Barak Obama Campaign Promises
85How did president Obama complete his first year as president in the
opinion of the people? Let us look back to Obama, the candidate and
the president who now occupies the Whitehouse. For some answers.
During the 2008 presidential election campaign for the presidency,
candidate Obama promised hope and change will be coming to
Washington. The reform legislation that Obama and the majority
democrat party are pushing for have confirmed his intentions of
changing the economic systems in American government.
In November 2008 Barak Obama was elected president by the people
to serve all the people in governing our great nation. Obama was
elected either because of his color, because of his political parties
affiliation or because of his promised to bring change to Washington.
Each of these suggested reasons helped him to become the nations
44th president and the first black president in US history.
Let us look back to what candidate Obama pledged to the American
people if elected. President Barak Obama pledged:
1.To bring back the jobs lost in 2007 and 2008. In 2009 the nations
unemployment went from 7% in 2008 to 10%( in some areas
17% ). Obama’s administration bailed out the auto industry,
banking industry, saved the union workforce and even helped the
unions get ownership in the companies by forcing the creditors to
lose their financial investments in the companies. The Obama
administration has increased the size of government by 10%, added
more union jobs and commissions. Government unemployment
stands at 3% and government employees and congress did get a raise.
in 2009 while the deficit increased.
2.To fix the economic problems by passing the $787 billion Tarp
bill (congress passed the bill without reading or debating the bill
as required by constitutional rules.), promised that unemployment
would not exceed 8% and shovel ready jobs were available to jump
start the economy. As of today approximately 60% of Tarp has not
been spent and unemployment remains at 10%. Recently the CBO
projected Tarp will need $85 billion more added to the $787 billion
bill. One should note that all of the above is borrowed money adding
to the nations skyrocketing debt.
3.To have fiscal responsibility and control spending, Barak Obama
promised to go line for line and strike out pork in the Tarp bill. The
president signed the Tarp bill without cutting any pork out of the bill.
On wed.1/27/10 in the state of the union speech Obama stated he
would put a freeze on spending. Congress on 1/29/10 passed
legislation to raise the national debt by another $1.9 billion, the
second increase in 60 days, raising the debt ceiling to$14.5 trillion.
4.To rid Washington of lobbyist and special interest groups. Presently
in his administration Barak Obama has at least 30 lobbyist, some
appointments are know as czars. Obama has been meeting with
union officials ( special interest )at the white house on a regular basis.
5.To surround himself with experienced and capable people, like tax
cheaters, Marxist, communist and socialist. known as czars. These
employees were not background investigated as required by the FBI.
The question remains as to why the procedure was exempted. .
6.To have an open transparent government and to allow C-Span to
televise the debates and congressional meetings. Folks it didn’t
happen, C-Span was denied access (that is called censorship.) The
president and the democrats met behind closed doors denying the
minority party’s participation in the negotiations. By the way the
minority party was elected by the people to represent the people.
Essentially the people were locked out and ignored.
7 To close Gitmo last year. The president sent some prisoners to
Bermuda, a terrific propaganda move. More could be said but for now
a continuing story to be told. Gitmo is still open.
8.To end the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the president and his advisers
are talking in the whitehouse. To be continued .
9.To give 95% of the people a tax break and not to tax anyone below
$250,000, by the way according to some officials the ceiling has
dropped down to $100,000 with a possibility to $85,000 due to lack of
money coming into the treasury.
Check this out, president Obama and congress will tax the rich.
If 2 or 3% are the rich and they pay 50% of federal taxes, according to
Obama 50% of the nation don’t pay federal taxes, I wonder who will be
paying the taxes. ( the middle class )?FUZZY MATH?
10.To not allow no bid contracts in his administration. A major news
source reported that Obama approved a $25 million no bid contract to a
donor of his campaign. The contract recently was cancelled after being
exposed by the media..
11. To reduce the deficit by 50% in his first term. The fact is that the
Obama administration has triple the deficit in his first year in office.
The proposed budget for 2011($3.85 trillion )given to congress will
be the largest ever in our history if passed by congress.
The above information you will not see in the bias press or reported
on ABC,CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, or other liberal news medias.
