Mitt Romney decides to school America about his plan using a white board. Because lies have so much MORE impact when seen against a white background.

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Apparently Mitt Romney hopes that Americans will be too dazzled by the brilliance of his white board to recognize that he just covered it with bullshit.

However Think Progress had little difficulty recognizing its putrid stench:  

During the presentation, Romney tried to lay out the differences. Obama takes the money out of seniors’ Medicare Advantage plans and cuts payments to providers, causing some to lose his coverage, he argued. The program’s trust fund would go bankrupt by 2024, under Obama, and seniors would lose access to the care they need. His plan, alternatively, would preserve the program for current retirees and keep it solvent indefinitely. 

Think Progress explains why this is wrong. 


The Obamacare savings slow the growth of Medicare over the next decade by, in part: eliminating overpayments to private insurers in Medicare Advantage, reforming provider payments to encourage greater efficiency, tying reimbursements to improvements in economic productivity, and reducing fraud and abuse. The law does not impact patient benefits. 

As a result of these savings, “growth in spending will be restrained” and the life of the Medicare trust fund is expanded by eight years, the government estimates. Sixteen million seniors are also benefiting from the savings by receiving preventive benefits without deductibles or co-pays and saving more than $3.9 billion on prescription drugs. 

Should Romney restore the $716 billion — and unless he institutes other yet to be specified reforms — we would move back to the old system of overpaying private insurers and providers. He’d be re-inserting inefficiency back into the system, jeopardizing the benefits that seniors are currently enjoying, and shrinking the solvency of the Medicare trust fund from 2024 under current law to 2016.

I don't know about everybody else but I am particularity irritated with the fact that  the Republicans keep repeating this same lie about the Affordable Care Act "raiding" Medicare when that lie has been debunked by just about everybody who is NOT working for Fox News.

Just today Paul Ryan started off saying the following: "We want this debate. We need this debate, and we will win this debate." And then immediately repeated the exact same lie, as if THAT proved his point.

It seems clear to me that the Republicans are simply doubling down on misinformation and hoping that the American voters are too stupid to do their own fact checking.

Jesus NO WONDER they vilify teachers and keep trying to take all of the money away from public schools!  The dumber you are, the more Republican you are!