Reply #53: Apparently you've been listening strictly to Republican spin for three years.

[TheWraith]

Just a few of the other things that President Obama and the Democrats got done during that time:

The expansion of SCHIP health-care program for children worth $33 Billion.
A $20 billion increase for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps.
$2 billion in new Neighborhood Stabilization Funds that will allow ailing neighborhoods be kept maintained.
$1.5 billion in Homelessness Prevention Funds to keep people in their homes and prevent homelessness.
$5 billion increase for the Weatherization Assistance Program to help low income families save on their residential energy expenditures by making their homes more energy efficient.
Increased the amount of federal Pell Grant awards so that funds are available to those with less access to have opportunity.
Coverage can’t be denied to children with pre-existing conditions.
Adults up to age 26 can stay on their parents’ health plans.
Free preventive care.
Rescinding coverage is now illegal.
Eliminating lifetime limits on insurance coverage.
$5 billion in immediate federal support to affordable Coverage for the Uninsured with Pre-existing Conditions.
$10 billion investment in Community Health Centers.
Jobs for Main Street Act (2010)injected $27.5 Billion for Highways, $8.4 Billion for Transit into the country’s transportation system to create jobs and spur economic activity.
Signed a sweeping bank-reform bill (the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act)into law
Cut Salaries of 65 Bailout Executives
Signed into law the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act to fight fraud in the use of TARP and recovery funds, and to increase accountability for corporate and mortgage frauds.
Signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act
A $60 billion investment in renewable and clean energy.
Established EPA regulations which require large U.S. ships to cut soot emissions by 85 percent.
$275 billion dollar housing plan - $75 billion dollars to prevent at-risk mortgage debtors already fallen victim to foreclosures and $200 billion to bring about confidence to offer affordable mortgages and to stability the housing market.
Extended benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees
Signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
Instructed HHS to require any hospital receiving Medicare or Medicaid funds (virtually all hospitals) to allow LGBT visitation rights.
Banned job discrimination based on gender identity throughout the Federal government (the nation's largest employer)
Signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act and while more funding is needed per the 2012 proposed budget, an increase of $80 million to domestic and global HIV/AIDS programs committed
Extended the Family and Medical Leave Act to cover Gay employees taking unpaid leave to care for their children of same-sex partners
Repealed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT).
Signed the Health Package For 9/11 Responders bill that puts $4.3 billion into a fund to assist folks that are suffering from problems caused by breathed-in dust and debris during the 9/11 clean up.
The passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act enabling the rights of workers to sue employers over wage discrimination claims.