The world as we know it is in turmoil.....Obama has inherited a country deeply troubled with the recession that is speedily out of control into a depression. There are fundamentals that need to be corrected in this country and this won't come without some element of pain.
It seems unfair that the world has "caught a cold" from the excesses of a few on Wall Street. To many of the poor in India, China etc there livelihood, home and family are at risk.
But it is also clear that a cancer exists within the society that the government has been unwilling in the past to deal with. You can argue what are these cancers in society. I would argue: Greed, Complacency, No will to reform the past (auto industry), insufficient attention to health of the people (Obesity) and a much needed focus on the environment (Global Warming)
Is America ready and willing to accept a measure of elixir to heal itself? And more importantly to be accountable while doing this for the infection of hardship it has passed onto the world?
