The President's plan for AN ECONOMY BUILT TO LAST President Obama has a plan to grow the economy from

the middle class out, not the top down. We can't just cut our way to prosperity, and we cant go back to the same failed policies that caused the economic crisis and punished middle-class families. Jump to another issue INNOVATION: Create the jobs of tomorrow here at homePresident Obama is investing in education, research and technology to grow the economy for the long term. Manufacturing is an essential building block of our economy because it sparks innovation, generates higher-wage jobs, and strengthens entire communities. After declining for over a decade, the manufacturing sector has rebounded led by President Obamas rescue of the auto industry and created 479,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2010. To build on this recovery, President Obama set a goal to create 1 million new manufacturing jobs by the end of 2016 and is working to double American exports over the next five years by promoting U.S. goods and removing trade barriers, expanding access to credit, and promoting strong growth. TAXES: Reform the tax code to create jobs and pay down our deficit President Obama cut taxes for every American worker and provided 18 tax cuts for small businesses to help them weather the recession. Now, hes calling on millionaires and billionaires to pay a little bit more so that we can pay down our debt in a balanced way. The President has put forward a specific, balanced plan of spending cuts and revenue increases that reduces the deficit by more than $4 trillion over the next decade, including $1 trillion in spending cuts he signed into law last summer as part of a deal with Congressional Republicans. His plan includes $2.50 in spending cuts for every dollar in revenue increases, while bringing annual domestic spending as a share of the economy to its lowest level in 50 years. NATION-BUILDING AT HOME: End wars and rebuild AmericaPresident Obama responsibly ended the war in Iraq and will end the war in Afghanistan in 2014 now is the time to rebuild America. The Presidents plan uses half the money were no longer spending on war to put Americans back to work rebuilding road, bridges, runways and schools here at home and uses the other half to help pay down the debt. While other nations are vastly outspending us on their infrastructure, American businesses are saddled with crumbling roads and bridges. The President is working to get rid of pet projects, government boondoggles, and bridges to nowhere. And he has proposed a new independent fund that will attract private dollars and issue loans for new construction projects based on: how badly are they needed, and how much good will they do for the economy. ENERGY: Invest in clean energy made here in America-

By ending government subsidies for oil companies and investing in cleaner sources, we can become a global leader in clean energy, creating American jobs and businesses while improving our environment and national security. An unprecedented boom in domestic production has led to cheaper natural gas, and President Obama will take every possible action to safely develop this abundant source of American energy to support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade. U.S. oil production is at a 14-year high and President Obama has charted a course to cut net oil imports in half between 2008 and 2020, lowering imports by 5.5 million barrels per day and reducing our reliance on foreign oil to its lowest level in almost three decades. EDUCATION: Lead the world in college graduates by 2020Education is the surest path to the middle class. President Obama is making historic investments in education to create opportunity for all Americans. To help students better afford a college education, President Obama ended billions in subsidies wasted on banks and used the savings to double investments in Pell Grants. He established a college tax credit for students and their families worth up to $10,000 over four years of college. He set a goal to lead the world in college graduates by 2020, and cut the growth of college tuition and fees in half over the next 10 years, a goal that will save the typical student thousands of dollars a year, and proposed bringing together community colleges and businesses to train 2 million Americans for good jobs that actually exist now and are waiting to be filled. There is no substitute for a great teacher. President Obama is fighting to help state and local governments save the jobs of hundreds of thousands of teachers and to provide states with resources to reward and attract great teachers while taking strides to improve teacher effectiveness. And he has set a goal to recruit and prepare 100,000 math and science teachers so we can outcompete countries in fields like science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). HEALTH CARE: Expanding access and lowering costs for familiesMillions of Americans are already benefiting from Obamacare. From insurance rebates to expanded coverage, see how the Presidents health reform benefits you. The health care law that President Obama passed makes the health insurance system work better for everyone. It stops insurance companies from arbitrarily capping and cancelling our coverage, and provides access to recommended preventive care without co-pays or deductibles. It strengthens Medicare for our seniors and it helps young people get the health insurance they need. Barak Obama Campaign Promises

How did President Obama complete his first year as president in the opinion of the people? Let us look back to Obama, the candidate and the President who now occupies the Whitehouse. For some answers.

During the 2008 presidential election campaign for the presidency, candidate Obama promised hope and change will be coming to Washington. The reform legislation that Obama and the majority Democrat party are pushing for have confirmed his intentions of changing the economic systems in the American government.

