WHY ARE WE SO PROUD OF PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?
Read President Obama's Accomplishments:
- Equal Pay Law (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act for Women): first bill into law - makes it easier to sue employers for pay discrimination
- Rules on credit card companies - protects consumers from sudden interest rate hikes
- Food & Drugs Administration power to regulate tobacco
- Hate Crimes Bill - federal crime to commit assault based on sexual orientation
- Extended government sponsored healthcare for 4 million uninsured children
- Revamped college student loans - ended subsidies to banks & private lenders that offered government backed college loans
- Edward M Kennedy Serve America Act (tripling national service, including AmeriCorps)
- Cash for Clunkers Program - bailing out auto industry
- Economic Recovery Package - stimulus bill, single largest tax cut ever, largest investment in clean energy ever, largest investment in education ever
- Healthcare reform - more than 95% of the country has health insurance
- Financial Regulatory Reform Bill - curbs Wall Street, rolling back of financial de-regulation
- Veteran Health Care Budget Reform & Transparency Act, Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010, Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010
- Land Conservation Bill
- Created Consumer Financial Protection Agency
- New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (new START) replaces START 1 - designed to slash the stockpile of strategic nuclear weapons in the US and in Russia to 1,550 warheads
- Eliminated "don't ask, don't tell" policy
- Eliminated Osama bin Laden
- Ended war in Iraq and pulled out U.S. military forces as of 12/31/2011.