Geithner Takes Tax Payer Funded Trip to Swiss Retreat

What is U.S. Secretary of Treasury doing hobnobbing in Davos Switzerland? He's being interviewed on stage by Charlie Rose of PBS fame. Can't they do that right here at home? How does it look to Americans that a high ranking U.S. official and an employee of PBS - BTW, both funded by tax payer money - are going to a meeting which is essentially limited to rich and powerful people? Not sure this is what the framers of our constitution had in mind when they set out to create the new nation.

By the way if you want to read what Mr. Geithner had to say, here's a link. It's not pretty. He essentially doesn't have much to say about how to generate jobs though he's very optimistic about U.S. growth.