Romney Lies, Everyone Knows

* The word is out---Mitt Romney's ad about Chrysler moving their Jeep operation out of the USA is a big, fat lie. The Chairman of Chrysler has debunked Romney's claims, and so has Plunderbund.

 BusinessInsider has this:

Mitt Romney is facing intense pushback today over a new Ohio campaign ad that appears to suggest — falsely — that Chrysler is moving U.S. jobs to China....

...“I saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state, Jeep, now owned by the Italians, is thinking of moving all production to China," Romney said. "I will fight for every good job in America.”

  The claim is completely misleading and false, and provoked an outcry from Democrats and reporters . The report, from Bloomberg, actually said that Chrysler is talking about adding Jeep production in China in order to serve the Chinese market. Jeep production in North America would continue unchanged....

BusinessInsider has even posted the Obama ad which responds to the Romney lie:



The Plum Line at the Washington Post also calls Romney on his lie:

...Back when Ohio needed the auto industry bailed out — and Obama took the politically risky step of proceeding with the rescue — Romney took the politically easy position. Attacking it was a good way to pander to conservatives in advance of the GOP primary. But then, when this position became problematic for him in the general election, he began to dissemble about it, falsely suggesting he’d supported government action up front when that’s simply not what happened. With time running out, Romney has run out of answers on the auto-bailout, and has now turned to the claim that it will result in American Jeep jobs getting shipped to China. That isn’t true either.

But this goes beyond a standard fact checking skirmish. Obama advisers see it as central to their closing argument against Romney's character. It isn’t just that Romney failed to support the auto-bailout when Ohioans really needed it; it’s that Romney doesn’t have the integrity to come clean about it now that he’s asking them for their help furthering his political ambitions. That’s why the ad combines the claim that Romney “turned his back” on the industry with the assertion that Romney is being “dishonest” about it “now.”

When it really mattered, President Obama stood up for the American workers, the American auto industry, and American jobs. President Obama bravely took a stand that many, including Romney, criticized. Without the President's determination, Ohio would not be enjoying the 800,000 jobs related to the auto industry, and a lower unemployment rate than many other states.

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>>> A letter to the editor of The Athens Messenger (Athens, Ohio) gets right to the point on tea party Republican, Josh Mandel: Mandel Not the Right Vote for Women

Mitt + Ann Romney vs. Public Schools

Ann Romney, wife of Mitt Romney, had this to say in an interview with Good Housekeeping magazine:

GH: Can you tell me, what campaign issue is closest to your heart? 

AR: I've been a First Lady of the State. I have seen what happens to people's lives if they don't get a proper education. And we know the answers to that. The charter schools have provided the answers. The teachers' unions are preventing those things from happening, from bringing real change to our educational system. We need to throw out the system...


If you are looking for Ann Romney's qualifications for education policy, don't bother.  She has none.

Ann and Mitt Romney are products of private, fancy schmancy, private schools where children like yours would never be admitted.  Ann and Mitt Romney want to turn public education over to their corporate buddies that own charter schools. According to the Romneys, it is all about making profits.

Unfortunately, if Mitt Romney is elected, profit would be more important than learning and educational results. Irregular Times has some details and an example of the failure of charter schools.  Irregular Times:

At the core of Mitt Romney’s plan for education is a concept that he’s had plenty of experience with in the business world: Outsourcing. Mitt Romney wants to reduce federal funding for public school systems, while at the same time draining money out of school districts by promoting the creation of charter schools – redundant schools operated by independent organizations with reduced public accountability....

.....Mitt Romney claims that charter schools will operate with greater efficiency and create greater economic success than public schools, because they are free from many of the government regulations created through democratic community oversight. The schools run by the Shekinah Learning Institute are neither more efficient nor more academically successful, however. Multiple schools operated by the Shekinah Learning Institute have been rated as academically unacceptable. 

In spite of that failure, the Shekinah Learning Institute’s leaders are paid enormous salaries. Cheryl Washington, the superintendent of two Shekinah schools, is paid a base salary of $252,498.00 per year. That’s in the ballpark of the salary paid to superintendents of large school districts in Texas with between 50,000 and 100,000 students. The two schools that Cheryl Washington operates have only 1,600 students.....


If you are really interested in Mitt Romney's agenda for public education, read the entire article at Irregulartimes.  In Romney's world, the rich get richer, and the middle class and poor suffer with inadequate educational opportunities, lower pay, and higher taxes.  How else can Romney and friends keep the 14% tax rate?

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Firefighters, police, teachers, and public employees have a lot to worry about Mitt Romney.  CrooksandLiars has this clip from the Rachel Maddow Show:

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•  The conservative Cincinnati Enquirer has endorsed the re-election of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Democrat.

Here is what the newspaper had to say about Sen. Sherrod Brown.-Cincinnati:

...He used his clout in Washington when called on by the region’s employers. He fought for continued funding for the Joint Strike Fighter, a major project of Evendale-based GE Aviation. He convened conferences around the state to help businesses earn government contracts....

...Trade for Brown is a jobs issue, and he sees tougher enforcement of trade rules as a way to create more manufacturing jobs in Ohio. He voted for the Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act, which allows tariffs to be levied against countries that undervalue their currency, such as China.....

Sherrod Brown has a record of working for Ohio jobs, workers, businesses and consumers, and he should be elected to another term.

Well done! However, the Enquirer endorsed Romney. Boo. Wait. Don't boo-Vote Obama.