Ron Barber - "I Will Vote For Obama" AZ02

Ron Barber believes that President Obama's policies have benefited the middle class. With 23 million Americans out of work, 46 million Americans on food stamps, and the country $16 trillion in debt...have Ron Barber and the President helped you?

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This is very revealing --

Democrats Ron Barber and Kyrsten Sinema have won the endorsement of disgraced state Rep. Daniel Patterson (pictured here).

Patterson recommended both Democrats in a blog post yesterday.

Who is Daniel Patterson?

He’s a disgraced Tucson politician who was forced to resign last year after ethics violations and accusations of domestic violence, intimidation towards other legislators, outbursts of anger, marijuana use and"offers to a lobbyist to trade sex for a vote,” according to the Arizona Republic.

NRCC COMMENT:"You can tell a lot about someone’s character based on their friends. Disgraced legislator Daniel Patterson has weighed-in and he believes Ron Barber and Kyrsten Sinema would make great members of Congress. This is just more proof that Barber and Sinema are wrong for Arizona.” – NRCC Spokesman Daniel Scarpinato

P.S. – Yes, that’s actually Patterson’s campaign photo.

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VIDEO Ron Barber Demonizes Doctors As "over Paid." AZ02

Watch Ron Barber blame doctors, or as he puts it "health care providers," for health care costs going up. The media ignored it. He lied when said Medicare isn't going to be slashed by $716 billion. It is. Doctors aren't going to be reimbursed at the current Medicare rates, which are already less than regular patients. Good luck finding a doctor to accept Medicare patients. They won't be able to afford it.
Watch around 8:38 to see him lie about Medicare and say doctors and providers are overpaid. Call him out!

(Don't tell Richard Carmona!)

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Barber Uses Devastating Defense Cuts As"Weapon” in His Party’s Tax-Increasing Agenda

Washington Democrats Threaten Devastating Military Cuts Because They Refuse to #StopTheTaxHike on Families and Job Creators

WASHINGTON --- Across-the-board cuts would severely threaten our national security but Ron Barber and his Democrat leaders have already voted to use them as a political pawn so they can get the job-destroying tax hikes they want (Roll Call #8, 8/1/2012). Barber and his party are doing everything to distract voters and increase their reelection chances, from denying that the cuts will happen to offering defense contractors incentives to break the law and not hand out pink slips days before the election.

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"It’s troubling that Ron Barber and his party leaders would use the health of our national security as a ‘weapon’ just so they can continue their reckless spending addiction,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."Arizona families and small business owners do not want these devastating defense cuts and can’t afford more taxes just so Ron Barber can continue spending their tax dollars.”

In the third presidential debate, President Obama attempted to distract from the Democrats’ job-destroying policies after the election:
"’First of all, the sequester is not something that I proposed. It’s something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen. The budget that we’re talking about is not reducing our military spending, it’s maintaining it,’ [said Obama].” (“Remarks by the President and Governor Romney in the Third Presidential Debate,” The White House, 10/23/2012) www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/23/rem...ebate

In truth, Democrat leaders see devastating defense cuts as a"weapon” in their efforts to increase taxes:
"‘That may be the only way to bring some Republicans into a position of talking,’ Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the assistant Democratic leader, said late last week. ‘We're not going to unload our weapons at this point.’” (Lisa Mascaro,"Congressional Democrats Dig In on Fiscal Cliff Scenario,” Los Angeles Times, 7/16/2012) www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cong...story

Indeed, the very idea of sequestration originated with Democrats:
"The book ‘The Price of Politics,’ by Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward, makes it clear the idea for the draconian spending cuts originated in the White House – and not in Congress.” (Austin Wright,"Bob Woodward Book Could Bolster Republican Attack on W.H.,” Politico, 9/7/2012)

Washington Democrats tried to downplay sequester by requesting that defense contractors"hold off on layoff warnings.” (Jeanne Sahadi,"White House to Contractors: Hold Off on Layoff Warnings,” CNN, 9/28/2012)

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NRCC releases new ad about Ron Barber’s support for Medicare cuts and overspending. AZ02

NRCC COMMENT:"Ron Barber has been a real disappointment. He turned his back on Southern Arizona and broke his promises. Now seniors and families are paying the price.” – NRCC Spokesman Daniel Scarpinato

