Look at the people Barak Obama has surrounded him with and you'll find the same people that caused the problem in the first place. Tim Geithner, treasury secretary and tax cheat, was the head of the New York Federal Reserve, a private banking cartel owned by the richest people in the world.
This banking cartel has been picking favorites, rewarding their friends, and punishing their enemies ever since it was created.
Barak Obama can smile, pat you on the back, and tell you that everything will be ok, but in the end, he's a sock puppet for the wealthy elite.
This country will only change when we rise up and overthrow the rule of the bankers. Get your money out of the banks. Put it into credit unions or small, community banks. Get active in your community. Start a garden and donate the extra food to the food pantries and homeless shelters.
Meet your neighbors and start a community activist group that can help build local help networks.
Barak Obama cannot help us. The stimulus package will go into the pockets of the elite, while we suffer and starve in the cold and the dark. Only we can pull ourselves out of this mess.