As a mere disgusted Taxpayer and Citizen of America, I have watched my government become untrustworthy, being the best government that money could buy. And boy, did money go all out to buy government.

We are all in the hands of an Oligarchy, the vastly wealthy have wrested control of the workings of government by The People. Over the years most political power now rests with a small elite society. They control the wealth, the votes in Congress, they pay taxes only when caught and after having manipulated the tax codes in the first place to benefit the few. They have vast accounts in offshore and Swiss accounts, no doubt to avoid American Taxation. No, they leave payment of taxes to "The Chattering Class".

With President Obama's initial decree of no Lobbyists in his government, I surely was heartened. But what he meant was, "except for...". I guess it begs one's definition of Lobbyist, but as Bill Moyer shows in his interview with Simon Johnson, Professor of Economics at MIT, top posts have been riddled with representatives of this very elite Oligarchy, such as Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers, Mark Patterson, Jacob Lew, Michael Froman, David Lipton, Robert Wolf... have you heard how much each one of these were paid in "golden parachutes" to leave UBS, CitiGroup, Goldman-Sachs, etc.?

Mr. Obama, your campaign impressed me, I voted for you. I want you to succeed. But please sir, stuffing your cabinet with the very wealthy isn't your dream, nor what is best for "We, The People". Taking $Trillions of Taxpayer's (and their children's unto their great-grandchildren's) dollars without the transparency you promised, using fear tactics to waste money.

The thing is, this didn't have to happen all at once. We didn't have to pass the largest bill in the history of the world (TARP, too!), without a lot of debate. This Bill should have been put on the web for everyone to see and read and understand for a period before a vote for so much of our Treasury.

We could have had open-hearings on resolving differences between the House and Senate versions. We could have frozen a version of the bill at least a week before a vote was made, so that truly informed, representative opinion was mandated, not merely that of special interests. This process is still broken, is it not? Use your Bully Pulpit, Mr. Hope For Change. The cock is crowing and you have turned away.

When every member of the Congressional Banking Committee has taken "campaign" money from the very people who are under oath, testifying as to why and where the money went, I don't believe the "Chattering Class" (Senator Schumer's disingenuous and distainful comment on February 10th, about how people really don't care about the "porky little provisions" in the stimulus bill), of which I'm a proud member, was well represented at all!

If the economy needs to urgently appropriate money for Unemployment Extensions and Payroll Tax holidays, do that now and debate the rest with expert testimony in public hearings. It didn't all have to go into the same bill, unless there are truly porky provisions which are meant to be hidden from too much scrutiny, else they might not be made into law at all. All through the Brilliant New Leadership, which actually counts it as a win.

True leadership would not to have used fear to pass earmarks, and that is what has happened. Specifics are available everywhere, no use denying the obvious, Mr. Obama, it only looks like you "screwed up" again, but this time, there's no apology to The People, merely a pat on the head from The Oligarchy.

Mr. Obama, it is not too late to just say, "No!". Say no to Wall Street. Use a structured Bankrupcy or an "Intervention", as Mr. Simon Johnson suggests and break up the hedgemony of greed that put us in this situation. We have put enough into the banks now to own them outright, so open up the books, let's have a look-see what The Taxpayers bought themselves, shall we? And BTW, if a bank or business is "to big to fail" then it is "too big to exist"! Period!

Please, Mr. Obama, you are already not living up to your campaign promises and your ideals. Something has gone wrong that you are using fear to manipulate, the very tactics of cheneybushrove, suspected war criminals at large.

You're better than that, Mr. President! We thought we voted for change, a change to Transparency, Ethicality. Where did it go?

Posting a "final version" (is it, really?) of the "Stimulus Bill" less than a full day before insisting on a straight party ticket line vote, without time for analysis, feedback from the constituants, and informed debate, let's face it, without even time enough for the representatives to read through this "final version", is so... so last year!

Stop that, right now, Mr. President! Learn from the last administration's mistakes, but don't emulate them! Look where that got us! You say you want to look forward, but we must learn from an American Truth Commission what really happened the last 8 years, and you should expect the same at the end of your administration. No one in power should be above the scrutiny of The People.

If you, President Obama, our "Pope Of Hope", cannot "Bust-The-Trust", then all hope for a true democracy has vanished. I fear we don't have another 4 or 8 years to waste.