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You Don’t Have to Settle for a Future Crippled by Ron Barber's Government Takeover of Healthcare AZ02

Disappointed Arizona Families Cannot Carry the Increasing Costs of ObamaCare

WASHINGTON --- After two debates, President Obama has yet to provide a vision for the future and continues to blame others for his policies that have buried small businesses with more regulations and taxes. With Ron Barber at his side, families and small business owners can expect his big-government takeover of healthcare to cost more money and take away more choices in the years to come (Roll Call #460, 7/11/2012).
"If Obama and Barber's vision for the future looks anything like the past four years, Arizona families are in for more devastating costs thanks to ObamaCare,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."This November, Arizona families and job creators are ready to tell Washington Democrats that they simply cannot survive four more years of the Obama-Barber agenda.”

After the second presidential debate, alarms sounded when Obama failed, yet again, to provide the American people with his plan for the next four years:

"’I just want to say one thing we haven't brought up yet but it's incredibly important. The President did not lay out a second term agenda. ... it was absent. He didn't lay out a second term agenda any more than he did in the first debate. And that is where he is the weakest. And he didn't address it, I thought at all,’ [said Mark Halperin]." (MSNBC's "Morning Joe," 10/17/2012)

Regardless of Democrats’ promise to decrease them, healthcare costs increased in 2012 as families anticipate what disastrous effects ObamaCare will have when it’s fully implemented in 2014. (“Performance in an Age of Uncertainty,” 17th Annual Towers Watson/National Business Group on Health Employer Survey on Purchasing Value in Healthcare, August 2012)

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Before you cast your vote in AZ02, watch this info on Ron Barber!

Please vote for Martha McSally!

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How Will Barber Defend His Healthcare Takeover that Already Costs $27.6 Billion and Destroyed 18,000 Jobs? AZ02.

After a Look at the Facts, Arizona Voters Aren’t Buying What Pelosi’s Caucus is Selling

WASHINGTON --- All the facts are there – Ron Barber and Nancy Pelosi promised 4 million jobs and we got 18,000 destroyed jobs. They promised Arizona voters they wouldn’t be taxed due to ObamaCare, but now they will be buried in new taxes. How can Barber continue to support his government healthcare overhaul when it continues to be an enormous burden on Arizona families (Roll Call #460, 7/11/2012)?
"In a fragile economy, ObamaCare has proven to be nothing but an economic nightmare that repeatedly breaks Democrats’ promises,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."Arizona voters will take this election as an opportunity to tell Ron Barber and Nancy Pelosi that they refuse to let their policies continue to destroy jobs and take their healthcare choices away.”

THEY PROMISED: Nancy Pelosi said ObamaCare would create 4 million jobs. (Speeches, Office of Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, 3/22/2010)

PROMISE BROKEN: A study said ObamaCare regulations have cost $27.6 billion and killed 18,000 jobs.
"Fully implementing Obamacare regulations have already cost the U.S. economy $27.6 billion and more than 18,000 jobs according to a new study released today.” (Conn Carroll,"Study: ObamaCare Regs Have Cost $27.6 Billion, Killed 30,000 Jobs,” The Washington Examiner, 10/9/2012)

THEY PROMISED: President Obama was adamant that the mandate would not raise taxes on American families. (“Obama: Mandate Is Not A Tax,” ABC News, 9/20/09)

PROMISE BROKEN: The Supreme Court ruled ObamaCare’s individual mandate to be a tax:
"The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.” (Chief Justice John Roberts, 567 U.S. (2012), Supreme Court of the United States, 6/28/2012, p. 44)

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New Report Ron Barber's Healthcare Takeover Has Already Destroyed 30,000 Jobs and Cost $27.6 Billion in Regulations AZ02

ObamaCare Isn’t Even Fully Implemented and It’s Already Devastating the Economy

WASHINGTON --- A new study reveals that the regulations in Ron Barber's government takeover of healthcare have cost almost $28 billion and destroyed 30,000 jobs. ObamaCare is set to go into full implementation in 2014 and this report confirms what American families and small business owners’ fear – that its costs on our economy will only get more severe.
"The burdens of Ron Barber's healthcare overhaul are costing Arizona much-needed jobs and making healthcare more costly for families,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."With 30,000 jobs already lost and $27.6 billion in costs to job creators, how much worse will ObamaCare’s impact have to get before Barber realizes it’s destroying any chance for economic recovery?”

