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Signed the HIRE Act to stimulate the economic recovery (2010) * Note: The bill includes: tax cuts for small businesses who hire someone unemployed for at least two months; small businesses can write off their investments in equipment this year; etc.

? Signed historic Wall Street reform bill (2010) * Note: Designed to reregulate and end abusive practices and promote consumer protections

? Increased infrastructure spending (roads, bridges, power plants?) (2009) * Note: Bush was the first president since Herbert Hoover to not make infrastructure a priority

? Authorized a $789 billion economic stimulus plan (2009) * Note: 1/3 in tax cuts for working-class families; 1/3 to states for infrastructure projects; 1/3 to states to prevent the layoff of police officers, teachers, etc. at risk of losing their jobs because of state budget shortfalls

? Authorized the ?Cash for Clunkers? program that stimulated auto sales and removed old, inefficient, polluting cars from the road (2009)

? Ended the Bush-era policy of protecting credit card companies (2009) * Note: In place of the old policy, new consumer protections were instituted and the industry?s predatory practices were banned

? Authorized the federal government to make more loans available to small businesses and ordered lower rates for federal loans to small businesses (2009

Placed a 35% tariff on Chinese tires and a few other products such as pipes after China was found to be illegally ?dumping? exports below cost (2009) * Note: Clinton, Bush I, and Reagan all refused to ?get tough? on China?s predatory trade practices; Bush II refused four times during his presidency

? Signed historic Wall Street reform bill (2010) * Note: Designed to reregulate and end abusive practices and promote consumer protections

? Signed the HIRE Act to stimulate the economic recovery (2010) * Note: The bill includes: tax cuts for small businesses who hire someone unemployed for at least two months; small businesses can write off their investments in equipment this year; etc.

? Expanded agricultural credit to farmers during current economic crisis (2010
Signed bill ? US Manufacturing Enhancement Act (2010)
Negotiated a deal with Swiss banks to permit the US government to gain access to records of tax evaders and criminals (2009)

? Ended the Bush-era policy of offering tax benefits to corporations who outsource American jobs (2009) * Note: The new policy promotes in-sourcing investments to brings jobs back to the US

Signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act which provides small tax cuts for 95% of ?working families

Ordered the closing of offshore tax safe havens (for individual and business tax evaders
Extended the Home Buyers Credit for first-time home buyers (2009)
? Proposed doubling the child tax credit (2010)
? Called for the repeal of the capital gains tax for small businesses


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OK and what was the success? Unemployment is still over 9%, sales of new homes is down. The U.S. taxpayer lost money on the bailout of the auto makers, taxpayers lost money on the cash for clunkers program, how many jobs did that create? shovel ready jobs were not shovel ready, the stimulus was ineffective, the tax cuts on small business were negated by the estimated cost of Obamacare, Employers will not hire until they can figure out what they have to pay, the moratorium on drilling in gulf but giving Mexico 2 billion dollars to drill in the gulf was just wealth redistribution. His over regulation of business has cost the U.S jobs. The wall street reform bill is ineffective because it still leaves the fox guarding the hen house just like before. His energy policy stymies the growth of our economy and costs jobs in the oil and coal industry. His stance on illegal immigration costs our government billions of dollars a year due to the burden of illegal immigrants using our health care facilities, schools, public welfare. , and social security that they haven't paid into. He forgave 5 billion dollars in debt that Egypt owed us. Who's forgiving our debt? You said it! he passed a bunch of ineffective legislation and spent a whole lot of taxpayer money and it didn't help one bit. Thank you for listing all of the things that didn't work.