Obama has exceeded Bush in creating private sector jobs AND decreasing the size of the government through reducing public sector jobs.
Bush and Republicans grow the size of the government and the spending of the government, then run on a “small government” platform their electorate blindly accept as reality.
The facts about spending under President Obama -
On Obama spending and Romney lies:
In recent days, fact-checkers of different stripes have debated whether federal spending under President Obama has grown very slowly or just slowly. But you don’t have to slog through the numbers to know that there is no truth to the Romney campaign’s claim that, “[s]ince President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.”
Rex Nutting of MarketWatch got the ball rolling by noting that “federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since President Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s.” He calculated annual spending growth at 1.4 percent over the course of the President’s term, which includes the Recovery Act. PolitiFact wrote that “the math simultaneously backs up Nutting’s calculations and demolishes Romney’s contention.”
Critics have been quick to point to alternative calculations that make different assumptions about how to attribute spending associated with the response to the financial crisis—including measures taken before President Obama took office. But these alternative calculations don’t make the Romney campaign’s claim about an acceleration of spending any less false. Based on their own adjustments and particular judgment calls, fact-checkers at the Associated Press and the Washington Post calculated alternative growth rates for spending growth beginning in 2010—the first year where the president set the budget—at about 3 percent and 3.3 percent, respectively. But no matter which of those numbers you find most plausible, spending growth under President Obama over this period would still be at the slowest rate for any president since Eisenhower. As Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson put it, Romney’s claims are “utterly false. The truth is that spending has slowed markedly under Obama.”
Going forward, President Obama has proposed a balanced plan to cut the deficit by over $4 trillion over the next decade. It reduces government spending to levels similar to those during the Reagan Administration as a share of the economy, while making investments in education, innovation, infrastructure, and clean energy. By contrast, Mitt Romney’s plan would add as much as $5 trillion to the deficit, largely as a result of deep tax cuts weighted towards millionaires and billionaires.
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Fox exec says criticized Obama video unauthorized | The Associated Press -
Fox News Channel’s morning show on Wednesday twice aired a nearly 4-minute video that contrasted President Barack Obama’s words with negative statistics about his administration in a format that looked similar to a campaign advertisement.
The liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America called the video “essentially a four-minute anti-Obama attack ad.” The segment also received criticism from a conservative blogger…
The video ends with Obama’s own words, as he says, “that’s the power of hope. That’s the change we seek. That’s the change we can stand for.”
When it ended, “Fox & Friends” anchor Steve Doocy praised the producer for a “job well done.”
Media Matters spokeswoman Jessica Levin said, “It looked like a very slickly produced Republican ad.”
Ed Morrissey, of the conservative media blog Hot Air, questioned the video even though he wrote, “I don’t disagree with much, if anything” that it says.
“If anyone wanted to look for evidence that the overall Fox News organization intends to campaign against Obama rather than cover the campaign, this video would be difficult to refute as evidence for that claim,” Morrissey wrote.
Fox programming executive vice president Bill Shine said the video was created by an associate producer and was not authorized at the network’s senior level. He said senior executives would not have approved it and the matter was addressed with the show’s producers.
Fox News: even conservative bloggers are admitting that your network is all pro-Right propaganda. Could we please stop saying anything resembling “Fair & Balanced,” thanks.
(Source: reallyfoxnews)
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Peabody Coal buys coal from U.S. taxpayers for cheap, sells it abroad for huge profit -
So, to summarize: You, the U.S. taxpayer, just leased another huge chunk of your land to Peabody Coal at $1.11 per ton of coal. Peabody will strip-mine that land and take the coal to China, where it will sell it for over $100 per ton. Peabody pockets enormous profits*, the U.S. taxpayer gets devastated land, and China accelerates global warming.
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