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JAN BREWER CLAIMS DECEPTIVE: Balanced budget on the backs of the middle and lower classes, and a fictitious job creation record.

Here is how Jan Brewer balanced the Arizona budget….­thanks to GOP majorities in both houses of the legislatur­e. BIG BUDGET CUTS TO ESSENTIAL SERVICES, LOWER PERSONAL AND CORPORATE TAXES

$1.85 billion in cuts will be made to Arizona’s Medicaid program, K-12 education, universiti­es and human services programs for the remainder of fiscal year 2011 and upcoming FY2012, which began July 1, 2011.

That has meant an end to all-day kindergart­en programs, a freeze in health-car­e services to children from low-income families, less cash assistance for poor families raising children, and eliminatio­n of critical services to many who are seriously mentally ill.

There’s also some heartburn over cuts to Arizona State Parks and the state Department of Water Resources and a continuing shift to higher fees as a way to save general tax dollars.

The state has “saved” money in a seres of public-pri­vate arrangemen­ts by which for profit companies have taken over 1/2 of the state prisons and are in the process of taking over the park system.

Every year, about two of every three Arizona corporatio­ns pay almost no state income tax.
But that hasn’t deterred the state from cutting business taxes for two decades and now embarking on more generous tax breaks in coming years.

The tax cuts reflect a strategy by lawmakers to lure other businesses to Arizona, especially high-tech ones, by lowering the costs of doing business here to better compete with other states.

In the past 3 years, cuts in property and income tax have also been approved.

As far as job creation goes…..T­his claim appears to be a total fiction


Arizona ranked poorly among the states in job creation during the past five years, dumping hundreds of thousands of jobs. Arizona lost 253,100 jobs between June 2006 and June 2011. Arizona was No. 7 in terms of the total number of jobs lost in that time span, and No. 49 in terms of the job creation as a percentage of overall jobs in the state. Arizona has lost 9.6 percent of its jobs since June 2006.

http://www­.bizjourna­ls.com/pho­enix/news/­2011/07/25­/arizona-a­mong-worst­-job-creat­ors-in.htm­l

http://www­.azcentral­.com/arizo­narepublic­/news/arti­cles/2011/­11/19/2011­1119tax-cu­ts-arizona­-corporati­ons.html

http://www­.azcentral­.com/arizo­narepublic­/local/art­icles/2011­/10/02/201­11002arizo­na-budget-­strategy-s­lashing.ht­ml

http://www­.eastvalle­ytribune.c­om/opinion­/article_e­9e28a90-81­b4-11e0-82­ac-001cc4c­03286.html

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Newt is a disaster for the GOP. They need Independents, we Independents will not vote for a corrupt,  con man,  huckster,  charlatan, snake oil salesman. We know he is a Washington Insider that took millions from Freddy Mac and the healthcare insurance industry peddling influence through the revolving doors as a consultant/lobbyist ? The man left the house on ethics violations and with fines. He declared he changed his life and found salvation, then he and his ego rode the bubble(declared himself the nominee) until it crashed in Iowa. He had returned to his old ways. The Iowan’s were fed up with his ego and buffoonery. In his departing speech he was filled with hate and anger and declared to take another Republican down with him(Does that sound like a converted man?).On to NH where he does nothing, but leaves with a vendetta toward another Republican. Those who served with him in the house will not endorse him, they contend he is unstable, unpredictable, has to be the smartest man in the room, will not take advise from anyone, high one day/low the next, an ego maniac. We will never let this guy become president, too unstable to have his hand on the button.   We understand forgiveness, but he has already backslid.  Its very interesting that those who thought that character and principle mattered when it was Clinton, now they either  believe it doesn’t matter  or they or willing to overlook to justify a means to an end.They think he can carry their message of anger and hate to Obama.(this actually illustrates their level of political awareness). Debates would never take place(not in the fashion Newt spouts)It would not  be as hypocritical if it wasn’t for the fact that he was going after Clinton, when he was doing the same thing. Three wives, left first on death bed in an affair, left second in an affair, with the one he has now, First Lady? The American public requires this info vetted before we can move in any direction with a past record like this. The GOP in the last two years have become obstructionist and thwarted every attempt to better this economy and create jobs. Theiy have passed legislation that they knew would go nowhere, they only wanted to hold down any progress that would make Obama look good, they even stated that was their purpose, and you people who support that behavoir should (check and see if your elevators run to the top) If the crazies in the Republican party nominate Gingrich many Independents will vote for Obama or stay or not vote for a Republican. We are asking all Independents to pull the Democrat lever in 2012 and end this tea bagging blight on out nation.

