Ancient Goat questioned:
Improve options for displaced workers
Help community and small business development agencies
Improve rural schools and availability of doctors
Help organic farmers and promote regional food systems
Give new farmers tax incentives
Provide farmers capital and help rural small businesses
Make rural revitalization program
Improve high school graduation rates
Double the number of high school students taking college level courses
Double charter school funding
Include more technology in public schools
Provide tuition help to students who perform community service
Recruit teachers and principals
Recruit science and technology teachers
Provide pay raises for teachers and principals
Pay tuition for students going into teaching
Increase Head Start and Early Start
Make Classroom Corps
Double funding for after-school programs
Improve No Child Left Behind
Lower dropout rate
Provide incentives for rural teachers
Increase help to land-grant colleges
End American dependence on foreign oil in ten years
Increase number of plug-in hybrid cars
Double renewable energy within four years
Reduce electricity demand by 15 percent in ten years
Cap carbon emissions
Make new green-collar jobs
Help U.S. automaker adapt
Reduce oil consumption
Help manufacturers go green
Double clean-energy funding
Make Green Jobs Corps
Invest $10 billion per year in clean technologies fund
Increase money for low-carbon coal technologies
Push cellulosic ethanol
Make energy-efficiency grant program
Provide universal health care
Spend $10 billion a year on implementing electronic health system
Expand nurse-family partnership program
Help individuals buy private health insurance
Expand eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP
Address women’s health issues
Establish loan forgiveness program for rural doctors and nurses
Help homeowners
Make an affordable-housing trust
Protect New Orleans
Invest $60 billion in infrastructure
Invest in rural infrastructure
Invest $1 billion in transitional jobs programs
Provide every American broadband access
Expand high-speed Internet access in rural area
Support a global education fund
Increase funding to train police to gather intelligence
Expand Army and Marine Corps
Provide soldiers with necessary equipment
Target every source of dread in the Americas
Make information declassification center
Ensure military has enough training
Strengthen civilian agencies
Give National Guard appropriate equipment, rest
Make international anti-terrorism network
Make cyber-security a federal priority
Update Veterans Affairs hospital system
Ensure all veterans are covered
Ensure adequate number of VA clinics
Increase housing help
Fully fund VA
Improve military’s mental health screening and care
Improve care for various injuries and women’s health through VA
Reverse 2003 ban on enrolling low-income veterans
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/04/obamas-long-list-of-promi_n_148598.html
for added details of each promise see the link
Improve options for displaced workers
Help community and small business development agencies
Improve rural schools and availability of doctors
Help organic farmers and promote regional food systems
Give new farmers tax incentives
Provide farmers capital and help rural small businesses
Make rural revitalization program
Improve high school graduation rates
Double the number of high school students taking college level courses
Double charter school funding
Include more technology in public schools
Provide tuition help to students who perform community service
Recruit teachers and principals
Recruit science and technology teachers
Provide pay raises for teachers and principals
Pay tuition for students going into teaching
Increase Head Start and Early Start
Make Classroom Corps
Double funding for after-school programs
Improve No Child Left Behind
Lower dropout rate
Provide incentives for rural teachers
Increase help to land-grant colleges
End American dependence on foreign oil in ten years
Increase number of plug-in hybrid cars
Double renewable energy within four years
Reduce electricity demand by 15 percent in ten years
Cap carbon emissions
Make new green-collar jobs
Help U.S. automaker adapt
Reduce oil consumption
Help manufacturers go green
Double clean-energy funding
Make Green Jobs Corps
Invest $10 billion per year in clean technologies fund
Increase money for low-carbon coal technologies
Push cellulosic ethanol
Make energy-efficiency grant program
Provide universal health care
Spend $10 billion a year on implementing electronic health system
Expand nurse-family partnership program
Help individuals buy private health insurance
Expand eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP
Address women’s health issues
Establish loan forgiveness program for rural doctors and nurses
Help homeowners
Make an affordable-housing trust
Protect New Orleans
Invest $60 billion in infrastructure
Invest in rural infrastructure
Invest $1 billion in transitional jobs programs
Provide every American broadband access
Expand high-speed Internet access in rural area
Support a global education fund
Increase funding to train police to gather intelligence
Expand Army and Marine Corps
Provide soldiers with necessary equipment
Target every source of dread in the Americas
Make information declassification center
Ensure military has enough training
Strengthen civilian agencies
Give National Guard appropriate equipment, rest
Make international anti-terrorism network
Make cyber-security a federal priority
Update Veterans Affairs hospital system
Ensure all veterans are covered
Ensure adequate number of VA clinics
Increase housing help
Fully fund VA
Improve military’s mental health screening and care
Improve care for various injuries and women’s health through VA
Reverse 2003 ban on enrolling low-income veterans
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/04/obamas-long-list-of-promi_n_148598.html
for added details of each promise see the link
December 25th, 2009 at 12:41 am
a lot of those are pretty vague, it’s not whether he will do them it’s the extent to which they are emphasized in his presidency
December 26th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I’m gonna go with 0%. He’ll hopefully end up being alot more center right than advertised.
December 29th, 2009 at 12:37 am
NONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
like i said before: he is a liar!
December 30th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Target every source of dread in the Americas - wow, people who dread spiders or midgets are in luck!
December 31st, 2009 at 5:36 pm
This is a huge list, but there is no reason to believe that Obama will fail to address any of these issues while in office. Keep in mind that the implementation of these goals and promises sits on the shoulders of Congress. Much of what is on this list has been presented to our lawmakers in the past, and typically shot down by our Republican senators and representatives.
January 2nd, 2010 at 5:33 am
I don’t like Obama, but if he can bring about 100% of this list, I too will vote for him in 2012.
100%