Watch C-Span or Fox News, they report and broadcast the actual
uncensored news
The presidents rating is ‘’F’’ in his first year ?
In summary, let us be fair when president Obama talks about what
his administration and congress was left with after the past
administration. The simple facts are that then senator Obama and
the present democrat party took control of congress in January
2007 and 2008 with a lame duck president George W. Bush.
Surely it is irresponsible to blame the Bush administration for all
the present problems without noting that the democrat majority
controlled congress in 2007 and 2008. President Obama and the
democrats should be accepting their political parties share of the
blame for their part in the recession. President Obama and the
democrat super majority had full control of the economy in 2009 .
The president has yet to fulfill many of his election promises of
which unemployment remains the highest priority. One should note
that no president can spend any money without the approval of
Congress.
Your Author Jon Ewall
http://jon-ewall.hubpages.com/_ph9ejsxunalx/
jon@chicagoconsultant.com
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sheila b.
Where did i mention the chicago way ?
For your info Today the president said
he is adopting pay-go on spending
He said congress has to stop spending
Congress recently raised the debt ceiling to $14.1 trillion with his urging
Watching the president appearing and saying such wonderful things when he does just the opposite disturbs many people.he really needs to start telling the American people the truth
Have a great day and thanks for your reply
jon e
jon e
Well said, and true.
Barrack Obama can do the well said, but he doesn't do the follow through.
Thanks
OpinionDuck
the latest was president Obama closing the summit on 2/25/10 that he (president of the USA )moderated on the Obama health care reform bill.Obama basically told the republicans ( the representatives of the people )that he will get the legislation done without them if need be.
without jobs there will not be people paying for healthcare hence premiums will be going up for those lucky enough to have an employer paying the employee's premiums.
obama and congress still don't get it, we need jobs first and no more spending increasing the deficit. dumb dumbs,idiots and arrogant political brain dead carpetbaggers.
Thanks bro you are on track!
RD... think about those initials. Really Dumb? Hmm... I think you know what I'm saying. Over and over no matter how much Proof you put in front of the Obama supporters... they just choose to live in their own pathetic world of Denial.
Tell them that 34,000 troops were in Afghanistan when Obama took office and now there are 100,000 and point to Obama's promise to end the war and these Obama supporters become dumbfounded. But they still won't accept what a total lying POS he is.
In basketball they say you can't coach "quickness". And in the real world you can't make non-intelligent people intelligent.
We live is a country half full of people who do not have the brain power to understand even simple logic... even when the FACTS are clearly presented.
Indeed..I have heard from everybody the same questions...As I do not pay particular attention to politics, even though I do vote my conscience when I am inside the booth, I do not know of any politician's promises.
One cannot fathom, from an intellectual point of view, why he is doing what he is doing. Thank you.
I did hear from one person why he is keen on the immigration law as it appears to me not a priority at this moment...the people whom he wishes to legalize right now will vote for him during his re-election.
msorensson
HE IS A MUSLIN, I heard him say it and I also seen it in an interview when he was running for the presidency.Just another fact covered up by the media and press.
THE TAPE PROBALLY HAS BEEN DESTROYED, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT
For example I wrote regarding finance reform and cap and trade
I caught Glen Beck on Fox News, he was exposing the questionable
relationships of Goldman Sachs( campaign funding to Barak
Obama and some Dem's $33 MILLION ),the unions ( SEIU
and the AFLCIO ),Frank Raines (took $90 million out of Fannie
Mae ),Joel Rodgers (the apollo alliance group, they wrote the
Healthcare Reform bill for congress ),Al Gore ( investments in
the Chicago Climate Exchange),Joyce foundation (connections
with Barak Obama and Valerie Jarrett) and president Barack Obama.
