Captain Please Save This Ship

It appears as if the American public and Wall Street have the expectations that Captain Obama will save the ship. Is this possible? Can one person, one government, rush in to save the public from the pain resulting from the over consumption from the night before. My Dad always said there was no cure for a hangover but time. You had to endure the penalty for the night before. I still think he was right. Thinking that a "package" is going to cure the pain is like the Gatorade and aspirin before bed theory. I have no doubt that it helps, but come morning you are still going to have a headache. As the companies report lower and lower earnings and job losses mount we have to look over the next mountain, take the pain, accept the struggle and adjust. Adjust to what the new standard will be for economic life in the western world. Not life threatening, but....the bling thing.....well it might be a thing of the past....at least until the hangover has gone away.......