Statements we say are False
President Obama’s health-care law will "add trillions of dollars in debt."
Decriminalizing marijuana "will save the state anywhere from $4 (million) to $11 million dollars."
Most tips left at Dunkin’ Donuts don’t go to employees.
"In the state of Rhode Island 25 percent of our current physicians are graduates of for-profit medical schools."
In 2011, Alabama and Massachusetts passed legislation allowing non-citizens who are legal residents to vote in state and local elections.
"If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs."
President Obama gave Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood one and a half billion dollars.
Says when Rhode Island Lottery was proposed, "state residents were enticed to vote for it with the promise that the money would be used for education."
Giant companies like Toyota will not locate in a state that has not passed a right-to-work law
"There are more atheists in the country right now than Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined and doubled."
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.’’
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