Statements we say are Mostly True
His proposed budget would "cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term."
Obama's proposed budget "doubles the debt in five years, triples it in 10 years."
"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."
"We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."
A new presidential helicopter "is now going to cost as much as Air Force One."
Louisiana is turning down $100 million "that would require us to change our unemployment law, that would have actually raised taxes on Louisiana businesses."
"The average bonus [on Wall Street] is about $100,000...The bonuses on Wall Street are down 44 percent."
"The House Democrats' so-called 'stimulus' has been stuffed with an astonishing $335 million to fund prevention programs of sexually transmitted diseases."
Democrats compare the infrastructure programs in the stimulus to the Eisenhower interstate program, "but he proposed a $500 billion highway system, and they're going to put $30 billion" into roads and bridges.
"We've added, in the last eight years, $4 trillion of debt to the nation's obligations."
Energy nominee Steven Chu has called coal "his worst nightmare."
Geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes while working for the IMF "is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international institutions."
If Obama's economic plan creates 600,000 new government jobs, "that's about the size of the post office work force."
"The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have."
"In April, Sen. McCain came out against helping women earn equal pay for equal work."
McCain called for less regulation 21 times just this year.
Barack Obama said "people making less than $250,000 would benefit from his plan" then said "if you're a family making less than $200,000, you'll benefit."
Between 40 and 50 percent of tax filers do not owe any income tax.
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