Barack Obama's Influence On America

As President Barack Obama states, “If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.” This quote shows that Obama has an optimistic view on everything and if you keep trying, you will sooner or later have a good outcome. Although many people think of Barack Obama as a negative influence in America, in my opinion he has been a great chief of our country. From a liberal perspective, our President has done an exceptional job with the United States domestic policies, foreign policies, platform and ideas for the future, and his fiscal policy.

Domestic policies, which are the decisions that are related to the problems in our country, have affected the United States in numerous ways. President
One example of our president dealing with foreign policies according to The Miller Center, is to withdraw all troops in Iraq that were sent there by George W. Bush. “In February 2009, he announced a plan to bring troop levels down from 160,000 to 50,000 by August 2010, including the removal of all combat forces.” The removal of these troops helped the government of Iraq restore its stability. This helped Barack Obama establish many good relationships with foreign governments.This helped the United States because we became allies with Iraq when we had to fight off Al Qaeda. Also, President Barack Obama is credited for the killing of the Al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden. The team of US Navy SEALS attacked Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. Agencies concluded that bin Laden was hiding in a residential near Abbottabad, Pakistan, so Obama ordered a military attack for that area. This attack affected our country because we finally captured the man who was responsible for his deadly act of terrorism on September 11, 2001. Osama bin Laden was on the FBI’s “most wanted” list for more than a decade. He also created the group called Al-Qaeda that focused on acts of terrorism. His biggest attack was the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The killing of bin Laden made our country safer and
President Obama has balanced taxes by protecting key priorities and ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. As the White House members discuss, In August, President Obama signed into law a bipartisan agreement that achieved significant deficit reduction, including a down payment on reform of about $1 trillion, by reducing discretionary spending to its lowest level as a share of the economy since Dwight D. Eisenhower was President while protecting critical investments critical to our long-term competitiveness. The agreement is the same as Obama’s values of achieving a purposeful reduction in a common-sense balanced manner, in which low-income and middle-class families do not bear the entire burden, in which the most fortunate Americans pay their fair share, and in which cuts are spread across both the security and non-security sides of government. The proposals that help protect the low- income and middle- class families from shouldering the main burden of deficit reduction include not only proposals in the House Republican Budget that would have made the core commitments of Medicare to our seniors and forced tens of millions of low-income Americans to go without health insurance, but also enforcement mechanisms that would have forced automatic cuts to low-income programs. The enforcement mechanism in the deal exempts Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare benefits, unemployment insurance, programs for