Obama-metrics: First year performance
Posted by: adonis49 on: January 27, 2010
Obama-metrics: First year performance; (Jan. 28, 2010)
Bill Adair (Pulitzer Prize) published the Obama program that included 510 promises. Promises being executed are 240 promises, 86 promises were kept, 26 were compromised, and 62 were blocked by the oppositions.
First, let me present a run down of the major promises according to the previous categories.
For promises being executed we have the following:
Creating 5 million “green jobs”
Restraining eavesdropping without authorization
Shutting down Guantanamo prison center
Stopping the usage of torture
Creating CO2 emission market
Creating a universal health plan that added 30 million more citizen benefiting of coverage
Setting up new financial regulations
Repealing the tax cut for the higher incomes
Reducing nuclear arms reserves in a verifiable manner
Re-enforcing anti trust laws that favor consumers
Reducing oil consumption of 35% by 2030
Securing borders by increasing personnel
For promises kept we may mention
Sending two supplementary brigades to Afghanistan (30,000 soldiers)
Creating a fund to prevent further real estates foreclosures
Reforming prison terms to clear prison overpopulation
For promises compromised we have
Creating a tax credit of $500 for employees
Requiring transparency in the process of budgetary credit by Deputies in Parliament
For promises blocked
Extending citizenship to immigrant with no work permit
For promises betrayed
Hardening regulations in the Administration on conflict of interests between public carriers and private jobs
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