I think this is the guy....
Posted on 10/19/2014 1:38:05 PM PDT by ModernDayCato
Despite the president's low approval ratings, and the continuing cacophony of hate directed toward him by Republicans and racists, any reasonable assessment of Barack Obama's accomplishments to date would conclude that his presidency could well go down as a time of historic achievement.
The Affordable Care Act, the Lilly Ledbetter Act, the Dodd-Frank Financial Regulation Bill -- the largest since the New Deal -- and his economic policies bolstered by yeoman's work of the Federal Reserve, place Obama solidly in the company of presidents like FDR and LBJ.
Despite widespread Republican disinformation about and unrelenting opposition to the Affordable Care Act, it clearly is a success -- and where it is not succeeding as well as it might, it is just as clearly the fault of the right-wing rather than the law itself.
About 2.1 million Americans have gained health insurance by signing up on state and federal exchanges. Another 4.4 million have obtained Medicaid coverage.
And under the provision that allows parents to cover their children up to the age of 26, another 3.1 million persons receive health coverage, totaling more than 9 million newly insured Americans through the Affordable Care Act.
And the recently released annual report from the actuaries at the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services showed that for the fourth year running the amount of growth in annual health care expenditures is significantly declining.
In 2012, health care spending totaled $2.79 trillion, up just 3.7 percent over the previous year.
By comparison, before the recent recession, we were averaging annual increases in health care spending more than 7 percent during the calendar years 2000 to 2008.
The current numbers represent the slowest rate of growth since the government began tracking the data in 1960.
But in a fit of ideological madness, a study by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation and the Urban Institute showed that 24 states that have refused to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act are depriving their citizens of $423 billion through 2022, as well as depriving nearly 8 million citizens of health care coverage.
Under the law, the federal government picks up all the costs of Medicaid expansion through the first three years, and then its share gradually drops to 90 percent. Not only could those billions be put to use in their respective states for education, infrastructure improvement, and other state needs, but it is estimated that the absence of health care coverage among many low-income residents will result in as many as 717,000 preventable deaths each year in the holdout states.
The right-wing majority on the United States Supreme Court, and one of its several wrongheaded decisions in recent years, allowed states to opt out of the Affordable Care Act's requirement to expand Medicaid.
Several Republican governors were wise enough to understand the financial and human advantages to their states of opting into the Medicaid expansion -- Jan Brewer of Arizona, Rick Snyder in Michigan, John Casey in Ohio, Susana Martinez in New Mexico, Bill Haslam in Tennessee, and Terry Branstad in Iowa. None has been hurt politically despite anger expressed by right-wing ideological purists in their states.
Under Obama's stewardship and the 2009 passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, there has been a net gain of 5 million new jobs, more than in the administrations George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush combined.
Obama's American Jobs Act, which continues to be undermined by anti-Obama Republicans, would increase employment by roughly another 2 million jobs according to numerous economists, including Republican Mark Zandi.
The Obama stimulus program, a payroll tax cut in 2010, emergency unemployment benefits, and targeted tax credits, along with the Federal Reserve's efforts to resuscitate the financial sector, helped jumpstart the economy and avert a depression as well as helping to create jobs for millions.
The president's extraordinary record will long outlast vicious partisan and racist attacks on his administration. Only now, as he is seemingly softening on his mantra of "don't do stupid stuff" in foreign affairs, is he in danger of besmirching his brilliant achievements by allowing himself to be goaded into another war.
Despite the brutality of ISIS and other extreme jihadist groups, they present no existential threat to the United States.
Obama should back off and push those nations like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and others in the Middle East that are directly threatened by these dangerous groups to stand up and defend themselves with reasonable assistance from the United States, but with no further involvement of American troops.
Posted this on his article:
Dude. You got kool-aid on your kneepads.
Dodd-Frank is killing business.
