Dear Mr President:

February 8, 2009

The only task force you need to get the economy going is a tax task force to do an audit on every member of your administration followed by every member of Congress. It seems that is the only way they feel compelled to pay taxes. The American People might then take you seriously...for once. We don't know what a TARP is or a trillion dollars but we know how far $140K goes and we for sure know how much money we could save by not paying our taxes.

Why should any of us when the head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and now head of the IRS doesn't?

And what does it say about your stump promise to root out corruption in Washington when you did nothing to root out corruption when you were Senator of Illinois? When you and you foul-mouthed Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel happily helped to get Milorad get elected in the first place?

We the People of Illinois will now have to pay for an impeachment trial and all the craziness with Roland Burris when your fellow democrats refused to seat a legal appointment out of political spite and embarrassment. How much did your interview by the Feds and the interview of your top advisors cost us? And the cost of Rezko's solitary confinement? Was it to get him to talk about blago or to keep him from talking about your connections to him? How much will Milorad's criminal trial cost us?

How much are these multitudes of task forces put together to "study" things you should already know yourself costing taxpayers? Things that had you actually earned your job you could handle on your own. Things that had you had a history of making a stand -- or at least once making an unambiguous statement and then standing behind it -- you would feel confident about handling yourself.

You are a hypocrite. Your inadequacy is already showing. You may have had the highest approval rating going in...will you have the fastest drop as well?

People voted for you for some reason - try to do something as in ACTION.

Here is a hint: stay in your Oval Office for a day and pretend you know what to do. Stay out of the public eye, out of camera range and please stop the goddam speeches that are as empty now as they were on the stump.

I would remind you that when you speak now - people actually expect you to do what you say or at least have a notion of how to do it without 12 people standing behind you.

And, finally, running to read to kids "to get out of the White House" after 20-some days is not exactly building confidence - consumer or otherwise.