Barack Obama For A Second Term

Election day is coming up fast for Americans, and many are still undecided.  While both candidates have logical views on what is best for this country, I don't think Romney has a plan that is best suited for our country at this time.  Our economy is in major need of help, our oil crisis factors in, and education is a huge controversy in this election.  We need a President who can keep things consistent and gradually bring America up to it's potential, ad Obama is our man.  Bringing in a new person to run our country won't immediately help us like some people think.  It could actually hurt us more.  I'm positive Mitt Romney knows what is going on in our country, but he doesn't know it like the back of his own hand like Obama.  Obama will keep our country improving and slowly continue the fight against a raging debt our country has entered.

Obviously our economy sucks.  Our debt has climbed to the trillions within the last few administrations.  Part of our problem is that we insert ourselves into other countries problems which escalates into war, and we end up running the debt up even more.  Obama is planning to get our troops out of Iraq by the year 2014.  This would be a step towards putting our money into more important things and digging our way out of debt and beginning to lower our deficit.  President Obama has added more than 580,000 jobs in his last four years, and that number is continuing to rise.  Romney is claiming that he will have created 12 million newjobs by the end of his first term.  I don't believe this is a logical number because there are about 12.3 million people in America without jobs.  How is Governor Romney planning on giving almost 100% of these people jobs.  President Obama is already taking the steps toward getting more people jobs and has been continued throughout his four years in office, and I think our best chance is for him to keep working with it and continuing to create more jobs and restore our economy.

In the past several administrations, we have relied way too much on other countries resource supply, that it has added more to our debt than we could've imagined.  We need to work on become energy independent and export from OUR own country to make other countries have to rely on us, thus raising our economic status.  Our amount of operating drilling rigs is up by 23% more than before the Obama Administration.  We are already less reliant on other oil exporting coutnries, but not as much as we need to be.  Our Wind and Solar generation is up 117% than it was before Obama came into office.  "We are taking big steps down the road to energy independence, laying the groundwork for new green energy economies that can create countless well-paying jobs..." (Obama, alternativeenergy.procon.org)  If we could increase the amount of electricity produced by solar and wind power by 20% it would amount to the same improvement as it would by taking 70 million cars off of the road.  Obama has already brought that number significantly higher, and if he were to be re elected  I'm sure he could raise that percentage even higher and surpass that goal of 20%.

Next to come up in multiple discussions is education.  What are we going to do with it?  The amount of students going to college and using financial aid is incredible.  Rommey plans to reduce the amount of financial aid given to students, making it almost impossible for some students to continue their college career, or even begin it.  If students didn't have the financial aid they recieve today, then the amount of Americans without jobs would drop significantly.  We want to raise the number of citizens with jobs.  Obama is willing to double the amount of financial aid granted so future generations have the opportunity to thrive as adults and become the successful businessmen and women that they have the potential to be.  Everyone deserves an education that will propel them farther into the world of success.  That is the American Dream, isn't it?

President Obama has been gradually shaping our economy, and shifting our country on track to achieve its potential.  Under Mitt Romney, our economy may significantly drop, and our job count may go nowhere.  Obama is the best choice in order to move this country in the direction it needs to go in.  If Obama were to be re elected improvements would continue to be made along with jobs and oil production.  I don't believe Romney has the potential to bring our country where it needs to go at this point in time.  Obama offers consistancy and that is what we need for our country to even think about thriving.