Obama's Promises

Obama's Promises; This should be pinned
Topic Started: Nov 11 2008, 05:15 PM (735 Views)
Deleted User	Nov 11 2008, 05:15 PM Post #1
Deleted User	With a prayer for success and sincerity. Taxes • Give a tax break to 95% of Americans. • Restore Clinton-era tax rates on top income earners. • "If you make under $250,000, you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime. Not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes. Nothing." • Dramatically simplify tax filings so that millions of Americans will be able to do their taxes in less than five minutes. • Give American businesses a $3,000 tax credit for every job they create in the U.S. • Eliminate capital gains taxes for small business and startup companies. • Eliminate income taxes for seniors making under $50,000. • Expand the child and dependent care tax credit. • Expand the earned income tax credit. • Create a universal mortgage credit. • Create a small business health tax credit. • Provide a $500 "make work pay" tax credit to small businesses. • Provide a $1,000 emergency energy rebate to families. Energy • Spend $15 billion a year on renewable sources of energy. • Eliminate oil imports from the Middle East in 10 years. • Increase fuel economy standards by 4% a year. • Weatherize 1 million homes annually. • Ensure that 10% of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012. Environment • Create 5 million green jobs. • Implement a cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. • Get 1 million plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015. Labor • Sign a fair pay restoration act, which would overturn the Supreme Court's pay discrimination ruling. • Sign into law an employee free choice act — aka card check — to make it easier for unions to organize. • Make employers offer seven paid sick days per year. • Increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2009. National security • Remove troops from Iraq by the summer of 2010. • Cut spending on unproven missile defense systems. • No more homeless veterans. • Stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq. • Finish the fight against Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida terrorists. Social Security • Work in a "bipartisan way to preserve Social Security for future generations." • Impose a Social Security payroll tax on incomes above $250,000. • Match 50% of retirement savings up to $1,000 for families earning less than $75,000. Education • Demand higher standards and more accountability from our teachers. Spending • Go through the budget, line by line, ending programs we don't need and making the ones we do need work better and cost less. • Slash earmarks. Health care • Lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year. • Let the uninsured get the same kind of health insurance that members of Congress get. • Stop insurance companies from discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most. • Spend $10 billion over five years on health care information technology.
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Jezebelle	Nov 11 2008, 09:06 PM Post #2
Posts: 2,554 Group: Members Member #137 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	Thanks, Joan. Good idea. It will be interesting to follow this for awhile, although I don't know how much the American people will take.



Kerri P.	Nov 15 2008, 05:37 PM Post #3
Posts: 4,935 Group: Tier1 Member #131 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	I just watched and heard, Obama say that if Bush won't bail out the Big 3 he will make that his first order of business when he takes office.



