{"id":2617,"date":"2011-01-26T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T12:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2011-01-26T12:55:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T12:55:58","slug":"fact_checking_the_state_of_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2617","title":{"rendered":"Fact Checking The State Of The Union Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/FACT-CHECK-Obama-and-his-apf-989878074.html?x=0\">Yahoo Finance<\/a>&nbsp;posted its fact check on President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union Speech.&nbsp; These are some of the issues they found:<\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp; STATEMENT:&nbsp; Healthcare reform is one way to stop the growth of the deficit.&nbsp; FACT:&nbsp; There are some very arguable assumptions that go into the statement that the healthcare reform bill will save taxpayers (or consumers) money.<\/p>\n<p>2.&nbsp; STATEMENT:&nbsp; The President promised to veto any bill that contains earmarks.&nbsp; FACT:&nbsp; Republicans have taken the lead in battling earmarks while Obama signed plenty of earmark-laden spending bills when Democrats controlled both houses.<\/p>\n<p>3.&nbsp; STATEMENT:&nbsp; The President stated, &#8220;I&#8217;m willing to look at other ideas to bring down costs, including one that Republicans suggested last year: medical malpractice reform to rein in frivolous lawsuits.&#8221;&nbsp; FACT:&nbsp; This has been suggested by the Republicans in the past and gone nowhere.&nbsp; The problem is that trial lawyers are a major part of the Democrat Party&#8217;s funding.<\/p>\n<p>4.&nbsp; STATEMENT:&nbsp; The President praised the bipartisan fiscal commission that gave its report last year.&nbsp; FACT:&nbsp; The President has not endorsed any of the ideas put forth by the commission.<\/p>\n<p>5.&nbsp; STATEMENT:&nbsp; The President claimed that his diplomatic efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons has been successful.&nbsp; He cited the fact that Iran &#8220;faces tougher and tighter sanctions than ever before.&#8221;&nbsp; FACT:&nbsp; He neglected to mention that although the sanctions have supposedly gotten tougher, they have not been effective.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The President doesn&#8217;t seem to be aware of either the results of the November election or the&nbsp;danger that the growing deficit creates for our country.&nbsp; He needs to allow America to develop her own energy resources for a start.&nbsp; That will create jobs, provide affordable gasoline prices, help with the trade deficit, and stop the American funding of terrorism.&nbsp; None of that was in the speech.&nbsp; This man simply does not see the economic danger his budgets for the past two years have created.&nbsp; The best thing that can happen for America is a 2012 election when a President who is actually willing to allow the economy to grow can be elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Yahoo Finance&nbsp;posted its fact check on President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union Speech.&nbsp; These are some of the issues they found: 1.&nbsp; STATEMENT:&nbsp; Healthcare reform is one way to stop the growth of the deficit.&nbsp; FACT:&nbsp; There are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}