Incentives for investment makes perfect sense. Of course that is the correct line to take. The problem lies in the motivations of Geithner and Obama himself. The Obama administration can only be pursuing their chosen economic policies because of one of two possibilities:

1) They actually think they'll work, which in the face of current circumstance, is either stubborn, or inept.

2) They know their policies will not work, but don't care. The overarching goal of greater governmental power trumps the feasibility of the economic policies, or the policies serve that end, effectiveness notwithstanding.

I can't think of a third possibility. Hopefully right minded people (excuse the pun) in positions of power will be able to correct the situation before long term damage is done.

Harry

What would you expect? With an administration drowning in corruption and scandal, spending like a drunk sailor, with the tax payers money, no accountability, and no transparency, this is history repeating itself, and the elites thinking we the people are too stupid to relies it, are we?

You mistake your economy for Geithner's. Your economy is our economy. His is the size and strength of the US government dedicated to an elite running our complete lives. Obviously it isn't big enough for him. And to allow citizens to keep what he deems as too much of their own money isn't good for his economy. Therefore your answer or plan - like any from others who oppose Washington - doesn't mean diddly. Your title sums it up: war. The obamanation administration is just like al qaeda - an enemy we repeatedly excuse and refuse to accept is hellbent on destroying us and our way of life for their own political benefit.

You make the mistake of believing that your economy is Geithner's economy. Your economy is our economy. His is whole sale government expansion - becoming God to all who receive from its bounty. Your title sums it up: war. The ombamanation administration is just like al queda; the American public refused to accept the fact that these people are hell bent on destroying us and our way of life for their own political gain.

Democrats are the vote-buying party. To them, it is more important to buy votes than to have a normal, healthy economy. We need to cut the federal government from its current 25% of GDP down to its historic level of tax collections from GDP - 18%. That means we need a 28% reduction in size. Looked at from the other direction, since the Clinton average of 18% of GDP, the federal government grew 39%.

To understand Democrats, you must study the Rasmussen polls and their findings on the "political class". "By a 54% to 43% margin, the Political Class believes the federal government should be allowed to do most anything. Mainstream voters reject that view by a 94% to three percent (3%) margin." Democrats are infested with political class people.

The market is being gamed now by the big players(market makers). With so many people using brokers to manage 401k's for them for their retirements it's a constant sea of money flowing into the market to be scooped up. Just watch how the market is behaving with the huge up and down waves. All these poor schmucks who have money taken out of their checks every month load up the system and the market makers time it so they put their money in and raise the stock prices, then start yanking their money (selling) in big chunks which swings the market down again causing massive losses across the market. The poor schmuck loses whatever gains he might made for the quarter in his little 401k,(market makers however will use call options) but just like at the casino, our citizen goes at it again by allowing money to continue to be taken from his check and the cycle starts over. It is the speed of information and speed of transactions that allow these modern day pirates to collect their booty with merely keystrokes and not saber strokes.

People need to be convinced to stop investing in any form in the national and world markets and keep their money to save or invest locally where they know what is going on. Wall street and others like them are raping the citizens of this country and the people don't even know it. It's their own fault though really. They dump their money into a system they don't have the slightest comprehension of and hope it works out. It's fascinating to watch. All Geithner and company are trying to do is get their share of Wall street booty, ie, your retirement.

People, spread the word and stop your mutual funds, your 401k's and anything else that you are not directly doing the trading with.

This is why Warren Buffet and others are discussing giving billions to charity. Rather than have wasteful government take it and pizz it away, they would give it to charity. This works for me. I'd rather see them give to charity, where they can see where their money is going, and take the tax break - or not - than have the govenment confiscate their money and waste it. Anything the government takes is first skimmed off the top to pay whatever agency they determine to be "necessary" to distribute the money.

If ninety-five percent of all money is controlled by four percent of the population, as some say, does that fact alone not say something about the real problem?

When average Americans work for minimum wages, does that fact not say something about what is needed to spur the economy?

When half of the children in the public schools of my community are on free and reduced lunches because their parents earn minimum wages or less, does that fact not say something about the problem as to why too many Americans are struggling?

It seems to me the golden rule, as taught by Jesus, is do unto others etc., so where does that concept stand in the world of business and the mind set of the corporate world? And, no wonder there is a need for unions when without them too many workers are forced to live on minimum wages and no benefits?

Gene, I hope you will notice that unions have NOT saved us from minimum wage jobs. If anything, unions have driven the costs of production up so high that companies have simply removed it to other countries. What's left are minimum skill jobs which, like most other things that have become commodities, have their prices set by the competition. And to the extent that this newly communist government of ours is also allowing the illegal aliens to swarm in, the competition has driven the labor prices further down the ladder. Unions are no different than everything else: too much of a "good thing" is ABSOLUTELY NOT a good thing.