Campaign Literature


Organizing for America Minnesota
   


Brochure from Minnesota.  top: Front, inside and back.  bottom: Left and right gate flaps open.


Moving the Economy FORWARD.

Putting our economy back on track

A strong, durable economy is built from the middle out, not from the top down—that's why President Obama:

- Cut taxes for every American worker, putting $3,600 back in the pockets of the typical family.

- Created new tax credit for up to $10,000 over four years, helping 9 million middle-class families afford a college education.

- Is fighting to eliminate tax loopholes to stop outsourcing and create incentives to bring American jobs back home.

- Invested in the American manufacturing sector, which added 495,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2010.

We still have more work to do—but we're on the right track.

Making progress

We've added 4.3 million private sector jobs over 27 consecutive months, and the economy is on track to continue growing.

- The American auto industry is back on top.

- American manufacturing is adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s.

- We cut more than $60 billion in taxpayer subsidies to big banks and are using the savings to make college more affordable for millions more families.


An economy built to last

President Obama believes the key to an economy built to last is a strong and growing middle class.  America prospers when hard work pays off, responsibility is rewarded, and everyone from Main Street to Wall Street, plays by the same rules.

We can't just cut our way to prosperity, and we can't go back to the same failed policies of the past that caused the economic crisis and devastated working and middle-class families.


THERE'S TOO MUCH AT STAKE TO TURN BACK NOW.


Progress in Minnesota

$3,791
Every working family in Minnesota got a tax cut, with the typical family getting $3,791.

10,000
The auto rescue saved over 10,000 jobs in Minnesota, and the industry has since added 230,000 jobs across the country.

16,700
The Minnesota manufacturing sector added 16,700 jobs since March 2010, and U.S. manufacturing is adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s.

Eighteen
President Obama signed 18 tax cuts benefiting Minnesota small businesses.

Jobs data soure: Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of April 2012.

Private Sector Job Creation, January 2008 to May 2012 [title for graph on adjacent panels]

Where we've been
When President Obama took office, America faced the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression.  The economy was losing jobs at a rate of more than 750,000 a month.  By the time the President took the oath, more than 4 million jobs had disappeared.

What's at stake
Mitt Romney's economic plan is familiar and troubling: more unpaid-for tax cuts for the wealthy and fewer rules for Wall Street—the same formula that benefited the wealthiest Americans, but crashed our economy and punished the middle class.

Under Mitt Romney's leadership
Massachusetts dropped to 47th out of 50 states in job creation.

Massachusetts lost manufacturing jobs at a rate twice the national average.

State college costs skyrocketed, while in his first year, public schools saw the second-largest percentage cuts per student in the country.

Taxes and fees were raised on the middle class and small businesses—but he gave 278 of the wealthiest residents a $78 million tax cut.