Obamas Broken Promises
January 8, 2012
Many of us in 2007 were swept into a frenzy when a young, charismatic politician from Illinois came on the scene with promises of hope, and change. His promisses are what got him elected, when many disillusioned Republicans and Independents voted across party lines to try and send a signal to Washington that the time had come for change.
Most at the time were willing to vote for this new Presidential hopeful without much research on the man himself because it was a vote being registered in anger over the previous administrations attack on freedom, liberty, and our economy. It was simply a protest vote.
Looking back on the promisses that were made by President Obama while on the campaign trail, and contrasting those with his actions, the actions speak louder than the words.
Promise #1:
No family making less than $250,000 a year will see ANY FORM of tax increase
He raised the tobacco tax, implemented a tanning salon tax, and added the individual mandate tax, medicine cabinet tax, special needs kids tax (flexible spending account tax), medical itemized deductions cap, and HSA withdrawal tax which are part of Obamacare. All of these taxes affect people of all incomes, mostly the poor and middle income.
Promise #2:
I want to go line by line through every item in the Federal budget and eliminate programs that don’t work, and make sure that those that do work work better and cheaper.
House Energy and Commerce Investigations subcommittee insist there is no evidence that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) conducted such an exhaustive review. The $17 billion in program savings found in Obama’s budget was half of that found in the Bush administration. Republicans said that Obama’s review does not differ from the ordinary presidential budget process and that the president has exaggerated any savings found by including tax increases and savings from drawing down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Promise #3:
We will make sure every single tax break and earmark is available to every American online
March 2, 2009 – “Obama administration officials Sunday announced that despite expressed “concerns” with the billions in earmarks contained in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, and campaign pledges to “slash earmarks by more than half”, the President would sign the bill. Taxpayers for Common Sense says the bill contains 8,570 earmarks at a cost of $7.7 billion. An estimated 60% of the earmarks are from Democrats, while Republicans requested the remaining 40%.”
Promise #4:
Lobbyists won’t work in my White House!
List of lobbyists working in, or nominated to work in the Obama administration: Eric Holder (Attorney General), Tom Vilsack (Secretary of Agriculture), William J. Lynn III (Deputy Defense Secretary nominee), William Corr (Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary), David Hayes (Deputy Interior Secretary), Mark Patterson (Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Treasury), Ron Klain (Chief of Staff to Vice President), Mona Sutphen (Deputy White House Chief of Staff), Melody Barnes (Domestic Policy Council Director), Cecilia Munoz (White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs), Patrick Gaspard (White House Political Affairs Director), Michael Strautmanis (Chief of Staff to the President’s Assistant for Intergovernmental Relations).
Promise #5:
As president, Barack Obama will close the detention facility at Guantanamo.
Instead, Obama has continued to support the prison, and to this date there are 171 detainees. He also signed an executive order allowing for retooled military commissions at Guantanamo to try inmates for war crimes.
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