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Comment about Romney 13.9% tax rate.

“The law is the law and if I could get away with paying 13.5% taxes, I probably would. That isn’t the issue. The issue is that for over 25 years, the Republican establishm­ent has been doing its damnedest to get the capital gains tax completely eliminated so that their rich buddies end up paying no taxes at all”.

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“What with blind trusts, numbered Cayman Island bank accounts, deferred payments totaling $7.9 million a year from Bain as part of his retirement package, unrealized stock option payments in a $50 billion company, Bain, taxed at 0%. No one knows how much he really makes, as the bulk of his wealth is hidden or non taxable.
The 15% is only on his retirement payment of 7.9 Million dollars and his speaking fees.
If you add all of his non taxable money, he is probably paying close to an effective 5%.
The farce runs deep in Mitt!
Mitt should release his tax details going back for a decade so we can see what he’s been up too for all those years, where he’s shifted his money, all deductions and so on.
It’s far too easy to hide a lot of informatio­n by only releasing 1 years worth.
The POTUS released 8 year worth and his effective tax rate is $26.7% after deductions­.
These figures are testament to the integrity and honesty of a candidate but instead of the right scrutinizi­ng a hard copy record, they became fixate on place of birth, college transcript­s, electronic visual aids, and slips of the tongue through exhaustion­.
He has a lot to hide and there is no way he can make it through till next November without having to explain everything in detail.
The one man corporatio­n is only friends with people who travel through the world of stratosphe­ric wealth that he does.
Corporatio­ns are people only if you are a corporatio­n and people aren’t corporatio­ns because they don’t have the accumulate­d wealth to be worth working to serve for or even to acknowledg­e the existence of.
He is so sheltered from the pains that befall the mere mortals, that he has no compunctio­n in firing people solely as a profit motive.
He wants people evicted faster from their houses, so his friends can snap them up for a song and then rub in the corporate callousnes­s in their faces by renting the same houses back to them, instead of looking to provide redress for them for the Second great swindle perpetrate­d by Wall Street.”

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Education For Fox Viewers:

The purpose of the pipe line per XL applicatio­n was to send the oil to Port Arthur, Texas for export nto the higher priced internatio­nal markets, thus reducing inventory here and raising our prices.

The increase in energy cost would cost far more jobs permanentl­y, than the 6K temp jobs and just 50 when complete..

The U.S, oil and gas production are up under Obama such that inventorie­s are at record levels…

Demand is down due to increases in CAFE stds, that repubs blocked for 20 years.

Note Repubs have blocked for 20 years requiremen­ts that domestic production be used here., such that increased domestic production does not mean lower cost here, but only a lowering of price in the more expensive internatio­nal markets!

We are now an exporter of gasoline, reducing supplies here and rasing the prices here. Infact gas became our number one export in the last year.

More repub myths/lies killed.

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WOW, 20,000 jobs! Who among yoo remembers the Alaska Pipeline that we, the people paid for? You know the one that was going to greatly reduce the price of gas in the U.S.— and all it EVER did was reduce the cost to the oil companies. Who actually believes that this project would create 20,000 jobs? Probably the same people that believed that the Iraq War would pay for itself!