Steady As She Goes
There is a lot of hype about what will President Obama do next about the recession. What will he do to get Americans working again. The stimulus package is too big for some and too small for others. My guess is it does not matter.
If you step back and think about the state of affairs in 2008 and the few days following Obama’s inauguration, the world has changed. We have a President who works the whole day, and speaks in whole sentences while using centrist language. He is a President who can clearly tell right from wrong and has the courage to avoid pandering so that he can make the right decisions. Internationally, our new President is already projecting a new and more realistic image around the world. The state is set. Americans see all this and it is sinking in.
The end of this recession as well as the recovery of the financial services sector will take time. The recovery, however, will not take forever. As with a great ship that has run aground, it takes careful work to refloat and redirect the vessel. President Obama, each day, is bringing the US ship of state little by little off the rocks and setting its course towards a better future, a future based upon hard (but honest) work. There is no room for absurdly high remuneration packages for top executives nor can this society become one of entitlements. I am confident that as President Obama eases the ship America into the channel, he will take it “steady as she goes” and in reasonable time we will all see our economy and the country getting better.
This entry was posted on January 30, 2009 at 1:26 pm and is filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Politics. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.
Tags: consumer confidence, economic recovery, recession, right from wrong, ship of state
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