Incumbants need at least one accomplishment if they want a second term. Obama is looking more like Bush 41 than anyone could have ever imagined. Heck he has a Quayle as a VP.
Lets list some of Obamas accomplishments
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^The 10% drop in unemployment experienced in early 2012 was due to veteranÂ’s stimulus measures implemented by Obama. Unemployment of veterans from recent wars went from 15.2% to 9.1%, while unemployment for other veterans went from 9.9% to 7.5%
^EPA regulations limiting coal ash pollution will create over 30,000 jobs and save hundreds of lives
^EPA Daily load regulations so far have created 40 thousand jobs
^Executive energy efficiency program creates 100,000 of jobs. 2011
^In total Obama policies have created over 11 million jobs
^Tax cuts for small business that add jobs, and low interest loans to small business, and other tax extenders in 2010 created 1-2 million jobs.
^Expanded funding for Head start by 4.3 billion creating 90,000 jobs and creating 9 dollars in benefits for every dollar invested.
^New Federal government energy efficiency such as retrofitting residential buildings and a manufacturing grant created/will create over 600,000 thousand jobs over a 2 year period.
----1) BBI (better building initiative) would/will create 115,000 jobs and save 40 billion a year
----2) The Home star (cash for claunkers) program would/will create over 160,000 jobs over a two year period and save consumers .735 billion a year, expanded GDP by 120 billion and reduced CO2 emissions by 850,00 tons
----3) The Building star program which offers businesses rebate for energy improvements would/will create 190,000 jobs over a two year period and save consumers lots of money.
^Required all government vehicles to use clean energy by 2015; and he required that all cars/trucks have MPG standards up to 35 miles per gallon saving 61 billion and creating 250,00 jobs a year starting in 2020.
^Stimulus grants for the DOE will create 170,000 jobs over two years by increase energy efficiency.
^New EPA rules under Obama will provide a 4-1 to 22-1 benefit cost ratio and will create 1.5 million jobs over the course of 5 years.
^Obama expanded EPAÂ’s criminal investigators field, and increased environmental enforcement by 19 times the previous amount. EPA also is now required oil storage locations must implement prevention control measures.
^Obama increased the Labour DepartmentÂ’s number of investigators by 1/3 to combat wage theft
^Tripled the size of the AmeriCorps service program which is a community service type program; allow students who joined the AmeriCorps program to earn money for college, AmeriCorps has a cost benefit analysis of 1-2.
^Health care reform will creates 250,000 jobs
^Stimulus created 5 million jobs
^Management of Auto bailout saved 1.4 million jobs
^Two Anti Outsourcing jobs tax reform laws. Increased taxes on corporations shipping jobs overseas while reducing taxes for corporations creating jobs in America.
^Increased MEP (manufacturing extension program) funding which saves 32 dollars for every 1 dollar invested, creating over 72,000 jobs so far.
^Food safety legislation; increased FDAÂ’s power and funding closer to pre-1990 levels to help reduce food borne illness and save 5-50 billion yearly. Increased number of food safety inspectors
^Invested 8 billion into expanding broadband access, which creates 160,000-800,000 jobs
^Chesapeake Bay protection act so far has created 40 thousand jobs and will create tens of thousands more
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^Removed government subsidies for for-profit-colleges with 35% of their students are unable to pay off their loans, or spends more than 12% of his/her income on paying of servicing charges on their student loans
^Capped monthly student loan payments and allowed 6 million students to consolidate their debts.
^Eliminated abstinence-only funding
^Limited food ads directed at children aimed to increase healthy choices and decrease the desired consumption of unhealthy foods
^Started race to the top; provides money to states for using methods to try to improve education.
^Obama’s education Department has made a rule that will cut off government funds going to low performing for –profit-college whose students leave with high debt ratios, and low job prospects.
^Eliminated private banks from federal student loans saving 100 billion.
^Expanded funding for Head start by 4.3 billion creating 90,000 jobs and creating 9 dollars in benefits for every dollar invested.
^Reformed school lunches to make them healthier; which has shown to decrease absences by 15%, increase test scores by 5% and decrease child obesity by 18%.
^Increased funding for upper education, by more than 70 billion a year.
^Singed in new tobacco regulations limiting tobacco companiesÂ’ ability to make tobacco products more addictive, advertise, and adding ingredients that make their products more attractive to kids.
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^Put forth tariffs on foreign goods coming from countries who have tariffs and “un-fair” trade policies (such as dumping, and predatory prices)
^Put tariffs on Chinese solar cells
^Freddie Mac will grant a 1 year mortgage payment breaks for homeowners who have become unemployed
^Extender minimum wage and overtime laws to include in-home care workers for 2 million workers.
^Eliminated the presidential coins which will save 3 billion every 10 years
^Expanded “federal marketing order/check-off program” to include Christmas trees, which creates $5.7-$14.4 dollars in benefits for commodious growers for every dollar spent
^Provided employers a tax cut of 230 dollars per year for workers who use public transportation.
^Expanded unemployment benefits
^Passed patient reform which reduced the time it takes to get a patient through.
^Provided around 10,500 in aid for 5 years to homeowners to refinance their mortgages.
^Created NEI to provide support programs for SMEÂ’s in exporting.
^Allowed around 2 million home owners to refinance their mortgages.
^Improved access to credit for small business, and exporters.
^Barred government contracts going toward firms who have violated tax laws.
^Included antitrust laws to include meat companies, and meat packaging companies.
^Invested 50 billion into high speed rail which produces a benefit cost ratio of over 2:1
^Obama increased AmeriCoprs spending by 4 billion a year creating 8 billion in economic benefits.
^Has decreased the long term deficit (20 year period) by around 2 trillion dollars.
^Increased WIC spending by 500 million creating more than 1.5 billion in benefits.
^Reformed government contracting allowing bids saving 40 billion yearly.
^Mortgage restructuring which helps homeowners restructure their loans and payments to prevent foreclosures. Helping lower mortgage payments for 700,000 people.
^Extended the government national flood insurance program (30 times more efficient then private insurance).
^Reduced large salaries of government officials including Foreign Service workers, senior executives, and Judges.
^Reduce funding for inefficient faith based groups (have 25% more wasteful administrative spending then other government programs of equal skill)
^Signed into law Build America bonds which allowed states to invest 181 billion dollars into infrastructure projects and save around 3 billion on borrowing costs.
^Created “Pay-for-success bonds”, government bonds that grant private companies money for projects only if there are able to prove that they have improved people’s lives.
^Increased WAP (weatherization assistance program) by over 100%. WAP so far has saved the country a net of 3 billion dollars a year since 1975.
^Got BP to pledge 20 billion of its own money to help pay for the Oil disaster.
^Placed tariffs on Chinese tires and other products.
^Cut salaries of white house aides down to 100,000.
^Increased NASA funding by 5% and provide them with 4 billion in extra funds
^Put foreclosed properties owned by Fannie and Freddie onto the rental market.
^Increased the borrowing authority of the FDIC and NCUA by 106 billion.
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PS I got ten more pages