Political Quotes

“When President Trump announced his withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, he used these alternative facts from that chamber- commissioned NERA report. Here is what Trump said: Compliance with the terms of the Paris Accord and the onerous energy restrictions it has placed on the United States could cost America as much as 2.7 million lost jobs by 2025. . . . This includes 440,000 fewer manufacturing jobs. End of alternative facts quote. This was another assertion: By 2040, compliance with the commitments put into place by the previous administration would cut production for the following sectors: paper down 12 percent; cement down 23 percent; iron and steel down 38 percent; coal--and I happen to love the coal miners--down 86 percent; natural gas down 31 percent. The cost to the economy at this time would be close to $3 trillion in lost GDP and 6.5 million industrial jobs, while households would have $7,000 less income and, in many cases, much worse than that. End quote of his alternative facts. Countless reviewers, including PolitiFact, Scientific American--that known crazy, phony, liberal publication, Scientific American--CNBC, and Fortune magazine, fact-checked the President's speech. It did not fare well. PolitiFact warned us to ``take these statistics with a grain of salt.'' An analysis of the underlying report was done by Kenneth Gillingham, an economics professor at Yale University.…”