What Has President Obama Done for Our Country?

Becoming president of a country isn't exactly the easiest task bestowed upon someone.  When a person runs for president they know about the burdens that come with it.  President Barack Obama was not ignorant of the situation the United States economy was when he ran for president.  

After a 8 year term, former President George W. Bush was able to leave President Barack Obama with quite a handful as he started his term.  He had to deal with a failing health care system, he received two wars, and at the time the economy was in the toilet.  The list does go on and on however this in my opinion are the main issues.

Personally I'm sick and tired with how everyone is treating President Barack Obama because he was given a pretty unfortunate mess.  He took the mess however and did the best he could do.  It seems like everyone put him on a pedestal and expected him to make magic.

Obama was given a failing health care system where some aspects of it didn't even make sense.  Health care companies were denying people who had previous existing conditions.  Insurance companies were charging people too much money making it not affordable to those in the lower class.  To help combat these problems Obama created Obama Care to try to combat these problems.  

Symbol of Obama Care

Like any health care system Obama Care obviously has its pros and cons.  If this Obama reform on health care were to pass numerous big changes would occur.  Those not covered with insurance by their employers or the government would be required to purchase at least a minimal health insurance coverage.  A lot of people see this as a con because they believe the government has no right to tell them what to do because of the constitution.  In my opinion it's a pro because if everyone were to have insurance everyone would have coverage making it less expensive if something were to happen to their health then if they weren't covered.  Another problem with health insurance is people would be denied of insurance due to preexisting conditions.  This new plan allows anyone to be covered and no one person can be denied of insurance due to a preexisting condition.     

When Obama was elected as President he inherited two wars that Bush had started.  He declared war with Iraq and Afghanistan with hidden agendas for both of them.  Obama  has already backed out of the Iraq war and shifted the War towards Afghanistan because of terrorist activities.  He is in the process on scheduling the return of American soldiers to end the Afghanistan war as well.  

The last major problem Obama had when he was elected into office was the economy.  At the time of December 2007 the United States was officially in a recession which is "a period of an economic contraction, sometimes limited to the scope or duration"  (dictionary.com).  If a recession were to continue it would eventually lead to a depression of which we are all more familiar with due to history.  

This was a big problem because it could cause a string of bad events.  Events such as banks failing, businesses failing, unemployment sky rocketing, etc.  

Barack Obama visiting big car companies to prepare for
his bailout plan

What Obama did to prevent this was he bailed out and saved the collapse of the automotive companies.  Another positive move he did to help lessen the effects of the recession was he created a $798 billion economic plan.  Health care a problem addressed earlier is another problem that hurts the economy.  Those who can't afford health care have a great chance of becoming in terrible debt if they were to get sick which could lead to them losing all their money.  If Obama care were passed everyone would be covered if they got sick.  He created over 2.1 million jobs with the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

As you can see Obama was given a duty that most couldn't bare.  He was given an undesirable circumstance and did the best he could with it.  So no one has the right to judge him for what he has done.  This is a small fraction of move he has purposed while he was in office as he has obviously accomplished a lot more.  

Other accomplishments that can be credited to him was he closed the Guantanamo Bay Prison because it was treating prisoners unfairly.  Created a law to make energy producing plants begin preparing to use %15 renewable resources.  Ordered the military operation that killed Osama Bin Laden.  The list goes on and on.