Key Point: Our economy is continuing to strengthen but we cannot afford a self-inflicted wound from Washington. Republicans should compromise and meet the President in the middle. We cannot simply cut our way to prosperity, and if Republicans continue to insist on an unreasonable, cuts-only approach, Kentucky risks paying the price.
Key Point: Unless Congress acts, harmful automatic cuts that threaten hundreds of thousands of middle class jobs will hit our economy over the next few weeks. These cuts will gut vital services for children, seniors, people with mental illness and health care for our troops and military families.
Key Point: In his State of the Union Address, President Obama discussed his plan which builds on the progress achieved during his first term and strengthens the middle class by making America a magnet for jobs and manufacturing, providing every American with the skills they need to do those jobs, and making sure that those who work hard can earn a decent living.
Key Point: Obama for America has released a new ad that features President Clinton talking about the clear choice in this election. While President Obama is creating an economy built to last and built from the middle class out, Romney and Ryan would take us back to the same policies that crashed our economy and devastated the middle class.
Key Point: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan believe in a top-down economy, the same formula that crashed our economy and devastated the middle class. President Obama believes we need an economy built to last and built from the middle class out, not the top down.
Key Point: Businesses created 172,000 new jobs in July for a total of 4.5 million new jobs over the past 29 straight months of private-sector growth. We could do more if Romney and Republicans in Congress stopped blocking the President’s jobs plan to create 1 million jobs now and took immediate action to prevent a tax hike on middle-class families. Romney’s plan would make middle-class families pay more in taxes so millionaires like Romney can pay less.
Key Point: Mitt Romney is deliberately distorting President Obama’s words. The President has always believed in the drive and ingenuity of America’s entrepreneurs and workers. He believes we should stand behind them as we always have – by investing in education and training, building roads and bridges and keeping our edge in research and technology.
Key Point: Mitt Romney claimed his business skills and experience would accelerate the economy, but small business activity slowed dramatically in Romney’s Massachusetts. He’s making identical promises today, but independent economists have said Romney’s policies would not address the crisis and could actually make the economy worse. Romney Economics didn’t work then, and it won’t work now.
Key Point: Mitt Romney's tax and fiscal plan is fundamentally incompatible with Simpson-Bowles or any responsible approach to deficit reduction. Simpson-Bowles and the President’s plans would reduce the deficit. The Romney plan would explode it.
Key Point: President Obama believes we need to invest in education, energy, innovation and infrastructure and reform our tax system to create good jobs, grow our economy and pay down the debt in a balanced way. Mitt Romney believes we need more budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthiest and fewer rules for Wall Street – the same failed formula that benefitted a few, but crashed our economy and hurt the middle class.
Key Point: As a businessman, Mitt Romney didn’t care about strengthening companies or creating jobs – he cared most about getting a high return on his investment no matter the cost to workers, companies or communities. The values and lessons Romney learned as a corporate-buyout specialist aren’t the ones we want in the Oval Office.
