Obama is the best president (read details).

1)Bush policies that wasted money A)The Iraq war. I'd say it's pretty reasonable to say that bombing Iraq was a waste of money (ill only include money spent up till 2007). Around 350billion waste http://zfacts.com... B)Medicare advantage. Medicare advantage is a Bush era policy that gave insurance companies free money for no added benefits. This free corporate subsidies wasted 100 billion dollars from 2003-2006. http://www.cbo.gov... C)Medicare part D. The part of Medicare Part D that wastes money is its inability to negotiate prices; meaning its essentially giving drug companies free subsides, because of this costs are 58% higher than they should be meaning from 2006-2009 this wasted 116 billion dollars. http://azstarnet.com... https://www.cms.gov... Total dollar amount of money wasted due to Bush policies is around 565 billion dollars 2)Obama policy effects on jobs. A)Cash for clunkers created 60,000 jobs by increase auto sales and increasing energy efficiency http://www.prnewswire.com... B)Green energy loan guarantees so far have created 60,000 jobs. By expanding more efficient energy technologies. http://thinkprogress.org... C)He increased cars/trucks MPG standards which will create 700,000 jobs up to 2030 by increasing energy efficiency. http://thinkprogress.org... D)New EPA regulations under Obama will result in the creation of around 1.5 million jobs over the next 5 years, in order to modernize power plants. http://thinkprogress.org... E)The PACA will create at least 250,000 new jobs. by expanding health access and reducing wasteful expenditures. http://www.americanprogress.org... F)Increased head start funding which is education funding for young children will result in the creation of 90,000 jobs. http://news.prnewswire.com...= G)Obamas 50 billion investment into rail and other public transportation will create 1.3 million jobs. http://www.apta.com... H)The stimulus act is reported to have created 2.9 million jobs. http://www.reuters.com... I)Small business lending support, and increased SB lending estimated to create 500,000 jobs. http://money.cnn.com... Total jobs created 7.36 million. 3)Obama polices that reduced wasteful spending. A)Requiring energy companies to use more clean energy sources will save 15 billion dollars by reducing pollution. http://www.ucsusa.org... B)Weatherization assistant program, which helps make homes more energy efficient will save 13 billion dollars in a ten year period. http://www1.eere.energy.gov... C)Obama increased cars/truck mpg standards which will save consumers 150billion by 2030 by lowering gas costs. http://thinkprogress.org... D)Cash for clunkers (sourced above) will save consumers 7 billion dollars in ten years by lowering gas costs. E)New EPA regulations that reduce pollution (sourced above) will save 140 billion dollars by lowering health costs. F)The PACCA reduces wasteful spending by reducing Medicare advantage spending, switching to a more bundled payment system, investing into comparative effectiveness research, reducing drug patents, decreased medical loss ratios and some other things. This is estimated to save 500 billion dollars (the CBO estimated 500 in savings but private research says more money than that will be saved however I'll stick with the CBO's numbers) http://www.americanprogress.org... http://thinkprogress.org... http://voices.washingtonpost.com... G)Increases in OSHA safety standards will result in 90 billion in savesing in ten years by reducing workplace injuries. http://www.corporatewellness.com... H)Obama eliminated the white house's helicopter fleet saving 11 billion dollars. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com... I)Expanded head start funding which creates 9 dollars in benefit for every dollar spent (sourced above) saves the country 40 billion dollars. J)Obama reformed federal student loans removing banks from the process saving 60 billion dollars. http://www.uspirg.org... K)His 50billion investments into high speed rail and other public transportation measures create $2 in benefits for every dollar spent by reducing congestion, pollution, and commute times (sourced above) L)Expanded AmeriCorps funding by 4 billion which will create 8 billion in economic benefits. http://www.dlc.org... M)Stimulus investments. The stimulus act has a long list of investments that save the economy lots of money over time. The investments include, computerized records (1trillion), Community health centers(30 billion), pre-school funding(100 billion), the MEP(70 billion), WIC(8 billion), NASA(10 billion), science/other research, updating the electricity grid (2 trillion), and alternative/clean energy (50 billion). http://www.rand.org... http://www.americanprogress.org... http://americanmanufacturing.org... http://thinkprogress.org... http://useconomy.about.com... http://www.reuters.com... Obama policies will save 4.3 trillion dollars.