"Obama is no Democrat"

[ProSense]

85. Addressing false claims

Reposted from elsewhere.

False: "Retains the Federal subsidies to the oil business, despite big oil having already had a decade of record profits "

Obama has proposed ending oil subsidies in every budget and other proposals. Congress, specifically Republicans, oppose it.

Obama budget seeks to end oil, gas subsidies
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x314016

Statements On Obama Budget From NRDC, CAP, & SEIA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022671045

This is for the Ron Paul libertarians:



http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3076131

Another claim, that's absurdly false: "Spends $105bn a year on employing 7,000 private mercenaries in Iraq. "

Who the hell believes that the U.S. is spending $105 billion annually on contractors in Iraq? At the height of the warr, the cost was about $150 billion for the war.

The current budget request is $117 billion for Afghanistan and Iraq. Between the State Department and the Pentagon, the amount for contractors is about $8 billion (including $3 billion for the Pentagon).

At the height of the war with more than 90,000 contractors in Iraq, the tab was about $15 billion per year.

It's a BS tactic of throwing out false and misleading claims to fan the anti-Obama flames.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023075105#post53