Statements we say are False
The InterLink at T.F. Green Airport is the closest air-rail link in the country.
"[If] you apply for a job, the chances are 1 in 7 that you are going to be denied that job unfairly if everybody is forced to use E-Verify."
"Hydrogen sulfide . . . [was] used in the genocide of Jews in Germany. "
"For the past eight years, Gov. Carcieri and Mrs. Carcieri would host the lighting of the State House Christmas tree."
"If they made no changes whatsoever, the [state employees pension] plan still had enough money to go forward for approximately the next 16 years."
"The job [of correctional officer] lowers your life expectancy . . . Metropolitan did a study in, I believe it was 1998, and the life expectancy was 58."
"Sixty-percent of the state retirees...don’t get Social Security.’’
"If Rhode Island does a hybrid [retirement] plan we’ll be the first state in the nation to do this.’’
"Minimum wage = $16,000/year CEO-Goldman Sachs (Lloyd Blankfein) $16,000/Hour."
"Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft."
"The reality is that we have roughly 15,000 undocumented immigrants living in the state..."
"The studies have shown us that [drug testing for welfare recipients] will be saving us money"
Providence's port is "200 miles closer to Europe than any other Eastern port."
Thirty-seven percent of Central Falls’ retired police officers and firefighters are out on disability pensions; in most municipalities, about 5 percent of retirees collect disability pensions.
Statistically, law-enforcement officers die 10 years earlier than the general population.
"There's no money in Social Security."
"Dubious taxpayer-funded stimulus projects in Rhode Island include … $250,000 to provide digital television to the state’s inmate population."
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