GLEN BECK USED OLD ACTUAL NEWS CLIPS TO
SUPPORT THE ACCUSATIONS
hubbers
Today is 3/7/11 and President Obama has been in office some 25 months. I pointed out 11 of the Presidents promises he made to the American people if elected. Out of the 11 ,Obama has not performed on 1,3,4,6,7,8,10 and 11 of his promises, another ‘’f‘’ rating
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The only accomplishment that he could possibly consider a kept promise is
on items 2. spending on the $825 billion stimulus bill , item 5. surround himself with experienced and capable people ( could be questionable) and item 9. give 95% of the people a tax break ( really not a tax break but he didn‘t raise everyone’s taxes)
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As he begins his 3rd year in office, the shine that he once had is getting pretty dull. It’s becoming clear as to who and what he represents being in the Whitehouse.
hubbers
The 2010/2011 budget has yet to be approved by the Senate. President Obama and the Democrats are pushing for another extension to funding the government.Will the Republicans hold firm to the $65 billion in cuts?
HUBBERS
An update on the 2010-2011 buget
Check out this link on Fox sunday.
. RYAN TELLS IT THE WAY IT IS!
HUBBERS
The 2012 budget battle has started with Obama and Congressman Ryan attending town hall meetings .President Obama don't speak about what is in his budget but the comments he made to Congressman's Ryan’s budget are not totally truthful. The campaign for the 2012 Presidency has officially started.
Yesterday the Obama administration approved a bonus of $2.6 billion for Medicare plans that need money to pay for coverage in the plans, that’s after Obamacare cut $500 billion from Medicare in the original bill.
hubbers
President Obama, the Democrat controlled Senate and the Republican controlled House of Representatives will have a need to work in a bipartisan way to control spending and reduce the national debt. The Democrats have had control of Congress since 2006 and after the 2010 elections, the Democrats still control 2/3 of our government. Under the Obama Administration the yearly deficits has increased the national debt $4.5 trillion. A second round of oil speculation and rising prices in food, gasoline, corn, wheat, clothing , healthcare costs and a stagnant economy with the devaluation of the American dollar ( loss of 20% value ) requires our governments immediate attention.
When President Obama took office in Jan 2009, a gallon of gasoline was $1.843. On 4/23/11 gasoline prices hit $5.16 a gallon in Florida and California. In Jan. 2009 a barrel of oil was $37.74, today on the world market crude oil prices hit $124 a barrel and here in the US IT HIT $112 a barrel. One must wonder when the president will understand that the national security is at risk and that Obama’s inactions are not in the best interest of the American people and the economy.
hubbers
The President didn’t tell the public that Ryan’s Budget repeals Obamacare ,cuts in doctor’s pay , Medicare payments to healthcare providers and IPAD, a government department that will decide if a service is needed or not needed. When Medicare cuts payments, co-pays increase, meaning the patient will pay more out of pocket cost.
4.A trillion dollars in tax breaks for the rich (the extension of the parts of the Bush tax cuts that Obama wants to see expire)
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The president didn’t say that allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire will immediately raise taxes rates and taxes for everyone. The President can call it anything that he wants but it is a tax increase on all. Hardest hit are small businesses, middle class and the poor.
hubbers
What the president didn’t tell the people is that in the existing HEALTHCARE bill there are $250 billion in new taxes and $500 billion in MEDICARE cuts. The bill requires everyone to purchase insurance otherwise the government will impose a penalty. There are other sections that businesses and the unions are getting waivers from the Obama administration because of the cost to comply.
Wake up America, Obama is on the road campaigning and telling the American people how the Republicans are hurting the poor and middle class.
The CBO now estimates that the Healthcare bill will not be deficit neutral as first reported. The bill will create a $1 trillion deficit now that the Obama administration has revised the information.
Where are you getting your information? Whenever I watch Fox News they make statements they can't back up. The campaign promises of any candidate have to be adjusted once they get the full brunt of what's happening and if you check out the facts you will see that what you are doing is using information from a biased media company without any backed up facts. As far as the deficit goes, I have found where Obama pledged to cut the deficit in half in 5 years, but not in 2, yet FoxNews and Republican Presidential hopefuls keep quoting it over and over. Please reference the articles where you are getting your information. If you simply quote what Newt told you and believed it, are you a patriot or a puppet? Political parties on all sides are using mindless followers like you to spread irrelevant, inaccurate, and absurd information. This article should not be taken seriously unless citations for your "facts" are given. Just scrolled through your post again...nope no citations in sight. Moving on...
PJ
VERY INTERESTING REPLY TO MY HUB!
