azza1625/createdebate-arguments huggingface dataset:
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: yes

* Signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act to protect Americans from unfair and deceptive credit card practices: http://www.newsunfiltered.com/archives/2010/02/pew_finds_credi.htmlhttp://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ pew-finds-credit-card-act-will-save-consumers-billions-research-shows-need-for-the-federal-reserve-to-set-strong-rules-on-penalty-fees-and-charges-84474432.html
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: yes

* Provided new car tax credit: http://www.soundmoneymatters.com/new-car-tax-credit
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: yes

* Launched U.S. Auto industry rescue plan: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/31/content_11102980.htm
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

Do you know anything or do you just go by what you think or hear. It's called a cabinet they make the laws if doesn't even read them if it sounds good he signs it. My niece is a White House journalist i get all of the good stuff straight from the source. Most of what you here on the news and crap Internet media is just crap. Oh you mean the one for GM because they don't know how to cost average a business and let union workers run all over them so they become uncompetitive. Look at Honda, Toyota they don't have unions they build a better car and no bailout. GM is exactly what happens when you have to many entitlements a socialist based business. Eventually you hit a wall and run out of money.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: yes

* Committed to phasing out the expensive F-22 war plane and other outdates weapons systems, which weren't even used or needed in Iraq/Afghanistan: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/06/gates.budget.cuts
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: yes

* Increased funding for student loans and pell grants for 2010 students:http://www.ourfuture.org/report/2009031325/obama-s-budget-supporting-students-not-banks
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

im very formal at such topicsonly giving speeches dosent prosper america, he should also apply itif anyone thinks that his imagination is rich and can re-track america, he's wrong since if it was so he must have won the olympic venue 2016we shouldnt see him as first afro-american prez. but as a man if he's great i didnt heard anything great to take out america from depressionclosing the doors dosent keep you fit, you must have dare to open it and walk straight ahead
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

No other than talk! and he got a Nobel Peace Prize for it! maybe i should talk more often.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

Obama says one thing, and does another.Pulling troops out of the east?Obama sent more troops there, twice as many as there were before.Not gonna put lobbyists in the white house?http://americaswatchtower.com/2009/01/29/president-obamas-white-house-is-filled-with-lobbyists/ Not gonna use signing statements?http://opiniojuris.org/2009/07/01/did-anyone-oppose-signing-statements-just-koh-the-aba-and-some-guy-named-barack/ The notion that Obama has actually done something besides what Bush has already done is based on the fact that Obama makes a lot of empty promises and then makes a bill that says "he's tHINKing about doing them." Yeah, the dude's thINking about quitting smoking too. Obama and Bush work for the same people. Obama's just a thousand times more intelligent, inspirational, charming, and charismatic. All he's really done is made people believe that whatever he does, whether it's continuing the wiretapping that bush advocated, banning guns, or sending more troops to the middle east, it's PROGRESSIVE and trendy. Everything's gonna be ok because Obama is in charge right? His allegiances aren't to the citizens of the U.S. and it's not to the constitution either (he's done a lot to change or ignore it). He works for corporate America: banking, wallstreet, and the new world order.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

Apparently not ;)http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091005/pl_ynews/ynews_pl942
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

No, the skit the other night on SnL was really funny and true. You know when SnL is doing a skit on a president there is some true merit to it. Obama's inexperience is starting to show through. He has the entire house and Senate majority and still he has done nothing. Oh I forgot Cash for Clunkers but that was someone else's idea.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

Obama has done something he has created more uncertainty and more job losses because of uncertainty on big tax programs. 80% of all unemployment is from companies 500 or less. Recent poll asked business owners from all sorts of industries about their business and if they are thinking of hiring.Overwhelmingly the answer is no. Small business is not going to hire when they are facing a possible huge carbon emissions tax. If health care goes through another 8% tax. The game plan right now of the President is to add more tax to a already hurt economy. If you have a business and the only talk out of Washington right now is not to help private business but only make it more expensive to do business why would you spend more and hire an employer. This is the lack of common sense that I talk about with Obama policies on the economy. Remember the lie and we all knew that is was BS that if his stimulus was passed that unemployment would stop at 8.5%. Thank god we only have 4 year terms. I hope that someone comes along a worthy opponent unlike Jon McCain in my opinion was a horrible choice for the GOP . If it is someone that's a worthy opponent Obama will be like many other past Presidents a one hit wonder.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: yes

