Friedman Libertarian

Jake Tapper compiled a list of things Obama promised in a single speech.

This page will hold to account what promises Obama made, and what excuse was made as to why the promise was left unfulfilled.

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Personal Taxes

1. • Give a tax break to 95 percent of Americans who work every day and get taxes taken out of their paycheck every week
2. • Eliminate income taxes on Social Security for seniors making under $50,000
3. • Give homeowners and working parents additional tax breaks
4. • Not increase taxes on anyone if they “make under $250,000; you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime –- not your income taxes, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax”
   • Excuse: Already this has become $200,000 (see Obama’s 30 Minute Prime Time TV ad prior to the finish of game six of the 2008 World Series.)

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Business Taxes

1. • End those breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas
2. • Give tax breaks to companies that invest right here in the United States
3. • Eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-up companies that are the engine of job creation in this country

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Jobs

1. • Create two million new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling roads, and bridges, and schools — by laying broadband lines to reach every corner of the country
2. • Improve information technology

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Energy Policy

1. • Invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new energy jobs over the next decade
2. • Reopen old factories, old plants, to build solar panels, and wind turbines
3. • Build “a new electricity grid”
4. • Build the fuel efficient cars of tomorrow
5. • Tax Credit to Help Afford Fuel Efficient Cars
6. • Eliminate the oil we import from the Middle East in 10 years
7. • Tap Natural Gas Reserves
8. • Invest In Clean Coal Technology
9. • Expand Domestic Production of Oil

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Health Care

1. • “Lower premiums” for those who already have health insurance
   • Lower cost for families by $2,500
2. • If you don’t have health insurance, you’ll be able to get the same kind of health insurance that members of Congress give themselves
3. • End discrimination by insurance companies to the sick and those who need care the most
   • Coverage for preventive care and pre-existing conditions

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Education

1. • Invest in early childhood education
2. • Recruit an army of new teachers
3. • Pay our teachers higher salaries, give them more support. But … also demand higher standards and more accountability
4. • Make a deal with every young person who’s here and every young person in America: If you are willing to commit yourself to national service, whether it’s serving in our military or in the Peace Corps, working in a veterans home or a homeless shelter, then we will guarantee that you can afford to go to college no ifs ands or buts
5. • Tax credit to cover tuition

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Defense / Miltary

1. • Stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq whole the Iraqis have a huge surplus
2. • End this war in Iraq
3. • Finish the fight and snuff out al Qaeda and bin Laden
   • Refocus on Al Qaeda & Taliban
4. • Renew tough direct diplomacy
5. • Increase our ground troops and our investments in the finest fighting force in the world
6. • Invest in 21st century technologies so that our men and women have the best training and equipment when they deploy into combat and the care and benefits they have earned when they come home
7. • No more homeless veterans
8. • No more fighting for disability payments.

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Economics

1. • Freeze Foreclosures For 90 Days
2. • Low Cost Loans For Small Businesses

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Neal Boortz had a list of detrimental things he expects Obama to do as president, as well as other expectations compiled from other sources:

• Obama’s instant unionization bill will surely result in the unionization of Wal-Mart’s workforce. Expect higher prices.
• Not only is Obama going to make it easier for your workers to unionize … he’s going to expand onerous measures such as the Family Leave Act. You will end up paying your employees a good portion of their salary to lay out for weeks on end.
• Obama has called home schooling a fraud. Put him in office and you’ll be putting your kids back in government schools for their indoctrination
• Obama has talked about reducing spending on our military. One leading Democrat Senator has suggested a 25% spending cut on defense.
• Obama wants a national civilian security force that, in his words, is “just as strong as our military.” Who would they serve under? What would their mandate be? Would they be unionized? (oh HELL yes!). Would this be like the Soviet Union under Communism where neighbors ratted on neighbors for anti-government statements? And what does he mean “as strong as our military?” Would this national civilian security force have nukes? Tanks? Fighter planes? Are we just talking about a glorified national police?
• Obama will definitely destroy your right to be armed outside of your own home for your own protection. The question is whether we count the time until he accomplishes this in days, weeks, months or years.
• Re-instatement of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine”.
• He is going to make sure that government is there to tell you when you should be concerned about the people behind you, and he is going to make sure that government is there to take your money to help these people