Let the Market, Not Obama, Make Investment Decisions  Donald
Lambro  9/2/2011 12:01:00 AM - Donald Lambro  WASHINGTON --
Would you buy a used car from Barack Obama? Or would you want
him managing your 401(k) investment plan at work?  The
president, of course, isn't in either business specifically, but
in a larger sense he's been investing our money, picking the
businesses he thinks will fuel economic expansion, new jobs and
the technology of the future, and rebuild the nation's fraying
infrastructure.  All it takes is money -- ours -- he says, and
he's been spending it as fast as he can in a failed attempt to
get the economy growing again. The economic policy term for this
is "central planning," wherein the government tries to pick the
winners and losers, dumping hundreds of billions of dollars into
various business sectors in the belief that it will pay off in
the long run.  The government isn't very good at this business,
as we've seen in the disastrously ineffective $800 billion
spending stimulus plan that