The local business sections newspapers, Google at times, Saturday business discussions on Fox, Sunday News programs ( I select who I want to watch), they repeat all thru the day on cable. As I said before:
Watch C-Span or Fox News, they report and broadcast the actual uncensored news.Cavuto always has on both parties ( sometimes the Democrat refuses an invitation).
If you watch CNN ,they inject their opinions into the news ( selected news, don't show it all ). Fox News ''fair and balanced '','' we report, you decide ''
Fox Lies if you see a lie, send me a note and I will check it out.
You said ‘’Fox News they make statements they can't back up’’ very interesting statement.
On Fox ( probably only Fox ) they will show actual tapes of whoever ( past and present )of the subject ( not cut up to only show portions ).
I reviewed my hub and stand by it! If anything I have written is wrong point it out, I welcome a debate or a correction. Sometimes the actual #s vary, in most cases later the Whitehouse is correcting past statements. Many on the deficit, unemployment, budget estimates, statements as to what happened (how about the UBL killing) and various half truths coming out of the President at times ( HE DOES LIE or is misinformed ).
‘’ Obama pledged to cut the deficit in half in 5 years, but not in 2, yet ‘’ OBAMA did say, before his first term is over ,he will reduce the deficit in half. SEE #11
I seen him say it on a news tape!
PJ When a hubber leaves a link to support a statement, I will read it. Than I search on the page who are the website parties and their political backgrounds. There is a lot of bias reporting, much of it says ‘’Fox Lies’ and other statements very biased to Fox News commentators like Glen Beck, O’Reilly, Hannity and whoever. Be open minded and try to get ahead of the propaganda on the net and in the mainstream media.
Looking foreword for you to point to which item is incorrect.
Your response will be appreciated.
hbbers
AN UPDATE ON CURRENT NEWS!
Since President Barak '' I'' Obama took office in Jan 2009 the following
events have happened .
1. Medicaid costs increased 54%
2.food stamp
distribution up 60%
3.A gallon of gasoline up 100%4.
4. Social Security will be broke in 2018
5. Homeowner mortgages 28% underwater
6.Housing market medium home prices fell 4.6%
Values dropped for 57 consecutive months
7. Inflation up 3.2%
8. Price of hamburger meat was $1.29 now $3.50 per pound
9. The National Debt ceiling $14.3 trillion was reached today.
Government wants to borrow $2 trillion from federal employees pension
funds to keep afloat to 8/2/11
10. unemployment closing in on 10% again
11.THE Medicare trust fund will be broke in 2024
The Ryan budget proposal changes in Medicare wouldn’t happen until 2021 ( a good estimate ?)
12 There is more to be listed as time goes by
The obama administration claims that the economy has gotten better and improving. Just wondering where they are getting their information?
Hang in there with Obama and Company, they need more time to fix the problems that they inherited from the last Congress and President Bush.
How would you RATE the last 29 months of the Obama/ Democrat controlled Congress?
FROM 0 TO 10 , be honest if you can!
AN INTERESTING ARTICLE
HUBBERS
CHECK OUT THE DEBATE ON FOX regarding the Ryan budget
Ryan and Van Hollen Debate Medicare Proposals 6/3/11
PJ
I'M STILL WAITING FOR A REPLY as to what I wrote that was incorrect. Where do you get your information?? If it's on the whitehouse.gov or other .govs, you are not getting the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Last Sat., Obama's description of what is happening to the national debt limits negotiations wasn't all factual.
PJ
Under the leadership of President Obama, the Senate has not presented a budget proposal for 952 days going back to 2009.A 2012 budget has been approved by the Republican House in Feb and sent to the Senate awaiting to be presented to Senate members.
The fact is that 2/3’s of our government is not working in the best interest of the people. Where and when will Congress act to get the promised jobs? Blaming the 1/3 that is working is disingenuous and misleading.
On Dec 15,2011, Congress will need to vote the third time to continue funding the government.
Obama and the Senate has yet to present a 2012 budget. The House passed their 2012 budget in Feb as require by House rules.
Where are the jobs? Check this site. http://majorityleader.gov/JobsTracker/
The question remains as to what is the best direction for the country. Do we raise taxes or do we cut spending? The national debt has exceeded $15 trillion and counting. In order to prevent a collapse of our system, Congress/ Government must cut spending.
