Don't believe the everything you hear. I am sure there is a lot we would like to see happen as far as progress is concerned, but there is a lot being done as well. So many may claim that America is lost and is being misled, but as I was just viewing websites like Politifact.com and seen just how hard our president is working. As our nation moves forward to a brighter future we need to be more aware. This website showed the promised kept vs. broken and those in progress. I say its worth looking at.
This is a fraction of the promise kept list.
Create an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing processes
Increase minority access to capital
Require economic justification for tax changes
Change standards for determining broadband access
Establish a credit card bill of rights
Expand loan programs for small businesses
Extend and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch
Close the "doughnut hole" in Medicare prescription drug plan
Expand the Senior Corps volunteer program
Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions
Give tax credits to those who need help to pay health premiums
Require large employers to contribute to a national health plan
Require children to have health insurance coverage
Expand eligibility for Medicaid
Expand eligibility for State Children's Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)
Require health plans to disclose how much of the premium goes to patient care
Establish an independent health institute to provide accurate and objective information
In non-competitive markets, force insurers to pay out a reasonable share of their premiums for patient care
Eliminate the higher subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans
Expand funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners
Increase funding to expand community based prevention programs
Reinstate executive order to hire an additional 100,000 federal employees with disabilities within five years.
Increase the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals
Fully fund the Veterans Administration
Assure that the Veterans Administration budget is prepared as 'must-pass' legislation
Expand the Veterans Administration's number of "centers of excellence" in specialty care
Appoint a special adviser to the president on violence against women
Fully fund the Violence Against Women Act
Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq
No permanent bases in Iraq
Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan
Strengthen and expand military exchange programs with other countries
Make greater investment in advanced military air technology
Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts
Give a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration
Allocate Homeland Security funding according to risk
Create a real National Infrastructure Protection Plan
Increase funding for local emergency planning
Stand down nuclear forces to be reduced under the Moscow Treaty
Appoint a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security
Our president has done so many great things for our country but the hatred pumping in the veins of conservative-tea party members will always attempt to hide the facts.
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