Patience

It has been a little while since I have last written. My topic for this post is patience.
The news has been filled with critics and outright disagreeances (both from "Blue Dog" Democrats and Republicans alike) of the approach President Obama is taking in tackling our massive economic problems.
My answer to their concerns is: Be patient.
Our problems in the economic sector are so multi-faceted that they will probably not see a huge turn around for a year, or possibly two years. I am no economist, but I do understand our economic issues to be not only multi-faceted, but also global problems. Our world is often in much more harsh recessions and depressions than we are here in the United States. Why is this important to note?
We must look at the US's connection to the world at all times and under all circumstances because of our "flat" our world is now (to borrow T. Freidman's term). The financial systems around the globe are so interconnected and interacting that this problem is just as a domestic one as a global one. With that being said, we must support the global markets and countries in their own efforts to pick up the pieces and dynamically regroup just as much as we are supporting our domestic efforts at home.
Patience, please. It is a virtue that people will find comforting in times of high stress levels and strong distastes for our government and/or financial system. Huge problems call for huge solutions. Furthermore, huge problems sometimes take a large amount of time to turn the problem around. We must look for opportunities amidst our tumultuous times.
Patience.