Fact Check Posts – Page 157

Facebook posts
stated on October 21, 2013 in Facebook posts:

Congress, criminals, Scientologists and other groups are exempt from Obamacare.

By Julie Kliegman • October 24, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on October 1, 2013 in viral posts on the Internet:

Says a man opted out of Obamacare after the marketplace launched on Oct. 1, 2013, and was informed he owed a $4,000 fine.

By Lilly Maier • October 4, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on July 20, 2013 in a Facebook post:

The very first meal on the surface of the moon was the Holy Communion.

By Janel Davis • September 16, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on June 13, 2013 in a fake Rick Perry 2016 poster.:

"Texas ranks: #1 in worker deaths, #1 carbon emissions, #50 in high school graduates, #50 in funding for mental health patients."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 19, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on March 15, 2013 in a Facebook post:

"Harvard Study Finds States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 10, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2013 in a Facebook post:

A new law "requires the USDA to approve the harvest and sale of crops from genetically modified seed even if a court has ruled against the crop as being dangerous to public safety or the environment."

By Molly Moorhead • April 5, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on February 6, 2013 in on the Internet:

"Washington, D.C., now has greater population than Wyoming and Vermont, more active duty military than 29 states, more tax revenue than 29 states (and) a larger domestic product than 27 states."

By Louis Jacobson • February 6, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on January 8, 2013 in on Facebook:

In 2011, more people were murdered with knives, "hands or feet" or "clubs and hammers" than with any type of rifle.

By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on December 16, 2012 in a Facebook posting:

"Switzerland (where the government) issues every household a gun . . . has the lowest gun related crime rate of any civilized country in the world!!!"

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 6, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on December 15, 2012 in an internet message:

"Last year, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 21 in Sweden, 42 in West Germany and 10,728 in the United States."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 23, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on November 20, 2012 in a post on Facebook:

A precinct in the Allen West-Patrick Murphy recount has "7 registered voters in Guatemalan community and the tally showed 900 voted!!!!!"

By Amy Sherman • November 20, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on July 21, 2012 in a post on the Internet:

"USA is #1 in gun violence."

By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on July 21, 2012 in on the Internet:

"Nearly 100,000 people get shot every year. That's 270 people a day and 87 dead."

By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on July 3, 2012 in on the Internet:

"75 percent of the Obamacare tax falls on the middle class."

By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on July 2, 2012 in on the Internet:

"In 1950, corporations paid $3 in taxes for every $1 by a worker. Today, they pay 22 cents for every $1 by a worker."

By Louis Jacobson • July 3, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on June 10, 2012 in a widely circulated posting:

"Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties in U.S. are illegals."

By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on June 19, 2012 in on the Internet:

"Less than 2 percent of illegals are picking crops, but 41 percent are on welfare."

By Louis Jacobson • June 20, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on June 15, 2012 in a Facebook post:

"Vagina. Because apparently, saying that word in the Michigan State House of Representatives can get you a two-day ban from speaking on the floor."

By Molly Moorhead • June 19, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2012 in on the Internet:

"More than 43 percent of all food stamps are given to illegals."

By Louis Jacobson • June 19, 2012

Facebook posts
stated on April 13, 2012 in a Facebook post:

"Romneycare covers abortion, illegal immigrants and has a public option. Obamacare does not."

By Molly Moorhead • June 18, 2012

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