Obama has done plenty for small business.Nobody wants to pay for emissions and health care, but ignoring our problems won't make them go away. What's your alternative solution?The unemployment numbers weren't a lie. They were simply mistaken. They were based on the consensus view of economists. Most people hadn't yet realized what a big hole the crisis left us in.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

What has he done specifically for small business except wanting to tax more if you gross more than 250k, there has been not been any incentive for small business to expand? Go ask any small business owner and ask them first hand what Obama has done for small business. "Nothing" If the numbers he gave was a mistake that wasn't very smart vetting process considering that almost everybody new before hand that unemployment was going over 8.5% it was just to sell his pork barrel stimulus which is not job creation once the money is all gone then those jobs are gone. Just like the cash for clunkers it was good when it lasted but automakers saw numbers jump 20% but now it's over there sales are back down 20%. It's not real job creation. We need to praise and reward the private sector that's where the real long job stabilization is. Until the Ideal changes that the real power of the economy is the individual innovation then we are going to be in a hurt economy for a long time.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: yes

Did you not read the Forbes article I linked to? He's providing 15 billion in loans to small business. Besides if you're making over 250K a year, then your business isn't very small, is it? "Boo-hoo I can only buy two new cars instead of three.""almost everybody new before hand"Not true. Some we're saying it was going to be worse than the administration's predictions and others were saying it was going to be better. Sorry, but Obama is a president, not a fortune teller. Even though the predictions were mistaken, the numbers would be even worse without the stimulus."Just like the cash for clunkers it was good when it lasted"Programs like that are meant to break downward spirals. After you break the chain of dominoes and the economy starts moving forward, you can take them away without causing too much damage."Until the Ideal changes that the real power of the economy is the individual innovation"Oh, please. Increasing taxes on the richest by 2% hardly amounts to a change in our fundamental values. Obama could raise their taxes by 20% and they would still make a shit-ton more than than everybody else.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

I don't make 250k I wish I did. The 250k is taxed on the gross profit, which from my understanding is before all employees are paid and expenses. I do know several business owners that fall under this category, a company that makes 250k gross after all is paid and done the owner would net about 100k, I was just trying to make the point on how much work it actually takes to make a profit for a business. Like small company I work for they Gross profit make almost 1.2 million a year and the owners take home after all is paid is only 150k. each scenario is different. I'm not totally against I think that they should raise the amount to more. 250k is not a lot when your talking about them taxing you on gross and not net. I could be wrong but this is what I was told.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

What economist? Pulling stuff out of your ass again I see. Everybody in my office laughed when Obama said unemployment was going to stall at 8.5% I would like to see what economist said that give me some names. I bet those economist that said that are probably out of work now for being so obviously stupid. All other economist that I listen too the smart ones all have said back in October of 08 that no matter what it was going to 10%. Do you really believe that yourself that when Obama said that you believed it, if so I'm sorry that your so ignorant on the facts.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

The crisis was mostly because of the government with the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 which put pressure on banks to lend to people and make loans that they normally would not have made. it was from that meddling from government that gave the banks the right to start lending loosely and it all snowballed from there.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

Still waiting for something positive where is the real Stimulus that will create private sector jobs which is where the real health of our nation lies. What happens when the Stimulus money runs out then what? The Stimulus package they gave us is like trying to fix a broken dam with a band aid.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

Yeah 10.2% today unemployment and still going higher when the next 6 months for him are going to be crucial.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

Obama more indecisive. He said that he had a plan for Afghanistan in June 2009 then in Sept 2009 he says that the next 12 months in Afghanistan are critical so he waits 3 more months to announce to the nation what his plan is going to be. So he just took 3 months out of him saying that Afghanistan the next 12 months is critical, what kind of leader is that?Where is the leadership? I have serious voters remorse.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

Obama has owned the economy for almost a year now and has done nothing but make the long term prospects for its’ recovery worse. You may not believe it now with everyone in the financial media claiming that the boom times are back, but all Obama did was borrow from our retirements and our children's and grandchildren's futures for short term benefits that will disappear once the government stops propping the economy up. Instead of focusing on jobs and the economy, Obama is worried about Health Care (I.E. How do you tax the rich and middle class when they are losing their jobs) and Cap n Trade (if you tax businesses, they will just lay off more people in order to pay the tax) two things that will only make the economic problems worse. In addition, stop blaming Bush and the Republicans solely for this mess. Much of the problem was created by Democratic led efforts to force banks to loan to individuals who were nowhere near credit worthy (Obama was once a lawyer who sued banks to make loans to people who could never pay them back). Maybe if you took your partisan blinders off and did some research yourself, you will see that we have elected one heck of an incompetent liberal as President, one who promised to do things differently and then went ahead and did (is doing) things the same old way they were done in the past, with more gusto than any of his predecessors.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

