3 Facts That Could Change This Election (If We Share Them With Enough People)
Here are 3 facts that could not only change the outcome of this election, but with regard to the first two points, they could change the results of every election for years to come if we make enough people aware of them.
I want to keep this as simple and short as possible, so that the people who need to read this actually do (i.e. our low-info voting friends, family and co-workers, etc.). And again, I encourage you to share this information with as many people as you can, either by recommending and commenting on this thread, by emailing these points out and or by posting a link to this thread on the appropriate websites.
Also, Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks created a youtube clip of the 3 facts. And for the original post of the 3 facts which includes all of the sources, click here.
1)Over 70% of our National Debt was created by just 3 Republican presidents.
Go ahead, get out your calculator and add up debt by president/party (keep in mind the link above is from 2007 and Bush's debt is even higher now). Apparently the party that claims fiscally responsibility thinks it's ok to borrow massive amounts of money from foreign countries like China. Consider that we spend hundreds of billions of dollars in interest payments on this debt each year.
That means more and more of your hard earned money is going to make interest only payments on what is basically a Giant National Credit Card. Not to mention the fact our debt/deficits are largely behind the weakness of our dollar, which in turns makes gas more expensive and creates other serious problems.
- Real middle class wage growth is double when a Democrat is president compared to when a Republican is presidentaccording to new research from Larry Bartels out of Princeton:
"...Even more remarkable, the real incomes of working-poor families...grew six times as fast when Democrats held the White House. Only the incomes of affluent families were relatively impervious to partisan politics, growing robustly under Democrats and Republicans alike..."
3)90% of Americans would pay less taxes under Obama's proposed tax plan compared to McCain's
People making under $112,000 a year in individual (not household) income would pay less taxes under Obama's plan.
By contrast, John McCain's tax cuts mostly benefit the top 10% of Americans.
Conclusion: Countless millions of Americans vote Republican because they believe they'll pay less taxes and that they'll have their money spent more responsibly.
As you can see, those beliefs are directly contradicted by the facts. Of course we can choose to ignore the facts and instead focus on which candidate is wearing a flag pin (you ever notice that Hillary and McCain don't wear them?) but I think we're a smarter country than that.
PS---If you're not sure how to respond to those laughably bad, factually inaccurate anti Obama smear emails and or you want more information on John McCain, here is a nice resource guide of articles, videos and commentary.