." Among its charges: rising debt, taxes and gas prices, and major cuts to employer-provided health care coverage and Medicare.
"If Barack Obama is re-elected, what will the next four years be like?" the voiceover says. Featuring projections in a fiscal year 2013 mid-session budget review from the Office of Management and Budget, the ad claims, "One, the debt will grow from $16 trillion to $20 trillion."
Two, the voice continues, "20 million Americans could lose their employer-based health care." The ad includes a summary line from a March 2012 report from the Congressional Budget Office to back up the claim, but Romney's use of that attack on the stump has already prompted fact-checkers to deem it "false" for having "cherry-picked" the most extreme baseline prediction out of five, without referencing the primary estimate.
Continuing the Republican nominee's pitch in the battle to prove which candidate is more middle-class friendly, "number three" is a veteran line for the Romney camp, having made appearances in three previous ads: "Taxes on the middle class will go up by $4,000." Factcheck.org has taken issue with this attack in the past, criticizing the Romney campaign for relying on analysis from a conservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute, which does not account for the president's plan to expire the Bush-era tax cuts for the upper class.
The fourth point cites gas price trends, which the U.S. Energy Information Agency reports have more than doubled during President Obama's term. If he is reelected, the ad assumes, "energy prices will continue to go up."
[In fact, "CBS This Morning: Saturday" reports the national average for a gallon of regular has fallen for more than 10 straight days, and now stands at $3.69. Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst of the Oil Price Information Service, told CBS News prices have been heading down in all 48 states in the continental U.S.]
Finally, the ad wraps with a talking point that has been largely discredited by fact-checkers and the media, claiming that "The Obama Plan" would put into play "$716 billion in Medicare cuts that hurt current seniors." Like Romney's use of the criticism in the past, the ad references analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, but inaccurately translates the findings, which predict that health care providers - not patients - would lose money. (Furthermore, Romney's running mate Rep. Paul Ryan included those same Medicare cuts in his budget proposal.)
The Obama campaign, also out with a new ad that is far less specific - and therefore far less fact-checkable - goes after the GOP nominee on education. Titled "Wonderful," it plays audio of Romney saying to the Des Moines Register editorial board, "We all like school teachers. It's a wonderful thing... But hiring school teachers is not going to raise the growth of the U.S. economy."
Another sound bite plays from an early GOP primary debate in Orlando, Fla.: "All the talk about 'We need smaller classroom size,' look, that's promoted by the teachers unions to hire more teachers," Romney says.
"President Obama has a different view," the ad concludes. "He believes smaller class sizes and great teachers are a key to a stronger economy and a stronger middle class."
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The entire world experienced an economic crises beginning in 2008 and continues in recession for the most part and I bet you would say that's Obamas fault too!
Of course none of you care to know that as long as 10 years after the beginning of The Great Depression US unemployment was as high as 14% until WWII started and industrial demand kicked in!
I propose that no one elected to the office of President could fair as well or have so great an impact!
And, as with the Great Depression, there is still a long tough road ahead and the President has repeatedly said as much!
His detractors, particularly those who vote in the House and Senate would do better to help govern, as opposed to impeding him----While the middle-class is squeezed, the poor grow poorer and the wealthy sit back on their heels, lining their pockets and protecting their ass-ets!
All the while, Republican's with the Tea Party are trying to sell the American public on the idea that we should already be out of this mess---all the while playing obstructionist politics and doing a good job at it too, based on so much of the vacuous drivel I've read on this board.
Tell me, what of the 3-4 trillion big business is sitting on?
Now that is a real low down dirty shame!
They then have the temerity to say the Presidents policies are hurting the economy. What a crock! The GOP and Tea Party are out of excuses!
When Jack Kennedy ran for president, because he was Catholic, he had to make a speech to the people of this country stating his church and the Pope would have no effect on his presidency or the way he would govern. In this current world it seems as if every republican is required to do just the opposite and pledge his allegiance to the Catholic Church's rulings on many social issues. This is backwards and unconstitutional.
Factcheck.org has taken issue with this attack in the past, criticizing the Romney campaign for relying on analysis from a conservative think tank,
[In fact, "CBS This Morning: Saturday" reports the national average for a gallon of regular has fallen for more than 10 straight days, and now stands at $3.69. Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst of the Oil Price Information Service, told CBS News prices have been heading down in all 48 states in the continental U.S.]
Finally, the ad wraps with a talking point that has been largely discredited by fact-checkers and the media,
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ALL LIES!!!
WHEN ARE YOU PEOPLE GOING TO WAKE UP???
They keep wanting to heap money on the top, when there is a glut of capital ALREADY available.
Sorry... science wins!
The thirty year experiment with supply side has failed, it's time to move the country back to the sane notion that things are built from the bottom up... not from the top down... doesn't work.
Now... let's see if you are intelligent enough to understand that.
Funny, I never see any assessment on either side on what their own policies might do. ....why that's a sunshine and roses!!
Jeeeesus, this type of add is stupid.
D&C 18: 42
18 And now, behold, I speak unto the church. Thou shalt not kill; and he that kills shall not have forgiveness in this world, nor in the world to come.
Read more at http://listverse.com/2008/02/04/top-10-bizarre-mormon-beliefs
Therefore: As commander-in-chief MR cannot risk his soul to start a war or participate in one where soldiers get killed for he would be the guilty party. Is this why MORMONS do not join the military?
So the question is will we as voters continue to act as enablers by rewarding with votes for the very party (republicans) that works against us.
Rich people are not condemned for being rich but their indifference to the poor.
It is expected that those health providers will provide the same goods and services despite not being paid $716,000,000,000? Because usually when you stop paying someone $716,000,000,000, they cannot afford to continuing offering goods and services.
This is a cut to Medicare. Nobody can afford to "soak it up" when Medicare rates are already so low that many providers opt out of seeing Medicare patients.