All statements involving Mitt Romney
Says Romney wants to "take away early childhood education, slash K-12 funding, and cut college aid … to pay for a $250,000 tax break for multi-millionaires."
Says Romney invested in a firm that made goods in China that "could have been made here in America."
The federal tax code has "loopholes that are giving incentives for companies that are shipping jobs overseas."
"In Romney's first budget (in Massachusetts), he cut $248.7 million from K-12 education."
"If Gov. Romney's plan goes into effect … the average senior would have to pay $460 a year more in tax for their Social Security."
"In one year, (President Obama) provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world … into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1."
Says 50 million people would lose their health insurance if Obamacare is repealed.
Says President Obama has "doubled" the deficit.
"Pre-existing conditions are covered under my (health care) plan."
Massachusetts schools "are ranked No. 1 of all 50 states."
Says Romney wants to add $2 trillion to the defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for.
Romney’s Medicare plan was estimated to "cost the average senior about $6,000 a year."
Obama says he’s "put forward a specific $4 trillion deficit reduction plan."
"Right now, the (Congressional Budget Office) says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as Obamacare goes into effect next year."
Says Mitt Romney's plan "calls for a $5 trillion tax cut."
Says Barack Obama "put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments they're going to receive."
"We’re now spending 42 percent of our economy on government."
Romney "would turn Medicare into a voucher program."
"On Medicare for current retirees, he's cutting $716 billion from the program."
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