North American Consensus

The president of the United States has had success in achieving Congress’ approval for his plan to face the financial crisis in his country. In just the last three months, one and a half million North American workers lost their jobs, making this achievement vital to Barack Obama’s administration. Furthermore, he knows that the world will be attentive as the luck of the world economy will depend in great measure on what occurs in America.

For critics in all parts of the world, left or right, perhaps this is not the best plan, but they must recognize that it was the result of a wide consensus in which every side had to make concessions.

For those impatient ones, this is too much. They don’t want to wait. They don’t understand that if this open attitude is conserved, then with the same method they will be able to make all the perfections that they require in the future.

After all, this is how democracies function: listening and refining.