Mitt Romney cast President Barack Obama as a man of grandiose promises he couldn’t keep in his nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention Thursday.

Romney’s acceptance speech hit hard on the “disappointments of the past four years” without making it personal or uncivil, turning the tables and putting President Obama suddenly on the defensive. And after nearly an entire week of Republicans loudly proclaiming “We Built That!” at the GOP convention, Romney finally delivered and told millions of Americans how he plans to build a better future for the nation.

In the rousing finale to the GOP convention, which some analysts said would define his entire campaign, Romney explained that he understands why Obama’s promise of “hope and change” was enticing, but added “there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had, was the day you voted for him.”

The Republican presidential nominee then laid out an extremely ambition plan to bring 12 million jobs to the United States. Meanwhile, he said, the president’s plans will outsource jobs and eliminate American jobs.

“And unlike the president, I have a plan…It has 5 steps,” Romney quipped. You guessed it, another standing ovation. Here is that plan, according to Romney:

1. Make North America energy independent by 2020 by tapping America’s oil and coal, gas and nuclear and renewables.
2. Give American citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow by improving schools
3. Forge new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.
4. Cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.
5. Reduce taxes on business, simplify regulations, repeal and replace Obamacare.

“President Obama has promised to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family,” Romney continued.

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U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement today regarding a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found during 2010, 117,000 individuals received overlapping Social Security Disability Insurance (“SSDI”) and state Unemployment Insurance (“UI”) cash benefit payments totaling more than $856 million.  Of those individuals receiving benefits from both programs, GAO found 1,500 individuals received more than $40,000 from both programs in just one year. 

The report was done at the request of Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Permanent Investigations, Carl Levin (D-MI), Subcommittee Chairman, and Committee members Tom Carper (D-DE) and Scott Brown (R-MA).

“Double-dipping government assistance undermines programs for those who are truly in need while burdening future generations with unnecessary debt.  This report shows that Congress has failed to hold agencies accountable,” said Dr. Coburn.

While the GAO investigation found that many individuals were receiving both payments based on applicable laws, at least a few were improper payments to fraudsters.  For example, one individual qualified for disability benefits due to a back disorder, but at the same time worked construction jobs and collected UI payments in four different states over a four year period.  During that four year period, this individual received $107,000 in disability and unemployment payments, despite appearing neither disabled nor unemployed.

Job data shows disability rolls are growing faster than employment.  For instance, between April and June 2012, an estimated 246,000 individuals left the American work force and were added to Social Security’s disability insurance program.   In the same time frame, only 225,000 American jobs were created.

To read the full report, click here. For highlights of the report, click here. 

Fossil fuels might be finite, but, at this point in the development of the United States, they’re indispensable. Support for private research and development of alternative energy sources makes sense, then, but outright opposition to fossil fuels — especially now, when new methods of extraction and energy-efficient products promise to extend the life of limited resources — is implausible. Voluntarily limit production? Intentionally drive prices higher, unintentionally testing the limits of the American family household budget? Why?

As Sen. James Inhofe said in a recent interview with OCPA, "You can’t run this machine called America without fossil fuels." Maybe, Inhofe suggests, it’s time we stopped trying to do just that and took advantage of our incredible mineral assets instead.

"When you stop and think that here we have in America the largest recoverable reserves of any country in the world and yet we have a policy in Washington to be the only country in the world that doesn’t export its reserves, it’s unthinkable," Inhofe said. "We are creating a shortage that we don’t have to create."

Click here to read more from OCPA with video of the interview.