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  • “Determination”

    Watch President Obama speak directly to the American people about how far we’ve come over the last four years and how he plans to keep moving us forward in the next four. Then share this video with your friends and family.

  • Romney’s plan for the future is made up of backwards policies from the past

    President Obama has offered Americans a clear and detailed roadmap to increase our energy independence, improve access to quality education, and grow a stronger economy built on “Made in America.” This is the plan we need to move the country forward.

    Mitt Romney, however, is banking on taking America backwards. As the President said to Romney in the last debate:

    You seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s, and the economic policies of the 1920s.

    Here’s how Romney is projecting a 20th century plan onto the 21st century.

    Foreign policy of the 1980s

    Mitt Romney has repeatedly revealed that he’s “stuck in a Cold War mind-set”, using “blunt, swaggering language on the stump that at times has evoked the Cold War Era.” As Slate’s Fred Kaplan noted,” Romney and his advisers “don’t seem to understand ... the extent to which the world has changed” since the 1980s. Here’s proof:

    • Romney called Russia our “number one geopolitical foe,” and has repeatedly referred to Russians as “Soviets.”

    • Romney wrote in his book that, “It was a lot simpler when it was just the Soviet Union versus the United States.” Now, threats are “more varied.”

    • Romney compared his desire to increase military spending to President Reagan’s defense budget increases because Reagan “pressured the Soviets into a corner” with that level of spending.

    • Romney’s foreign policy advisers have also referred to “Soviets” and even attacked the President for supposedly abandoning plans to put a missile defense site in “Czechoslovakia”—a nation that has not existed for decades.

    Social policy of the 1950s

    When it comes to women’s health and women’s rights, Romney is firmly committed to taking American women back to the backwards policies of the 1950s. Here’s why:

    • Romney declared support for overturning Roe v. Wade—a move that’d “take away a fundamental right that American women have had for nearly 40 years.” Calling the decision “one of the darkest moments in Supreme Court history,” Romney said he hopes to “appoint justices” that would reflect “my preference that they reverse Roe v. Wade.”

    • Romney endorsed a bill that would allow employers to “have free rein to pick and choose your medical care as he or she saw fit”—including coverage for birth control. Nearly 79 million American women received health care coverage thorough their employers.

    • Romney declared he’d “get rid of” funding for Planned Parenthood, a health organization that provides vital basic health care—including breast and cervical cancer screenings—to millions of women. And Romney even went so far as to call for defunding Title X—a program that provides family planning and preventive health services. As the Washington Post’s Sarah Kiff notes, “In moving to eliminate Title X, Romney is venturing into a new territory” in terms of extremism. Even anti-choice groups haven’t asked candidates to oppose Title X.

    Economic policies of the 1920s

    There is no question that Romney’s economic plan would drive us back to the failed policies of the past that have helped create this country’s major economic crises. Not only would he go back to the policies that contributed to the 2008 economic crisis—but his policies even mirror the top-down approach of the 1920s, which focused on tax cuts for the wealthy and rolling back the rules of the road for Wall Street.

    • Romney would roll back regulations that would help prevent another financial crisis. He has pledged to repeal the President’s Wall Street reform, which helps protect consumers and ends the era of Big Bank bailouts. But, “he is nearly silent on how—without the regulation—he would prevent Wall Street from once again engaging in the risky practices that helped cause the 2008 financial crisis.”

    • Standing on hay bales in Iowa, Romney declared that “corporations are people, my friend.” And his policies, which could raise taxes on the middle class to pay for new tax cuts for millionaires, illustrates what his priorities would be if elected president. And Romney has proposed additional tax cuts for the wealthy. He has put forward $5 trillion in tax cuts weighted towards millionaires and billionaires, which could only be paid for by raising taxes on the middle-class.

    To learn more about the clear choice in this election, check out each candidates plans here—then share the facts with your friends.

  • Final debate shows who veterans can trust

    Last night’s debate showcased the clear choice American veterans face in this election. While President Obama emphasized his commitment to the sacred trust we hold with our veterans and outlined his strong record of supporting those who fight to keep us safe, Mitt Romney didn’t mention veterans once.

