He hasn't taken office yet, but President Barack Obama is already getting started on the job, outlining his 800 billion dollar stimulus package on Thursday.

He's asking senators to work day and night, even weekends if need be to pass this stimulus package so it can be the first thing he signs as President.

Obama delivered his urgent pitch for his economic recovery plan at George Mason University outside Washington D.C. Thursday.

"For everyday we wait and point fingers and drag our feet, more Americans will lose their jobs," Obama says.

Nearly two million Americans have already lost their jobs in this country's worst economic decline since the great depression, including Springfield's Adam Grabowski.

"That was the first thing that was cut," Grabowski says about his human services job.

Grabowski is working again, but still, he has two young children to feed and a wife who's continuing her education.

"Money's tight. We try to budget the best we can," he says.

Grabowski may soon directly feel part of Obama's plan. The soon to be president wants to give 300 billion dollars in tax cuts for the middle class, money for state infrastructure projects, and double efforts on clean energy production.

"The American recovery and reinvestment plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works," Obama says.

He wants to do that, all while improving the health care and education systems. That's something Southwick resident and Roger Williams College student, Amanda Haskins, likes to hear.

"We're the ones who will be going out into the world next," Haskins says.

The price tag on all of this a whopping 800 billion dollars. And that's on top of a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit he'll inherit in just a few days. But for those struggling, it's one of the few rays of hope that shines through during these dark economic days.

"He has my full faith that whatever the stimulus is more than likely we'll save the majority of it," Grabowski says.

While Obama is pushing for this to get passed, some are saying, 'not so fast.' Some Democrats have come out against this saying, it's just "misdirected."