Unemployment lower in in 6 years. GDP up 3.5% Stock market at record highs.

Outperformed Reagan on jobs, growth & investing:

He was handed the biggest mess since the great depression and accomplished the following all in the face of the most obstructive congress in history:

• Six straight months of over new 200,000 job added

• Brought us out of recession worse than last 3 recessions combined

• Jobs record: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/07/03/employment-situation-june?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=email349-text2&utm_campaign=economy

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• Got more Taliban leaders in 30 days than Bush/Cheney did in 6 years

• Auto Industry saved

• Got North Korea to stop enriching uranium

• Bin Laden dead

• Nuclear weapons reduced by 1/3 in US & Russia

• Stock market more than doubles

• Stock market set record highs

• Creamed Bush in turning around job loss

• U.S Gross Domestic product went from steady decline to increasing every ¼ of the Obama Presidency See graph

• Ended Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

• Insurance companies must cover pre-existing conditions

• Kids stay on their parent’s insurance until 26 under certain conditions

• Requires health plans to disclose how much of premium goes to patient care

• Prevents children from being denied health insurance coverage

• Cut prescription drug cost for medi-care recipients by 50%

• Requires large employers to contribute to a national healthcare plan

• Spending growth under Obama lower than that of both Bushes, Nixon, Carter & Reagan

• Came out against SOPA

• Temporally suspended taxes on Unemployment benefits

• Jail population decline for first time in decades

• Wind power growth up 39%

• Instituted the toughest Wall Street reform since Great Depression

• Passed health reform: Others tried & failed over the last 60 years

• Insurance companies can no longer drop you when you get sick

• Stimulus Plan which brought us out of the brink of financial collapse

• $100 billion to embarrassing, crumbling infrastructure: Most since Eisenhower

• $60 billion to create renewable and clean energy

• Credit Card reform stopping the most abusive credit card practices

• Huge investment into science & technology

• Quadrupled the number of openly gay judges on the federal bench

• Amped budgets at NASA & National Science Foundation

• Expanded state run health insurance to cover additional four million kids

• Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act – Equal pay for equal work

• Global initiative keeping nuclear material out of hands of terrorists

• Hate crimes prevention act (Matthew Shepard Act)

• FDA for first time allowed to regulate tobacco

• Eliminated scandal plagued Mineral Management Services

• Overhauled the astonishing stupidity of the student loan system

• Cancelled bloated weapons program including useless F-22

• Stopped Russia supplying $1 billion of high-tech missiles to Iran promised by Bush

• Tax cuts for small businesses

• $14 billion in federally funded loans to stimulate job creation

• Cut taxes for 95% of working families

• Passed 16 different tax cuts for American small business owners

• Fought GOP for Health benefits for 9/11 responders - He didn't forget.

