Four Charts To Email To Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law

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Almost everybody has a Right-Wing brother-in-law or cousin plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine and keeps sending you emails about the terrible job Obama is doing.

From Campaign for America's Future comes these three nifty charts showing that Obama's policies either significantly slowed or reversed deficit trends and job loss trajectories legislated into law during the GOP-majority Bush era.

Spending

Deficits

Stimulus and Jobs

I added this next chart showing what is driving our deficits, just for good measure.

Cause of Deficits

More False Things

These are just three of the false things that everyone "knows." Some others are (click through): Obama bailed out the banks, businesses will hire if they get tax cuts, health care reform cost $1 trillion, Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme or is "going broke", government spending takes money out of the economy.

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