Ron Barber voted to keep ObamaCare and its job-destroying regulations the law of the land. (Roll Call #460, 7/11/2012)

A new study exposes the heavy burdens ObamaCare has had on our economy, raising questions about how much worse they will be after the law is fully implemented:
"Fully implementing Obamacare regulations have already cost the U.S. economy $27.6 billion and more than 18,000 jobs according to a new study released today. Just the top ten most expensive regulations have cost $24.4 billion, according to the new non-partisan and independent American Action Forum (AAF) report.” (Conn Carroll,"Study: Obamacare regs have cost $27.6 billion, killed 30,000 jobs,” The Washington Examiner, 10/9/2012)

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Ron Barber's"Trickle-Down Government” Produces Unacceptably High Unemployment And A Discouraged Labor Force

Arizona Families Cannot Afford To Be Buried Another Four Years Under Job Crushing Policies

Washington --- The national unemployment for the month of September was announced today at the disappointingly high rate of 7.8 percent, evidence Arizona families are still struggling under Democrat’s trickledown government policies that are strangling small businesses and sending jobs to China. Will Ron Barber continue to support his party’s failed policies, or will he finally admit that his big government spending sprees have failed to create relief for America’s job creators?
"Democrats will be scrambling in the next month to explain why the unemployment rate has remained unacceptably high on their watch, especially given their promises that it would be well below 6% at this point,” said NRCC Communications director Paul Lindsay."American families can’t handle another four years of economic hardship to fund Democrats’ spending sprees that have strangled growth and failed to improve our economy.”

In September, the national unemployment rate remained unacceptably high at 7.8 percent. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 10/5/2012)

President Obama has no rationale to defend his ‘trickle down’ government policies:
"...The governor accused President Obama of championing ‘trickle down government,’ Jim Lehrer asked the president to reply, and he didn’t — and the accusation stuck and was repeated later without response.” (Stanley Fish,"Debating Points,” The New York Times, 10/3/2012)

A new report finds middle class families are ‘struggling to advance’ under Washington Democrats’ leadership:
"A majority of Americans now define success as not falling behind. They worry that fundamental changes in the economy are making it more difficult for them—and their children—to get ahead.” (Ronald Brownstein,"Struggling to Advance,” National Journal, 9/28/2012)

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Arizona Middle Class ‘Buried’ Under Ron Barber's Toxic Policies, Define Success as Not Falling Behind. AZ02

Debilitating Uncertainty Has Arizona Workers Fearing Fate of Future Generations

WASHINGTON --- A recent survey highlights how middle class families believe they are"struggling to advance” under President Obama’s failed economy. This comes as no surprise as even Vice President Joe Biden admitted on the campaign trail that Ron Barber's big-government policies have"buried” Arizona families and small business owners in unacceptably high unemployment, leaving them with little faith in the direction of the economy.
"Ron Barber won’t get government out of the way of economic growth and Arizona workers are suffering for it,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."Arizonans are finished with funding Barber's taxing, spending and borrowing policies that are ruining any opportunity for growing the economy.”

In a new report, middle class families are"struggling to advance” under Washington Democrats’ leadership:
"A majority of Americans now define success as not falling behind. They worry that fundamental changes in the economy are making it more difficult for them—and their children—to get ahead.” (Ronald Brownstein,"Struggling to Advance,” National Journal, 9/28/2012)

Vice President Biden admitted what the American middle class already knew – that his party has"buried” them in economic hardships:
"’This is deadly earnest. How they can justify ... raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years?’ [said Biden].” (Patricia Zengerle,"Biden: U.S. Middle Class ‘Buried the Last Four Years,’” Reuters, 10/2/2012)

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Joe Biden Admits Middle Class Has ‘Been Buried the Last Four Years’ Under Ron Barber's Policies

Arizona Democrat Watches His Big-Government Policies Make a Bad Economy Worse as He Refuses to #stopthetaxhike

WASHINGTON --- Ron Barber and his party in the House will have to face the music after Vice President Joe Biden admitted at a campaign rally yesterday that the middle class has ‘been buried the last four years.’ Thanks to Barber's efforts to crush small business owners and families with more taxes, the Arizona economy continues to be plagued with anemic economic growth and a bleak outlook for the future (Roll Call #8, 8/1/2012).
"The cat’s out of the bag now that even the vice president conceded that his party’s own policies have buried the middle class,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."Biden’s right, and now is no time for Washington Democrats like Ron Barber to pursue job-killing tax hikes for Arizona families and job creators.”

