GOP STATE OF ALTERNATE REALITY:

"Obama’s budget doesn’t solve our deficit — and it doesn’t cut spending enough."

REALITY:

• 3 out of every 4 dollars of our nation’s debt are the result of Republican policies. We can’t go back to what doesn’t work.
• The best way to handle our debt and get our economy going is to put Americans back to work. That’s what the President has been fighting to do all along.
• If Republicans were serious about deficits, they wouldn’t have fought so hard for the Bush tax cuts and two unfunded wars that led to the record deficits we’re dealing with today – and they’d get rid of deficit-busting tax giveaways for millionaires right now.

GOP STATE OF ALTERNATE REALITY:

"Obama’s budget unfairly raises taxes."

REALITY:

• Regular Americans are working harder and harder for less and less while Wall Street CEOs are getting bigger and bigger bonuses and sailing by without paying their fair share.
• The President’s budget calls for passing the "Buffett Rule." It’s based on the core American value that middle-class families shouldn’t have to pay higher taxes than millionaires.
• When Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton told millionaires and big corporations to pay their fair share, we got millions of new jobs and strong economic growth.
• Our economy works best when we value working families and everyone contributes their fair share.

GOP STATE OF ALTERNATE REALITY:

"Obama’s budget is more of the same failed stimulus policies."

REALITY:

•  Millions of Americans were kept from the unemployment rolls because of the first stimulus bill.
• The President’s budget plan would put Americans back to work right away fixing our crumbling roads, bridges, and schools – and more money in the pockets of working Americans means more customers in our stores.

If Republicans really believed their own attacks, why did they keep taking stimulus money for their states and districts the last time?