Saturday, March 3, 2012
Santorum says there are three things families can do to avoid poverty
GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said building the economy and cutting taxes is not enough to restore America to greatness. He said Americans also needed to return to core family values to be successful. Santorum said that if people did three things -- work, graduate from high school, get married and not have children before they're married -- then they only have a two percent chance of falling beneath the poverty line during their life time. Conversely, people who don't do just one of those things have a 74 percent chance of living in poverty, he said. "We can talk about cutting taxes, we can balance the budget -- but we're kidding ourselves unless we really talk about what makes America work," he said. Santorum was the keynote …
Friday, March 2, 2012
Santorum says he would not tax manufacturers, repeal any Obama initiative that costs more than $100 million
Health care and manufacturing were the key themes for GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum in his keynote speech Friday at the Lake County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner at the American Croatian Lodge in Eastlake. In front of the 800 people, who paid as much as $250 to hear him speak, Santorum railed against President Barack Obama's health care plan, calling it "public enemy number one against freedom in America." "You think the Cleveland Clinic would exist if the government ran health care for the last 100 years?" he said. Santorum told the crowd that, if elected, he would repeal every Obama initiative that cost more than $100 million per year on his first day in office. Santorum also spoke on the need for a strong manufacturing …
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
President Obama spoke today at Shaker Heights High School.
Updated 5:45 p.m. Wednesday President Barack Obama visited Northeast Ohio today to announce the appointment of Richard Cordray, who will run the new consumer protection agency. Obama told a crowd at Shaker Heights High School that people need a consumer watchdog to defend and advocate for them. "For way too long, we’ve had a financial system that was stacked against ordinary Americans," Obama said. Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general, accompanied the president on the trip. “Does anybody think the reason we got in such a financial mess, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in a generation, that the reason was because of too much oversight of the financial industry?” Obama asked. People booed …
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