Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=16708052'>posted</a> on 11/09/2012:

Democratic social programs have been cut to the bone. Welfare benefits are at an all time low. If conservatives want to understand why we have more poverty just look in the mirror. Look how they have sacked worker's rights. The drop off in the middle class perfectly correlates with falling union participation. Look how Republicans have voted against increases in the minimum wage time and time again. They even voted against middle class tax cuts because they didn't also include tax cuts for the wealthy. Republicans have engaged in wealth transfer from the middle class to the rich for over 30 years.


Food stamps, welfare, medicaid are all subsidies for corporations who don't pay their employees a living wage. Wal-Mart even advises their employes how to sign up for food stamps and section 8.



If you are too ignorant to know what the President has done, that is your own fault.

WHAT HAS OBAMA DONE?*
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1)Saved the auto industry, GM is now TOP auto manufacturer in the world
2)Passed a Recovery Act that created 3.3 million jobs and prevented 15% unemployment
3)Prevented the Bush Recession from turning into the Bush Depression
4)Ended the Iraq War
5)Reduced the deficit 3 years in a row
6)Passed health care reform, 2.5 million young Americans now have health insurance
7)Cut more spending than any other President
8)Appointed Richard Cordry as head of the Consumer Protection Bureau
9)Toppled a dictator in Libya with no boots on the ground
10)Lowered taxes on the middle class and poor
11)Killed America's number one enemy Osama Bin Laden
12)Passed wall street reform, ending the days of too big to fail
13)Passed CC reform
14)Passed equal pay for women act(Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act)
15)Repealed DADT
16)Ended the practice of torture
17)Kept inflation low
18)Extended Medicare's solvency by 10 years

*He did all of this with the most obstructionist Republican Party in US History. Republicans in the Senate tripled the previous filibuster in Obama's first 2 years.