Since 2009, Obama has:
• Reduced the number of deployed nuclear bombs around, in accordance to Arms Control.
• Strengthened fuel-efficiency standards and increased funding for energy-efficiency and alternative-energy projects, under climate change control.
• Attempts to cut down on deficits for Democrats and Republicans, especially.
• In terms of housing, reinforced the Home Affordable Refinance Program in March, 2009, a seventy-five-billion-dollar plan to help home-owners with government-backed mortgages.
• Passed on the DREAM Act. Making a deal with Republicans on a comprehensive immigration bill that includes a path to legalization for unauthorized immigrants.
• To improve and allocate more infrastructures in America, seeing Europe and China as worthy competitors $27.5 billion for highways and bridges, $9.3 billion for high-speed rail and Amtrak, and eleven billion dollars for modernizing the electric grid.
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• Tax policies were altered to fit into a fair, growing and future investment. The 2009 stimulus allotted billions of dollars for tax cuts and tax incentives for individuals and businesses. In 2010, Obama compromised with Congress and extended the Bush tax cuts for two years.
These listed are a few of the achievements The President has met over his time being the FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN to hold the office. Excuse me for the magnification but when you take a wider perspective on how things have been issued and concluded to in the past, Obama is OPENING DOORS for the imminent generations to come!
Here are some of the noble statements Obama issued on MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, Monday 21st January 2013.
" We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.
It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law — for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity; until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm.
That is our generation's task — to make these words, these rights, these values — of Life, and Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness — real for every American.
My fellow Americans, the oath I have sworn before you today, like the one recited by others who serve in this Capitol, was an oath to God and country, not party or faction – and we must faithfully execute that pledge during the duration of our service. But the words I spoke today are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty, or an immigrant realizes her dream. My oath is not so different from the pledge we all make to the flag that waves above and that fills our hearts with pride.
They are the words of citizens, and they represent our greatest hope.
You and I, as citizens, have the power to set this country's course.
You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time — not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in defence of our most ancient values and enduring ideals.
Let each of us now embrace, with solemn duty and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history, and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.
Thank you, God Bless you, and may He forever bless these United States of America."
The First Lady and CLARKSON, of course!
Meanwhile gossip-wise it has been around the grapevine like hot cakes that Kelly Clarkson sang live at the presidential inauguration while Beyoncé lip-synced her way way through the national anthem. Kelly sang a opening rendition of "My Country 'Tis of thee" while Knowles performed lastly and like a QUEEN she is took out them in-ears like 'Twas her home ground and didn't need them for a second.
In my opinion B's vocals were too elongated for it to have been a studio version that was played back, but let me know your thoughts below! Here's her performance -
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