The pain-part of Obamacare will be happening right after the election, in which your premiums will DOUBLE so that your deductible can increase to THOUSANDS.We used to call this ‘catastrophic health insurance’.
Additionally: Ebola may evolve into a crippling pandemic that kills millions. Obama encourages victims to come HERE.
Illegal aliens come into America with many new diseases, and no form of income, and weaken us in many ways. Obama wants more of them.
The Islamic Caliphate, meant to dominate the world, is taking shape. Obama goes golfing.
Racial tensions are at an all-time post-Civil-War high, and threatens to break into a full-on Race War. Obama eggs it on.
The NSA spies on every single American, congressmen and senators included. Obama is on board.
The IRS is being used as a political weapon to silence one side of a political landscape. Obama does not punish those who withhold information.
An out-of-control EPA is shutting down entire industries. Obama applauds.
The labor participation in America is at an all-time low.
And yet you sing the praises of the ONE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO AMERICA, EVER.
It's like living an a Twilight Zone/Sliders crossover that's been liberally spiced with Bizarro-world.
The Lilly Ledbetter Act is something the media uses to put a hero badge on Obama when, if fact, he did nothing more than sign a bill that passed with bi partisan support in both houses.
It was named for Lilly Ledbetter who was definitely treated poorly as a supervisor at a Goodyear plant in Alabama. She had a rightful case that was reversed by the supreme court based on a statute of limitations. She was mistreated again by the court in the eyes of most people and that's why congress passed a bill eliminating the statute of limitations and made it retroactive to the day before the supreme's decision.
The bill called the Lilly Ledbetter act did not create equal pay for women, that was done with the equal pay act of 1963. So, for the media to say this was a big Obama accomplishment is a lie on two different levels.
While true, let's not excuse the Congress (both houses) or the Courts — the political-elite and black-robed god-kings are in on it and approve, for these could not happen without their aid, implicit or explicit.
Can’t it be hilarious AND also consider the irreparable evil harm this Manchurian candidate and his puppet masters have done to this country, a sharp turn to the left for which there will be no correction. Margaret Thatcher’s “ratchet effect” on steroids.
Seriously. I was guffawing so loudly at the diner (I would NEVER pay for this newspaper) people were looking at me.
Yes, definitely a historic achievement..... i.e. TOTAL DESTRUCTION of a country’s culture, economy, position in global affairs, defense systems and overall credibility. Thank you, Obama.
The WH still does not give women equal pay as the men, so what’s the big deal? No achievement there, until the WH anti’s up the money for the 1963 bill of equal pay.
Bunch of back patters who accomplish zilch.
I suppose it could be considered gallows humor, or “black humor”. Oops, was that rayciss?
place Obama solidly in the company of presidents like FDR and LBJPretty much. All of them are fascists.
Must be that brown acid turning up again...
John Casey in OhioROTFL
“...conclude that his presidency could well go down as a time of historic achievement. “
Can’t disagree with that. Historic in much the same way as Nero, Genghis Khan, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and all the other evil-doers and scoundrels of the past.
The legacy of this evil administration will be felt for generations. We have saddled future generations with debt unimaginable until the progressives gained ground with FDR, and extending to the present day. We have mortgaged to the hilt, and then bankrupted, the future of this once great nation.
So, yes...Zero and 0bamunists have, in fact, a claim to achievement of historic proportions. But, none of it any good for America or her populace.
Another paper wearing the blue dress for Obama
I don’t see the problem.
Being the worst president in US history is certainly a historic achievement!
Why anyone would want to brag about it is beyond me.
But, hey! Who am I to rain on their parade?
Remember; everybody gets a trophy!
Folks, this is what crack does to your brain.
I think this is the guy....
The second picture I posted before this post, is Chris Farley, playing his Motivational Speaker character.
They look alike.
Who could possibly read this without emitting projectile vomit? I couldn’t even stomach it for two paragraphs.
He’ll step down and announce he was a complete failure? Connecticut is an a##state
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