Thanks to Ron Barber's vote, the average Arizona families’ tax increase will be $3,341 in 2013. (“The Effects of Taxmadeggon,” The Heritage Foundation, 6/2012)

Vice President Biden said that the middle class has been ‘buried’ during Obama’s tenure:
"’This is deadly earnest. How they can justify ... raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years?’ [said Biden].” (Patricia Zengerle,"Biden: U.S. Middle Class ‘Buried the Last Four Years,’” Reuters, 10/2/2012)

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Does Ron Barber Support Obama Bullying Contractors to Illegally Keeping Quiet on Massive Layoffs? AZ02.

Dems Offer Taxpayer Dollars to Cover Legal Fees if Defense Contractors Don’t Send Pink Slips.

WASHINGTON --- After 43 straight months of unemployment above 8.0 percent, America now faces even more devastating job losses due to across-the-board defense cuts, and contractors are legally required to warn of these imminent layoffs. Does Ron Barber agree with Obama’s attempt to illegally cover up the impact on defense jobs and make taxpayers foot the legal fees?
"Ron Barber thinks he can have his cake and eat it too, championing Obama’s job-killing policies and then covering up their devastating effects on the job market,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."Barber and his party’s politically-motivated agenda is not only unsustainable, it’s motivated by their desperate attempts to deceive the public.”

Under law, defense contractors have to send notice of their plans to lay off workers. This comes as Democrats refuse to stop the looming tax hikes that will devastate small businesses:
"The White House on Friday told government contractors worried about fiscal cliff spending cuts to hold off on warning employees about possible layoffs.
"The government said it would cover legal costs if contractors are forced to slash their payrolls because of the looming $109 billion in automatic cuts next year and are alleged to have violated the WARN Act.” (Jeanne Sahadi,"White House to Contractors: Hold Off on Layoff Warnings,” CNN, 9/28/2012)

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Ron Barber Protects Solyndra-Like Solar Company’s Ability to Get Taxpayer-Funded Loan. Arizona Dem @RonBarberAZ Chooses to Continue Reckless Gambles Over Fiscal Restraint in #AZ02

WASHINGTON --- Recently, Ron Barber voted to ensure his party could continue to give middle-class families’ tax dollars to solar companies like SoloPower that are structured eerily similar to now-bankrupt Solyndra (Roll Call #6231, 9/14/2012). How can Barber ignore the signs and champion all the same, reckless policies that waste hundreds of millions of struggling families’ hard-earned tax dollars?
"Even with their record of failure, Ron Barber and his Washington leaders are prepared to throw more taxpayer dollars at now-bankrupt Solyndra sister companies,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."Barber cannot restrain himself when it comes to being presented with another way to spend taxpayer dollars as he continues to support companies like SoloPower who are fated to join failed companies like Solyndra.”

There are several red flags about SoloPower but nevertheless, under Washington Democrats’ watch, it’s getting closer to receiving a government loan guarantee:
"A tiny solar company named SoloPower will flip the switch on production at a U.S. factory Thursday, a major step toward allowing it to tap a $197 million government loan guarantee awarded under the same controversial program that supported failed panel maker Solyndra.”
"Still, there are several similarities between SoloPower and Solyndra...” (Nichola Groom,"US poised to hand over $197 mln to another solar panel start-up,” Reuters, 9/24/2012)

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Ron Barber Protects Solyndra-Like Solar Company’s Ability to Get Taxpayer-Funded Loan. Arizona Dem @RonBarberAZ Chooses to Continue Reckless Gambles Over Fiscal Restraint in #AZ02

WASHINGTON --- Recently, Ron Barber voted to ensure his party could continue to give middle-class families’ tax dollars to solar companies like SoloPower that are structured eerily similar to now-bankrupt Solyndra (Roll Call #6231, 9/14/2012). How can Barber ignore the signs and champion all the same, reckless policies that waste hundreds of millions of struggling families’ hard-earned tax dollars?
"Even with their record of failure, Ron Barber and his Washington leaders are prepared to throw more taxpayer dollars at now-bankrupt Solyndra sister companies,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."Barber cannot restrain himself when it comes to being presented with another way to spend taxpayer dollars as he continues to support companies like SoloPower who are fated to join failed companies like Solyndra.”

