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Tuesday night's GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas:
Herman Cain's "9-9-9" tax plan includes a value-added tax?
"But it's difficult to say definitively due to a lack of details. When CNN reached out to Cain's campaign
before Tuesday night's debate for more specifics about his plan, we got no response. And the
nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, which analyzed the 9-9-9 plan in a separate study, noted that
it heard nothing back from the Cain camp, either."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/politics/truth-squad-9-9-9/index.html
Herman Cain says he 'misspoke' on considering prisoner transfer
"I could see myself authorizing that kind of transfer but what I would do is I would make sure
that I got all of the information," Cain told CNN before the debate. "I got all of the input,
considered all of the options. And then, the president has to be the president and make
a judgment call. I can make that call if I had to."
After the debate, Cain told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he "misspoke" during the previous interview
and that, as president, he would not consider such a transfer. But the episode likely will
provide more fodder to critics who say that Cain lacks a firm grasp of foreign policy.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-cain-prisoner-transfer-20111018,0,3708101.story
Did Mitt Romney hire illegal immigrants a year after a newspaper report?
Romney didn't deny that the workers were illegal, but he emphasized that the landscaping company--
not Romney -- hired the workers. He would go on to say that he gave the landscaping company
another chance -- letting it continue to work on his property with the understanding that
it would ensure that its workers were legal.
In December 2007, the Globe reported that two more of the company's employees --
whom the paper had seen working on Romney's property in November of that year --
had told it that they were in the country without documents.
Romney fired the landscaping company in light of that report, saying that he learned the company
still was employing illegal immigrants despite assurances otherwise.
An official with his 2008 presidential campaign told CNN that the Globe had approached the campaign
with "credible information" that the company continued to employ illegal workers.
(The truth is not as simple or uncomplicated as we are lead to think it is-)
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/12/05/more_immigrant_woes_for_romney/
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...painters_facing_inquiry/?p1=email_to_a_friend
Was Romney's Massachusetts health plan a "budget-busting" model
for a national plan?
'RomneyCare' -attacked as the genesis for the much-hated national health care law
pushed by President Barack Obama and passed by a Democratic-controlled Congress.
The facts-
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/politics/truth-squad-national-health-plan/index.html
Michele Bachmann's claims- Obama administration try to repeal part of its own health care plan?
The Facts: In reference to Bachmann's assertion about the unpopularity of the health care reform law,
a CNN/ORC poll conducted in June shows 56 percent of Americans oppose it, while 39 percent favor it.
Those numbers are similar to several other CNN/ORC polls going back to March 2010,
when the plan first passed. Polls from other organizations generally agree.
Her comment about the Obama administration wanting to "repeal" part of the plan refers to
last week's announcement that the administration was suspending the long-term care insurance program
that was part of the law passed in 2010, because it was not financially sustainable.
The program, called the CLASS (Community Living Assistance Services and Supports) Act,
was similar to long-term care plans available in the private sector in which workers
sign up and pay a monthly premium. It was voluntary and was to be paid for entirely
by the premiums from those who signed up. In return, subscribers would get a daily benefit.
But a senior administration official told CNN that there were big questions whether CLASS could be self-sustaining
even when the health care reform law was being considered by Congress. And as a result, lawmakers specified
that the HHS secretary had to determine that the program would be sustainable for 75 years
before certifying it.
After a 19-month effort to find a way to make it financially viable, Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to Congress last week stating, "Despite our best analytical efforts,
I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time." And in a blog entry on
Healthcare.gov, Sebelius cited warnings that not enough young healthy people would sign up.
"This could have led to a vicious cycle where premiums would have to be set higher and higher
to cover the likely costs of benefits, leading fewer and fewer healthier people to sign up for the program," she wrote.
Bottom line? The administration had no desire to "repeal" the program.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/politics/truth-squad-health-plan-repeal/index.html
Was there any truth to Rick Santorum's accusation, that Rick Perry supported TARP and the bailout?
"The problem is, in the first place, is that several people up here -
the, quote, business people
- supported the TARP, supported the bailout," Santorum said.
He included former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry among its supporters,
prompting Perry to interject, "Wrong.
Rick Perry speaks with forked tongue-Rick Perry did urge Congress to "pass an economic recovery package,"
and there was only one such package on the table in those turbulent days.
But at the same time, he was taking swipes at the measure back home.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/politics/truth-squad-perry-tarp/index.html
Rick Perry's energy plan can create over a million jobs?
