Romney tells several falsehoods in the same letter (Factcheck.org)

[Justice4allofus]

From Factcheck.org's latest piece about a fundraising letter written by Mitt Romney:

In a March fundraising letter to Floridians, Mitt Romney skews economic statistics under President Barack Obama. Among the letter’s claims:

Romney says the numbers for unemployment, bankruptcies and foreclosures are “soaring.” That’s simply not true. They all started rising sharply under Bush, continued to rise for a time under Obama, but then peaked and are currently declining.
Romney claims Obama stood over “the greatest job loss in modern American history.” But more jobs were lost under his predecessor.
The former governor is wrong when he claims Obama increased the budget by more than 20 percent. Romney attributes to Obama a big rise in spending for fiscal year 2009 — which began under Bush, nearly four months before Obama took office. Spending in Obama’s latest budget is proposed to be about 8 percent higher than the fiscal 2009 spending levels.

[Samantha]

1. An equally salient point that we NEVER hear discussed is that George W. Bush* left office

after eight years with a 10.5 Trillion Dollar Debt (kept off the general ledger and out of the public eye) which accumulated as a result of his war mongering. The interest on that continued debt contributes a lot this day to our entire national public debt. Republicans don't mention that, do they? It was Enron-type accounting and should be a major topic under discussion.

When Barack Obama became President, during sometime during the first three or four months of his new Presidency, he made a public statement which I happened to have heard broadcasted. He said that this 10.5 Trillion Dollar debt had been kept off the general ledger, and he was moving it onto the general ledger so that the American people could know where we stand.

Shortly after that, the Republicans started railing against the huge 13 Trillion Dollar Debt and laid the blame for the entire size of that debt at the President's feet. The Democrats have been MIA in refuting their claims.

This is important additionally because the size of our debt helps contribute, along with the massive unemployment caused by Bush, to our inability to meet our annual budgetary needs. Do we hear anything about that? Not really.... But we have heard a massive amount of complaints from the Republicans about President Obama's near trillion dollar stimulus program, which did in fact help save and/or create jobs.

Sam

Sam

[Mariana]

5. I remember the President saying that.

And as you say, the Pukes still pretend to believe that his predecessor's phony official numbers are gospel.

[Samantha]

7. Thank you -- now I know there were at least two of us!

Don't you think this should indeed be put out there to remind those who truly believe Obama is responsible for this huge debt of the single highest contributing factors -- the 10.5 trillion kept off the general ledge by Bush*, interest on that debt, and the lack of revenue caused by the massive unemployment, an unemployment which was caused by not only Wall Street's recklessness but Bush's lack of government oversight as well?

Sam

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Romney is a liar

Romney is a liar
Romney is a liar
Romney is a liar
Romney is a liar
Romney is a liar
Romney is a liar
Romney is a liar
Romney is a liar

It cannot be stated often enough.

[savalez]

3. I've been saying this all along. Romney is a liar.

[libinnyandia]

4. If Romney had a nose like Pinocchio his nose would provide enough wood to build a house.

[Pirate Smile]

6. It is truly staggering the quantity of lies he tells. He's such a massive liar.

edit to add - I think this "Romney vs. Reality" meme the Obama Campaign has started is going to get A LOT of play. They've put out two videos of it just this week. They do a good job of showing what a massive liar he is.

edit to add them:

[lpbk2713]

8. Romney knows he can get away with it.

He knows if Florida rethuglicans voted for Rick Scott they will fall for anything.