As Election Day quickly approaches (only 7 days) I believe it’s important to make sure every American has the resources to be an informed voter. Due to my age (currently 16, but will be 17 on November 14th) I am unable to vote in this election. And that is why I am asking all of you who are able to vote to do so with the future, my future, in mind. Our country is at a tipping point and you must decide what you want to leave future generations. We can either continue to go down the path President Obama has us on, which will lead us to $20,000,000,000,000 of debt by 2016. Or, you can vote for a proven businessman who will create an environment for job creation and economic prosperity. I ask you, please, for my future’s sake, to vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on November 6th. We cannot afford 4 more years of Barack Obama’s failed policies.
And now, here is my list of President Obama’s broken promises that I believe are more than enough reasons to vote him out and allow Mitt Romney to take over:
- In 2008 candidate Obama pledged to cut the deficit in half by 2012. He didn’t. Our deficit isn’t half of what it was in 2008, instead it’s roughly 6 trillion dollars more than it was in 2008. When Obama took office we had 10.6 trillion dollars of debt, we now have 16 trillion dollars of debt and counting. If President Obama is reelected for a second term our national debt will reach $20,000,000,000,000 by 2016.
- Candidate Obama repeatedly denounced the idea that his Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare) would come in the form of a tax. But according to the 2012 Supreme Court ruling, Obamacare is a tax and it will hit the middle class hard.
- We were promised in 2008 by candidate Obama that America was going to finally have a presidency with an “unprecedented” amount of transparency. But again, he lied. An example of this is when former (yay!) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told Congress that they would have to pass the Affordable Health Care Act before they could read the bill in its entirety. Click here for more examples of Obama’s lack of transparency.
- Obama promised in 2008 that he would fix the economy in three years, and if he didn’t he would not deserve a second term as President. Well, look around, our economy is still broken. Unemployment has been above 8% since 2008. According to Obama’s own standard you should not vote for him.
- And lastly, President Obama has always been considered the “Champion of Women.” He signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which is a bill that insists on women and men being paid equally for doing the same jobs (which I support). But oddly enough, at the same time, the Obama administration actually pays women who work in the White House 18% less than they do men. They also continue to release videos/information (ie., Lena Dunham and the Life of Julia) that make women out to be nothing but their lady parts.
Unfortunately for America’s sake, these 5 promises are not the only ones President Obama has broken. Here are 5 pages worth of broken promises by the Obama administration.
I ask you to please share this list with your friends and don’t forget to make your voices heard during Early Voting or on Election Day, November 6th. And for all of my North Carolina readers, here is a Voter Guide you can print out and take with you to the polls!
God bless,
Madeleine McAulay
PS: My prayers are with all of those affected by Hurricane Sandy. Be safe!
Good stuff. Unfortunately, liberals won’t read it or choose not to believe it. Fortunately, however, they won’t decide this election, the Independents will. Independents don’t have loyalty to either party. They voted for Obama the country was on the wrong track and they wanted change. Four years later, things are worse. They’ll vote for Romney simply because they tried out Obama and he failed. Four years from now if the country still isn’t getting any better, they’ll all jump back on the Democrat side and knock out Romney. I believe it’ll continue like this until we get a president that can actually make a difference for the better.
I would be really surprised to see the Independents stick with Obama this election. There’s not a single thing you can point at and say “See? Its getting better.” People don’t want “Hope” anymore, they want “Progress”.
As important as it is to get rid of Obama, we absolutely must keep the house and get the Senate back. Without all 3 branchs of government, Conservatives will be impotent to do anything. (just check out the last two years-conservatives ruled in the 2010 mid-term elections but were unable to do anything. Reid managed to bottle up any fix enough so that Obama did not need to veto anything.)
When we get that, and I believe this year is the year that happens, we had better be ready for what is going to happen when conservatives lay out a plan to balance the budget and get things back on a course that will not destroy America. Almost immediately, low life takers in the form of your average democrat will begin crying foul over any plan. Let’s face it: we are spending a trillion dollars a year on welfare and government has ballooned to massive proportions. When you try to return the unsustainable spending to more reasonable proportions, you will hear every sob story imaginable about how republicans want to kill the elderly, etc.
It is going to hurt, but it is absolutely necessary. Reports are that 6 out of 10 people are getting money from the government. I don’t doubt the accuracy of this assessment. Some jobs are going to disappear. The reality is that if Romney can turn the economy into the raging engine of job creation that it ought to be, those jobs should move back to the private sector with no problem. The alternative is —well there is no alternative. We are broke. Just take a minute and let that fact sink in.
If we want to return our country to sanity, we have to do the hard stuff, the right way, and have the fortitude to continue the fight until we win. We could learn a lesson from liberals here. When they try to force their foul ideas on everyone, and they lose, they come back the next year and try again. They keep trying until they manage to win, and that is how it stays.
Most people remember the steps taken by liberals to introduce liquor and lottery laws. What is strange to me is that, when the law goes the way of liberals, we don’t try to get it back! Madeleine, you probably won’t remember this but your parent will.
just 8 days till we know if our country can return to sanity. Keep your fingers crossed and keep the faith.
Madeleine, you probably won’t remember this but your parents will.
Sorry.
Another good reason to get rid of him is Benghazi. The man is a traitor.
Regarding the Lilly Ledbetter act, it’s being couched as a bill requiring fair pay, but that’s not actually what it is. We already had equal pay legislation. The purpose of Lilly Ledbetter was to open the door for trial lawyers to instigate claims of past discrimination decades after the alleged occurrences. It did nothing to improve the rights of women and everything to further line the pockets of the lawyers.
As a mother of 4 daughters, I can only hope mine are nearly as articulate and informed as you are at your young age. Thank you for being willing to put yourself out there, and in doing so, open yourself up to people unwilling to discuss, but instead choose to name call. I’m thankful the future of our great country includes mature teenagers such as yourself. Thank you!
Enjoying all of the silly childish histrionics as the so-called “teaparty” sails into the sunset and oblivion. It would’ve been nice if it were a closer election, but, as your Vice President Joe Biden might say, your malarkey motivated a lot of voters to do the right thing and reelect quite possibly the best president since John F. Kennedy. Thanks for helping out your country in its time of need with such misguided sophism.
Too bad that Kennedy was only the 35th greatest president
The infantile remarks continue with Jay Robert. Always with the deflection. By who’s standards was Kennedy in the bottom 10 of presidents? The following list is chiefly based upon the ability to lead, so your Reagan is rated as merely average with Carter, lol.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/leadership/schlesinger.html
Love, Blessings and Gratitude to you both!