>>>>>Mitt Romney was involved in a town hall meeting in March. Romney said the following:
Raw Story:
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday told a high
school senior not to expect any help from the government for college
tuition unless he joined the military.
At a town hall-style campaign event in Mahoning Valley, Ohio, a
student who was hoping to go to college next year asked the candidate
what assistance he would provide “with regards to college tuition.”
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**In a follow-up to Mitt Romney's speech at Otterbein University, it might be worth a second look at what he said. Romney told students to (see Daily Beast): "...borrow money from your parents..."Of course, if your parents have tons of money, that works. However, if your parent is underemployed because Bain Capital destroyed the company or the Republicans refused to fund the rebuilding of roads and bridges, you are out of luck.
In article posted at Otterbein360, the writer offers the following statement:
...What do we really know about Mitt Romney? He seems so tame and naive at
times, but what worries me is that he seems genuinely unprepared. He
will say almost anything to please a crowd, and his views go from
radically decisive to being so vague he might as well be talking about
the weather. But enough about the good things — let’s take a look at
what makes Mitt Romney the man he is.
.....As for job creation, under Mitt Romney’s leadership, Massachusetts
ranked 47th among the 50 states in job creation and had a job growth
rate of 0.9 percent, far behind the national average of over 5 percent.
Romney has been quoted as saying, “Corporations are people,” a dangerous
notion that leads to less taxes for big corporations and heavier taxes
for the little guy. About the working class: Romney has a new tax cut
set up for them. He wants to cut capital gains taxes for anyone earning
$200,000 or less a year.
The issue? Research by thinkprogress.org shows that around 74
percent of people in this category will not benefit from this because
few households in this category even earn capital gains, which is
defined as money earned from investments such as real estate, stocks and
bonds. It does, however, benefit the wealthy that have access to
capital gains. According to the Tax Policy Center, 67 percent of the
entire benefit from lower capital gains tax rates goes to millionaires.
Seventy-five percent of the benefit goes to the wealthiest 1 percent of
Americans. This tax plan costs around $7 trillion and is supposed to
have a focus on the middle class, but all the benefits suggest
otherwise...
Romney is totally unprepared. While Barack Obama had experience in the Senate, and his own state legislature, Romney's business "experience" has come at the expense of people losing jobs, and communities being destroyed.
*** Rep. Marcy Kaptur is being challenged by Sarah Palin's buddy, Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher.
Politifact looked at Wurzelbacher's recent letter that contained charges about President Obama's parents. Politifact took issue with Wurzelbacher's letter that was posted on the Christian Broadcasting Network website, in which Wurzelbacher wrote the following:
"Imagine being the child of a mixed-race marriage - especially in the
turbulent 60’s and free-wheeling 70’s," his letter said. "And when you
throw in that dad was a Muslim and mom an atheist - you know it could
not have been easy - and they were communists for crying out loud!"
Here is Politifact's assessment of Wurzelbacher's statement:
...The evidence that Wurzelbacher produced doesn’t back his claim. There
does not seem to be any proof that Obama’s mother was a communist. Nor
does the 1965 paper authored by Obama’s estranged father verify that he
was a communist. And authors of books on Obama say there’s no evidence
that Obama’s parents were communists.
We give Wurzelbacher’s incendiary statement a False rating.
We give Wurzelbacher’s incendiary statement a False rating.
I'm just so tired of these lies from Republicans and their continued attacks on President Obama.
