- Joined
- Jun 17, 2010
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He got us out of Iraq
Saved us from a nightmare depression brought on by irresponsible Republican practice
Made massive and long needed investments in research and school funding
Has reversed the debt increase trend
Fixed the hilarious crack disparity
Made massive investments in alternative energy
Has moved us back towards cap and trade environmental limits
Has made significant improvements to border security
Set up several public information resources of significant value
Has made large (despite republican tantrums) strides towards national health care
Has gotten most of the contracts and influence database online (which will massively reduce corruption through exposure,)
Has capped interest spikes on payday loans which were crippling the poor
Made immense financial regulations to prevent another real estate meltdown and also separately to prevent that level of
over-leveraging from returning
Has driven through the advanced manufacturing fund to help close the gap between US and Jap/Euro manufacturing automation
Added the justification clause for tax changes
Is about to end the nightmarishly stupid Bush tax cuts
Introduced the credit card bill of rights to end the Wyoming loophole which many believe triggered the real estate crisis
Is about to establish broadband as a basic right (the way we did with electrifaction back in the day, which is _huge_ for
rural areas)
Has made huge capital availability for small businesses and minorities
Extended the 2007 AMT for the small businesses that needed the alternative minimum tax
Closed the pre-existing condition loophole once and for all
Required employers to contribute to the national health plan to take away the non-insuring disincentive
Expanded eligibility for things like Medicaid and SCHIP
Forced disclosure and set minimums on insurer payout
Allowed Medicare to negotiate drug prices
Fully funded the VA for the first time since 1956
Reinstated 100k federal employees
Funded and raised the violence against women act
Shifted funding within the military towards research and away from stockpiling
Started rebuilding our public image with the one fifth of the human population which worships Allah (that's bigger than
China)
Took a huge chunk of our nuclear arsenal offline
Funded the National Ignition Facility (which is Earth's best hope for fusion)
Put a huge amount of funding towards helping the remnants of the Soviet Union deal with the nuclear stuff they could no
longer afford to control
Funded agricultural programs over food disbursals to starving areas
Reopened relations with Cuba
Created a fund to set aside money for rapid emergency support of emerging democracies
Undid almost all of Bush's censorship nonsense and is still working on the rest
Released all of Bush's secret papers
Required contracts for new White House staff to exclude corporate influence
Set up programs to protect students from predatory lenders
Restored funding for national parks to Roosevelt era levels
Started federal water conservation efforts in the West finally
Set up a national bureau to control wildfires more efficiently
Re-built FEMA
Doubled Pell grants for poor kids who want to go to college
Re-expanded private hunting and fishing rights
Pushed successfully for hate crime legislation to cover acts of homophobia
Re-funded the EEOC
Tripled the budget for FDA meat inspectors
Required prion testing for mad cow
Hired Kumar from Harold and Kumar (not joking)
Removed mandatory minimums for drug sentences
Stopped the DEA from prosecuting pot in medicinal marijuana states
Is opening discussion of legalization (not medicinal legalization, real legalization)
Has funded programs for farmer and manufacturer energy efficiency
Fully funded the community development block grant
Set up the Promise Neighborhood program
Is re-funding arts education nationally
Has fully funded the National Endowment for the Arts for the first time since Carter
Tripled funding to NASA
Reduced funding to the Army by enough to cover everything else by almost double
Has started research privatization
Is re-funding International Space Station efforts
Is the first president to accept that Global Warming is certainly real
Has appointed the first science and technology advisor as well the first research advisor to the presidency
Has made massive investments to rebuild New Orleans
More than tripled the size of AmeriCorps
Overturned Ledbetter vs. Goodyear
Banned lobbyist gifting
Made the kind of mortgage fraud that caused the crisis criminal (meaning jail time)
Raised fuel economy standards
Saved General Motors
Saved the American banking system (and thus possibly the world's)
Made a huge incentive towards electric cars ($7500 per vehicle plus whatever your state gives)
Has supported a new national high-speed rail system which is already seeing partial deployment
Expanded unemployment dramatically once the republican filibuster line was broken (literally the same day)
Reversed the restrictions on stem cell research
Stabilized a tanking economy
Reversed the downward trend of the value of the dollar
Stopped the direly inflating deficit from inflating, and so on.
In these two years, he's done a huge amount more than both Bushes together did in their twelve, and he's just getting started.
