As he enters his final year its time to start assessing President Obama's legacy. With one year left he's already accomplished more than any president since FDR:
In his first year, he pushed through the largest economic stimulus in American historylarger in inflation-adjusted terms than Franklin Roosevelts famed Works Progress Administration. In his second year, he muscled universal health care through Congress, something progressives had been dreaming about since Theodore Roosevelt ran as a Bull Moose. That same year, he signed a law re-regulating Wall Street. Hes also spent roughly $20 billion bailing out the auto industry, increased fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks, toughened emissions standards for coal-fired power plants, authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the production of carbon dioxide, expanded the Food and Drug Administrations ability to regulate the sale of tobacco products, doubled the amount of fruits and vegetables required in school lunches, designated 2 million acres as wilderness, and protected more than 1,000 miles of rivers.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/why-america-is-moving-left/419112/
In his first year, he pushed through the largest economic stimulus in American historylarger in inflation-adjusted terms than Franklin Roosevelts famed Works Progress Administration. In his second year, he muscled universal health care through Congress, something progressives had been dreaming about since Theodore Roosevelt ran as a Bull Moose. That same year, he signed a law re-regulating Wall Street. Hes also spent roughly $20 billion bailing out the auto industry, increased fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks, toughened emissions standards for coal-fired power plants, authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the production of carbon dioxide, expanded the Food and Drug Administrations ability to regulate the sale of tobacco products, doubled the amount of fruits and vegetables required in school lunches, designated 2 million acres as wilderness, and protected more than 1,000 miles of rivers.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/why-america-is-moving-left/419112/
