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In reply to the discussion: Five years of Obama and what do we get? [View all]okaawhatever
(9,491 posts)from increases in taxes. Another big chunk came from people coming off of government programs after returning to work. Also, Obama's budgets that were passed have some pretty decent cuts built in. (military, which actually got passed) and of course not paying as much for the wars, since that's in a different category.
These numbers don't take into account the direction the economy was headed and where it went shortly after his taking office. If the GDP were back to Clinton or Bush days the numbers would show how impressive some of these things are.
Clearly minimum wage, benefits for workers and other issues need to be addressed this year, but now that the economy is headed in the right direction there will probably be a stomach for it. I think that issue is really up to us. Obama is willing, we have to get Congress and the Senate to get it passed.