I know it’s been a few months, but here are some notes:
- Under the Paul Ryan plan there are $3.3T in cuts to Pell Grants, Medicaid, food stamps
- Romney & Ryan do not have any military or foreign policy experience
- Romney would pay .82% taxes under Paul Ryan’s plan
- West Virginia are the poorest areas where they mine coal
- Our navy is bigger than the next 11 navy’s combined
- Defense has doubled since September 11th 2001
- One ten thousandth of this country makes 5% of all income
- Eric Cantor spoke on Labor Day saying how Labor Day was for those who made a business
- Ronald Reagan appealed to labor and was a member of the teamsters
- Poor kids who do well in school go to college less than rich kids who don’t do as well
- Share of total income of top .1% was around 4% during 1950-1980 then rose to 12% by 2000 (during which time their tax rates fell more than 40%)
- Repeal of DADT has done nothing for military effectiveness and readiness; contrary to what McCain and other Republicans said about it a year ago
- In 1943 only 139 total cars were made in the United States
- Only 30% of the Dodd Frank bill (Wall Street reform) has been implemented; 86% of the deadlines of it have been missed
Here are just a few of Obama’s many accomplishments:
- Stopped a depression
- Health care reform
- Killed Osama bin Laden
- Killed Gaddafi
- Equal pay for women
- Stopped torture
- Student loan reform
- Standards for fuel efficiency
- Two women in the SCOTUS
- Got us out of Iraq
- Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repealed
- Saved the auto industry
- Wall Street Reform
- Stem cell research
- Lifted ban on photographing soldiers coffins coming home
