For example; this content made available by Yahoo Answers Top Contributor iris054
Study: Stimulus Created 3 Million Jobs, Added to GDP
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=95910
Obama: 122 promises kept in less than half a term
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
Think about what Obama and the congressional Democrats have accomplished in the last year and a half.
- Secured sweeping financial reforms that elevate the rights of consumers over Wall Street bankers and give regulators powerful new tools to prevent another collapse
- Brought 100,000 troops home from war and forged a once-unthinkable consensus around the endgame for the Bush administration’s trillion blunder in Iraq
- Rewritten America’s social contract to make health care accessible for all citizens, something that politicians of both parties have been chasing after for generations
- Warded off another Great Depression and put the country back on a halting path to recovery while giving out largest middle class tax cuts in history and historic investments in infrastructure and alternate energy. According to a study by economists from Princeton and Moody’s, more than 16 million jobs would have been lost without the interventions of TARP, the Recovery Act and the Federal Reserve — double the damage actually suffered.
- Credit card reform
- Slashed nearly 0 billion in corporate welfare — reinvesting that money to make college more accessible and Medicare more solvent
- Prevented the collapse of the Big Three automakers — saving more than 1 million jobs
- Brought Big Tobacco, at last, under the yoke of federal regulation
- Fought to constrain carbon pollution by executive fiat and to invest 0 billion in clean energy — an initiative bigger than John F. Kennedy’s moonshot and one that’s on track to double America’s capacity to generate renewable energy by the end of Obama’s first term
- Brought a measure of sanity to the drug war, reducing the sentencing disparity for crack cocaine while granting states wide latitude to experiment with marijuana laws
- Improved pay parity for women and hate-crime protections for gays and lesbians
- Installed two young, female justices on the Supreme Court
- Achieved historic nuclear agreements; both an international one about international terrorism, and one with Russia about nuclear weapons
- Holding the country back from the brink of the Second Great Depression, turning job numbers back in the right direction
What’s even more impressive about Obama’s accomplishments, historians say, is the fractious political coalition he had to marshal to victory. At its zenith, Obama’s governing coalition in the Senate comprised 57 Democrats, a socialist, a Republican turncoat — and Joe Lieberman. Obama also had to maneuver against an unrelenting head wind from the "Party of No" and its billionaire backers, harassed as well as opposed.
Are you better off than you were 2 years ago?
I’m not.
Do you expect many people to drink up the koolaid you are serving?
Look… If you think Obama is doing such a wonderful job…Great! I’m glad for you. Unfortunately a majority of the country no longer agrees with you as you will see in just a few weeks.
Yes that’s what they do!!!!!!
Yes,,,,if you believe any of that is best for the US, you have very low expectations and the lack of knowledge of the definition of a republic.
Glad you attempted to talk yourself into it using your second (or 4th) account.
It is amazing how the left always points out the GOP Billionaire backers, but seems to forget the DEMOCRAT billionaire backers, which are NUMEROUS.
Not really…
I never knew total and complete bankruptcy was a good thing for America….wow…
Just when I thought Kids stopped drinking cool-aid.
you are a sick socialist gimmy gimmy with your hands out to the govt.
you are the reason why we are in the worst economic mess in world history
That’s what the lying republican party has always done.
Yes. But he only came to the rescue of 2 of the 3 auto makers. Ford declined.
No.
Conservatives are simply realistic and base decisions on facts. We are not "star struck" or easily swayed by charm, smoke and mirrors.
CBO states that some of the jobs would have existed without the stimulus. Not only that, stimuli have always failed consistently through history. They’ve also had severe backlashes. Stimuli don’t add money to the economy. It takes it out and puts it somewhere else.
I don’t think, this is accurate.
The majority of Americans don’t like Obama, I’m British and I know this, if he did all this great stuff then people would like him more.
… Nah. They just keep denying the sourced truth with ignoramus unsourced whining.
Wow, I can’t imagine being this miopic. I can’t imagine not being able to think for myself to the extent that you have to copy someone who copied somebody who has an axe to grind.
Don’t worry, the real measure is just a couple of weeks away. Then you can rant and hate about how it never was the fault of the socialists….
Buckwheat is a train wreck, and he will be politically castrated in November.
He’s OUT in 2012.
You got this being a member of the socialist propaganda machine, I presume.
If this is all so simple and true, why are so many Democrats (politicians and voters) so angry with Obama? If the math and the facts all point to a better America due to Obama’s administration, why is there such venom coming from liberal commentators toward Obama?
They are trying to rid America of the worst thing that has happened to US since the Civil War….BHO!
BTW: Obama makes a Christian Conservative wish there had been JUST ONE MORE ABORTION!
Yes, I believe they are. This is because they don’t care what is good for America, just what is good for the rich and the rich have been very successful over the last 30 – 40 yrs of Republican rule. Vote Democratic.
You shouldn’t quote from iris054, that one works for a liberal lobby firm as their Internet liaison. most of the facts are carefully cherry picked or from dubious sources.
Pure lobby Spin from iris054 and attendant Sock puppet accounts to get the "Top Contributor" status.