Gov. Rick Perry touted part of his plan to boost the economy at Tuesday night's Republican presidential
debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, saying his energy strategy would create 1.2 million jobs. Last week, Perry
said his plan would focus on tapping unexplored domestic sources for oil and gas. To do this, he said,
regulations on oil and gas producers would need to be changed. Fewer rules would free up drilling
in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, and expand clean-coal technology resources, he said.
Verdict?
True, but incomplete.
Perry's figure is largely backed by an industry-commissioned study aimed at convincing Washington policymakers
to ease regulations and open currently protected lands to exploration. But the calculations are based
on assumptions about policies that have strong opposition in the current environment.
"....eased are limits on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," of underground rock formations that harbor gas deposits."
"....the industry would need to drill off the East and West Coasts, in waters off Florida's Gulf Coast,
in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and on most federal public land that's not a national park."
"....the industry would need approval to build new pipelines to help double production from Canada's oil sands."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/politics/truth-squad-energy-jobs/index.html
"....former University of Montana economics department chair Thomas Power tells the Times-
" Power, who specializes in energy industry employment, adds that Perry’s plan
“is not going to make a dent in the unemployment rate, because the vast majority
of people who have those skills are very busy right now pursuing oil and gas.”
John J. Pitney, Jr., a politics professor at Claremont McKenna College in Calif.,-
tells The Dallas Morning News that most of Perry’s plan is “neither new nor unique to Perry.
Republicans have been saying these things for years.”
The Morning News reports that Perrys’s projected 1.2 million new jobs come from
a Penn State University study that was financed by the Pennsylvania Marcellus Natural Gas Industry.
More than half of those 1.2 million jobs were indirect or induced, meaning they would be generated
by money paid to workers in the new energy industry.
{gsgs question-Would you consider the XL pipeline from Canada to be part of the new energy industry?}
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2011/10/18/rick-perrys-jobs-plan-isnt-one/
Texas Gov. Rick Perry unveiled a jobs program Friday that relies heavily on new
oil and gas production and on dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency-
"....the plan makes a relatively modest promise of creating 1.2 million jobs by 2020
and depends on one sector of the economy strongly linked to Texas."
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/14/nation/la-na-perry-jobs-plan-20111015
Herman Cain's "9-9-9" tax plan includes a value-added tax?
"But it's difficult to say definitively due to a lack of details. When CNN reached out to Cain's campaign
before Tuesday night's debate for more specifics about his plan, we got no response. And the
nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, which analyzed the 9-9-9 plan in a separate study, noted that
it heard nothing back from the Cain camp, either."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/politics/truth-squad-9-9-9/index.html
Herman Cain says he 'misspoke' on considering prisoner transfer
"I could see myself authorizing that kind of transfer but what I would do is I would make sure
that I got all of the information," Cain told CNN before the debate. "I got all of the input,
considered all of the options. And then, the president has to be the president and make
a judgment call. I can make that call if I had to."
After the debate, Cain told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he "misspoke" during the previous interview
and that, as president, he would not consider such a transfer. But the episode likely will
provide more fodder to critics who say that Cain lacks a firm grasp of foreign policy.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-cain-prisoner-transfer-20111018,0,3708101.story
Did Mitt Romney hire illegal immigrants a year after a newspaper report?
Romney didn't deny that the workers were illegal, but he emphasized that the landscaping company--
not Romney -- hired the workers. He would go on to say that he gave the landscaping company
another chance -- letting it continue to work on his property with the understanding that
it would ensure that its workers were legal.
In December 2007, the Globe reported that two more of the company's employees --
whom the paper had seen working on Romney's property in November of that year --
had told it that they were in the country without documents.
Romney fired the landscaping company in light of that report, saying that he learned the company
still was employing illegal immigrants despite assurances otherwise.
An official with his 2008 presidential campaign told CNN that the Globe had approached the campaign
with "credible information" that the company continued to employ illegal workers.
(The truth is not as simple or uncomplicated as we are lead to think it is-)
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/12/05/more_immigrant_woes_for_romney/
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...painters_facing_inquiry/?p1=email_to_a_friend
Was Romney's Massachusetts health plan a "budget-busting" model
for a national plan?
'RomneyCare' -attacked as the genesis for the much-hated national health care law
pushed by President Barack Obama and passed by a Democratic-controlled Congress.
The facts-
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/politics/truth-squad-national-health-plan/index.html
Michele Bachmann's claims- Obama administration try to repeal part of its own health care plan?
