The New President's Promises of Change

Posted on Jan 12, 2009 by Stephen
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"Yes we can" help President Obama keep his promises of "change we can belive in."

Politicians from all parties make promises and lots of them. President Obama has made many promises of change, just like so many other Presidents before him.

This time around the American people need to apply pressure on Congress and help our new President keep his promises.

One of the big issues that our country faces is the massive un-substainable financial situation, with $53 trillion in unfunded liabilities. Chris Edwards put together a nice list of Obama's "change we can belive in" pledge to cut wasteful spending.

Here are five pretty good promises that "yes we can" help President Obama keep:

Eliminate "ineffective government programs."
Expose corporate welfare.
Enforce tougher new standards on the Office of Management and Budget’s current "PART" program, which grades program effectiveness.
"Enforce standards when programs continually fail" by "cutting program budgets or eliminating programs entirely" or other reforms.
"Eliminate government programs that are not performing" by means of a "line-by-line" budget review.

America you voted for change. Now it is up to us to help Obama make good on that "change we can belive in." One way we can do it is by putting the pressure on Congress to do the right thing. Investing just a few minutes a month you can use DownsizeDC.org's Educate the Powerful system to tell your elected representatives how you want to be represented.