I would say that the media is biased. Read for yourself. I think America is just afraid of change, also also the fact that he can only do so much when everyone is against him.
Gun control? Please Obama has signed into law two bills containing amendments reducing restrictions on gun owners, one which permits guns to be transported in checked baggage on Amtrak trains217 and another which allows carrying loaded firearms in national parks located in states allowing concealed carry. It's not like he's revoking our right to bare arms.
On March 30, 2010, Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which ended the role of private banks in lending out federally-insured student loans.266 By directly lending to students, the government is projected to save taxpayers $68 billion dollars over the next several years.267 Federally-insured student loans will instead be distributed by the Department of Education.268 The law also increased the amount of Pell Grant awards given each year, doubling its current funding. I'm a college student, so I'm happy to hear that. Once the stimulus bill was enacted, health care reform became Obama's top domestic priority.
On July 14, 2009, House Democratic leaders introduced a 1,000 page plan for overhauling the US health care system, which Obama wanted Congress to approve by the end of the year.257 The U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated the ten-year cost to the federal government of the major insurance-related provisions of the bill at approximately $1.0 trillion.258 In mid-July 2009, Douglas Elmendorf, director of the CBO, testified that the proposals under consideration would significantly increase federal spending and did not include the "fundamental changes" needed to control the rapid growth in health care spending.259260 However after reviewing the final version of the bill introduced after 14 months of debate the CBO estimated that it would reduce federal budget deficits by $143 billion over 10 years and by more than a trillion in the next decade. America’s dependence on foreign oil has gone down every single year since President Obama took office. In 2010, we imported less than 50 percent of the oil our nation consumed—the first time that’s happened in 13 years—and the trend continued in 2011.
We’re relying less on imported oil for a number of reasons, not least that production is up here in the United States. In fact, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years. As part of his strategy to increase safe, responsible oil production in the United States, President Obama has opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration and we now have more working oil and gas rigs than the rest of the world—combined.
Despite all this, Americans are still paying more at the pump when we fill up. That's because drilling for more oil here at home won’t affect the price of gas on its own. Oil is bought and sold on a world market.
In the short term, it’s subject to price spikes when there’s instability or uncertainty along the global supply chain. And growing demand in countries like India, Brazil, and China, which tripled the number of cars on the road in the last five years, will drive prices even higher over the long term. I also like the idea of High Speed Rail, how come every other country in the world has it already except us.
Only thing is that, we're failing to put it into action. We would save so much oil that way. America is so behind because we are afraid of change.
Everyone is just using Obama as a Scapegoat for their problems. He is a family man and he has genuine respect for other countries. I don't get why he gets shunned for bowing down.
America acts like they are some kind of God. This is why so many countries in the world hate Americans. We are a country made up of immigrants, but we fail to respect the cultures of other countries.
I also don't see what the current president candidates have to offer that Obama has to offer right now. Also if we keep changing our presidents and plans keep changing. The economy plans will never be followed through and will keep going up or down.
What we need atm is for the country to recover slowly. Think long term and not short term. Everyone expects everything to happen instantly which they are not being realistic at all.
I understand there are some promises like pulling all of our soldiers out of Iraq before a deadline, but atm we are pulling them out slowly. You have to be realistic about. We can't just invade a country based on rumored hints from the CIA about possible evidence of finding nuclear weapons in Iraq and just leave without repairing the relations in that country.
What our country needs to think about now is not "What can the country do for you, but what you can do for your country" -quote JFK.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.