Job Summit today. Basically Obama is saying he doesn't know how to fix it and create job growth.I'll tell you how he could fix it is, is to get out of the private sectors way. Or resign your big spending agendas which is the disincentive why private sector is not hiring. It cost a lot of money to run a business and make money in it, if he only understood that one simple principal.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

I just got done hearing is speech on the job summit. His ending statement was if he was doing anything that is prohibiting the private sector please let him know. I find it ironic that this i all being done a day before the unemployment numbers come out tomorrow.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

I'm with the rising poll of isolationist that believe Afghany war is going to add more debt and spend 500 Billion to help a country that only has two paved roads in the entire country. I was hoping that Obama was to withdraw troops and start to focus on America's problems. 500 billion to give to companies to help build up there infrastructure. Afghanistan is not a threat to us, the attacks of 9/11 came from America where we taught them how to fly our planes. And we are to believe general McChrystal, the same general who lied about the truth of Pat Tillman's death? It's all about perception and money big business getting contracts is what this war is about.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

He has done something. He now wants to take the TARP money which he said when it was to be paid back that it would go straight to pay down the deficit. He now wants to spend it on another Stimulus. Switzerland today sat out on bond sale for US treasury notes. Did not buy one. Uh oh can I say like many others have said, told you so, watch the interest getting ready to climb up.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

Lets look at what we have now. Worse economy people talking about double dip recession. A war that is a mess in Afghanistan. Ski rocketing deficit that our grand children are going to have to pay for. More confusion on less overall confidence in the US market. Obama has made things much worse. He goes golfing while people in the gulf need his guidance and help. I remember Bush giving up golf because he didn't want the moral of troops to see him golfing while troops died fighting. Quite a contrast from a President who was supposed to bring change that we can believe in.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

I think the question should be has Obama done anything good? (No)
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

So far all of your arguments are against the grain and you are wrong he has done something made things worde but come Nov 2nd we are going to throw a stop to him destroying this nation.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

Obama needs to shut his pie hole and stop talking about the economy on TV. He is killing any confidence out there when he is so targeted going after the banks and wall st. It is good when wall st and banks make money. As much as some people hate them, when they are healthy and profitable the economy and jobs are healthy as well.
Debate: Has Obama really done anything?
Side: No

A Fight I'm willing to have is Obama out of his mind. Does he really want to economy to get better? Why would he say something so asinine. Then if he is going to tear apart the banks then he needs to also tear apart the Unions for making GM fail and also for Fannie and Freddie which then he would have to go after his own lobbyist and tax them as well.The vial has been lifted the wizard behind the curtain is showing is true character and Identity and the American public is seeing it before there eye. They are in panic mode. The ship is sinking fast and the rats on the ship become become more exposed.
Debate: Has religion had a net positive or negative influence on humanity?
Side: Positive

Seriously, take it from someone who is NOT a religious fanatic and stop believing the media.
Debate: Has religion had a net positive or negative influence on humanity?
Side: Positive

The way I see it, religion was crucial to our early development. The hunger to find answers that we had no clue how to find drove us to come up with reasons, and these reasons not only sated our curiosities so we could get to work, but they also set up morals that most people at the time couldn't just grasp.We take religion for granted today because we know better. We know why we should be have like decent human beings, and we can explain many of the things we could not. The problem with that is, we have no real idea of what perspectives an average human being had in ancient times, and I'm of the thought that most people back then didn't have the common sense to determine what was right and wrong naturally.Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not praising our religions, but they were necessary for our early development. Absolutely necessary. When you think about what we've become, and what we've built, I can say with confidence that religion has had a much more positive than negative effect on humanity. Mainly because we wouldn't be here right now without it.
Debate: Has religion had a net positive or negative influence on humanity?
Side: Positive

