By Igor Volsky
Paul Ryan spoke for 40 of the 90 minutes during Thursday nights vice presidential debate and managed to tell at least 24 myths during that time:
1) It took the president two weeks to acknowledge that [the Libya attack] was a terrorist attack.
2) The administration was blocking us every step of the way. Only because we had strong bipartisan support for these tough [Iran] sanctions were we able to overrule their objections and put them in spite of the administration.
3) Medicare and Social Security are going bankrupt. These are indisputable facts.
4) The vice president was in charge of overseeing this. $90 billion in green pork to campaign contributors and special interest groups.
5) Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China?
6) When they see us putting when they see us putting daylight between ourselves and our allies in Israel, that gives them encouragement.
7) You see, if you reform these programs for my generation, people 54 and below, you can guarantee they dont change for people in or near retirement.
8) Obamacare takes $716 billion from Medicare to spend on Obamacare.
9) And then they put this new Obamacare board in charge of cutting Medicare each and every year in ways that will lead to denied care for current seniors.
10) 7.4 million seniors are projected to lose their current Medicare Advantage coverage they have. Thats a $3,200 benefit cut.
11) This [Medicare premium support] plan thats bipartisan. Its a plan I put together with a prominent Democrat senator from Oregon.
12) Eight out of 10 businesses, they file their taxes as individuals, not as corporations.
13) [Unemployment is rising] all around America.
14) The average tax rate on businesses in the industrialized world is 25 percent, and the president wants the top effective tax rate on successful small businesses to go above 40 percent.
15) Hell keep saying this $5 trillion plan, I suppose. Its been discredited by six other studies.
16) You can you can cut tax rates by 20 percent and still preserve these important preferences for middle-class taxpayer. It is mathematically possible. Its been done before. Its precisely what were proposing.
17) So they proposed a $478 billion cut to defense to begin with. Now we have another $500 billion cut to defense thats lurking on the horizon. They insisted upon that cut being involved in the debt negotiations, and so we have a $1 trillion cut.
18) If these cuts go through, our Navy will be the smallest the smallest it has been since before World War I.
19) Look at what theyre doing through Obamacare with respect to assaulting the religious liberties of this country. Theyre infringing upon our first freedom, the freedom of religion, by infringing on Catholic charities, Catholic churches, Catholic hospitals.
20) If you like your health care plan, you can keep it. Try telling that to the 20 million people who are projected to lose their health insurance if Obamacare goes through or the 7-point million 7.4 million seniors who are going to lose it.
21) We should not have called Bashar Assad a reformer when he was turning his Russian-provided guns on his own people.
22) When Barack Obama was elected, they had enough fissile material nuclear material to make one bomb. Now they have enough for five.
23) [Iran is] racing toward a nuclear weapon.
24) We dont want to do is give our allies reason to trust us less [by announcing a withdrawal timeline for Afghanistan].
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