Obama' Top 50 Accomplishments - Washington Monthly

[Bill USA]

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/march_april_2012/features/obamas_top_50_accomplishments035755.php

1. Passed Health Care Reform: After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans beginning in 2014 and mandates a suite of experimental measures to cut health care cost growth, the number one cause of America’s long-term fiscal problems.

2. Passed the Stimulus: Signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks after stimulus went into effect, unemployment claims began to subside. Twelve months later, the private sector began producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued to do so for twenty-three straight months, creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs.

3. Passed Wall Street Reform: Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The new law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, requires derivatives to be sold on clearinghouses and exchanges, mandates that large banks provide “living wills” to avoid chaotic bankruptcies, limits their ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit, and creates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (now headed by Richard Cordray) to crack down on abusive lending products and companies.

4. Ended the War in Iraq: Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011.
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[2on2u]

1. K&R.... makes for a great email when you copy 10 and insert link. n/t

[Tx4obama]

2. Great list. And here's some links to lists of Obama accomplishments, below

A compilation List of Links to Lists regarding President Obama
Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022255

[Tx4obama]

3. Note: I just noticed the article up in the OP is from March 2012, so ...

some of the newer stuff might be missing.

[unblock]

4. "reduces sentencing disparity between crack versus powder cocaine possession from 100 to1 to 18 to1"

great, so it's now "only" 18 to 1?


how f*cked up is this situation that getting to an 18 to 1 sentencing disparity, which obviously exists only for bigotted reasons, is a triumph?