[TheRealVille]

Tell me BillyB, as well as TRV (who is avoiding my post again) what is it about that makes you believe obama has done a good job in his first term?

I'll bite.


From his website, but I know you won't read, or believe it. You will only get your "facts" from Faux News, and republican twisted talking points.

Healthcare

President Obama passed the Affordable Care Act to restore health care as a basic cornerstone of middle-class security in America.
The Affordable Care Act will make health care more affordable for families and small businesses and brings much-needed transparency to the insurance industry.
When fully implemented, the Affordable Care Act will keep insurance companies from taking advantage of consumers—including denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and cancelling coverage when someone gets sick.
Because of the new law, 34 million more Americans will gain coverage—many who will be able to afford insurance for the first time. Once the law is fully implemented, about 95 percent of Americans under age 65 will have insurance.
Working families are protected from losing their health care or being forced into bankruptcy when a family member gets sick or is in an accident. Families have the security of knowing their health insurance will be there when they need it most.
Insurance companies are now required to justify rate hikes, and consumers have the ability to appeal to an independent third party when insurance companies refuse to cover services or care.
Starting in 2014, all Americans will have access to affordable health insurance no matter their circumstances—whether they change jobs, lose their job, decide to start a business, or retire early. Purchasing private insurance in the new state-based health insurance exchanges could save middle-class families who can’t get employer-provided insurance thousands of dollars.
Once fully implemented, the law will slow health care premium growth rates, adding another $2,000 to family savings by 2019.
The law is expected to reduce the deficit by $127 billion from 2012 to 2021.

Economy

When President Obama took office, the economy was losing more than 700,000 jobs per month. President Obama acted quickly to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which cut taxes for small businesses and 95 percent of working families. It also included emergency funding to support about 300,000 educator jobs, more than 4,600 law enforcement positions, and investments in the clean energy sector that supported 224,500 jobs through 2010. Through April 2012, the economy has added more than 4.2 million private sector jobs over 26 consecutive months of job growth.

President Obama knows we still have more work to do. That’s why, in his State of the Union address, the President laid out a blueprint for an economy that’s built to last—an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values.

Taxes

President Obama has cut taxes for middle-class families and small businesses. One of the first things he did in office was cut taxes for 95 percent of working families. He has also signed 18 tax cuts for small businesses and extended the payroll tax cut for all American workers and their families, putting an extra $1,000 in the typical middle-class family’s pocket.
For too long, the U.S. tax code has benefited the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of the vast majority of Americans. A third of the 400 highest income taxpayers paid an average rate of 15 percent or less in 2008.
That's why President Obama proposed the Buffett Rule, asking millionaires and billionaires to do their fair share. But if you're one of the 98 percent of American families who make under $250,000 a year, your taxes won’t go up.
The President has asked Congress to take action to reform our tax code and close tax loopholes for millionaires and billionaires, as well as hedge fund managers, private jet owners, and oil companies.

Equal Rights
President Obama believes that America is strongest when everybody has a seat at the table. He’s expanded opportunity for every American by taking steps to level the playing field so everybody plays by the same rules.
President Obama repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” ensuring that no one ever again has to lie about who they are to serve the country they love.
The President signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, making progress in a decades-long battle for women to get equal pay for equal work.
The Department of Justice revised the Americans with Disabilities Act rules to ensure newly designed, built, or renovated public facilities are accessible to all Americans.
Alongside the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, President Obama has introduced a range of measures to advance women’s equality.

He established the Equal Pay Task Force to enhance enforcement of equal pay laws, helped increase the participation of women and girls in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math), and passed the Affordable Care Act so that being a woman is no longer considered a pre-existing condition.

The Affordable Care Act will prevent insurance companies from discriminating based on gender and help to lower health costs for women and their families. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, women will be able to receive preventive services without co-pays or deductibles, including maternity screenings, mammograms, and well-woman visits.

In addition to other preventive benefits provided to women by the Affordable Care Act, women soon won’t have to pay out-of-pocket for birth control. Starting August 1st, all women will have access to contraception through their employer or insurer without co-pays or deductibles, ensuring that more women can make health care decisions based on what’s best for them, not their insurance company.

The President has repeatedly stood behind a woman’s right to choose. He reversed the global gag rule, which banned the government from providing aid to international groups that provide abortion information. And he’s fought against Republican attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, one of the largest providers of women’s health services in the country.

Energy
President Obama is committed to putting in place an “all-of-the-above strategy” to develop every available source of American energy while making sure we never have to choose between protecting our environment and strengthening our economy.

American oil production is at an eight-year high, and we are less reliant on foreign oil than at any time in the last 16 years.

New fuel efficiency standards will nearly double the fuel economy of cars and light trucks to 54.5 mpg by 2025, reducing oil consumption by 2.2 million barrels a day.
Oil and petroleum imports are down an average of more than 1.5 million barrels per day and domestic crude oil production has increased by an average of more than 720,000 barrels per day since 2008. Domestic oil production has gone up every year under President Obama.
President Obama has set a 10-year goal to develop and deploy cost-effective clean coal technology.

The Recovery Act invested substantially in carbon capture and sequestration research, including 22 projects across four different areas of carbon capture-and-storage research and development.

Domestic production of natural gas has increased every year since President Obama took office, and is now at an all-time high.

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