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House Republicans don’t actually cut the deficit, because they cut safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for the rich. 

House Republicans don’t actually cut the deficit, because they cut safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for the rich. 

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Be that as it may, neither Huntsman nor any other Republican Presidential candidate has been willing to take on the hard myths. The myths that are killing us. Here are a dirty dozen, right off the top of my head:

(1) The Government can’t create jobs. (Tell that to FDR, who created four million jobs in three months.)

(2) Tax cuts reduce the deficit. (Doesn’t it bother them that a man named “Laffer” came up with this one?)

(3) A fetus is a baby.

(4) The poor have too much money.

(5) Cutting the federal deficit will end the recession.

(6) The rich are incentivized by tax cuts, while the poor are incentivized by lower wages, no benefits, an end to the minimum wage, and unemployment.

(7) An unwanted child is God’s will.

(8) Everyone who wants health insurance has it.

(9) The problem with education is the teachers.

(10) The “free market” satisfies every human need.

(11) There is no discrimination in America anymore.

(12) The distribution of wealth and income are irrelevant.

I don’t remember Jon Huntsman disputing any of these myths. And these are the ones that do the real damage. Show me a candidate who is willing to take on these myths, and I’ll pay more attention.

~ Congressman Alan Grayson

http://congressmanwithguts.com/

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politicalprof: The times they have a’changed. h/t:BC

politicalprof:

The times they have a’changed.

h/t:BC

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LOL! Why can’t Eric Cantor explain why Americans oppose the GOP agenda!? Is he just ashamed? I mean talk about skirting the question. During an appearance on Fox News Sunday Chris Wallace asked him directly why a recent New York Times/CBS News poll showed that 67 percent of Americans favor raising taxes on millionaires to reduce the deficit, and that 80 percent oppose cutting Medicare. Cantor’s response!? It’s the Democrats fault. He said, “What is not fair is that we are holding back the economy to grow because you are having Barack Obama working with the Democrats in the Senate, Reid and others, who are saying no to every time we want to grow the economy,” without ever actually addressing the question asked of him. I would say he was an amazingly skilled deflector except that was hardly a skillful deflection. Ok fine, if by “holding back the economy” you mean mean in reality the economy is factually growing, then yes it’s because of the Democrats blocking stupid bullshit Republican policies that the rest of the country rejects. Thanks for playing idiot.

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