First of all your list is full of errors and I see no references as to where you got this information. You have embellished and made up most of these so-called accomplishments. Unemployment remains the same. People receiving food stamps is the highest rate in history. Many of these accomplishments are considered to have negative effects, created excessive and dangerously high debt levels and are not proven to have improved anything but are baseless claims from Obama.
If you are happy to have a dictatorship that goes against the will of the majority of Americans then I guess you would consider that the best thing that has ever happened to America. The important thing is what happens at the next election. If Republicans win then Americans are sending the message that they do not consider this the best thing that has ever happened to our country. It is quite the contrary. Most Americans think Obama and his regime are the worst thing that has ever happened to the country.
Why be objective, ha ha. Remember, it was "borrowing" in the sub-prime market that caused the recession. The stimulus is nothing more than getting people to borrow(cash for clunkers). This is what got us in trouble in the first place. During the 1930′s stimulus was tried and failed. It was only the advent of WW II that we got out of the depression. I will give Obama credit on understanding that war will help bankrupt the country, but would default him on pushing health care during the worst recession since the depression and possibly helping to bankrupt the U.S.
they are trying to prevent the worst from happening to Americans
Watching MSNBC much?.
Half that stuff was either passed or in talks while Bush was still in office. He hasn’t made medicare more solvent since he took half the money out of medicare to pay for his health insurance coverage, his nuclear agreements are not among the historic value of either Salt I or II, he installed two agenda wielding judges to the Supreme Court as well as made a woman with zero experience on the bench and hadn’t practiced law in ten years, the middle class tax cuts were the same tax cuts that the Bush cuts offered, his soft on drugs policy allows immoral and criminal behavior to become centralized and socially tolerable yet remains soft on what counts; illegal immigration which helps escalate the illegal drug trade, wants to place an expensive corporate tax call cap and trade and is apparently a flip-flopper on gay rights. Obama has been a failure to this point and any way to try to rationalize his Administration is as idiotic as supporting the Carter years.
Yes by supporting the liberalism you mention below they are blocking conservatives from turning this country back into the prosperous FREE nation, it once was.
So you think that regulating our rights as to what we may eat or smoke is good for us?
You think that regulating the markets out of existence is good for us (if you say they still exist my response is the the libs in power, are far from finished yet)?
Libs wanted to keep Reagan from developing S.D.I. which was what brought to Soviets to their knees.
No "arms limitations’ ever accomplished it.
How did they save auto jobs when they were the ones who’s regulations forced the auto industry into bankruptcy in the first place?
What parity for women are you talking about?
You mean the feminazi agenda of keeping boys out of college so the girls can graduate at 3 times the rate and then be handed jobs on government orders (while men who in at least some cases, are more qualified) or the companies will face ‘discrimination lawsuits’?
Holding the country BACK from depressing?????
I would be LMAO, if the country were not in such dire straits and getting worse.
Oh wow female NAZILIBS on the Supreme court what an accomplishment (for a country that wants to destroy itself).
Gee I did not George Soros and Ted Turner and Oprah and B ill Gates and Donald Trump were such Republicans or did you mean that the Democrats are the ‘party of no’, as in no right to eat what you want to to wear fur or ride a horse or smoke or spank your kids to raise them properly or build on your own land because a spotted owl, would have to move etc….
It is really a sad state thartCons /Reps would do anything to discredit Obama’s efforts . They would bring him down even if they bring the whole darn country down as well.
I was never that way about Bush . I am more so now . But now I see the effect of 8 longs years of Republican rule .
They haven’t given Obama inch of respect right out of the gate .
I really do not like cons /Reps .
the best thing?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I see you like lists though…
me too:
$13 TRILLION debt
$1.4 TRILLION deficit
10%+ UNEMPLOYMENT
3.5 million promised jobs – LIE
$900 FAILED pork filled political payback PORKULUS
$2 – 6 TRILLION government Obamacare
Upsetting our friends
Appeasing our enemies
Non-stop World Apology Tour
"Boot on the Neck" of legitimate companies
Taking over Insurance, Auto, Banking industries
TRANSPARENCY.. LIE
BIPARTISANSHIP…LIE
Time to read legislation…LIE
CSPAN for Healthcare Reform…LIE
NEW politics in DC…LIE
there’s LOTS more.
Here is a map that explains just some of the exaggeration of what jobs are created by the stimulus.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/maps/Bogus-jobs-created-or-saved-by-the-Stimulus.html
Here is an article about the fuzzy math dealing with the Job Creation and Economic Recovery Act.
http://www.ombwatch.org/node/10346?page=0%2C1
Here is an article that tells about the "Actual" unemployment numbers, and it isn’t pretty.
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/02/04/actual-unemployment-in-january-2010-rece
Obama is a salesman, and a bad one. If not then why are all of the strong supporters of Obama breaking away from Obama and his policies in their commercials where they are trying to get re-elected?
Like so…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-uZpfVy1Nw
….Ohh also you might try to focus your question on one topic, and not on so many topics so the answers aren’t on so many topics.