• Consumer spending increase

• Orders for durable goods increase

• Appointed first Latina to Supreme Court

• Ryan White AIDS Treatment Act

• Appointed more openly gay officials than any other president

• Expanded loan program for small businesses

• Increased funding for National Parks and Forests

• Led effort to phase out whaling

• Funding for high speed broadband internet access to students K-12

• $26 billion to states saving 160,000 teacher jobs among other things

• Helped rebuild schools in New Orleans

• Doubled research funds for cleaner fuel

• $2 billion to solar power

• Raised fuel economy standards

• Cash for clunkers

• Limited mercury emissions

• Eliminated oil company liability caps for oil spills

• Ordered BP to provide $20 billion liability fund for damages from spill

• Mandated new safety rules for offshore drilling

• World opinion of US improves significantly since Obama takes office

• Visited more countries in first year than any other president

• Return rights of Americans to visit and assist their families in Cuba

• Renewed loan guarantees to Israel

• Pledged $400 million in aid to Gaza civilians

• Pressured Israel to end Gaza blockade

• Authorized Clinton’s mission getting 2 prisoners released from Korea

• Nuclear arms agreement with India

• Agreement with Switzerland to bolster tax information exchange

• Cut salaries of senior White House officials

• Prevented congress from receiving cost of living pay raise

• Cancelled contracts for 28 White House helicopters saving $11.2 billion

• Return tax payer money for White House refurbishing

• Established a Patient’s Bill of Rights

• Expanded vaccinations program

• New homes sales see biggest jump in 47 years

• Extended benefit for same-sex partners of federal employees

• Same-sex partners assured visitation & healthcare decision rights

• $8 billion to establish smart power grid

• $13 billion for high-speed rail in 13 major US corridors

• Major expansion of AmeriCorps

• Committed US to almost 5 million charging station by 2015

• Expanding broadband internet

• Improved benefits for veterans

• New and improved hiring policy for veterans

• Donated Peace Prize award money

• Ended media blackout on war casualties

• Increased access to PTSD treatment for soldiers and veterans

• Reconstruction of military to reflect modern-day threats & technology

• Ended torture

• Recommitted the U.S. to full compliance to the Geneva Conventions

• Cut missile defense system by $1.4 billion

• Increased pay benefits to military personnel

• Began draw-down of war in Afghanistan

• Ordered Seal operation to free of US captain held by pirates

• Negotiated nuclear arms agreement with Australia, India, & Russia

• Increased Navy patrol of Somali coast

• Provided $210 Million for building and upgrading fire stations

• Emergency Aid to American Survivors of the Haiti Earthquake Act

• Ordered extensive review of hurricane & natural disaster preparedness

• Edward Kennedy Serve America Act: Expands national volunteer program

• Removed restrictions and provided support of embryonic stem cell research

• Manned missions to Mars & asteroids rather than just returning to moon

• Worked with international allies on International Space Station

• Used private sector to improve space flight

• Used Space Station for fundamental biological and physical research

• Established consumer tax credit for plug-in hybrid cars

• For first time in 13 years America’s dependence on foreign oil below 50%

• Tax breaks to promote public transit

• Extended and indexed the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch

• Income floor for medical expense deductions for individuals 65 & older

• Health insurance tax credits & subsidies for incomes to 4x poverty level

• Accelerated tax benefits for donations to Haiti earthquake relief

• Income tax rates for highest earners will change from 35% to 39.6%

• Capital gains tax for highest earners will change from 15% to 20%

• Tax increase for corporations with assets of at least $1 billion

• Closed offshore tax safe havens, tax credit loopholes

• Tax bills hit lowest level since 1950

• Tax refunds up 10 percent due to stimulus

• Imposed limits on lobbyists’ access to the White House

• Limits White House aides working for lobbyists after tenure in office

• Independent watchdogs call Obama’s record on ethic Unprecedented

• Closed lobbyist loopholes with respect to the Recovery Act

• Banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees

• DOD will film all interrogations

• White House voluntary disclosure policy

• $5,000 tax credit for every new worker hired

• Jobs for Main Street Act

• Under Obama American clean energy industry creates 2.7 million jobs & expanding rapidly

• Created more jobs in 2009 than Bush in his entire presidency

• CBO found 3.7 Million jobs created by stimulus (May 2010)

• 682,370 jobs created under Recovery Act Between Jan. & March, 2010

• National Export Initiative – designed to double US exports

• Federal deficit shrank 8% year-on-year

• Wall St reform designed to end taxpayer bailouts

• Gets 47 nations to agree to 4 years non-proliferation efforts

• Forced airlines to disclose prices upfront

• 25 Billion settlement against banking industry

• Opposes NC Gay Marriage Amendment

• Helped clean out weapons-usable uranium from 6 countries:

Mexico, Chile, Romania, Serbia, Libya, and Turkey

• Number of oil rigs in US oil fields has quadrupled in past three years

• US now has more rigs at work than the rest of the world put together

• First time since 1949 we now export more gas than we import

• Rescued hostages held by Somalian Pirates with precision mission

• Appointed record number of women judges to federal bench

• Makes health insurance available to seasonal firefighters