Saved us from a nightmare depression brought on by irresponsible Republican practice
Made massive and long needed investments in research and school funding
Has reversed the debt increase trend
Fixed the hilarious crack disparity
Made massive investments in alternative energy
Has moved us back towards cap and trade environmental limits
Has made significant improvements to border security
Set up several public information resources of significant value
Has made large (despite republican tantrums) strides towards national health care
Has gotten most of the contracts and influence database online (which will massively reduce corruption through exposure,)
Has capped interest spikes on payday loans which were crippling the poor
Made immense financial regulations to prevent another real estate meltdown and also separately to prevent that level of
over-leveraging from returning
Has driven through the advanced manufacturing fund to help close the gap between US and Jap/Euro manufacturing automation
Added the justification clause for tax changes
Is about to end the nightmarishly stupid Bush tax cuts
Introduced the credit card bill of rights to end the Wyoming loophole which many believe triggered the real estate crisis
Is about to establish broadband as a basic right (the way we did with electrifaction back in the day, which is _huge_ for
rural areas)
Has made huge capital availability for small businesses and minorities
Extended the 2007 AMT for the small businesses that needed the alternative minimum tax
Closed the pre-existing condition loophole once and for all
Required employers to contribute to the national health plan to take away the non-insuring disincentive
Expanded eligibility for things like Medicaid and SCHIP
Forced disclosure and set minimums on insurer payout
Allowed Medicare to negotiate drug prices
Fully funded the VA for the first time since 1956
Reinstated 100k federal employees
Funded and raised the violence against women act
Shifted funding within the military towards research and away from stockpiling
Started rebuilding our public image with the one fifth of the human population which worships Allah (that's bigger than
China)
Took a huge chunk of our nuclear arsenal offline
Funded the National Ignition Facility (which is Earth's best hope for fusion)
Put a huge amount of funding towards helping the remnants of the Soviet Union deal with the nuclear stuff they could no
longer afford to control
Funded agricultural programs over food disbursals to starving areas
Reopened relations with Cuba
Created a fund to set aside money for rapid emergency support of emerging democracies
Undid almost all of Bush's censorship nonsense and is still working on the rest
Released all of Bush's secret papers
Required contracts for new White House staff to exclude corporate influence
Set up programs to protect students from predatory lenders
Restored funding for national parks to Roosevelt era levels
Started federal water conservation efforts in the West finally
Set up a national bureau to control wildfires more efficiently
Re-built FEMA
Doubled Pell grants for poor kids who want to go to college
Re-expanded private hunting and fishing rights
Pushed successfully for hate crime legislation to cover acts of homophobia
Re-funded the EEOC
Tripled the budget for FDA meat inspectors
Required prion testing for mad cow
Hired Kumar from Harold and Kumar (not joking)
Removed mandatory minimums for drug sentences
Stopped the DEA from prosecuting pot in medicinal marijuana states
Is opening discussion of legalization (not medicinal legalization, real legalization)
Has funded programs for farmer and manufacturer energy efficiency
Fully funded the community development block grant
Set up the Promise Neighborhood program
Is re-funding arts education nationally
Has fully funded the National Endowment for the Arts for the first time since Carter
Tripled funding to NASA
Reduced funding to the Army by enough to cover everything else by almost double
Has started research privatization
Is re-funding International Space Station efforts
Is the first president to accept that Global Warming is certainly real
Has appointed the first science and technology advisor as well the first research advisor to the presidency
Has made massive investments to rebuild New Orleans
More than tripled the size of AmeriCorps
Overturned Ledbetter vs. Goodyear
Banned lobbyist gifting
Made the kind of mortgage fraud that caused the crisis criminal (meaning jail time)
Raised fuel economy standards
Saved General Motors
Saved the American banking system (and thus possibly the world's)
Made a huge incentive towards electric cars ($7500 per vehicle plus whatever your state gives)
Has supported a new national high-speed rail system which is already seeing partial deployment
Expanded unemployment dramatically once the republican filibuster line was broken (literally the same day)
Reversed the restrictions on stem cell research
Stabilized a tanking economy
Reversed the downward trend of the value of the dollar
Stopped the direly inflating deficit from inflating, and so on.
In these two years, he's done a huge amount more than both Bushes together did in their twelve, and he's just getting started.