DMom	Nov 15 2008, 08:14 PM Post #4
Posts: 896 Group: Tier1 Member #364 Joined: May 26, 2008	Clowns Nov 15 2008, 05:37 PM I just watched and heard, Obama say that if Bush won't bail out the Big 3 he will make that his first order of business when he takes office. yet another reason to pull/put your hard-earned $$ out of govt reach just speculating ..... Edited by DMom, Nov 15 2008, 08:40 PM.
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Carolyn says	Nov 16 2008, 03:24 PM Post #5
Posts: 451 Group: Tier1 Member #122 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	Hey, bailing out the Big 3 for their stupidity and greed sounds like a Jim dandy idea. And the best way to accomplish that is to print more money. Just roll those presses, woo hoo! That way we'll all be able to recreate history. You know, that part of history where another nation in debt tried the same Jim dandy solution - just kick those presses into overdrive and presto! Tons of money to pay off debt. Except. Within months, a housewife in Germany needed tons simply to buy a single loaf of bread. Just one loaf of bread. An elderly German once related to me a personal story about how awful the inflation was in Germany at that time. He was 12 years old when his mother gave him money to buy a loaf of bread from the bakery. He took the money and went out to do to just that. Except along the way he passed some schoolfriends who were playing a game of soccer (the passion of German youths). My friend couldn't resist and he stopped to play just a game with them. Just one. And it took only about an hour. Afterwards, all sweating and happy, he continued on to the store. Only to be told by the baker that the money in the boy's hand was not enough. In the time it took the kid to play a single game of soccer, the value of the currency had deflated by half. He had to return home with no food. Folks - if the fool in charge actually does what he threatens to do, then we're going to have a lot of people unable to buy their daily bread. Edited by Carolyn says, Nov 16 2008, 03:24 PM.
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Kerri P.	Nov 16 2008, 09:21 PM Post #6
Posts: 4,935 Group: Tier1 Member #131 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	http://www.wral.com/news/political/story/3971152/ Security, economy are priorities, Obama tells CBS Posted: Today at 7:04 p.m. Updated: Today at 7:32 p.m. WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday that since terrorists might try to attack the U.S. during the White House transition, selecting his national security team is one of his top priorities. "I think it's important to get a national security team in place because transition periods are potentially times of vulnerability to a terrorist attack," Obama told CBS' "60 Minutes." "We want to make sure that there is as seamless a transition on national security as possible." In his first television interview since his historic election, Obama said he has spent the days since the election on short- and long-term issues, from doing "whatever it takes" to stabilize the economy, restore consumer confidence and create jobs, to getting sound health care and energy policies through Congress. The president-elect also said that as soon as he takes office he will work with his security team and the military to draw down U.S. troops in Iraq, shore up Afghanistan and "stamp out al-Qaida once and for all." While investors are still riding a rollercoaster on Wall Street, Obama said the economy would have deteriorated even more without the $700 billion bank bailout. Re-regulation is a legislative priority, he said, not to crush "the entrepreneurial spirit and risk-taking of American capitalism" but to "restore a sense of balance." "There's no doubt that we have not been able yet to reset the confidence in the financial markets and in the consumer markets and among businesses that allow the economy to move forward in a strong way," Obama said. "And my job as president is going to be to make sure that we restore that confidence." He also said: "We shouldn't worry about the deficit next year or even the year after. ... The most important thing is that we avoid a deepening recession." While "we have the tools," the president-elect said not enough has been done to address bank foreclosures and distressed homeowners. "We've gotta set up a negotiation between banks and borrowers so that people can stay in their homes," Obama said. "That is going to have an impact on the economy as a whole. And, you know, one thing I'm determined is that if we don't have a clear, focused program for homeowners by the time I take office, we will after I take office." Obama credited Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson for trying to remedy "an unprecedented crisis" the country hasn't seen since the Great Depression. "Hank Paulson has worked tirelessly under some very difficult circumstances," Obama said. "And I think Hank would be the first one to acknowledge that probably not everything that's been done has worked the way he had hoped it would work." A member of the transition team works with Paulson daily, Obama said, getting the needed background and sometimes offering approaches to address the economic meltdown. The president-elect confirmed reports that he intends to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and "make sure we don't torture" as "part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world." Obama also said he plans to put al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in the crosshairs. "I think capturing or killing bin Laden is a critical aspect of stamping out al-Qaida," Obama said. "He is not just a symbol, he's also the operational leader of an organization that is planning attacks against U.S. targets."



Jezebelle	Nov 21 2008, 03:15 AM Post #7
Posts: 2,554 Group: Members Member #137 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	I posted this on another thread, but thought I'd add in here for posterity. Obama surrogates are already trying to lower public expectation of Obama: http://cbs2chicago.com/local/Obama.advisers.expecations.2.869896.html



retiredLEO	Nov 24 2008, 10:27 PM Post #8
Posts: 2,497 Group: Members Member #371 Joined: Aug 5, 2008	Obama is going to drive this country to "Obama Land" and we will have to take some causalities along the way. Unfortunately it is going to be us.



Joan Foster	Mar 29 2009, 12:03 PM Post #9
Posts: 3,940 Group: Tier1 Member #427 Joined: Jan 8, 2009	Mr. McCain said the former Illinois senator has broken several promises he made on the campaign trail, foremost among them his pledge to bring all U.S. troops in Iraq home quickly if elected. Instead, he announced early in his presidency an 18-month timetable for withdrawal, along with a plan to leave 50,000 troops in Iraq. That, though, hasn't irked Mr. McCain, who throughout the campaign urged a less hasty drawdown of troops. "I'm glad, because he said he'd get them out, set date, and obviously, that is significantly different, particularly what he said when he was first a candidate," he said. But other broken promises infuriate the senator, long a critic of pork-barrel spending through congressional "earmarks" that lawmakers insert into bills for special projects at home. In the first presidential debate, Mr. Obama said, "We need earmark reform, and when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely." That didn't happen. "We're going to scrub the budget line by line — who read the stimulus package?" Mr. McCain said. Not Mr. Obama, who urged quick passage of the bill, then took a three-day weekend in Chicago before signing the legislation, packed with 9,000 earmarks worth billions of dollars. Then there's nuclear energy. During last year's campaign, Mr. McCain was a big promoter of the technology, which generates electricity without emitting any greenhouse gases. He called for 45 new nuclear power plants to be built by 2030, noting that the last completed U.S. facility had its groundbreaking in 1973 — and even visited a plant while campaigning. While Mr. Obama portrayed himself as open to nuclear power, Mr. McCain said the president has slammed the door shut on any new plants by having his administration block storing nuclear waste at a planned facility in Nevada and by opposing the reprocessing of spent fuel. "In case you've missed it, this administration has killed nuclear power," the Arizonan said, noting that the administration's "positions make it impossible for nuclear power to be a viable alternative." "You explain to me how you can have nuclear power in this country if you don't store spent nuclear fuel and you don't reprocess it," he said. The senator then said Mr. Obama has "been a bit contradictory on trade," adding that the president "said he was going to unilaterally renegotiate NAFTA, then said he was for free trade, and then he signed two bills" with protectionist elements, "one of them with 'Buy American' provisions in it and the other one with the Mexican trucks," canceling a cross-border pilot program expanded by President George W. Bush under the North American Free Trade Agreement. "Both of them are sending a message to the world that the United States is practicing protectionism. "This is very dangerous," he said. "One of my highest concerns about this administration is protectionism, and the Mexican truck thing was inexcusable, absolutely inexcusable." http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/29/public-financing-dead-mccain-says/?page=4