There are several red flags about SoloPower but nevertheless, under Washington Democrats’ watch, it’s getting closer to receiving a government loan guarantee:
"A tiny solar company named SoloPower will flip the switch on production at a U.S. factory Thursday, a major step toward allowing it to tap a $197 million government loan guarantee awarded under the same controversial program that supported failed panel maker Solyndra.”
"Still, there are several similarities between SoloPower and Solyndra...” (Nichola Groom,"US poised to hand over $197 mln to another solar panel start-up,” Reuters, 9/24/2012)

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Does AZ02's @RonBarberAZ Think We’re Better Off Now Than We Were Four Years Ago?

The Democrat Party Has Rallied Around Obama’s Failed, Big-Government Policies

WASHINGTON --- With a nearly $1 trillion stimulus, an exploding deficit that will reach $16 trillion today and an unemployment rate of 8.3 percent, up from 7.8 percent in 2008, Democrats are delusional to think that Americans are better off now than when Obama took office. After steamrolling over an already weak economy, can Ron Barber honestly say that Arizona families and small business owners are better off?
"The question of this election is whether we are better off after four years of Obama and Ron Barber's taxing, spending and borrowing agenda that is crippling our economy,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."Is unacceptably high unemployment and a government spending addiction Ron Barber's idea of ‘better off’?”

Right as the Democrat National Convention kicks off, the national debt will pass $16 trillion:
"Just as Democrats are gaveling in their convention Tuesday, the federal government likely will announce another dubious milestone — $16 trillion in total federal debt.” (“US Debt to Hit $16 Trillion on Tuesday as DNC Begins,” Newsmax, 9/3/2012)

When Obama became president, the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent and now, after almost four years, his party’s Washington agenda has pushed it to 8.3 percent:
"Though the unemployment rate, at 8.3 percent, is currently higher than it was when President Obama took office (7.8 percent), it wasn’t that Plouffe (and others) didn’t have a case to make yesterday.” (Jake Tapper,"Obama Team Readjusts On ‘Are You Better Off?,’” ABC News, 9/3/2012)

In a new poll, the majority of voters don’t believe they are better off now than they were four years ago:
"A majority of voters believe the country is worse off today than it was four years ago and that President Obama does not deserve reelection, according to a new poll for The Hill.” (Sheldon Alberts,"Hill Poll: Voters say second term undeserved, country is worse off,” The Hill, 9/4/2012)

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New CBO Report If Barber Won’t Stop The Tax Hike, Deep Recession and Skyrocketing Unemployment will Ensue.

Expect Devastating Economic Conditions if Barber is Able to Push America Off Cliff.

WASHINGTON --- Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed small business owners and workers’ worst fears – that the fragile economy would plummet into a recession and unemployment would skyrocket even more if Ron Barber has his way. Barber has already voted to push the economy off a cliff, but is this new report enough to convince him to stop his party’s job-crushing tax hikes on job creators and families?
"This report proves that Ron Barber's job-destroying tax hike plan is an economic disaster for Arizona small business owners and hardworking families,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."Is Barber going to finally listen and stop the tax hike before his irresponsible agenda drives our economy into another recession with national unemployment above nine percent?”

Ron Barber voted against stopping his party’s disastrous tax increases in 2013. (H. R. 8, Roll Call 545, 8/1/2012)

A new report by the CBO said that Washington Democrats’ plan to impose tax hikes on job creators and businesses will force the economy to tank and the unemployment rate to spike:
"Tax increases and spending cuts from the ‘fiscal cliff’ would send the U.S. economy into a recession and drive the unemployment rate up to 9 percent by the end of 2013, according to fresh forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office.” (“CBO: Cliff Would Cause Recession, National Journal, 8/22/2012)

However, Democrats may not be listening because they already think their failed, reckless agenda has ‘worked:’
"Just like we’ve tried their plan, we tried our plan -- and it worked. That’s the difference,’ [said Obama].” (“Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event,” The White House, 7/24/2012)

