8 STUPID LIBERAL LIES ABOUT OBAMANOMICS

ALTERNET: 8 Nasty Conservative Lies About the Democrats and Obama That Must Be Debunked Before the Election

ALTERNET LISTED AND NUMBERED THE 8 LIES.

I WILL DEBUNK THEM ALL:

ALTERNET: The public has been misled on a ton of issues like tax cuts, the deficit, the economy, and the cost of health care.

1) President Obama tripled the deficit.

ALTERNET: Bush's last budget had a $1.416 trillion deficit. Obama's first budget reduced that to $1.29 trillion.

WRONG.

• BUSH'S BUDGET WAS HIGH; OBAMA'S WAS HIGHER. THE CUMULATIVE DEFICITS PROJECTED BY OBAMA FOR OBAMA'S TERM WILL DOUBLE THAT OF BUSH'S FOR BUSH'S 8 YEARS.

2) President Obama raised taxes, which hurt the economy.

ALTERNET: Obama cut taxes. 40% of the "stimulus" was wasted on tax cuts which only create debt, which is why it was so much less effective than it could have been.

WRONG.

• THE OBAMA TAX CUTS AMOUNTED TO ABOUT $8/WEEK FOR THE AVERAGE AMERICAN. BIG EFFIN' DEAL!
  

3) President Obama bailed out the banks.

ALTERNET: While many people conflate the "stimulus" with the bank bailouts, the bank bailouts were requested by President Bush and his Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson. (Paulson also wanted the bailouts to be "non-reviewable by any court or any agency.") The bailouts passed and began before the 2008 election of President Obama.

WRONG.

• TARP WAS BUSH'S, BUT THE CAR BAILOUT AND THE STUDENT LOAN TAKEOVER AND THE HEALTH INDUSTRY TAKEOVER WERE UNDER OBAMA. IN BILLS WHICH WEREN'T READ, LET ALONE VETTED. THESE ARE THE BILLS WHICH PISS OFF MOST VOTERS.
  

4) The stimulus didn't work.

ALTERNET: The stimulus worked, but was not enough. In fact, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the stimulus raised employment by between 1.4 million and 3.3 million jobs.

WRONG.

• OBAMA PROMISED UNEMPLOYMENT WOULD STAY BELOW 8.9% - AND IT DIDN'T; 6OMINUTES SAYS IT'S 17% - AND 22% IN CALIFORNIA.

• A QUCIKER LESS CORRUPTIBLE WAY TO IMMEDIATELY INCREASE AGGREGATE SPENDING WOULD'VE BEEN A PAYROLL TAX HOLIDAY.

5) Businesses will hire if they get tax cuts.

ALTERNET: A business hires the right number of employees to meet demand. Having extra cash does not cause a business to hire, but a business that has a demand for what it does will find the money to hire. Businesses want customers, not tax cuts.

WRONG.

• BUSINESSES WILL NOT HIRE IF THEY ARE UNCERTAIN WHAT THE COSTS WILL BE OR WHAT THEIR TAXES WILL BE OR HOW GOOD THE ECONOMY WILL BE; BUSINESS PEOPLE NEED CERTAINTY AND OPTIMISM. OBAMA IS DIMINSIHED BOTH.
  

6) Health care reform costs $1 trillion.

ALTERNET: The health care reform reduces government deficits by $138 billion.

WRONG:

• BWAHAHAHAHAHA! SURE: WE COVER 45 MILLION MORE PEOPLE AND SAVE MONEY; THAT'S A LAUGHER!

7) Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, is "going broke," people live longer, fewer workers per retiree, etc.

ALTERNET: Social Security has run a surplus since it began, has a trust fund in the trillions, is completely sound for at least 25 more years and cannot legally borrow so cannot contribute to the deficit (compare that to the military budget!) Life expectancy is only longer because fewer babies die; people who reach 65 live about the same number of years as they used to.

WRONG:

• BY LEGAL DEFINITION OF PONZI SCHEME, SOCIAL SECURITY IS A PONZI SCHEME.

• FRANCE RAISED THE RETIREMENT AGE THERE FOR THE SAME REASON WE MUST DO SO HERE - AND IT AIN'T BECAUSE BABIES ARE LIVING; IT'S BECAUSE PEOPLE ON PENSIONS ARE LIVING LONGER. SHEESH.
  

8) Government spending takes money out of the economy.

ALTERNET: Government is We, the People and the money it spends is on We, the People. Many people do not know that it is government that builds the roads, airports, ports, courts, schools and other things that are the soil in which business thrives. Many people think that all government spending is on "welfare" and "foreign aid" when that is only a small part of the government's budget.

WRONG:

GOVERNMENT SPENDING RETARDS GROWTH.

IT'S BEEN STUDIED; IT'S A FACT.

TAXES RETARD GROWTH TOO - PROVEN BY CHRISTINE ROMER, OBAMA'S FORMER CHAIRPERSON OF THE COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISER'S.

THIS ALTERNET POST PROVES AN OLD SAYING OF REAGAN'S:

IT'S NOT THAT LIBERALS DON'T KNOW ANYTHING.

IT'S THAT EVERYTHING THEY KNOW IS WRONG.