US: Obama's administration, shaken by the crisis
By Juan Chingo
Thursday, February 12, 2009
In the heat of the brutal economic crisis that destroyed another 598,000 jobs in January, the enthusiasm between Obama's election and his inauguration and his first days of governing has rapidly dissipated. This is one signs of the problems that he confronts and of the exceptional times we are living through. The hudnred-day honeymoon that is given every new US President has not ended, but in scarcely twenty days his administration seems confused, pulled between pressure from the banks and the financial aristocracy that is running the country to exert pressure so that the costs of the crisis fall on the shoulders of working people, whose expectations that Obama's arrival in power would mean some change in their desperate situation, caused by the deterioration of economic conditions.
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