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On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:12:41 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:




Legislative Prowess

Despite the characterizations of some, Obama?s success rate in winning
congressional votes on issues was an unprecedented 96.7% for his first
year in office. Though he is often cited as superior to Obama, President
Lyndon Johnson?s success rate in 1965 was only 93%. http://n.pr/i3d7cY

I notice you only included the time where he had a filibuster proof
senate and the house in your chart.
It should have been 100%
How is he doing since 2010?


*Fiscal Responsibility

Within days after taking office, he signed an Executive Order ordering
an audit of government contracts, and combating waste and abuse.
http://1.usa.gov/dUvbu5


What ever came of that? Did they actually find and correct any?

Yes, they did. Several companies that were skirting tax laws got outed.

Created the post of Chief Performance Officer, whose job it is to make
operations more efficient to save the federal government money.
http://n.pr/hcgBn1

Yes, they have made many changes in making federal buildings all over
the U.S. more energy efficient for one thing.

See above

On his first full day, he froze White House salaries.
http://on.msnbc.com/ewJUIx

He appointed the first Federal Chief Information Officer to oversee
federal IT spending. http://www.cio.gov


See above

Yes, in a nutshell.

He committed to phasing out unnecessary and outdated weapons systems,
and also signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop
waste, fraud and abuse in the defense procurement and contracting
system. http://bit.ly/hOw1t1 http://bit.ly/fz8GAd

The DoD budget keeps going up. so that didn't work.

Through an executive order, he created the National Commission on Fiscal
Responsibility and Reform. http://bit.ly/hwKhKa

*Improving the Economy, Preventing Depression

He pushed through and signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,
otherwise known as ?the stimulus package,? despite the fact that not one
Republican voted for that bill. In addition, he launched recovery.gov,
so that taxpayers could track spending from the Act.
http://1.usa.gov/ibiFSs http://1.usa.gov/e3BJMk

... and unemployment was stagnant

So?


In his first year, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created
and sustained 2.1 million jobs and stimulated the economy 3.5%.
http://reut.rs/i46CEE

He barely made up for the new people coming into the system.

He did what was necessary and correct in a failing economy.


He completed the massive TARP financial and banking rescue plan, and
recovered virtually all of its costs. http://1.usa.gov/eA5jVS
http://bit.ly/eCNrD6

The 1% applauded that

Well, yes, so many people with blinders on are so against anything Obama
does, good or bad, that that happens.


He created the Making Home Affordable home refinancing plan.
http://1.usa.gov/goy6zl

... that did absolutely nothing to keep people in their homes.

Yes it did and still is. My neighbore just got his mortgage payment
reduced to help him get current.

He oversaw the creation of more jobs in 2010 alone than Bush did in
eight years. http://bit.ly/hrrnjY

The chart that shows the entire Bush administration says something
different. There was 4 years of steady job growth 2003-2007, Obama had
a good couple months and then went into deficit again.

That has nothing to do with the original answer.

http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/10/08.../jobsbymonth3/

He also doubled funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership
which is designed to improve manufacturing efficiency.
http://bit.ly/eYD4nf

How did that work out?

Quite well, actually!

http://ws680.nist.gov/mepmeis/SearchSS.aspx


He signed the giving the federal
government more tools to investigate and prosecute fraud in every corner
of the financial system. It also created a bipartisan Financial Crisis
Inquiry Commission to investigate the financial fraud that led to the
economic meltdown. http://abcn.ws/g18Fe7

Yet they have not prosecuted ONE ****ING CROOK since 2009.
Ashcroft cut a swath through the Clinton Era crooks, throwing them in
jail, not just suing them like Holder is doing.

In what respect, it's a very big bill that covers a lot of ground. Are
you saying that it has done NO good?

He signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure
(CARD) Act, which was designed to to protect consumers from unfair and
deceptive credit card practices. http://1.usa.gov/gIaNcS


... and the banks responded with new unfair and deceptive practices

Such as?


He signed the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, expanding on the
Making Home Affordable Program to help millions of Americans avoid
preventable foreclosures. The bill also provided $2.2 billion to help
combat homelessness, and to stabilize the housing market.
http://bit.ly/eEpLFn

See above. How many foreclosures have been prevented?

Many, one right next door to me.


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