A Sample Of Promises Kept

[LJP]

A SAMPLE OF CAMPAIGN PROMISES KEPT BY PRESIDENT OBAMA:
No. 4: Extend child tax credits and marriage-penalty fixes
No. 16: Increase minority access to capital
No. 33: Establish a credit card bill of rights
No. 36: Expand loan programs for small businesses
No. 37: Extend the Bush tax cuts for lower incomes
No. 38: Extend the Bush tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 (couples) or $200,000 (single)
No. 48: Close the “doughnut hole” in Medicare prescription drug plan
No. 51: Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions
No. 53: Give tax credits to those who need help to pay health premiums
No. 55: Require large employers to contribute to a national health plan
No. 56: Require children to have health insurance coverage
No. 57: Expand eligibility for Medicaid
No. 58: Expand eligibility for State Children’s Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)
No. 63: Require health plans to disclose how much of the premium goes to patient care
No. 65: Establish an independent health institute to provide accurate and objective information
No. 69: In non-competitive markets, force insurers to pay out a reasonable share of their premiums for patient care
No. 70: Eliminate the higher subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans
No. 93: Reinstate executive order to hire an additional 100,000 federal employees with disabilities within five years.
No. 105: Increase the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health
No. 109: Fully fund the Veterans Administration
No. 113: Expand the Veterans Administration’s number of “centers of excellence” in specialty care
No. 121: Fully fund the Violence Against Women Act
No. 125: Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq
No. 126: Begin removing combat brigades from Iraq
No. 132: No permanent bases in Iraq
No. 161: End the abuse of supplemental budgets for war
No. 167: Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts
No. 172: Open “America Houses” in Islamic cities around the globe
No. 182: Allocate Homeland Security funding according to risk
No. 195: Seek verifiable reductions in nuclear stockpiles
No. 196: Extend monitoring and verification provisions of the START I Treaty
No. 197: Stand down nuclear forces to be reduced under the Moscow Treaty
No. 215: Create a rapid response fund for emerging democracies
No. 222: Grant Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba
No. 225: Establish an Energy Partnership for the Americas
No. 229: Expand the Nurse-Family Partnership to all low-income, first-time mothers
No. 239: Release presidential records
No. 241: Require new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.
No. 244: Provide affordable, high-quality child care
No. 247: Recruit math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession
No. 259: Reduce subsidies to private student lenders and protect student borrowers
No. 269: Increase funding for national parks and forests
No. 275: Expand Pell grants for low-income students
No. 290: Push for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors
No. 293: Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy
No. 315: Establish ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ for areas of concentrated poverty
No. 359: Rebuild schools in New Orleans
No. 371: Fund a major expansion of AmeriCorps
No. 411: Work to overturn Ledbetter vs. Goodyear
No. 422: Create new financial regulations
No. 427: Ban lobbyist gifts to executive employees
No. 433: Sign a “universal” health care bill
No. 435: Create new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud
No. 449: Raise fuel economy standards
No. 458: Invest in all types of alternative energy
No. 483: Invest in public transportation
No. 495: Double federal spending for research on clean fuels
No. 500: Increase funding for the Environmental Protection Agency
No. 507: Extend unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits
No. 513: Reverse restrictions on stem cell research
Again, please keep in mind that this is only a fraction of the promises he has kept. I don’t think there is another president in recent history who could present such a list.

You just keep drinking to kool-aid

[DJD]

Ohhhh that's how you spend trillions and put us in debt beyond anything this country has ever ever ever ever seen. Thanks for explaining it to me.

Sooooo does this mean he gets your vote?

[MrSplitshot]

Yeah. Hail to the Freakin Chief.

That list (and subsequent price tag) reminds me of something that a guy puts together to try and justify his job when he knows that he's getting ready to be fired. A lot of fluff there...

[psprowler]

I'd settle for just:
1. Reduced the trillion+ dollar debt to something resembling "manage-able"

[waterdog101]

Ohhhh that's how you spend trillions and put us in debt beyond anything this country has ever ever ever ever seen. Thanks for explaining it to me.

Sooooo does this mean he gets your vote?

I wasn't trying to explain anything. and he did spend a lot, but I think he had to, every country around the world spent hundreds of billions trying to stimulate the economy. I think anyone that would have been elected when he was, would have had to do the same. to answer your question on will he get my vote.. I never vote for one party only, I did vote for Obama the last time. and I have never voted for the same President twice in my life, but for what the pubs have to offer this time, there's a good chance I will vote for the same President twice, for the first time in my life.

[DJD]

I wasn't trying to explain anything. and he did spend a lot, but I think he had to, every country around the world spent hundreds of billions trying to stimulate the economy. I think anyone that would have been elected when he was, would have had to do the same. to answer your question on will he get my vote.. I never vote for one party only, I did vote for Obama the last time. and I have never voted for the same President twice in my life, but for what the pubs have to offer this time, there's a good chance I will vote for the same President twice, for the first time in my life.

I was joking around. I think anyone can pull stats to support what they believe. I won't vote for him for all the reasons I have stated on here for the last few years.
I don't agree that any potus would have done the same. That's a cop out that the dem party has taken from the start. I heard him say it many times. How can anyone argue that? He had our checkbook and tons of people to pay back for getting him elected he also had a left wing group of whackos that told him what to do and he gladly performed his duties of the Liberal party.
He is a mistake.