New Obama, Romney ads: Education and welfare

CBS News

(CBS News) Picking apart Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's budget, the Obama campaign has found a new issue on which to attack him: Education. His campaign released a new television advertisement Wednesday saying the Ryan plan would "cut education by 20 percent."

In the new ad titled "Children," a couple says smaller class sizes have lead to their children's "greatest experiences" in school.

"But Mitt Romney says class sizes don't matter," a narrator intones. "And he supports Paul Ryan's budget which could cut education by 20 percent." The ad credits the liberal leaning Center for Budget and Policy Priorities for the statistic.

Ryan's budget, which Republicans used as their blueprint for fiscal policy, has now become a central point of debate in the presidential campaign since he was chosen as Romney's vice presidential candidate. The president took the issue of education on the campaign trail to Nevada and Ohio this week.

Previously, the Obama campaign went after Ryan's Medicare proposal, which would move Medicare from a fee-for-service government program to a voucher system.

The Romney campaign, meanwhile, is continuing its attacks on the president over welfare, specifically his July executive order that allows states waivers on work requirements.

The latest television advertisement has video footage of President Bill Clinton after signing welfare reform in 1996, which instituted a work requirement for welfare recipients.

"This bill will help people stop drawing a welfare check and start drawing a paycheck," Mr. Clinton says in the video footage.

The ad then goes on to show footage of President Obama in 1998 saying, "I was not a supporter of the federal plan that was signed in 1996."

The ad builds on previous advertisements that charged that Mr. Obama gutted the work requirements in welfare reform, a claim numerous independent analysts have said is wrong as the Obama administration insists that states are not allowed to weaken work requirements. This ad avoids that claim but implies that the president opposes work requirements.

[Maerzie]

Romney surely does pick topics to criticize that reflect his own ignorance of what his OWN party has done, like he's intentionally calling attention to more of their flaws! NOT too bright! He's ragging on work requirement being taken OUT of welfare qualifications for the poor, which is a lie, but never even QUESTIONS why his own party gives ENORMOUS amopunts of welfare to Republicans and has NEVER required them to do ANY "work" for it. All the "Subsidies"~~"Grants"~~ "ExcessiveTax Deductions"~~"Bailouts"~~ etc., are ALL "REPUBLICAN WELFARE" programs!

The other stupidity he is harping on is the poor results of students in our schools, blaming THAT on Obama. It would be wise for Romney to see how much Republican legislation and how many Republican Governors have CUT FUNDS for education and believe we have WAY TOO MANY teachers! It's his OWN party! Does he really think NOBODY pays attention?? I think Romney's the one who doesn't have a clue what goes on in our REAL world, while he looks out as "US PEOPLE" from his ivory towers.

After all, if students get GOOD educations, WHERE are the Republicans going to continue to find the gullibles who FALL for their lying propaganda?? Educated people are usually NOT the gullible ones! Cutting funds to education has alwayys been the Republican recruitment system!

Romney's topics of hate don't leave much question about his lack of THINKING abilities!

[hhandyman]

If corp are citizens then tax them as individuals are taxed and convert all income taxes to cover both casual income and income from actual labor at the exact same rate no more nickel and dime for casual income. and pull the limit on taxable income for social security income is income tax accordingly for the monies stolen from the trust fund to pay for wars and other current government costs from Nixon era on.

[RollotheNorman]

Good start. I'm thinking the top tax bracket should be around 45% and all capital gains or interest income should be taxed as regular wages. Further eliminate the caps on Medicare and OASI, that will make them solvent forever.

[RollotheNorman]

http://www.politifact.com/personalities/mitt-romney/

Willard tells half-truths or worse 71% of the time.
What a real swell guy.

[0bama2O12]

Why is it that the republicans want to cut education. This country is falling apart at an intellectual level.

[SD92040]

We haven't had a budget in almost 4 years, why should we pick Romney/Ryan? The budget and economy is just fine! lol!

[Cru09]

Romney's biggest strategy is to buy the election with lies ad-nauseam.