Statements from March, 2009 that PolitiFact National reviewed
"2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces."
"The administration raises revenue for nationalized health care through a series of new taxes, including a light switch tax that would cost every American household $3,128 a year."
The Republican leadership's budget proposal "doesn't contain any numbers."
The Employee Free Choice Act mandates the "elimination of the secret ballot."
Obama's budget plan would "take national debt up to about 80 percent of gross national product. ... Historically, it's been about 40 percent."
His proposed budget would "cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term."
"As a percentage of gross domestic product, we are reducing nondefense discretionary spending to its lowest level since the '60s, lower than it was under Reagan, lower than it was under Clinton, lower than it was under Bush, or both Bushes."
Obama's proposed budget "doubles the debt in five years, triples it in 10 years."
Under Obama's budget plan, families making over $250,000 are "going to lose their mortgage deduction, their charitable deductions."
Obama nominee Dawn Johnsen "called motherhood 'involuntary servitude.'"
"Warren (Buffett) still does support me."
On whether he wrote a provision that allowed AIG to dole out bonuses.
"Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks."
"Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, placed an amendment in the ‘stimulus’ bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money — including AIG — to hand out huge bonuses."
"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."
AIG "said they were giving $57 million (in retention payments) to people who were being terminated."
"We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."
In Japan, executives of failing companies "say 'I'm sorry' and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide."
"Last week the Blue Chip Economic Indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. Almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the third quarter and positive growth in the fourth quarter."
"In eighth grade math, we’ve fallen to ninth place."
"A middle-class family donates $1 to charity, they get 15 cents off their income tax. Bill Gates donates $1 to charity, he takes 35 cents off his income tax."
Republican leaders said "no" to "tax cuts for 95% of working Americans."
"The average CEO makes $10,000 more every day ... than what the average worker makes every year."
"Teddy Roosevelt first called for (health care) reform nearly a century ago."
"Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government."
"In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined."
"The president campaigned against this type of legislation."
The omnibus bill has only $3.8 billion in earmarks.
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