Posted on 03/06/2013 11:42:56 AM PST by Sub-Driver
6 Obama administration sequester claims shot down by fact checkers
By DONOVAN SLACK | 3/6/13 11:30 AM EST
Fact-checkers have had their hands full in recent weeks as the Obama administration has tried to detail the expected impacts of automatic sequester cuts.
As POLITICO’s Glenn Thrush and Carrie Budoff Brown report on the home page, the White House now has pulled back from issuing doomsday scenarios after some of their claims fell flat. Here are six such claims:
“You know, those Capitol janitors will not get as much overtime. I’m sure they think less pay, that they’re taking home, does hurt.” — Gene Sperling, director of the White House economic council, on ABC News’ “This Week.”
Four Pinocchios from the Washington Post Fact Checker
“On the issue of the janitors, if you work for an hourly wage and you earn overtime, and you depend on that overtime to make ends meet, it is simply a fact that a reduction in overtime is a reduction in your pay.” — White House spokesman Jay Carney
Four Pinocchios from the Washington Post Fact Checker
If the sequester hits, federal prosecutors will have to "let criminals go." -- President Barack Obama
Mostly False from Politifact.com
“Federally assisted programs like Meals on Wheels would be able to serve 4 million fewer meals to seniors.” — White House fact sheet on the impact of sequestration
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Look up liar in the dictionary and you will see a picture of Obama.
“Shot down?”
That’s drone speak.
MSM: “shhhh, don’t mention this... lets run another ‘guns kill children’ story.”
If this had been Bush, there would be no need for the fact checkers.
The MSM would have been all over this like stink on a turd and reported it non-stop.
Of course... same goes for Benghazi too. But as per usual Zer0 will get a pass from his biggest fans, the MSM.
That's how he made his career...that's how he'll end it.
Government is stopping tours of the White House to make cuts as painful as possible.
Imagine when they can shut down your health care to prove cuts are too painful.
Thanks Sub-Driver.
Thanks for the ping.
My pleasure.
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