"cling to distortion in order to avoid the dissonance of reality."

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11. Just one among many very important Accomplishments of the Obama Admin.. The Repeal of DADT.

Thank you for the additional history of record, she..





President Obama's Record on Helping Our Poor..

"Things Obama Has Done For The Poor That Never Get Highlighted" Or Acknowledged..

1) A $20 billion increase for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps.

2) A $1 billion in funding for the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) that is intended to revitalize low-income communities via "Job training and placement assistance", "Financial literacy programs", et al, to helping families become self-sufficient.

3) A $2 billion in new Neighborhood Stabilization Funds that will allow ailing neighborhoods be kept maintained.

4) A $1.5 billion in Homelessness Prevention Funds to keep people in their homes and prevent homelessness.

5) A $5 billion increase for the Weatherization Assistance Program to help low income families save on their residential energy expenditures by making their homes more energy efficient.

6) A $4 Billion program, The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, "authorizes funding for federal school meal and child nutrition programs and increases access to healthy food for low-income children."

7) As part of the HCR bill, subsidies will be available to the uninsured and families with income between the 133 percent and 400 percent of poverty level($14,404 for individuals and $29,326 for a family of four).

8) Estabilished Open Doors to end the 640,000 men, women and children who are homeless in America by 2020.

9) Increased the amount of federal Pell Grant awards so that funds are available to those with less access to have opportunity.

10) Provided $510 Million for the rehabilitation of Native American housing.

11) Expanded eligibility for Medicaid to all individuals under age 65 with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level ($14,400 per year for an individual).

12) Providing assistance to low-income workers through the Earned Income Tax Credit giving millions of working families the break they need.

13) Education being the way out of Poverty, kicked off the "Race to the Top", a $4.3 billion program, that rewards via grants to States that meet a few key benchmarks for reform, and states that outperform the rest.
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2011/01/things-obama-has-done-for-poor-that.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/poverty

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/01/04/932367/-Things-Obama-Has-Done-For-The-Poor-

"Obama's Quiet Campaign to End Poverty"..

When the federal government recently released its official statistics on poverty, they showed that more Americans are living below the poverty line now than at any time since the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting data in 1959.
This disturbing increase reflects the ongoing fallout of the economic downturn. But the fact is that the statistics would have been worse had it not been for a concerted effort by the Obama administration to ease poverty—an effort that deserves more attention.

http://www.spotlightonpoverty.org//ExclusiveCommentary.aspx?id=bcddfb97-ed90-42d0-ad7b-45661759b788

Ladders of Opportunity

“We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American; she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.”
– President Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, January 21, 2013

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/urban-and-economic-mobility

Ending homelessness.. civilians and veterans..

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/06/06/ending-veteran-homelessness
On a Path to Ending Homelessness

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/23/a-path-ending-homelessness

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110212904#post29

And, he..

"Obama SAVED the US Economy - Running Away From that Record Would be Suicidal in 2016"

1. When the President had a remotely cooperative Congress, we passed a massive stimulus and jobs package that rescued this country from Soviet-style collapse.

2. This administration rescued the US automotive industry, saving hundreds of thousands if not millions of jobs, and restructured it to be competitive in the 21st century.

3. This administration invested so massively in this country's clean energy sector that it made us the world leader in these technologies, and made that sector one of the few consistent bright spots in job growth.

4. The lack of progress since then has been 100% the result of Republican obstruction in Congress since they took the House. There is no ambiguity on this point, it's just a fact.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/19/1217249/-Obama-SAVED-the-US-Economy-Running-Away-From-that-Record-Would-be-Suicidal-in-2016

We have so much further to go.. but, it will take more than Pres Obama and the Dems in Office now to Accomplish what we need for our Poor and Middle Class.. GOTV 2014

Sorry, this is so long if you've gotten to the bottom! I was doing some research for my post and came across this in my Drafts from 7/30/13 and thought it explained pretty well what it means in the Graphic above by "Still he Succeeds Still he makes American Lives Better".

BOG

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Democrats need to use PBO's playbook. He saved this country from sliding into a Great Depression. He will never be ashamed of that. #60Mins
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