Editor's notes: Understand that these broken promises
come from his 5 previous State of the Union speeches. This does not
include the lies told to get ObamaCare or the nearly 300 promises made during
the 2008 campaign. We have never had a president who majored in the grand
and glorious yet impractical promises of Utopia as has Obama, virtually
all coming from a mind centered in the belief that the Utopian dreams of a
world living in peace with itself, a world in which the poor shared
equally with the wealthy, a world in which universal health for all of
mankind is just a legislative step away. He is driven by the same
dreams of the flower children in the 60's (those people are running our
government, now, btw). This is their moment and the have done what
the other half of the Boomer generation knew they would do, make a
freaking mess of everything.
And now, those 112 reasons thanks to this list,
a production of Grabien.
The media are already analyzing the new proposals President
Obama is set to layout this evening in his sixth annual State of the Union
address (seventh if you count his unofficial 2009 address).
Here at Grabien, we're also looking at results. Taking a
look back at past SOTU promises, How many actually ever materialized?
The numbers aren't pretty. From 2009 through 2014, we count
112 promises that to date remain unfulfilled.
We should also note that many of these promises are
duplicated from one year to another. For example, every year he has pledged to
pass comprehensive immigration reform, overhaul corporate taxes, reduce
regulations, and close Guantanamo
Bay
The full list is below. He video Montage can be found,
here, at Grabien. Did we miss anything?
Let us know (at Grabien) in the comments.
2009
1. The stimulus bill will create 3.5 million jobs over the
next few years, 90 percent of which will be in the private sector.
2. Create program that will enable Americans facing
foreclosure to lower their mortgage payments and save their homes.
3. Double the supply of renewable energy within the next
three years.
4. The “largest ever” federal spending program on science
will yield breakthroughs in energy, medicine, science, and technology.
5. Lay down 1,000s of miles of power lines to connect
Americans’ homes to these new sources of energy.
6. Reduce Americans’ energy bills by “billions of dollars.”
7. Cure cancer “in our time.”
8. Use stimulus funds to spend on preventive health care,
which will get federal health spending “under control.”
9. Use the savings that result from the stimulus’ reform of
health-care to reduce the deficit.
10. Cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term in
office.
11. Go “line by line” through the federal budget to
eliminate wasteful and ineffective programs – saving $2 trillion over the next
10 years.
12. Never raise taxes “a single dime” on any family earning
less than $250,000.
13. Stop the growing cost of Medicare and Social Security.
14. Make Social Security sustainable.
15. Create tax-free savings accounts for all Americans.
16. Close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay
2010
17. Use stimulus funds to build a high-speed railway in Florida .
18. Research funds from the previous year’s stimulus will
cure cancer, lead to “the cheapest solar cells.”
19. Building a new generation of nuclear energy plants.
20. Passing a climate-change law that will make clean energy
profitable
21. Passing health-reform that lets Americans keep their
doctors and their plans.
22. The health-reform law will reduce costs for “millions”
of families and businesses
23. The health-reform law will bring down the deficit $1
trillion over the next 20 years.
24. Starting in 2011, government spending “ will be frozen
for three years.”
25. Cut programs we don’t need to maintain a balanced
budget.
26. Veto spending bills that don’t adhere to balanced
budgeting.
27. Go through budget “line by line” to eliminate programs
that we can’t afford and don’t work.
28. Create a bipartisan fiscal commission; the
recommendations of which he’ll enact.
29. Restore the pay-as-you-go budgeting rules.
30. Create a website that publishes every lawmakers’ earmark
requests.
31. Never give up “ trying to change the tone of our
politics.”
32. Pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill.
33. Secure America ’s
borders.
34. Enforce existing immigration laws
2011
35. More nuclear power, more natural gas, more wind and
solar.
36. Pass comprehensive immigration reform.
37. Secure America ’s
borders.
38. Enforce existing immigration laws.
39. Reduce unemployment by increasing the number of people
working on infrastructure projects – ensuring these projects are “fully paid
for.”
40. Recruit private sector financing to assist these
infrastructure projects.
41. Projects will be prioritized by importance, not by
politics.
42. Give 85 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail
within 25 years.
43. Within the next three years, enable 98 percent of
Americans to receive high-speed wireless Internet.
44. Lower the corporate tax rate and eliminate loopholes.
45. Reduce business regulations restraining growth and
investment.
46. Starting this year, freeze domestic spending for the
next five years.
47. ObamaCare will slow rising costs of health-insurance
premiums.
48. Enact medical malpractice tort reform.
49. Consolidating various federal departments to streamline
federal bureaucracy and ensure it’s “more competent and more efficient.”
50. Create website that lists all federal spending.
51. Veto every bill that contains earmarks.
2012
52. Reduce corporate income taxes.
53. Consolidate federal jobs-training programs – creating a
single website that makes all information about these programs available in one
place.
54. Convert federal unemployment insurance into a system
that focuses on finding the unemployed jobs.
55. Enact comprehensive immigration reform.
56. Force all high schools to require students to stay in
school until they graduate or turn 18.
57. Open more than 75 percent of off-shore U.S. territory
to drilling.
58. Go “all out” on every type of energy.
59. Take “every possible action” to expand natural gas
production.
60. Ordering “every federal agency to eliminate rules that
don’t make sense.”
61. Create “financial crimes unit” to crack down on
white-collar crime.
62. Work with Congress to procure power to consolidate
federal bureaucracy.
