The Morning Plum: Romney’s jobs plan revealed to be flim-flam

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Posted at 08:48 AM ET, 10/16/2012
By Greg Sargent

Yesterday I noted that one of Obama’s most important tasks at tonight’s debate is to spell out clearly that Mitt Romney is selling the American people a bill of goods on jobs and the economy. Romney has promised that his “five point plan for the middle class” will create 12 million jobs. Of course, economists have estimated that the economy will create that many jobs in four years without any Romney policies.

But Post fact checker Glenn Kessler decided to take Romney’s plan at face value. And he’s made an important discovery. It turns out Romney’s plan is an even more absurd exercise in flim-flam than we thought: The studies the Romney camp itself cites in defense of the plan don’t back up the plan’s promises.

Romney’s 12 million jobs promise is based on the idea that achieving energy independence will create three million jobs; tax reform will create seven million more; and that expanding trade and cracking down on China takes us to 12 million. But, in­cred­ibly, when Kessler asked the Romney campaign to back up these claims, this is what he got back:


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-morning-plum-romneys-jobs-plan-revealed-to-be-flim-flam/2012/10/16/52cc5ba0-177b-11e2-a55c-39408fbe6a4b_blog.html

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1. I hope Obama brings this up in the debate. nt