Matt Bors for October 10, 2012
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Political wonks love seeing the fact-checkers tear apart a candidate after a debate. Woman: Obama cutting the deficit by $4 trillion?! Pants on fire! TWEET But by then the crowds are gone. What we need is to fact-check these dudes LIVE. Mitt Romney: ...Stealing $5,000 from Grandmas! HONK! Fact Checker: OK, we need to pause for humiliation. Or, to make it easier, signal to viewers when the truth has been told. President Barack Obama: We're here this Tuesday to debate - Fact Checker: Stop right there! TRUE Fact Checker: Let's all enjoy this moment.
I think most of us can agree that Obama has been a big disappointment. The question is whether Romney/Ryan will help.I will refrain from repeating what I posted a while back about how their plans for Medicare and Medicaid will force us to choose between borrowing much more and just waiting for people to die without treatment.I will refer readers to a recent Ryan interview with Chris Wallace on Fox. He asked Ryan how the proposed 20% across-the-board tax cut, which will cost $5 trillion over 10 years, would be paid for. Ryan said it was revenue-neutral.To his credit, Wallace asked him for specifics. Twice. Both times, Ryan said it would be revenue-neutral, and nothing more. I guess money will appear from somewhere. I’ll trust him. He seems so very nice.Back to the original question: will things get better under Romney/Ryan? I’m still waiting for any kind of plan to show up. So, I present this challenge to posters on this site: prove to other posters HOW Romney/Ryan will do a better job. The easy ones (he’s not going to be Obama) have been taken. Share a plan or two. Show how the numbers work. Take your time getting it together. My vote hangs with you. Good luck.