This election is about hope

That’s why we passed health insurance reform that stops insurance companies from jacking up your premiums at will or denying coverage because you get sick.
 
That’s why we passed financial reform that will end taxpayer-funded bailouts, reform that will stop credit card companies and mortgage lenders from taking advantage of taxpayers and consumers.
 
That’s why we’re trying to make it easier for workers to save for retirement and fighting the efforts of some in the other party to privatize Social Security, because as long as I’m President, no one is going to take the retirement savings of a generation of Americans and hand it over to Wall Street.

Not on my watch.
 
That’s why we’re fighting to extend the child tax credit and make permanent our new college tax credit, because if we do, it will mean $10,000 in tuition relief for each child going to four years of college, and I don’t want any parent not to be sending their kids, in good time or bad, to college because they can’t afford it.
 
President Barack Obama said:
That’s why we’re fighting to extend the child tax credit and make permanent our new college tax credit, because if we do, it will mean $10,000 in tuition relief for each child going to four years of college, and I don’t want any parent not to be sending their kids, in good time or bad, to college because they can’t afford it.
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You lie!
 
And finally, we see an America where we refuse to pass on the debt we inherited to the next generation.

Now, let me spend just a minute on this issue, because we’ve heard a lot of moralizing on the other side about this, government spending and debt.

Along with the tax cuts for the wealthy, the other party’s main economic proposal is that they’ll stop government spending.

Now, it’s right to be concerned about the long-term deficit.

If we don’t get a handle on it soon, it can endanger our future, and at a time when folks are tightening their belts at home, I understand, and a lot of Americans feel it’s time for government to show some discipline, too.

But, let’s look at the facts.

When these same Republicans, including Mr. Boehner, were in charge, the number of earmarks and pet projects went up, not down.

These same Republicans turned a record surplus into a record deficit.

When I walked in, wrapped in a nice bow was a $1.3 trillion deficit sitting right there on my doorstep.

A welcoming present.

Just this year, these same Republicans voted against a bipartisan fiscal commission that they themselves had proposed.

Once I decided I was for it, they were against it, and when you ask them what programs they’d actually cut they don’t have an answer.

That’s not fiscal responsibility.

That’s not a serious plan to govern.
 
apple0154 said:
For starters young adults who are in school or unemployed and living with their parents are covered on their parent's plan. Where is an unemployed 20-something supposed to get the money for health insurance? Having neither a job nor collateral an unattended illness can affect their entire life.

Recommended preventative services such as screening for high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. The savings down the road are truly incalculable. Just consider the cost to look after one individual incapacitated by a stroke due to undiagnosed hypertension compared to a doctor's visit costing, say, $100.00.

Assisted living/retirement homes for those unable to look after themselves easily costs $100.00/day. Just for simplicity let's say the incapacitated person finds a residence at that cost. For the same amount of money spent to look after that individual for one day someone could visit a doctor. That's 365 people screened per year. If the person lives 10 years which is quite realistic that's 3,650 (not counting leap years) people who could be screened and avoid a stroke.

What better example is there of "promote the general Welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty"?

Of course there are many other benefits to the plan and it will be further fine-tuned as more and more citizens experience the benefits.
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Why is my h/c insurance going up? Obama said this wouldn't happen.

I hear that I will have to get a prescription for asprin, tylonol, etc. This also makes the cost go up. Where's the liberty in this?

Why does my doctors tell me that the h/c law is something they hate?

Why does the IRS have to be involved?

Why do I have to go to jail if I have no money by April 15th of any given year in the future, or just choose not to pay? A lot of liberty here man. Let me tell you.

I could go on, but these are some things that are a problem for dems this Nov, 2nd, and why many will lose. They had a chance to do something great, but have done as bad a job as could be predicted.
 
Now, I’ll be honest, I refuse to cut back on those investments that will grow our economy in the future.

Investments in areas like education and clean energy and technology.

I don't want to cut those things, and that’s because economic growth is the single best way to bring down the deficit, and we need these investments to grow.

But, I am absolutely committed to fiscal responsibility, which is why I’ve already proposed freezing all discretionary spending unrelated to national security for the next three years.
 
President Barack Obama said:
Now, I’ll be honest, I refuse to cut back on those investments that will grow our economy in the future.

Investments in areas like education and clean energy and technology.

I don't want to cut those things, and that’s because economic growth is the single best way to bring down the deficit, and we need these investments to grow.

But, I am absolutely committed to fiscal responsibility, which is why I’ve already proposed freezing all discretionary spending unrelated to national security for the next three years.
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You lie!
 
Once the bipartisan fiscal commission finishes its work, I’ll spend the next year making the tough choices necessary to further reduce our deficit and lower our debt, whether I get help from the other side or not.
 
Liberty said:
Why is my h/c insurance going up? Obama said this wouldn't happen.

I hear that I will have to get a prescription for asprin, tylonol, etc. This also makes the cost go up. Where's the liberty in this?

Why does my doctors tell me that the h/c law is something they hate?

Why does the IRS have to be involved?

Why do I have to go to jail if I have no money by April 15th of any given year in the future, or just choose not to pay? A lot of liberty here man. Let me tell you.

I could go on, but these are some things that are a problem for dems this Nov, 2nd, and why many will lose. They had a chance to do something great, but have done as bad a job as could be predicted.
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Not everything we’ve done over the last two years has worked as quickly as we had hoped, and I am keenly aware that not all of our policies have been popular.

So, no, our job is not easy, but you didn’t elect me to do what was easy.
 
Part of moving forward is returning to the time-honored values that built this country, hard work and self-reliance; responsibility for ourselves, but also responsibility for one another.

It’s about moving from an attitude that said “What’s in it for me?” to one that asks, “What’s best for America?

What’s best for all our workers?

What’s best for all of our businesses?

What’s best for all of our children?”

These values are not Democratic or Republican.

They are not conservative or liberal values.

They are American values.
 
I know that folks are worried about the future.

I know there’s still a lot of hurt out here, and when times are tough, I know it can be tempting to give in to cynicism and fear and doubt and division, and just settle our sights a little bit lower, settle for something a little bit less.

But, that’s not who we are.
 
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