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In reply to the discussion: Way to go, America. Meals on Wheels funding cut by sequestration. Seniors fearful. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I'm not sure yet with him. The American Care Act may or may not improve healthcare for ordinary Americans. It isn't fully implemented yet so it is hard to tell.
Obama is credited with saving the auto industry, but he did not save the union pay scale that kept Detroit above water for years. We have conservatives in charge in Michigan and they are making a mess.
I have trouble thinking of ways that Obama improved the lives of Americans. Maybe he avoided some of the worst effects of the recession, but frankly, I think in some ways, by cooperating with the Republicans rather than alerting Americans to what was going on, he made the situation worse.
Obama has been unwilling to admit to Americans just what greed there is on Wall Street and among the corporations.
I predict, based on my best guess, that he will approve the Keystone Pipeline and perhaps destroy some of the best farmland in the world all for the oil magnates. (No one else will profit from that.)
With Obama, I have good days and bad days. But as I look back, I've had more bad days.
Obama was definitely better than Bush and more honest than Romney. But he really has not accomplished much domestically.
We are entering another recession -- and that makes this a depression in my lay view. That's not much of a record.
We can and should blame the economy on Republicans. But Obama has been unwilling to speak really strongly against the Republicans. That is a huge error at this time. He should have learned long ago that they do not support ordinary Americans and that any compromise he makes with them will hurt too many people and be charged to Obama's own record.
So, partisanship gets criticized, but there is a time to stand for what is morally right, for social justice. And Obama has put bipartisanship over moral right and social justice. That is his big failing.