According to this blog's countdown clock, there are still 45 days until the Inauguration. So while we wait to pop the cork (see yesterday's entry), President Elect Obama is doing what he can to calm national economic jitters while not taking over for an increasingly disengaged President Bush.
Today in his radio and YouTube address, Obama announced that his administration plans to invest in really, really big infrastructure projects to repair ailing national buildings and roads and in the process, create jobs. Kind of like the WPA in the Great Depression, only BIGGER (liberal and conservative economists seem to agree that huge spending by the Government is the only thing that will put us back on the road to economic recovery). Read about it in the New York Times today.
Not wasting anytime to think about other ways to spend our way out of trouble, a national conversation about Health Care Reform is already underway on the website www.change.gov. Take a minute or two to give the powers that be your own two cents worth of advice; it is reported that they are paying attention!
Should we have expected anything less?
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