Stop Lying Bill Clinton, You're Not President Anymore!
Bill Clinton was interviewed on ABC earlier this week, sometimes mis characterizing the issue, and sometimes flat out lying:
Bill Clinton: "Tax cuts are always popular," Clinton said. "But about half of these tax cuts since 2001 have gone to people in my income group, the top 1 percent."
Mischaracterization:
1) The top 1 percent pays 80% of all taxes, so on a dollar basis, the total "value" of the tax cut will appear to be weighted to them. On a percentage basis, the top 1 percent got the smallest tax cut.
2) The tax cut sunsets in 2010. Each year, another higher income bracket actually receives the tax cut. The top 5 percent gets the tax cut only in the last year - they get a tax cut for one year, and it hasn't happened yet.
Bill Clinton:"Well, I think we did a good job of that. For example, we had the lowest African-American unemployment, the lowest African-American poverty rate ever recorded. We had the highest homeownership, highest business ownership, and we moved 100 times as many people out of poverty in eight years as had been moved out in the previous 12 years.
Poverty rate in the US is about 12% of the US population under George W. Bush, while under Bill Clinton it was around 13%. African-American home ownership under George W. Bush is higher than any other time in history. Social welfare and entitlement spending is almost double what it was under Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton: "In the middle, we had a different policy. We concentrated tax cuts on lower income working people and benefits to low-income people that helped them move from welfare to work, and we moved 100 times as many people out of poverty. We know what works, and we had a program that was drastically reducing poverty, and they got rid of it. And they don't believe in it."
Lie: Bill Clinton gave us the largest tax increase in US history, with the exception of tax hikes during World War 2. Bill Clinton's tax increases but a massive burden on the US economy, precipitating the massive down turn and recession of 2000 and 2001.
Lie: Bush did not repeal one, NOT ONE, of Clinton's poverty reduction programs, and in fact bolstered them. More people were moved off of poverty roles under Bush than under Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton: "But I think the fundamental problem there was, it's like when they issued the evacuation order: That affects poor people differently. A lot of them in New Orleans didn't have cars. A lot of them who had cars had kinfolk they had to take care of. They didn't have cars, so they couldn't take them out."
Mischaracterization: Bush asked Gov. Blanco to evacuate New Orleans days prior to Katrina. The New Orleans plan provided the local government with resources to carry out the evacuation. Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco were asleep at the wheel, and it was them who did nothing to help the poor of New Orleans.
Bill Clinton: "Because the Republicans knew I wouldn't appoint somebody they wanted on the Court, and they knew that I'd appointed judges that were not extreme left-wingers, that were more or less mainstream judges and were unquestionably qualified."
Lie: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the former general counsel for the ACLU. To claim she's not an extreme left winger is absurd. Review her decisions and find the communist underpinnings to her ideology...start with the Kelo decision.
Bill Clinton: "But the administration, then, decided to launch this invasion virtually alone and before the U.N. inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were any weapons of mass destruction there."
Lie: UN was unable to complete its inspecitons, and there was plenty of evidence of WMD's.
Bill Clinton: "Now, the question is, after 58 percent of those people voted, after there has been a heroic but so far unsuccessful effort to put together a constitution that everybody can buy off on"
Lie: At the time of the interview the Iraqis were on the verge of approval of the constitution. It's now been approved and printed.
Bill Clinton: "Tax cuts are always popular," Clinton said. "But about half of these tax cuts since 2001 have gone to people in my income group, the top 1 percent."
Mischaracterization:
1) The top 1 percent pays 80% of all taxes, so on a dollar basis, the total "value" of the tax cut will appear to be weighted to them. On a percentage basis, the top 1 percent got the smallest tax cut.
2) The tax cut sunsets in 2010. Each year, another higher income bracket actually receives the tax cut. The top 5 percent gets the tax cut only in the last year - they get a tax cut for one year, and it hasn't happened yet.
Bill Clinton:"Well, I think we did a good job of that. For example, we had the lowest African-American unemployment, the lowest African-American poverty rate ever recorded. We had the highest homeownership, highest business ownership, and we moved 100 times as many people out of poverty in eight years as had been moved out in the previous 12 years.
This is a matter of public policy, and whether it's race-based or not, if you give your tax cuts to the rich and hope everything works out all right, and poverty goes up, and it disproportionately affects black and brown people, that's a consequence of the action made. That's what they did in the '80s; that's what they've done in this decade."
Poverty rate in the US is about 12% of the US population under George W. Bush, while under Bill Clinton it was around 13%. African-American home ownership under George W. Bush is higher than any other time in history. Social welfare and entitlement spending is almost double what it was under Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton: "In the middle, we had a different policy. We concentrated tax cuts on lower income working people and benefits to low-income people that helped them move from welfare to work, and we moved 100 times as many people out of poverty. We know what works, and we had a program that was drastically reducing poverty, and they got rid of it. And they don't believe in it."
Lie: Bill Clinton gave us the largest tax increase in US history, with the exception of tax hikes during World War 2. Bill Clinton's tax increases but a massive burden on the US economy, precipitating the massive down turn and recession of 2000 and 2001.
Lie: Bush did not repeal one, NOT ONE, of Clinton's poverty reduction programs, and in fact bolstered them. More people were moved off of poverty roles under Bush than under Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton: "But I think the fundamental problem there was, it's like when they issued the evacuation order: That affects poor people differently. A lot of them in New Orleans didn't have cars. A lot of them who had cars had kinfolk they had to take care of. They didn't have cars, so they couldn't take them out."
Mischaracterization: Bush asked Gov. Blanco to evacuate New Orleans days prior to Katrina. The New Orleans plan provided the local government with resources to carry out the evacuation. Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco were asleep at the wheel, and it was them who did nothing to help the poor of New Orleans.
Bill Clinton: "Because the Republicans knew I wouldn't appoint somebody they wanted on the Court, and they knew that I'd appointed judges that were not extreme left-wingers, that were more or less mainstream judges and were unquestionably qualified."
Lie: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the former general counsel for the ACLU. To claim she's not an extreme left winger is absurd. Review her decisions and find the communist underpinnings to her ideology...start with the Kelo decision.
Bill Clinton: "But the administration, then, decided to launch this invasion virtually alone and before the U.N. inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were any weapons of mass destruction there."
Lie: UN was unable to complete its inspecitons, and there was plenty of evidence of WMD's.
Bill Clinton: "Now, the question is, after 58 percent of those people voted, after there has been a heroic but so far unsuccessful effort to put together a constitution that everybody can buy off on"
Lie: At the time of the interview the Iraqis were on the verge of approval of the constitution. It's now been approved and printed.
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