Another GOP Lie Busted: Spending, Taxes, And Deficits Are All Lower Today Than When Obama Took Office

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Federal spending is lower now than it was when President Obama took office. I’ll pause to let you absorb the news.

In January 2009, before President Obama had even taken the oath of office, annual spending was set to total 24.9 percent of gross domestic product. Total spending this year, fiscal year 2012, is expected to top out at 23.4 percent of GDP.

Here’s another interesting fact. Taxes today are lower than they were on inauguration day 2009. Back in January 2009, the CBO projected that total federal tax revenue that year would amount to 16.5 percent of GDP. This year? 15.8 percent.

One last nugget. The deficit this year is going to be lower than what it was on the day President Obama took office. Back then, the CBO said the 2009 deficit would be 8.3 percent of GDP. This year’s deficit is expected to come in at 7.6 percent. (Source)

“Betty Sutton for Congress Door Knock” May 20

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Come Join Us for the First Wayne County “Betty Sutton for Congress Door Knock”

When: Sunday, May 20
Time: 1pm – 4pm
Where: Christmas Run Park, Wooster, Ohio

Come join us to learn more about Congresswoman Betty Sutton and her campaign. This will be a great opportunity to ask questions and learn how to get involved. After discussing the campaign we will launch into a door knock to start spreading the word about the Congresswoman.

Wayne County OFA-OH Office Opening Wednesday, May 16th

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Doors open at 6:00pm
135 North Bever Street Wooster, OH

Join us for the grand opening of our Wayne County OFA-Ohio Headquarters! We will discuss the 2012 campaign, and talk about plans to help re-elect President Obama and other Democrats up and down the ticket.  Come find out what you can do to support President Obama in Wayne County!

Click the link below to RSPV:
https://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/officeopening/gpbkq2
Space is limited, so RSPV today!

National Republican Congressional Committee Caught With Their “Pants on Fire”

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From PolitiFact’s Truth-O-Meter:

Republicans moved quickly to politicize what federal agents have described as a failed bomb plot cooked up by anarchists connected to the Occupy Cleveland organization.

The group, an offshoot of last fall’s anti-Wall Street demonstrations in New York, is not under investigation, officials stressed May 1, 2012,  when announcing the arrests of five suspects.

But that did little to stop the GOP from buzzing about the movement’s support among Democrats.

The most direct attack came May 2, 2012, from the National Republican Congressional Committee. The group is working to unseat Rep. Betty Sutton, a Democrat from Copley Township near Akron. Redistricting put her into battle this fall against fellow Rep. Jim Renacci of Wadsworth.

In an email, the NRCC blasted Sutton for not immediately denouncing the accused anarchists and noted that the congresswoman attended an Occupy rally last October in New York.

The email, sent by NRCC Deputy Communications Director Andrea Bozek, accuses Sutton of missing votes to protest with Occupy Wall Street and being slow to criticize the “plot by Occupy members to blow up an Ohio bridge.”

Bozek then delivered the punchy email’s parting shot.

“Sutton’s cowardly silence shows she would rather riot with Occupy than stand up for Ohio families.”

When it comes to Occupy, it’s no secret Sutton has been a supporter. But a rioter?

PolitiFact Ohio decided to check that accusation.

And what did PolitiFact find? That the NRCC weren’t just wrong, but they were lying through their teeth:

But the rhetorical flourish is where the NRCC’s claim departs from truthfulness. The NRCC email said that Sutton’s “cowardly silence shows she would rather riot with Occupy than stand up for Ohio families.”

Did Sutton stand with the Occupy Wall Street protesters in October? Yes.

Did she engage in rioting? No.

Was there even rioting at the rally Sutton attended? News coverage indicates violent behavior was the exception and that protests at the event were generally peaceful. Meanwhile, the material provided by the NRCC fails to support the notion that Sutton would support rioting.

The NRCC claim is beyond False.  On the Truth-O-Meter, the claim rates Pants on Fire.

Private Jobs Increase More With Democrats in White House

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During an election-year clash over which U.S. political party has the best prescription for curing unemployment, Democrats can argue that almost two-thirds of private-sector job growth in the past five decades came with them in the White House.

The BGOV Barometer shows that since Democrat John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961, non-government payrolls in the U.S. swelled by almost 42 million jobs under Democrats, compared with 24 million for Republican presidents, according to Labor Department figures. (Source)

As it says in our masthead, truth has a liberal bias. Facts also have that same liberal bias. The take home message is that the Democrats emphasis on tax fairness, worker’s rights, equal opportunity and government-private sector coordination is much better for growth than tax cuts for the rich and austerity.