Some Of Your Lies Are Not The Point

Mitt Romney:

“I know that the Democrats will try and make this a campaign about Bain Capital; … 25 million people are out of work because of Barack Obama. And so I’ll compare my experience in the private sector where, net-net, we created over 100,000 jobs.”

“I’ll compare that record with his record, where he has not created any new jobs.”

Romney refuses to offer any support for his claim he created over 100,000 jobs. This is because there isn't any. The truth is Romney got filthy rich by ripping apart American companies, screwing American workers out of their pensions and destroying American jobs. But this particular lie is not the point. Romney is running for President of the United States so what we need to evaluate is his public policy. And the public policy he supports is killing this country.

This Romney lie is the point: 25 million people are not out of work because Obama. When Obama took over from Romney's "Team 1%" we were losing nearly 800,000 jobs a month. That's how bad Romney's public policy is. And despite constant GOP efforts to destroy public sector jobs and sabotage the economy, Obama turned that around and now we've gained jobs for 22 straight months.

Before Reagan, before the policies Romney supports and used to make his millions, we had a massive middle class and production capacity that was the apple of the worlds eye. The tax policy, (de)regulatory policy and fiscal policy which Romney supports has devastated the great American middle class, destroyed the tax base, and hollowed out our economy. Romney should not be allowed to lie his way around his record or the historical results of his horrific public policy.