President Obama Releases His Exit Memo To The American People
- 7 years ago
With only weeks left in office, President Obama gathered reports from his cabinet and in a memo to the American people, highlighted the progress made over the past years and the challenges that lie ahead.
With only weeks left in office, President Obama gathered reports from his cabinet and in a memo to the American people, highlighted the progress made over the past years and the challenges that lie ahead.
The summation begins, “Eight years ago, America faced a moment of peril unlike any we’d seen in decades. A spiraling financial crisis threatened to plunge an economy in recession into a deep depression. The very heartbeat of American manufacturing — the American auto industry — was on the brink of collapse. In some communities, nearly one in five Americans were out of work. Nearly 180,000 American troops were serving in harm’s way in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the mastermind of the worst terror attack on American soil remained at large. And on challenges from health care…we’d been kicking the can down the road for way too long.”
Obama goes on to address those matters individually, noting that economy has improved, unemployment is down, the deficit has shrunk and Osama bin Laden is dead.
On the topic of healthcare, he writes, “For the first time ever, more than ninety percent of Americans are insured — the highest rate ever.”
Also present in Obama’s memo are words of caution and concern that progress made is vulnerable to stagnation and even reversal.
He asks the American public to continue to its commitment to “…strengthening unions that speak for workers, to preventing colleges from pricing out hardworking students, to making sure that minimum wage workers get a raise and women finally get paid the same as men for doing the same job.”
Obama goes on to warn that “what won’t help is taking health care away from 30 million Americans, most of them white and working class; denying overtime pay to workers, most of whom have more than earned it; or privatizing Medicare and Social Security and letting Wall Street regulate itself again — none of which middle-class Americans voted for.”
He closes with a vote of confidence that the nation will continue to move forward, commenting, “It is you who will make our future progress possible. That, after al
With only weeks left in office, President Obama gathered reports from his cabinet and in a memo to the American people, highlighted the progress made over the past years and the challenges that lie ahead.
The summation begins, “Eight years ago, America faced a moment of peril unlike any we’d seen in decades. A spiraling financial crisis threatened to plunge an economy in recession into a deep depression. The very heartbeat of American manufacturing — the American auto industry — was on the brink of collapse. In some communities, nearly one in five Americans were out of work. Nearly 180,000 American troops were serving in harm’s way in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the mastermind of the worst terror attack on American soil remained at large. And on challenges from health care…we’d been kicking the can down the road for way too long.”
Obama goes on to address those matters individually, noting that economy has improved, unemployment is down, the deficit has shrunk and Osama bin Laden is dead.
On the topic of healthcare, he writes, “For the first time ever, more than ninety percent of Americans are insured — the highest rate ever.”
Also present in Obama’s memo are words of caution and concern that progress made is vulnerable to stagnation and even reversal.
He asks the American public to continue to its commitment to “…strengthening unions that speak for workers, to preventing colleges from pricing out hardworking students, to making sure that minimum wage workers get a raise and women finally get paid the same as men for doing the same job.”
Obama goes on to warn that “what won’t help is taking health care away from 30 million Americans, most of them white and working class; denying overtime pay to workers, most of whom have more than earned it; or privatizing Medicare and Social Security and letting Wall Street regulate itself again — none of which middle-class Americans voted for.”
He closes with a vote of confidence that the nation will continue to move forward, commenting, “It is you who will make our future progress possible. That, after al