http://www.forwardprogressives.com/fact-checking-site-proves-just-good-president-obama-america/
When he said our deficits have been cut by two-thirds, he was also factual about that as well. That statement received a “Mostly True” rating. The main “issue” being that it’s true if you base it off 2009 numbers when deficits were extraordinarily high and some are projecting deficits to eventually increase within the next few years, mainly due to the lack of revenue increases (such as tax hikes) and entitlement reform. But even when you go beyond just his SOTU speech to a few other comments they’ve fact-checked of his leading up to his speech: U.S. auto industry has created 500k new jobs in the last five years: True More factories are opening their doors today than two decades ago: Mostly True We’ve doubled our production of clean energy since 2009: Mostly True Since negotiating with Iran, we’ve seen the first year and a half that they haven’t made advancements in their nuclear program: Mostly True
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