Obama's First 1000 Days Review -- Report #1: Promises Broken

The following is an assimilation of campaign promises broken by Obama during his his three years in office. His first 1000 days were finished on Monday, October 17, 2011. The report is rather comprehensive and divided into at least 4 reports: Promises Broken is our first installment and counts only those promises I feel are the more critical. The list is original with this blog, but, of course, most of the information is common knowledge in the blogosphere.

1. Promised seniors making less than $50,000 no more income tax levied Never brought it up after ascending to the throne.
2. Promised 8% unemployment. Failed in this promise miserably.
3. Promised to double federal funding for cancer research. Never mentioned after Jan 20, 2009.
4. Lower employee count for companies having to abide by the Family Leave Act from 50 to 25 employees – did not mentioned after election
5. Promised to reject the Military Commission Act. which allowed the U.S. to circumvent Geneva Conventions in the handling of detainees. Never visited this promise.
6. Promised to eliminate gas and oil loopholes. Did not happen.
7. Increase dividends and capital gains tax. Did not happened. Compromised this away in deal with Mitch McConnell.
8. Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners. Instead, created a foreclose bailout, that promised to help 4 million homeowners but only gave aid to 600,000 and 30% of those still lost their homes.
9. Promised to end no bid contracts on jobs over $25,000. Never mentioned it after election. The current arrangement benefits unions.
10. Promised to enforce “pay as you go” legislation. Instead, he supervised the increase of $3.5 trillion in annual debt, not counting TARP.
11. Promised to repeal Bush tax cuts for the “rich.” Instead, agreed to a compromised with GOP that extended tax “cuts” under Bush.
12. Promised to pass the card check law, making it possible to unionized a business without a secret ballot. This did not happen.
13. Promised to disallow bonuses paid to execs in companies that claimed bankruptcy.
14. Promised to allow imported prescription drugs. Turns out he is in bed with Big Pharma. This did not happen.
15. Promised to close GIMO. Not even close.
16. Promised to establish habeas corpus rights for detainees. Court decisions denied such rights to enemy combatants.
17. Promised to double size of Peace Corps to 16,000. Made no serious effort .
18. Promised a Latin America crime strategy. We are still waiting on this.
19. Promised to create a centralized Internet database of lobbying reports, ethics records, and campaign finance filings in a searchable, sortable and downloadable format." Not even close.
20. Promised to not enlist lobbyist in his Administration. At last count he had 17 ex-lobbyists on board.
21. Allow 5 days for public to review publish laws before signing. Never gave this promise a second thought.
22. Promised to make White House communications public. Instead, is fighting to keep emails and White House visitor registry off limits to the public view.
23. Promised to double funding for after school programs. Not even a second thought.
24. Create scholarships to recruit new teachers. Did not happen.
25. Promised to require all schools of education to be accredited. Did not happen. This would limit the freedoms of private school programs.
26. Promised a comprehensive immigration law in the first year of his presidency. After election, he never mentioned it.
27. Promised to allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of home mortgages. Again, not even close.
28. Promised a $9.50 minimum wage after initially promising $11 per hour.
29. Promised to endorse the goal of sending human missions to the Moon by 2020, as a precursor in an orderly progression to missions to more distant destinations, including Mars. This is not just a promise broken, it is an outright lie. There is no space program.