Good bye obama
9 years ago
President Obama has done a lot good for the country but unfortunately he missed a few things he promised he would get done. And this will be my quick list about them
1-Not taking action against assad regime earlier in civil war
2-No Major immigration legislation
3-No increase to federal minimum wage
4-Could have invested more money into Africa and Asia
1-Not taking action against assad regime earlier in civil war
2-No Major immigration legislation
3-No increase to federal minimum wage
4-Could have invested more money into Africa and Asia
there are more unemployed Americans then ever before, 26171 bombs dropped, and 10 times more drone strikes ordered then Bush did. Pulling our troops out of Iraq just so ISIS could rise and take over shortly afterwards, and bending over the Iranians and fronting with Russia is absolutely unacceptable.
"Number of Jobs — The economy has added 851,000 jobs since we published our last report. As of December, the number of total nonfarm jobs stands 9,265,000 higher than when Obama first took office.
That compares with the nearly 23 million jobs gained during the booming years of Bill Clinton’s presidency, and the fewer than 1.3 million added during President George W. Bush’s eight years, which were plagued by two recessions.
Unemployment Rate — Meanwhile the unemployment rate went down again, to 5.0 percent. It’s now 2.8 percentage points lower than it was in January 2009, when the president first took office in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Historically, the jobless rate is significantly lower than it has been most of the time since 1948. The historical median is 5.6 percent."
as for Labor Participation Rate going down because of a aging baby boomer(the generation that cut a lot taxes and didn't want to invest in education,public infrastructure and public transportation) retiring every year faster than young people can get a real job and not just minimum wage job.
As for obamacare is a great success
"Total number of people who are currently enrolled through the Marketplace 11,700,000
Drop in uninsured rate from 2013 (Pre-Marketplace) to current date 6.1 %
Percent of adults currently without health care 12.3 %
Number of people who re-enrolled from the previous year 4,500,000
Current annual Marketplace re-enrollment rate 56.2 %
Number of people who enrolled in the Marketplaces during the first open enrollment 8,000,000
Number of young adults (ages 19-25) who were able to gain coverage on a parent’s plan until age 26 3,400,000
Number of elderly who were now able to enroll in Medicaid or CHIP 10,800,000
Number of people who gained coverage through their employer 1,000,000
Average annual cost for a subsidized enrollee $3,500
Number of people who were uninsured before the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) 47,000,000"
Obamacare could be doing better if all states expanded coverage for it and medicaid especially in the south which hardest hit and they need it most but they all run by republicans who refused free federal money that could help save their crumbling healthcare industry(hospitals,clincs, medicare and medicaid are all falling apart)
List of the states who refused Obamacare are suffering.
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Kansas
Maine
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
As for the war in Iraq George Bush said troops will stay until 2011 and Obama made sure they left after 2011. ISIS came on the scene in summer of 2014 and ISIS were a former member of al qaeda in Iraq that was mad thanks to Iraq War.
Iran and Cuba are no longer isolated they may not be our allies but we have relationship with them that change into something positive look at Germany and Japan and Italy after WW2. Russians are still enemy number one along with ISIS,fascist and communism and nazism.
Obama has strengthen out ties with Afghanistan, India and China but hurt our relationship with Pakistan. Obama kept his promise of getting troops out of Iraq. He also supports the EU and NATO
Im going to be frank, this post annoys me a bit. The cause of the economic chrisis has more to do with the wreckless investments businesses have made. Its recovery, along with the decreasing unemploymemt rate also has more to do with the exact same businesses and investors. Rich people want to be richer, and the easiest way is to simply have a larger and more imposing business. The short of it is that I think he's overrated. People have to view the entire system as a whole, and understand that the economy, at least on paper, is meant to autonomously recover. Am I saying Obama is a bad president? Well, no. Every president for the past few decades has been in some way overrated.
As for obamacare? To be honest, it's considered to have a more centrist basis than what most republicans will admit. Though i will say this. Those numbers aren't that impressive when you consider the size of the country. And would expanding it to other states make it more effective? Well, you have more funds, but now more people covered under it. So it isn't going to be any more effective, but that's just my two cents.
On the other hand. No one should of pulled out of Iraq. We were never supposed to.
Now you get to work with Donald Trump. Let me know how that will be workin' for ya, eh?