63. “End the notion that political parties must be engaged
in a perpetual campaign of mutual destruction.”
2013
64. Reform Medicare and Medicaid to save as much as was
proposed by the Simpson-Bowles Commission.
65. “Reduce taxpayer subsidies to prescription drug
companies.”
66. Raises taxes on the wealthiest seniors.
67. Bring down health-care costs by changing the way the
federal government pays for Medicare.
68. Eliminate loopholes and deductions for the “well off.”
69. Enact comprehensive tax reform that brings down the
deficit and encourages job growth.
70. Cut “red tape and speed up new oil and gas permits.”
71. Create an “energy security trust.”
72. Create a “fix it first” program that will direct the
unemployed to the highest priority programs.
73. Make “high quality” preschool available to every child
in America .
74. Require that aid to colleges be distributed according to
the value they impart upon students.
75. Pass comprehensive immigration reform.
76. Raise the minimum wage to $9/hour.
77. Create a tax incentive for companies to hire the
long-term unemployed.
78. Create a program to put people back to work by
rebuilding vacant homes in rundown neighborhoods.
79. Enact new tax credits for businesses that hire and
invest.
80. Eliminate the marriage penalty for low-income couples.
81. Encourage fatherhood through tax policy adjustments.
82. By the end of 2014, end the war in Afghanistan .
83. Never make promises the government can’t actually keep.
84. Keep the promises already made.
2014
85. Lower corporate income taxes, close loopholes.
86. Use the money saved from corporate tax reform to finance
new infrastructure spending.
87. Slash bureaucracy through executive orders.
88. Create an additional six “high tech manufacturing hubs”
in 2014.
89. “Do more” to help entrepreneurs and small business
owners.
90. Use government research funds to create entirely
new industries – like vaccines that adapt to evolving bacteria, and inventing
material thinner than paper but stronger than steel.
91. Pass a patent reform bill.
92. Use executive orders to cut red tape to enable factories
to be built that are powered by natural gas.
93. Reform taxes so that fossil fuel companies are taxed
more and “ fuels of the future” are taxed less.
94. Enact new fuel-efficiency standards for trucks.
95. Pass comprehensive immigration reform.
96. Consolidate federal jobs training programs, helping
match people with skills to jobs they can fill.
97. Reform unemployment insurance to encourage Americans to
return to the workforce faster.
98. Assemble a coalition to help more kids access pre-K
education.
99. Pass the “Equal Pay Act” for women.
100. Raise the minimum wage to $10.10
101. Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit
102. Reform the tax code to help lower-class Americans save
103. Give every American access to “an automatic IRA on the job.”
104. Ensure Americans never have to wait more than a half
hour to vote.
105. Pass legislation that will prevent mass shooting
tragedies.
106. End the Afghan war by the end of 2014.
107. Reform NSA surveillance programs.
108. Close
Guantanamo Bay
109. End the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
110. Ensuring the Iran will stop installing advanced
centrifuges.
111. Be the “first” to call for more sanctions if Iran doesn’t
abandon nuclear program.
112. Reform Veterans Affairs so that vets no longer have to
deal with backlogs and instead receive the health care that they need.
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A second but unrelated list is here:
ISIS is a JV team...
Benghazi
was about a movie...
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A second but unrelated list is here:
The IRS is not targeting anyone...
There isn't a smidgen of corruption in the IRS...
Some lives are less worthy than others...
I heard it in the news just like everyone else did...
The tides of war is receding...
If 4 Americans get killed, it is not optimal...
ObamaCare will be good for America ...
You can keep your family doctor...
You’re going to be able to purchase high-quality health
insurance less than the cost of your cellphone bill...
Premiums will be lowered by $2500...
You can keep your current healthcare plan...
I did not say you could keep your health care. (Regardless
that 29 recorded videos show I did)...
ObamaCare will not be offered to illegal immigrants...
ObamaCare will not be used to fund abortions...
No one making under $250,000 will see their taxes raised one
dime...
If I had a son...
I am not a dictator...
I will put an end to the type of politics that “breeds
division, conflict and cynicism"...
You didn't build that...
I will restore trust in Government...
The Cambridge
police acted stupidly...
I am not after your guns...
If I don't have this done in three years, this is going to
be a one-term proposition...
I do think at a certain point you've made enough money...
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for
everybody...
We got back Every Dime we Used to Rescue the Banks, with
interest...
I am good at killing people...
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any
racial animosity. She doesn't, but she is a typical white person
I am not spying on American citizens...
Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily
skyrocket. It will force America
to conserve power...
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to
guns or religion or antipathy...
The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet
of Islam...
I Barrack Hussain Obama pledge to preserve protect and
defend the Constitution of the United
States of America
Love this guy, the JFK of our era.
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And still, we have all those broken promises (see campaign 2008 promises) , lies (Benghazia, ObamaCare, Fast and Furious, IRS targeting denials, NSA media spy scandal and those demonstrable lies, etc), the refusal to reveal $400 million in campaign donations, the payback cover-up (the 2009 Stimulus returned 3 out 4 of its funding dollars to labor/teacher unions, and Democrat constituencies and created almost no long term jobs at all) and then, the two lists above. But I have good friends sho still believe in the Obama's vision, so there you are.
DeleteI was and am a big fan of JFK. At least he was honest in his political dealings . . . a rish kid who was sincerely trying to come down off his mountain and dealing with the common man. Which they had let him live.
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