    At the debate, President Obama highlighted his efforts to make sure veterans can get the health care they need and find good jobs when they return from the battlefield. Here are a few of the ways the President is fighting to support our servicemembers:

    • Boosted the Veterans Affairs budget to increase funding for veterans’ mental health care by 29%, signed an executive order to expand the federal government’s military and veteran suicide prevention programs, and established new rules that make it easier for veterans suffering from PTSD to get benefits.
    • Expanded healthcare access for Veterans living in rural areas and took concrete steps to end veteran homelessness by 2015.
    • Began the transition to a paperless claims processing system to make sure veterans get their benefits quickly, and made it easier for National Guard and reserve members to gain eligibility for education benefits.
    • Signed tax credits for businesses that hire unemployed veterans and wounded warriors—which are putting vets back to work today—and announced the creation of a veterans online jobs bank and an in-depth entrepreneurial training program that will help veterans find skilled jobs once they’ve returned home.

    Unfortunately, Romney’s failure to address veterans’ issues at the debate is only the latest example of his inclination to treat veterans as an afterthought. Romney failed to once mention the troops serving in Afghanistan in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, and one of his senior advisers called the war in Afghanistan a distraction from what “real Americans want to talk about.” This isn’t surprising given Romney’s dismal record of supporting veterans as governor of Massachusetts and how his plans could slash their benefits as President:

    • As governor of Massachusetts, Romney cut hundreds of thousands of dollars from veterans funding in his first month in office.
    • Romney didn’t mention veterans once in his jobs plan, education plan, or foreign policy white paper.
    • Romney suggested privatizing veterans’ benefits and giving veterans vouchers for health care.
    • The Romney-Ryan budget could cut funding for Veterans Affairs by $11 billion while giving new tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

    The choice couldn’t be any clearer: President Obama has made veterans’ health care, education, and job security a top priority since his first day in office; Mitt Romney has not. Click here to find out more about President Obama’s staunch record of standing up for veterans and his detailed plan to make sure the United States government is doing everything it can to give back to those who sacrifice so much to defend and protect the country they love.

  • The President’s plan for a second term

    But know this, America: Our problems can be solved. Our challenges can be met. The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place. And I’m asking you to choose that future.—President Obama

    This election offers Americans a clear choice: We can choose to work toward a stronger economy, or we can return to the failed policies that drove America into the economic recession in the first place. President Obama is the only candidate with a detailed roadmap to create jobs here at home, expand opportunities for all Americans, and set our economy on a stronger foundation. Details matter in this election, and while Mitt Romney has consistently failed to provide any details to back up his policy claims, the President is laying out a clear plan.

    Here’s a look at the specifics on how the President will move our country forward:

    1. Creating jobs: President Obama will help create a million new manufacturing jobs and double our exports so manufacturers can stamp “Made in America” on more products and sell them around the world.

      Create 1 million new manufacturing jobs by 2016. For the first time in years, manufacturing companies are seeking to “insource” production back to United States. To create 1 million new jobs, the President will:

      • Reform the corporate tax code to bring down tax rates—cutting tax rates on domestic manufacturers by nearly a quarter—while closing tax preferences and loopholes to pay for it.

      • End tax deductions for companies shipping jobs overseas, and use the savings to create a new tax credit for companies bringing jobs home.

      • Create a new network of 15 to 20 manufacturing innovation institutes to bring together businesses and research universities to ensure that the next generation of products are invented and manufactured here.

      • Train millions of skilled workers through new investments in community colleges and student aid.

      • Pursue an all-of-the-above strategy to produce reliable and affordable sources of energy here at home.

      Double exports over five years. Under President Obama, exports have risen by 36 percent and supported an additional 1.2 million jobs. To finish his plan, the President will:

      • Make sure that no foreign company has an unfair advantage over American companies by offering more generous financing through the Export-Import Bank to match other countries that aggressively use better financing than allowed under international rules.

      • Negotiate a new, expanded Trans-Pacific Partnership to open up new markets in a region that totals 40 percent of global trade to more U.S. goods.

      • Continue his efforts to stand up for American workers and businesses in the global marketplace, which have already doubled the rate of WTO cases against China’s unfair trade practices and included a new trade enforcement unit to ensure that American workers and businesses are competing on a level playing field.

    2. Developing homegrown energy: We’ll cut our oil imports in half, produce more American-made energy—like oil, clean coal, natural gas, and new resources like wind, solar and biofuels—and create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the natural gas industry while doubling the fuel efficiency of our cars and trucks.

      Cut net oil imports in half by 2020. President Obama is raising the bar on his previous goal of cutting imports by a third, or 3.7 million barrels a day, by 2025. To reach this goal, he will pursue an all-of-the-above energy strategy that is:

      • Opening up millions of acres for exploration and development, including more than 75 percent of recoverable oil and gas resources in the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic.

