Ok, lets get this right. Seventy percent of our GDP is made up from consumer s spending. Are you kidding me? We do produce anything for export that we can fall back on? No we do not. We depend on Black Fridays, Holidays and great sales to get the economy  running again. Just think about that. Even the Treasury Secretary said we need to loosen up the credit card rates so people can spend. So now how do you like the government legislating personal responsibility? Not so well do you? If we can just make credit easier we can all spend more money. What is our savings rate for families…somewhere around 1 percent. Why cant the government suggest we think of new ideas of production and resources the world needs and change the economy away from one that depends on the American spender/ consumer. Not a good bet. We are way to fickle anyway. To be the leader of the free world is to live by example. I am afraid the world will look and say we are a poor example and that capitalism does not work. Watch out, this will be the crowd that crys to the government for help because we cannot help ourselves. Think about that for a moment. The free market cant help itself so look the government for answers. I argue that is a slippery slope away from the free market system and to that of strong central government.