Greg	Apr 21 2009, 03:22 PM Post #10
Posts: 1,044 Group: Tier1 Member #273 Joined: Apr 30, 2008	Someone needs to update this list a bit. Obama promised not to prosecute CIA folks for "torture" under the former administration. Now he's not so sure. And, of course, every Obama promise comes with an experiation date.



wingedwheel	Jun 22 2009, 11:25 AM Post #11
Not Pictured Above Posts: 2,378 Group: Tier1 Member #307 Joined: May 2, 2008	http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/us/politics/22pledge.html?_r=2&hpw Quote: White House Changes the Terms of a Campaign Pledge About Posting Bills Online By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE Published: June 22, 2009 During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised that once a bill was passed by Congress, the White House would post it online for five days before he signed it. “When there’s a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government’s doing,” Mr. Obama said as a candidate, telling voters he would make government more transparent and accountable. When he took office in January, his team added that in posting nonemergency bills, it would “allow the public to review and comment” before Mr. Obama signed them. Five months into his administration, Mr. Obama has signed two dozen bills, but he has almost never waited five days. On the recent credit card legislation, which included a controversial measure to allow guns in national parks, he waited just two. Various watchdog groups have slapped Mr. Obama’s wrist for repeatedly failing to live up to the pledge. Politifact.com, the fact-checking arm of The St. Petersburg Times, has branded it a “promise broken.”At the same time, many have questioned the value of the promise, saying it was too late in the process for anything to change in a bill. “There isn’t anybody in this town who doesn’t know that commenting after a bill has been passed is meaningless,” said Ellen S. Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan group dedicated to making government more transparent. Now, in a tacit acknowledgment that the campaign pledge was easier to make than to fulfill, the White House is changing its terms. Instead of starting the five-day clock when Congress passes a bill, administration officials say they intend to start it earlier and post the bills sooner. “In order to continue providing the American people more transparency in government, once it is clear that a bill will be coming to the president’s desk, the White House will post the bill online,” said Nick Shapiro, a White House spokesman. “This will give the American people a greater ability to review the bill, often many more than five days before the president signs it into law.” Mr. Shapiro said the move would provide more transparency because the White House site drew so much traffic. It also stretches out the time in which a bill will be posted, making it easier for Mr. Obama to abide by the pledge. Currently, after a bill passes Congress, the White House posts it by linking to the site of the Library of Congress. From now on, the White House plans to link to the site earlier, though Mr. Shapiro did not specify when. The move marks a departure in the White House position on the pledge. Since January, when Mr. Obama broke the pledge with the first bill he signed, the administration has said it would implement it “in full soon.” The Obama team has also said that it found unexpected technical hurdles in translating its campaign goals to governing. This is especially true regarding the posting of online comments. Ms. Miller of the Sunlight Foundation said that while the pledge was well intentioned, it was “meaningless” because it would not change anything and it had no mechanism for public comments or initiating a national conversation. More useful, she said, would be for Congress to post bills earlier in the process, when language can still be changed. (Representative Brian N. Baird, Democrat of Washington, introduced a bill last week that says the House must post bills 72 hours before debate begins; a similar measure has not been introduced in the Senate.)



chatham	Jul 30 2009, 08:29 PM Post #12
Posts: 2,807 Group: Tier1 Member #308 Joined: May 2, 2008	http://www.citizenlink.org/Stoplight/A000009104.cfm Obama;s change



Truth Detector	Sep 28 2009, 12:35 PM Post #13
Posts: 1,881 Group: Tier1 Member #183 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	Now that we are nine months into the Obama Adm., I thought it a good idea to go back and review this thread and reread the list of campaign promises that Joan compiled for us many months ago. When you revisit, it will be breathtaking how many lies and false promises have passed from the lips of the slick one. I hope everyone takes another look. Joan, we never knew this endeavor of yours would have been so important and in such short time.



longstop	Oct 11 2009, 04:41 PM Post #14
longstop Posts: 2,346 Group: Tier1 Member #106 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	See Pinned article. Edited by longstop, Oct 11 2009, 07:18 PM.



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