The Facts: In reference to Bachmann's assertion about the unpopularity of the health care reform law,
a CNN/ORC poll conducted in June shows 56 percent of Americans oppose it, while 39 percent favor it.
Those numbers are similar to several other CNN/ORC polls going back to March 2010,
when the plan first passed. Polls from other organizations generally agree.
Her comment about the Obama administration wanting to "repeal" part of the plan refers to
last week's announcement that the administration was suspending the long-term care insurance program
that was part of the law passed in 2010, because it was not financially sustainable.
The program, called the CLASS (Community Living Assistance Services and Supports) Act,
was similar to long-term care plans available in the private sector in which workers
sign up and pay a monthly premium. It was voluntary and was to be paid for entirely
by the premiums from those who signed up. In return, subscribers would get a daily benefit.
But a senior administration official told CNN that there were big questions whether CLASS could be self-sustaining
even when the health care reform law was being considered by Congress. And as a result, lawmakers specified
that the HHS secretary had to determine that the program would be sustainable for 75 years
before certifying it.
After a 19-month effort to find a way to make it financially viable, Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to Congress last week stating, "Despite our best analytical efforts,
I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time." And in a blog entry on
Healthcare.gov, Sebelius cited warnings that not enough young healthy people would sign up.
"This could have led to a vicious cycle where premiums would have to be set higher and higher
to cover the likely costs of benefits, leading fewer and fewer healthier people to sign up for the program," she wrote.
Bottom line? The administration had no desire to "repeal" the program.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/politics/truth-squad-health-plan-repeal/index.html
Was there any truth to Rick Santorum's accusation, that Rick Perry supported TARP and the bailout?
"The problem is, in the first place, is that several people up here -
the, quote, business people
- supported the TARP, supported the bailout," Santorum said.
He included former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry among its supporters,
prompting Perry to interject, "Wrong.
Rick Perry speaks with forked tongue-Rick Perry did urge Congress to "pass an economic recovery package,"
and there was only one such package on the table in those turbulent days.
But at the same time, he was taking swipes at the measure back home.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/politics/truth-squad-perry-tarp/index.html
Rick Perry's energy plan can create over a million jobs?
Gov. Rick Perry touted part of his plan to boost the economy at Tuesday night's Republican presidential
debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, saying his energy strategy would create 1.2 million jobs. Last week, Perry
said his plan would focus on tapping unexplored domestic sources for oil and gas. To do this, he said,
regulations on oil and gas producers would need to be changed. Fewer rules would free up drilling
in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, and expand clean-coal technology resources, he said.
Verdict?
True, but incomplete.
Perry's figure is largely backed by an industry-commissioned study aimed at convincing Washington policymakers
to ease regulations and open currently protected lands to exploration. But the calculations are based
on assumptions about policies that have strong opposition in the current environment.
"....eased are limits on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," of underground rock formations that harbor gas deposits."
"....the industry would need to drill off the East and West Coasts, in waters off Florida's Gulf Coast,
in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and on most federal public land that's not a national park."
"....the industry would need approval to build new pipelines to help double production from Canada's oil sands."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/politics/truth-squad-energy-jobs/index.html
"....former University of Montana economics department chair Thomas Power tells the Times-
" Power, who specializes in energy industry employment, adds that Perry’s plan
“is not going to make a dent in the unemployment rate, because the vast majority
of people who have those skills are very busy right now pursuing oil and gas.”
John J. Pitney, Jr., a politics professor at Claremont McKenna College in Calif.,-
tells The Dallas Morning News that most of Perry’s plan is “neither new nor unique to Perry.
Republicans have been saying these things for years.”
The Morning News reports that Perrys’s projected 1.2 million new jobs come from
a Penn State University study that was financed by the Pennsylvania Marcellus Natural Gas Industry.
More than half of those 1.2 million jobs were indirect or induced, meaning they would be generated
by money paid to workers in the new energy industry.
{gsgs question-Would you consider the XL pipeline from Canada to be part of the new energy industry?}
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2011/10/18/rick-perrys-jobs-plan-isnt-one/
Texas Gov. Rick Perry unveiled a jobs program Friday that relies heavily on new
oil and gas production and on dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency-
"....the plan makes a relatively modest promise of creating 1.2 million jobs by 2020
and depends on one sector of the economy strongly linked to Texas."
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/14/nation/la-na-perry-jobs-plan-20111015
