In a technical sense, they are still carrying out their promise on that. When they said "end the war" did you think it would be done overnight? No, it will take years before a drawdown to that magnitude will happen and it will still be accurate of them.
I plan on voting Obama, mainly because most other options are pretty stupid to me. This will be my first presidential vote!! :rambo:
Because I am independent, I completely disagree with any politician who is so stuck in his political party, that they would disagree with any plan no matter what as long as it was not their party that created it.
Though you guys don't like Obama, the true people to blame for things not progressing is Congress itself. Think about it; we almost defaulted on our debts thanks to blind disagreements!
Also in my opinion Democrats are better handling economic affairs. I do support higher taxes on the rich (on all levels tbh, but the medium to poor classes can not handle any tax increases at this moment). Yes I do think we should increase revenues through taxes. I think most taxes should be implied on things people do not need and are unhealthy (this can have a negative effect to a certain extent if taxed to high). Despite what many believes; small businesses are the ones that employ most of the American population.
Granted a good deal if not most of the big businesses are important as well, bust mainly because they have the most technology oriented things. Such as Intel, GE, GM, etc. Also they are pretty big in the manufactering sector.
I do think we can due better by reducing corperate taxes, but most of the big corporations only go to other countries for selfish max profits. Even if we did lower corporate taxes, there is absolutely no guarantee they will bring the jobs they shipped out, back.
http://economics.about.com/od/smallbigbusiness/a/us_business.htm
http://www.sba.gov/advocacy/7495/8420 - source to prove what I said.
I also DO NOT believe United States should be considered a christian nation because if it was, then we clearly go against our constitution. Not sure if the founding fathers realized this contradiction when they wrote the Bill of Rights the way they did. Now that I said that, I couldn't possibly care what religion Obama was whether it was, Scientologist (ROFL if you don't know that one, I suggest looking it up for a good laugh), Christian, Hindu, Budhist, Jewish, or Muslim.
I do believe we should have a nationalized health care; this will take the pressure off of businesses having to have a health care program for their employees. This will also lower taxes.
I however do think Social security should be reformed (since I believe in nationalized health care, we wouldn't need a medicaid or medicare).
Having national healthcare itself can increase employment in this country. National healthcare should only occur once the government find the magic land of proper money spending.
I also believe America really needs to start investing in renewable energies. Without investment, there will be no technological increase in those fields, therefore we will be stuck relying on oil for god knows how long.
I been reading up on this site for awhile despite not posting. I decided to post my opinions here.