bunchanumbers said:
What do you mean? The president who is leaving did that. He even beat campaign promises that his opponent Romney pledged during the 2012 campaign. His big thing was promising to get unemployment to 6% and Obama even beat that. He promised to get insurance to everyone and he did it. Here's a list of Obamas promises that were made, broken, or compromised on. Please keep in mind that he pulled this off with a GOP who made it their purpose in life to fight on everything he did and happily admitted it and for a country where there were several people who said things about him and his wife that were far from respectful. Trump even said that he wasn't from this country. And Trump has none of those excuses. Congress and the Senate are both republican majorities. The states have over 30 republican governors. If he can't do anything it will be because of his own people and doesn't have that excuse. Obama had a far harder time than Trump will. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/browse/?page=1 |
Please. The only reason its 6% is because we no longer count those who have given up. It's probably closer to 10%. Its the same math they used to magically get it below 10% before the Romney/Obama election, taking away Romney's big talking point. Hell, include underemployment and it's probably closer to 15%-18%.
And Obamacare did not give everyone insurance. There are still millions uncovered, either by choose or because the skyrocketing premiums is making it unaffordable and they don't qualify for the cheaper insurance. And some people are only covered because they don't want to pay the tax on not having insurance, the most ridiculous and unAmerican thing I've seen passed. Obamacare just made it more expensive for the normal guy. And the guy who wrote it admitted that was the plan. Make things so horrible for the non-poor, they cry out for the government to just take over and we'll have universal healthcare, which basically means more money for the government and longer wait times for the normal guy.
eva01beserk said:
OK, how many presiddents in the past fully delivered on all their promises? Not even 50% of their promises. And its not really cuz they had lied, but because they face resistance the entire wway by the oposing side.The same happened while under bama. Its not like kids think that everything a president says goes, they all have to summit new bills and laws to congres, stated and all what ever and ends in a vote. Great ideas just denied because people still dont trust them and I expect this to be worse with trump. He will have a dificult time getting anything aproved because the winy democrats will opose him just to opose him, no matter how good the idea is. This "trump is not my president" bull will keep hi from complishing things, while the same oposing winers compllaing that he hasent done anything yet. |
While you are right, Trump's case is very different. He's not even in office and seeing that opposition, or using opposition as just an excuse, yet is going back on promises. And for the first two years, he has a majority in Congress, so can't bitch about opposition.
Truth is, he said whatever appealed to his base in the primary to defeat Cruz. Promising to keep jobs, which he won't be able to do. If he puts his policies into action about jobs, prices here will skyrocket with the upcoming tariff war. Companies are moving towards automation, anyway. I highly doubt we're even getting 50% of any wall built. He'll probably build 5%-10%, of a fence and not a wall, and use some BS reason to get out of it. He promised to drain the swamp, yet a lot of his position picks are like any other Republican, choosing from Reps who have been part of the swamp for years/decades. Trump tried to make himself look like the outsider, when in fact, he's been part of the problem for just about as long as he's been alive, wheeling and dealing politicians for political favors. He is the swamp.
