All True statements involving Barack Obama
President Barack Obama "reduced the cost of prescription drugs for nearly 3.6 million Americans in 2011."
"Today, for the first time in fifteen years, Master Lock’s unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity."
Says he eliminated an EPA rule that treated spilled milk like it was oil.
For "the average middle-class family, your taxes today are lower than when I took office."
Says his proposed payroll tax cut "will mean an extra $1,500 in your pocket compared to if we do nothing."
"The deficit was on track to top $1 trillion the year I took office."
"President Reagan did it (raised the debt ceiling) 18 times. George W. Bush did it seven times."
"Young veterans have a higher unemployment rate than people who didn’t serve."
The Obama administration increased the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes by 70 percent.
"The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents – more than twice as many as there were in 2004."
The United States has "one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world."
"Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up."
"When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits," just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.
"Most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect."
"There's a big chunk of the country that thinks that I have been too soft on Wall Street."
"The unemployment rate for folks who've never gone to college is almost double what it is for those who have."
Some Republicans who voted against the stimulus "have been all too happy to claim credit for Recovery Act projects and the jobs those projects have produced. They come to the ribbon cuttings."
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