In November 2008 Barak Obama was elected President by the people to serve all the people in governing our great nation. Obama was elected either because of his color, because of his political parties affiliation or because of his promises to bring change to Washington.

Each of these suggested reasons helped him to become the nations 44th President and the first black President in US history.Let us look back to what candidate Obama pledged to the American people if elected.

President Barak Obama pledged

1.To bring back the jobs lost in 2007 and 2008. In 2009 the nations unemployment went from 7% in 2008 to 10%( in some areas 17% ). Obamas administration bailed out the auto industry, banking industry, saved the union workforce and even helped the unions get ownership in the companies by forcing the creditors to lose their financial investments in the companies.

The Obama administration has increased the size of government by 10%, added more union jobs and commissions. Government unemployment stands at 3% and government employees and Congress did get a raise. in 2009 while the deficit increased.

2.To fix the economic problems by passing the $787 billion Tarp bill (Congress passed the bill without reading or debating the bill as required by constitutional rules.), promised that unemployment would not exceed 8% and shovel ready jobs were available to jump start the economy.

As of today approximately 60% of Tarp has not been spent and unemployment remains at 10%. Recently the CBO projected Tarp will need $85 billion more added to the $787 billion bill. One should note that all of the above is borrowed money adding to the nations skyrocketing debt.

3.To have fiscal responsibility and control spending, Barak Obama promised to go line for line and strike out pork in the Tarp bill. The President signed the Tarp bill without cutting any pork out of the bill.

On wed.1/27/10 in the state of the union speech Obama stated he would put a freeze on spending. Congress on 1/29/10 passed legislation to raise the national debt by another $1.9 billion, the second increase in 60 days, raising the debt ceiling to$14.5 trillion.

4.To rid Washington of lobbyist and special interest groups. Presently in his administration Barak Obama has at least 30 lobbyist, some appointments are know as czars. Obama has been meeting with union officials ( special interest )at the white house on a regular basis.

5.To surround himself with experienced and capable people, like tax cheaters, Marxist, communist and socialist. known as czars. These employees were not background investigated as required by the FBI. The question remains as to why the procedure was exempted. .

6.To have an open transparent government and to allow C-Span to televise the debates and Congressional meetings. Folks it didnt happen, C-Span was denied access (that is called censorship.)

The President and the Democrats met behind closed doors denying the minority partys participation in the negotiations. By the way the minority party was elected by the people to represent the people. Essentially the people were locked out and ignored.

7 To close Gitmo last year. The President sent some prisoners to Bermuda, a terrific propaganda move. More could be said but for now a continuing story to be told. Gitmo is still open.

8.To end the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the President and his advisers are talking in the whitehouse. To be continued .

9.To give 95% of the people a tax break and not to tax anyone below $250,000, by the way according to some officials the ceiling has dropped down to $100,000 with a possibility to $85,000 due to lack of money coming into the US Treasury.

Check this out, President Obama and Congress will tax the rich. If 2 or 3% are the rich and they pay 50% of federal taxes, according to Obama 50% of the nation dont pay federal taxes, I wonder who will be paying the taxes. ( the middle class )?FUZZY MATH?

10.To not allow no bid contracts in his administration. A major news source reported that Obama approved a $25 million no bid contract to a donor of his campaign. The contract recently was cancelled after being exposed by the media..

11. To reduce the deficit by 50% in his first term. The fact is that the Obama administration has triple the deficit in his first year in office. The proposed budget for 2011($3.85 trillion )given to Congress will be the largest ever in our history if passed by Congress.

The above information you will not see in the bias press or reported on ABC,CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, or other liberal news medias. Watch C-Span or Fox News, they report and broadcast the actual uncensored news

The President's rating is F in his first year ?

In summary, let us be fair when President Obama talks about what his administration and Congress was left with after the past administration. The simple facts are that then Senator Obama and the present Democrat party took control of Congress in January 2007 and 2008 with a lame duck President George W. Bush.

Surely it is irresponsible to blame the Bush administration for all the present problems without noting that the Democrat majority controlled Congress in 2007 and 2008. President Obama and the Democrats should be accepting their political parties share of the blame for their part in the recession.

President Obama and the Democrat super majority had full control of the economy in 2009 and 2010 . The President has yet to fulfill many of his election promises of which unemployment remains the highest priority. One should note that no President can spend any money without the approval of Congress.