Our first African-American president, Barack Obama, is finally in office. Having been elected during a fierce economic crisis, he hopes and plans to get to work quickly on fixing the nations economic problems. He urges the enactment of an 825 billion dollar stimulus package, one of its goals to create 4 million new jobs. This all sounds like good news, but there are many skeptical people who are not quite convinced. Resulting of a national pole, only 13 percent of people believe that the economy will recover in the next year, 27 percent believe it will take up to 2 years, and 59 percent believe it will take more than 2 years. Also, there are some worries in Washington. Kent Conrad (Democrat), the senate budget committee chairman, feels that this package is heavily needed, but questions certain numbers regarding financial sectors and housing. He said "if we don't get those two right, we're not going to see the kind of lift out of this downturn that we need".
This situation seems to dram my attention to FDR. Elected during the Great Depression, he too had to make change quickly. Much of his changes were the products of experimentation. What aided him to make change were his auxiliary powers that prevented time wasting opposition in the government. By the looks of public opinion, and even the opinions in Washington, it seems that president Obama might experience some drag in his efforts to lift America out of crisis. Should he be granted auxiliary powers?
