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Defeat Mitt Romney

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Dan Kervick | 26 comments

New Economics Perspectives is an economics blog, not a political one. So in the past, while I have written freely about some political issues, I have avoided the partisan political wrangle. Continue reading →

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Ryan Talks Jobs and Exposes the Lies about the 47%

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Devin Smith | 12 comments

By William K. Black
(Cross posted at Huffington Post)

This Monday, I posted an article entitled: “Let’s test Romney’s claims about the 47% by offering the unemployed jobs.”

The article explained that Romney, Ryan, and Charles Murray claim that 47% of Americans receive governmental assistance because they are morally defective and shiftless. It goes through why Romney and Ryan know that they are lying when they use the 47% figure to slander Americans as refusing to “take personal responsibility and care for their lives” and as failing to pay taxes. Continue reading →