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Has President Obama actually accomplish anything?

Besides Health care bill that will be repealed in 2012 and go on vacations 24/7. I can't see anything else that he did that helped with the economy, jobs, or anything that helped America lower its debt. Can you think of anything? Stimulus doesn't count, that was only a temporary fix.

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  • sanity
    Lv 7
    10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    1. Saved the collapse of the American automotive industry by making GM restructure before bailing them out, and putting incentive money to help the industry

    2. Shifted the focus of the war from Iraq to Afghanistan, and putting the emphasis on reducing terrorism where it should have been all along

    3. Relaxed Anti-American tensions throughout the world

    4. Signed order to close the prisoner "torture camp" at Guantanamo Bay

    5. Has made the environment a national priority, and a primary source for job creation

    6. Has made education a national priority by putting emphasis and money behind new ideas like charter schools, but speaking directly to school children in telling them they have to do their part.

    7. Won the Nobel Peace Prize

    8. $789 billion economic stimulus plan (People complaining about spending - Bush spent $800 Billion and counting in Iraq, at least this money is going to America)

    9. Appointment of first Latina to the Supreme Court

    10. Attractive tax write-offs for those who buy hybrid automobiles

    11. Authorized construction/opening of additional health centers to care for veterans

    12. Renewed dialogue with NATO and other allies and partners on strategic issues.

    13. Beginning the process of reforming and restructuring the military 20 years after the Cold War to a more modern fighting force… this includes new procurement policies, increasing size of military, new technology and cyber units and operations, etc.

    14. Better body armor is now being provided to our troops

    15. "Cash for clunkers" program offers vouchers to trade in fuel inefficient, polluting old cars for new cars; stimulates auto sales

    16. Changed the failing/status quo military command in Afghanistan

    17. Closed offshore tax safe havens

    18. Deployed additional troops to Afghanistan

    19. Ended media "blackout" on war casualties; reporting full information

    20. Ended previous policy of awarding no-bid defense contracts

    21. Ended media blackout on war casualties and the return of fallen soldiers to Dover AFB.

    22. Ended previous policy of cutting the FDA and circumventing FDA rules

    23. Ended previous practice of forbidding Medicare from negotiating with drug manufacturers for cheaper drugs; the federal government is now realizing hundreds of millions in savings

    24. Ended previous practice of having White House aides rewrite scientific and environmental rules, regulations, and reports

    25. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has created 2.1 million jobs (as of 12/31/09).

    26. Ended previous policy of not regulating and labeling carbon dioxide emissions

    27. Ended previous policy of offering tax benefits to corporations who outsource American jobs; the new policy is to promote in-sourcing to bring jobs back

    28. Ended previous policy on torture; the US now has a no torture policy and is in compliance with the Geneva Convention standards

    29. Launched Recovery.gov to track spending from the Recovery Act, an unprecedented step to provide transparency and accountability through technology.

    30. Ended previous practice of protecting credit card companies; in place of it are new consumer protections from credit card industry's predatory practices

    31. Ended previous "stop-loss" policy that kept soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan longer than their enlistment date

    32. Energy producing plants must begin preparing to produce 15% of their energy from renewable sources

    33. Established a National Performance Officer charged with saving the federal government money and making federal operations more efficient

    34. Established a new cyber security office

    35. Expanded the SCHIP program to cover health care for 4 million more children

    36. Expanding vaccination programs

    37. Issued memo to federal agencies on the Freedom of Information Act which is intended to reduce secrecy of governmental records.

    38. Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America's Veterans.

    39. Federal support for stem-cell and new biomedical research

    40. Funds for high-speed, broadband Internet access to K-12 schools

    41. Responded with compassion and leadership to the earthquake in Haiti

    42. Immediate and efficient response to the floods in North Dakota and other natural disasters

    43. . Launched Business.gov - enabling conversation and online collaboration between small business owners, government representatives and industry experts in discussion forums relevant to starting and managing a business. Great for the economy.

    44. Improved housing for military personnel

    45. Improved conditions at Walter Reed Military Hospital and other military hospitals

    46. Changed failing war strategy in Afghanistan.

    47. Improving benefits for veterans

    48. Increased infrastructure spending (roads, bridges, power plants…) after years of neglect

    49. Donated his $1.4 million Nobel Prize to nonprofits.

    50. Increasing opportunities in AmeriCorps program

    Source(s): 200+ more and the accomplishments are too many to be listed here.
  • 10 years ago

    Yes. Repealed DADT. Made the call for Seal Team 6 to invade an allied country to kill Obama without asking permission (not a trivial call and the right call).

    And the Stimulus was not a temporary fix. It destroyed jobs. A economic survey of keynesian stimulus programs reveal that they destroy 1.5 jobs in the private sector for every job they create.

  • 10 years ago

    He's held the nation and helped hold the world together economically at least for the immediate future. It was collapsing from decades if not a century of weakening and fluffing as the ever increasing hordes of excess people gobble resources and excrete waste. That crush of ever more humanity will ultimately again (as it did nearly a century ago) collapse the world's economy and strain its resources beyond breaking.

    Obama has done little about that. He can't and still have a chance of reelection because most of the world still refuses to consider its self-destructive, and destructive to other societies, uncontrolled or insufficiently controlled reproduction. The rest of the world recently controlling its reproduction fears recognizing the problem lest they be labelled "racist" by moronic PC bigots.

    Source(s): I continue a forty year quest wading through the huge pile of stinking crap a wide variety of bigots piled on top of truth hiding it from nearly everyone's view. The pile was made by blaming people they don't like while excusing people they do like regardless of where the real responsibility lies.
  • 10 years ago

    OMG...

    Just let me get comfortable...

    Okay, he has gone on FAR fewer vacations than Bush, he has kept the economy stable, he has repealed DADT, he has passed the health care bill (Which isn't enough for the country at all), he has kept peace between Israel and Palestine, Pakistan and India aren't killing each other, He has kept the toxic nonsense from the right at bay, and he has implemented Cash for Clunkers which provided many Americans the opportunity to buy new cars instead of keeping the old ones the never drove because they couldn't afford the gas, So yeah, next time just please look it up instead of making me type all this, thanks, toodles!

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  • 10 years ago

    One thinks that the questioner is trying to lay a goundwork for a healthy "battle of wits" between proponents of Obama and antagonists toward Obama. One thinks that this will generate a bit of heated "firing of shots" between the pro-Obaman and anti-Obaman advocates. One concludes that the questioner hopes to get 18 or 20 (or maybe more) responses to one another. One thinks that

    is the purpose of such a question as this one.

    Cheers,

    Jim the Fee

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Yes! Obama has done absolutely nothing - NOTHING!

    And if he isn't stopped, he will destroy all that is great about God and America.

  • 10 years ago

    You are right. President Obama has done nothing for no one. Happy now?

  • 10 years ago

    bin laden

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