Great controversy surrounds Obama's American Jobs Care Act, costing a rumored report of $120 billion dolllars. Like the majority of Americans though, I do somewhat believe that Obama created this plan as a means of gaining a stance in the 2012 election. But unlike others, I do believe we need to give him this chance. Displayed by his approval ratings, many Americans feel that Obama hasnt done enough in his presidential years. But this shouldnt come as a great suprise to the public. The country was in one of it's worst economic downfalls since the Great Depression, fighting a war for almost eight years, and still reeling from terrorist threats when Obama came into office. You cant expect one man to solve everything in the limited time period he has been given, i.e. 4 years. The U.S's decline was the accumulation of almost 20 years of choices, which cant be expected to be turned upright in less than five. But, despite all this, Obama has accomplished several things,which the mass of the public is probably unaware of, such as signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which employed over 2 million people,and passed the Children's Health Insurance Reathorization act, providing 11 milion kids with insurance. Consequently, I believe that Obama's Jobs Act, although late, might be for the better, running somewhat reminscent of Roosevelt's New Deal Plan, which distributed jobs through government funded jobs, (Obama wants to revitalize construction by issuing out jobs to improve the nations deteriorating roads.) Thus, just like Roosevlet, Obama may need to stick around as president for another four years to gain the change he so clealy wanted to see in the beginning.
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