Broken Promises?

There has been a very steady trend of disappointment throughout the United State's different presidents. Much of the projected plans and great ideas to improve our country that are promised during a president's election campaign are rarely put into action as swiftly as promised. Is the same happening to our new president?

An article published in the New York Times Yesterday reported on how Obama's big plans to tackle the climate change have already started to slow and fizzle. According to the article, while combating global climate change "remains a surefire applause line in his speeches here and abroad," his administration has taken a more passive role then initially promised. One of the programs discussed in his campaign speech was a cap and trade emission plan that would create a revenue of close to 650 billion dollars over 10 years. However, in the budget review in Congress last week, the plan was removed in order to put more dollars towards health care.

It seems like the executive branch is leaning more on congress to tackle the global warming issue while Obama focuses on getting the U.S. out of the economic crisis. It is still very early in the presidency though, so it should be interesting to see how much energy Obama puts towards this issue later on in his term.

For more on this article:

Obama Turns More Cautious