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Debate fact check
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Dave has already pointed some of these things out, but it's worth repeating. Bush and Kerry are saying some things in these debates that flatly contradict each other. CNN has a short fact-check story that seems to be pretty fair. I was really hoping to get to the bottom of the whole timber-company comment, and it turns out Kerry was right. Bush did report income from a timber company (see this story). Even Charlie Gibson says Kerry was right on that one. Sadly most people who watched the debate will have a good chuckle and never bother to see who was lying. Kerry's point was that any millionaire can report a little money from a small business where they're part owner and then call themselves a small businessman. So when Bush says he has to protect small businesses from this tax hike, he could be talking about people like himself, who are actually filthy rich. This is kind of making me mad. I was searching for some info on the little timber comment and several articles repeat Bush's zinger, but very few bother to do the research and report that Kerry was right.
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How does that make you mad?
He made $84 dollars from his holdings in the “timber company".
Kerry’s job figure? -1,600,000 jobs since the president took office.
Real figure? -585,000 jobs.
Which is the worse mistake? Is Kerry trying to scare you?
I will agree on that the 900,000 small business owners does need to be ajusted, but Kerry is pointing out technicalities (how the heck do you spell that word?)
From Fact Check.org
“A better figure comes from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, which recently calculated that the Kerry tax increase would hit roughly 471,000 small employers.”
The tax hike would still kill or seriously hurt almost half a million small employers. How many people you thnk are employed by those small businesses? 10? 20? 40? I have no idea. But those tax hikes would cut out people from those employers.
I’m not mad that Bush got $84 and I’m not mad that Kerry brought it up. I was saying that I didn’t like the way jounalists were telling the story without any research into the facts. The media just seems to repeat whatever both parties say without any comparison to truth and reality. That’s what makes me mad.
ok, sorry then, I missunderstod you.
our “liberal” media. not liberal, not conservative… $$$$.
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