      • Expanding domestic oil production by reducing the review period for drilling permits by as much as two-thirds while implementing important safety measures to help prevent another environmental disaster.

      • Doubling fuel economy standards, an essential step toward energy independence that will save 2.2 million barrels of oil a day by 2025 while effectively halving many families’ gasoline bills.

      • Expanding the use of ethanol and other biofuels, including implementing a renewable fuel standard that will save over 300 million barrels of oil by 2022.

      • Promoting advanced vehicles, including natural gas, electric, and hybrid electric vehicles, while investing in clean domestic energy sources including wind, solar, clean coal, nuclear, and biofuels.

      Support 600,000 natural gas jobs by the end of the decade. To safely develop natural gas—an abundant source of American energy—and support more than 600,000 jobs, the President is:

      • Streamlining the oversight of natural gas drilling while taking steps to protect the quality of our air and water and requiring the disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing on public lands.

      • Improving access to natural gas fuels along heavily-trafficked trucking routes, helping convert municipal bus and truck fleets to run on natural gas, and creating a new tax incentive for medium-and heavy-duty trucks that run on natural gas or other alternative fuels.

      • Supporting research and development into new ways to convert and store natural gas.

    3. Training the best workforce in the world: We’ll recruit and prepare 100,000 math and science teachers so Americans graduate better prepared to compete for the jobs of the future, train millions of Americans at our community colleges with the job skills they need, and cut the growth of tuition in half over the next decade while expanding student aid so more students can afford college.

      Cut the growth of tuition in half over the next ten years. College tuition and fees have grown by 40 % over the last decade. To cut the growth of college tuition costs in half over the next ten years, President Obama will work with colleges and universities to:

      • Create a Race to the Top-like initiative that rewards states that put in place reforms to hold down tuition, provide public colleges with stable funding over time, and ensure that high school graduates are ready for college-level work.

      • Evaluate and expand innovative practices like redesigning courses with technology, helping more students graduate on time, and recognizing more transfer credit and prior learning.

      • Pull funding from colleges that cannot or will not offer students a good value and an affordable price.

      Recruit and prepare 100,000 math and science teachers. In order to remain globally competitive, we need to out-educate other countries. To recruit and prepare a hundred thousand math and science teachers, President Obama will:

      • Fund states with the best plans, similar to his Race to the Top program that encouraged nearly every state to raise academic standards and promoted reforms across the nation.

      • Recognize and reward the best teachers by creating a new STEM master teacher corps, which will help improve math and science education nationwide.

      • Invest in research and innovation into the best ways to teach math and science.

      Train 2 million workers for real jobs at community colleges. To make sure workers are trained to fill the jobs that require technical skill or other specialized skills in fields like health care, advanced manufacturing, clean energy, and information technology, President Obama will:

      • Bring together community colleges and employers, training two million Americans for good jobs that actually exist. The program is modeled on successful local efforts in Charlotte, Chicago, Orlando, and Louisville.

    4. Reducing our deficit in a balanced way: The President put a plan on the table to cut the deficit by more than $4 trillion in the next decade. On top of the $1 trillion in spending we’ve already cut, we’ll ask the wealthy to pay a little more and cut spending we don’t need throughout the budget.

      Reducing the deficit by more than $4 trillion over the next decade. Having already signed $1 trillion in spending cuts into law, the President will put forward a responsible deficit reduction plan that reflects the Simpson-Bowles plan. He will:

      • Cut annual domestic spending to its lowest level as a share of our economy since President Eisenhower.

      • Rein in defense spending in consultation with our military leaders.

      • Reform Medicare by reducing the cost of health care through improving quality, getting a better deal on prescription drug prices, and coordinating care and other measures.

      • Ask the wealthiest Americans to pay higher taxes on income over $250,000.

      • Close corporate loopholes and wasteful tax subsidies to big oil companies.

    5. Do some nation-building here at home: We’ll use half the savings from ending the war in Afghanistan to help pay down our debt and invest the rest in fixing our roads, runways, bridges, and schools.

      End overseas wars and rebuild our economy. After responsibly ending overseas operations, the President will reinvest in our country by:

      • Committing half of the money saved from responsibly ending overseas operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to reducing the deficit and the other half to investing in public infrastructure.

      • Investing an additional $210 billion over six years to support a million jobs improving America’s roads, bridges, transit systems, railways, aviation systems and runways, and putting construction workers back to work.

    Learn more about the difference between the President’s plan to move our country forward and Mitt Romney’s plan to take us back here.