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Majority of Americans Think Medicare is"Very Important” Issue, But @RonBarberAZ Cut It Anyway AZ02

Arizona Dem Took Over $700 Billion from Medicare to Pay for ObamaCare

WASHINGTON --- In a recent poll, an overwhelming majority of Americans – 73 percent – said Medicare is ‘very important’ or ‘extremely important’ when they are choosing who to vote for. This isn’t welcomed news for Ron Barber, who voted to gut Medicare for current and future seniors to fund his big-government takeover of healthcare.
"Ron Barber has already proven his unwillingness to protect Medicare for current seniors, so Arizona seniors aren’t going to protect him,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."This poll is further proof that Barber's choice to cut over $700 billion from Medicare for current seniors was the breaking point for many Arizona families and seniors.”

Washington Democrats’ massive Medicare cuts have put them in an unpopular position:
"The nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation said on Thursday that 73 percent of respondents polled in the days around the announcement described Medicare as ‘very important’ or ‘extremely important’ to their votes.” (David Morgan,"U.S. voters see Medicare as a top election issue: poll,” Reuters, 8/16/2012)

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Gutting Medicare Paid for ‘One Third’ of Barber's Healthcare Takeover

Job-Destroying Tax Hikes and Medicare Slashes Are Funding ObamaCare

WASHINGTON --- Arizona seniors had no idea that their access to Medicare would be threatened when they need it most. However, this is exactly what President Obama allowed to happen when he and Ron Barber passed their big-government takeover of healthcare – that it would be funded by slashing Medicare and raising taxes on job creators.
"Arizona seniors and working families are under attack from every direction thanks to Ron Barber Barber's failed agenda,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."If Barber isn’t going to look out for seniors’ Medicare or the economic stability of small businesses then he can be sure that they aren’t going to look out for him come November.”

Even President Obama admitted that one third of his disastrous big-government healthcare overhaul was paid for by cuts to seniors’ Medicare:

ABC’s JAKE TAPPER:"One of the concerns about health care and how you pay for it — one third of the funding comes from cuts to Medicare.”

BARACK OBAMA:"Right.” (“ABC News Exclusive Interview with President Barack Obama,” ABC News, 11/9/09) abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-abc-news-exclus...HY9Bk

From 2013 to 2022, roughly $1 trillion in ObamaCare taxes will crush small businesses and middle-class families. (Douglas Elmendorf,"Letter to the Honorable John Boehner,” Congressional Budget Office, 7/24/2012, p.6) www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachmen...9.pdf

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Obama-Barber Economy ‘Worked’ for Big Government But Left Small Businesses to Carry the Load in AZ02

Barber Expects Small Businesses to Finance His Limitless Spending Addiction

WASHINGTON --- At a campaign event this week, President Obama claimed his party’s big-government ‘plan’ has ‘worked.’ However, the only thing that the Obama-Barber economic approach has succeeded in doing is straddling small businesses with regulations, crippling taxes and the threat of more.
"“It’s baffling that Obama is bragging about how his policies ‘worked’ when so many families and small businesses continue to struggle,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay."At the end of the day, the tax hikes and burdensome regulations that President Obama and Ron Barber champion are rippling through Arizona, leaving small business owners with little opportunity to get the economy back on track.”

Earlier this week, President Obama said at a campaign function that his big-government, job-crushing policies have worked:
"Just like we’ve tried their plan, we tried our plan -- and it worked. That’s the difference.” (“Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event,” The White House, 7/24/2012)

Coming from someone who thinks small businesses are ‘doing fine,’ it’s not so hard to believe Obama said that:
"President Barack Obama offered up a gift to Republicans Friday morning, declaring ‘the private sector is doing fine,’ at a White House press conference.” (Zeke Miller,"Obama: ‘The Private Sector is Doing Fine,” BuzzFeed, 6/8/2012)

But according to a new Gallup poll, a majority of small business owners disagree and do not approve of President Obama’s handling of the economy:
"U.S. business owners' approval of President Barack Obama fell in the second quarter of 2012 to 35%, essentially tying farmers and fishers for the lowest approval among major occupational groups.” (Lymari Morales,"U.S. Business Owners Now Among Least Approving of Obama,” Gallup, 7/26/2012)

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