Now, I should clarify a couple of things since this has had time to sift about. I don't think religions are going to be very important in the future.I tend to think of them as crutches. They help earlier civilizations band together when they would otherwise war each other for food and resources. However, now religions are becoming an excuse for large nations and extremist groups to war. Well, alright, religion's been used as an excuse for quite awhile, but that's one of the unfortunate effects of it. We don't need it anymore. We have science, logic, and reason now, and that, plus compassion are about all the human race needs.As the world moves further and further along, it becomes more and more apparent that we need to get rid of our crutches; the more we hold onto them, the more they're going to hold us back, because if we keep looking to insist upon dated schools of thought and philosophy, and views that are no longer applicable, our species is going to stagnate and grow dull.
Debate: Has religion had a net positive or negative influence on humanity?
Side: Positive

Asking if religion has had a net positive or negative influence on humanity is analogous to asking if the human habit of forming ideological alliances with one another has been generally beneficial or harmful.The "anti-religion" sheep can upvote themselves as much as they like, but it doesn't make their illogical rhetoric any less lame. :)http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/ Anti_Religion_Rhetoric_is_lame Just ask anyone who pipes up about how horrible religion is to define it in their own words and they'll either refuse and bombard you with their own appeal to authority arguments, or they'll offer something up that is quite easy to logically dismantle and expose as nothing more than a veiled "my religion is superior to theirs" diatribe.I am dying to be shown the error in my thinking about this... so any lurkers who might also be interested....please upvote this until someone rises to my challenge. If the positive side's score makes it higher than the negative there'll be steady steam of potential opponents.
Debate: Has religion had a net positive or negative influence on humanity?
Side: Positive

We wouldn't be having this debate without religion. I do personally feel that the positives do outweigh the negatives, however that is not to say this couldn't change in the future. It is definitely arguable that religion has given us everything science has, as the two are essentially 2 sides of the same coin. And religion has brought works of art, literature, music, etc.But there is no disputing the pain it has caused. Much blood has been shed over who's God is better, and we're still no closer to putting this squabbling to bed. In the future, if this continues, then I may flip sides. But for now, we can't ignore the great things we have received from religion.All this coming from an atheist!
Debate: Has religion had a net positive or negative influence on humanity?
Side: negative

What scientific advancements has religion brought us? Most major religions have opposed scientific discoveries, they explain that which only God's may do.
Debate: Has religion had a net positive or negative influence on humanity?
Side: Positive

I don't mean that religion on its own brought scientific advancements, in the same way I don't believe that science on its own brought us these advancements. Many discoveries in astronomy and biology never would have happened without people who had challenged religion. Darwin was a christian before discovering evolution. In the same way, a society with no religion lacks a sense of culture. Also, you have to bear in mind the countless universities and schools which were set up for religious purposes. Just look at the renaissance, almost all the great minds from that time were educated in a religious environment."Most major religions have opposed scientific discoveries"This isn't really true at all. Islam brought advanced mathematics, Christian monasteries were the first to store large quantities of knowledge in written form, and Judaism has a rich past in encouraging discovery. I think your premise is unjustified.
Debate: Has religion had a net positive or negative influence on humanity?
Side: negative

As long as religion has a system of power attached to aka people who gain things like influence and/or money they will blockade and get in the way scientific research and development. For example stem cell research and the insistence of intelligent design over evolution, "the church hates new ideas especially ones that challenge there power.
Debate: Has religion had a net positive or negative influence on humanity?
Side: Negative

Many discoveries in astronomy and biology never would have happened without people who had challenged religion. Darwin was a christian before discovering evolution.Are you suggesting Darwin's religion caused him to discover evolution?In renaissance, I'm no expert, but I was under the impression that due to religions involvement in state activities, it would have been almost impossible to find a non religious university? And are you suggesting that places of scientific study would not have been developed without religion?That's true, but as far as I understand, it was in the name of discovery that maths was furthered, not in the name of religion. Simply being discovered by Muslims does not mean it's caused by Islam.And storing knowledge is different to advancing Science. I'd think that the Christian Church's attempts to stifle the Scientific Revolution nullify that, it was the breaking free from religion that made it so amazing.I'll accept Judaism, I didn't know that.I think you're taking what I'm saying too far, I'm talking about net effects, not a complete list.
Debate: Has religion had a net positive or negative influence on humanity?
Side: negative

Just because these advancements originated in religious organizations does not mean their invention can be attributed to them. If Darwin was not christian he could have made the same discoveries if not more. And think of the modern view of Darwin's theories. Almost all of the people ignorant enough to deny its validity are motivated by scripture and religion. And what of all the advancement opposed by religion? All the bloodshed in its name? How can you say that without religion our world today would not be a better place? It is what divides people and what closes their minds. Peace and religion will never exist together.