It takes time people. The economy is not just a little out of whack. Our corporations have sent our jobs overseas and we are not producing goods. The structural ramifications are immense. The stakes are incredibly high. Our executives are taking us from The Super Power to a second rate power. The solution is rebuild American productivity and our once unequal pool of busy and well paid skilled labor. (The well paid is necessary to sustain demand for goods and services. $10.00/hour job does not buy houses, insurance, and cars.)

The President announced during the beginning of his term, that there would be mistakes from the White House Administration; so there is going to be trial and error. The $787 billion dollar stimulus has helped; it certainly has helped me during my layoff of work and no insurance. President Obama does not hold the power that some of us believe that he holds. And some of us cannot admit that President Obama is being challenged on anything and everything that he does. Most people of color probably can identify with President Obama’s challenges that he has had compared to his constituents who are not of color. John Cardinal O’Connor included the following words in his eulogy of Emerson J. Moore, the first black bishop in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, who died at the age of fifty-seven: “It is not enough that a black [president] be ordinarily intelligent, he is expected to be extraordinarily intelligent. It is not enough for him to [lead] adequately; he must [lead] brilliantly. It is not enough for him to be polite, he must be the essence of courtesy…In short, if he cannot walk on water, he’s an utter failure; if he walks on water too easily, he has forgotten his place.”

Being a President is a stressful job. Period. My hopes are that we the people will not give-up too soon. I hope we can continue to support President and First Lady Obama. And although we can disagree that another war in Afghanistan is not necessary, and that the war in Iraq should come to a halt, and health care reform is necessary, especially with a public option, it is obvious, that these final decisions do not lay primarily in the hands of President Obama. However, there are things we too can be doing to help change our economy. So lets continue to contact our senators, and congress, and President Obama when we disagree and let us give constructive feedback when the opportunities present themselves. Let us make a change in ourselves that we want to see in others.