The 1% cannot be taxed as to completely solve the problems of our nation. Without Small business providing the working class jobs, the necessary revenues to manage the government will never occur
hubbers
Obama and the Democrats claimed VICTORY by passing the 2 month payroll tax holiday!
CONGRESS PASSED a 2 month extension of the Payroll Tax holiday today, Dec. 23, 2011.Obama and the Democrats fought hard for the 2 month extension. Obama claimed victory for the people, some how he is satisfied with 2 months rather than the Republican House bill that was a 1 year extension. The House bill was deficit neutral as required by Pay-Go legislation signed by President Obama in 2010.
The President held a press conference ( no questions as usual ) said that the tax extension would save working workers $ 1200 a year , somehow he forgot that the Senate bill was for ONLY 2 MONTHS. The factual savings varies from $20.00 / week to $40.00/ week. The total would save about $180.00 average to a worker. Obama and Congress working hard for the people left Washington, will return in January to re start the negotiations on passing a longer term.
Here’s the real scoop. The Senate passed the bill for 2 months because they could only find enough cuts to offset the expenditure of $ 33 billion. What a waste of taxpayer time and money!
Another delay in finding a solution.
hubbers
The President and the Democrat leadership have forgotten that the Pay-Go law ,2/13/10,calls for any new taxes to be offset by government cutting existing spending costs.
The Mainstream media and the President calls a 2 month extension a victory,one should wonder who the victory is for?
President Barack Obama is hailing pay-as-you-go BUDGET legislation he
signed Friday night as one in a series of crucial steps needed to snap
Washington out of a destructive pattern of overspending.
“Now, Congress will have to pay for what it spends, just like everybody
else,” Obama said in his radio and Internet address released Saturday
morning. “After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of
politicians who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk when it comes to
fiscal responsibility. It’s easy to get up in front of the cameras and RANT
against exploding deficits. What’s hard is actually getting deficits under
control. But that’s what we must do.”
The PAYGO compels NEW spending or tax changes to not add to the federal deficit. Not to be confused with pay-as-you-go financing, which is when a government saves up money to fund a specific project. Under the PAYGO rules a new proposal must either be "budget neutral"
or offset with savings derived from existing funds.
hubbers
The Obama economy adds $4.5 trillion to the national debt in the first 3 years of his first term in office. A record of accomplishment OF BRINGING CHANGE TO WASHINGTON!
hubbers
On Jan. 19,2012, President Obama announced his decision NOT to allow the Keystone oil pipeline project to proceed.The ready to go project would have put 20,000 workers to work immediately. Republicans in Congress will continue the fight for a project start.
hubbers
ON JAN. 24,2012 the Democrat controled Senate votes 52-44 to grant President Obama's request for another $1.2 trillion, raising the national debt to over $16 trillion.
Check out the Coburn report.
THE TRUE FACTS
WASTE IN GOVERNMENT ALL IN THE RED
‘’ Back In Black’’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tVJ2gqqKWs
The Senator Coburn report '' WASTE IN GOVERNMENT'' http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/rightnow
hubbers
The President’s plan in the 2012 election is for everything to be ‘’ FAIR’’.
Let’s be FAIR when President Obama talks about what
his administration and Congress was left with after the past
administration. The simple facts are that then Senator Obama and
the present Democrat party took full control of Congress in January
2007 and in 2008
During the 2008 presidential election campaign for the presidency,
candidate Obama promised hope and change will be coming to
Washington. The reform legislation that Obama and the majority
Democrat party are pushing for have confirmed his intentions of
changing the ways in American government.
1.To bring back the jobs lost in 2007 and 2008
2.To fix the economic problems by passing the $787 billion Tarp bill (Congress passed the bill without reading or debating the bill
3.To have fiscal responsibility and control spending, Barak Obama
promised to go line for line and strike out pork in the Tarp bill
6.To have an open transparent government and to allow C-Span to
televise the debates and congressional hearings.
11. To reduce the deficit by 50% in his first term.
sheila b. Level 5 Commenter 24 months ago
Maybe you could tell us more about The Chicago Way!