Right now the President of the United States is making numerous changes in his staff of phony leaders.
Why is it that not one reporter, editor or commentator has asked if the numerous individuals, such as Timothy Geithner who heads our treasury department, and is presently receiving a very generous paycheck from the taxpayers, and who will soon leave Washington, has paid the back taxes he probably neglected to pay for the past four years and absolutely forgot to pay the five years prior to being given his present job?
Those individuals with short memories should be treated the same as an attorney in Connecticut was treated. He was sentenced to one year and one day in jail, a large fine, after he repaid the last two years of taxes and will have to pay the additional three years as soon as our Treasury Department figures how much he owes.
What makes individuals appointed by the President any different then any other citizen in this country?
Anthony J. Milone
Apache Junction
truth posted at 2:55 pm on Sat, Jan 12, 2013.
Chapter 2 of evil President, First story 1-9-13 vent
The tarp money $700 billion, the evil president gave evil CEO'S hundreds of billions of tax dollars without any stipulations. The evil president stated you are my constituents and my evil friends, and gave me the power for eight years to put the U.S. in the worse recession since the great depression, enjoy this money, buy yourself a new jet and give yourselves huge bonuses.
When the good president loaned out hundreds of billions of dollars the good president said the tax payers will loan you this money not to save yourselves but to save the U.S. from a depression. You will have to pay these loans back with interest because these dollars belong to tax payers.
truth posted at 2:59 pm on Sat, Jan 12, 2013.
The evil CEO'S accepted the loans , but they are threatening to sue the good president because he was unfair forcing the evil CEO'S to pay back the loans because of their own greed and financial mistakes giving the tax payers a return on the loans.
There are some of the evil presidents friends who only consider the amount of the increase of the National Debt by the good president and totally ignoring what the total cost would have been if the good president had done nothing.
downtownresident posted at 7:13 am on Sun, Jan 13, 2013.
Good president? Was that Clinton?[beam]
Masterrogue666 posted at 8:47 am on Sun, Jan 13, 2013.
Poor "truth". Can't be bothered to consider the how the actions of the present POTUS will affect the USA now, and in the future, and would rather you worry about the actions of a past POTUS.
As for TARP, he's some additional information. "truth" doesn't like to provide any links. "truth" would rather take things out of context.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
Cerulean posted at 10:24 am on Sun, Jan 13, 2013.
When is Anthony going to wake-up and start paying attention?
Timothy Geithner served as a “crisis manager” in various positions in his career. This is why the President retained Geithner to ‘continue’ managing the crisis of the collapse of the Banks during the Bush administration.
Now that the crisis seems to have averted, it is time for Jacob Lew, a budget guru, to take the helm.
Masterrogue666 posted at 11:06 am on Sun, Jan 13, 2013.
Cerulean: You blame Bush for the bank crisis? I beg to differ. Here's some information you may not be aware of. If you really are interested in some TRUTH, you'll read it....
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/obama-suffers-amnesia-blaming-bush-for-economy/
truth posted at 2:07 pm on Sun, Jan 13, 2013.
Some of the evil Presidents evil followers can't put the ducks in a row, this should make it easy 332 electrial votes to 206, what more proof do yoy need. 57% of Americans believe President Obama won the fiscal -cliff standoff and got what he wanted. 48% approve of how he handled the negotiations, while 19% approve of the Republican did. Pew Research Center
Cerulean posted at 3:47 pm on Sun, Jan 13, 2013.
Birther kook , Jerome Corsi? Is that who you want me to read? Thank you NO.
I did not blame Bush for the Bank crisis. I said that Geithner is a holdover from the Bush team that led the $700 billion bailout of the banks.
Masterrogue666 posted at 6:35 pm on Sun, Jan 13, 2013.
Cerulean: When you stated "collapse of the Banks during the Bush administration.", sounds like blame to me. From what I've read, Bush tried to prevent those loans, but didn't have the power over a certain branch of the government.
Clearly, many people were responsible, and both parties, IMHO.
Cerulean posted at 8:32 am on Mon, Jan 14, 2013.
From what I read, after George Jr. Bush left the White House he went to Paraguay and bought the family 173,000 acres of land for a nice little ranch.
I do not credit Bush with the collapse of the Banks although he did nothing in his eight years prior to prevent it. ( When he was on television he sighed and said, ‘aw, why did it happen on MY watch’) He did not veto, nor did he threaten to veto one spending bill while he was at the White House. He did nothing to slow down the invasion from the south. In fact, just the opposite is true on each account.
Those are all minor details; I give Bush the most credit for being a blatant liar.
I am not saying that Democrats are perfect, or that I agree with every one of them. At this time, however, the Democratic platform represents my interests better than the Republican.
Bluepoet posted at 11:01 am on Mon, Jan 14, 2013.
Anthony,
A short internet search reveals that Geithner was $35k in arrears for Social Security taxes, from 2001-2004, when he worked for an employer who did not withold those taxes from his pay, as is customary. He paid those taxes, plus $15k interest, before he was made Treasury Sec. He admitted he had erred, and accepted responsibility for the oversight.
Is it really your point to say that he should be audited again, simply because he was before, or just because he "works for the President"? Does the IRA audit every person who paid back taxes, every year afterwards, for the rest of their lives?
It is an interesting idea, though--for everyone leaving public office to receive the same financial scrutiny that they did, upon entering it. That may actually be a good idea, as long as it's applied to everyone...
Masterrogue666 posted at 6:09 pm on Mon, Jan 14, 2013.
Cerulean: I'm GDI. I still disagree with you about Bush though. From what I read, he requested action on it 17 times in 2008. Further, he requested change for about 6 years from what I've read.
I agree with you about the invasion of ILLEGAL ALIENS. Most POTUS didn't want to touch that problem. IMHO, Obama BOUGHT his second term by making an EXECUTIVE ORDER giving millions of CRIMINALS a form of amnesty. Even the Democratic party didn't support his previous attempts completely.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/bush-called-for-reform-17-times-in-2008
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/10/20081009-10.html
Cerulean posted at 9:41 am on Tue, Jan 15, 2013.
The collapse of the banking system was due to the free market housing industry running amok. Banking and housing were hand in hand. Some Democrats tried to open that market up to lower income homeowners.
It was the home builder and the bank (not government) that decided how much to charge for the house and who to give the loan to.
Where did the money come from that supplied the bank?
IAB posted at 11:20 am on Tue, Jan 15, 2013.
Right wing left wing.....Still the same bird.... Bush didn't do enough... Clinton signed the deregulation that enabled the banks. Same bird. Obama's budget identical to Bush's.... Same freaking bird. Stop looking at the D or R in front of their name and start looking at what they do to represent your community. Republicans and Democrats same stuff different pile. I will give them credit, together they have divided this country more than any other political parties before them.
VofReason posted at 12:12 pm on Tue, Jan 15, 2013.
And he we are back at the beginning. The goal is smaller Government which leaves more money and then responsibility for individuals. The more Government you have, the more that infallable people will pick winners and losers and inevitably all will suffer. Toss in limits on abortion and you have just signed up for what used to be the Republican Party.
Cerulean posted at 12:53 pm on Tue, Jan 15, 2013.
Bluepoet has the best question and comment.
"Is it really your point to say that he should be audited again, simply because he was before, or just because he "works for the President"? Does the IRA audit every person who paid back taxes, every year afterwards, for the rest of their lives?
It is an interesting idea, though--for everyone leaving public office to receive the same financial scrutiny that they did, upon entering it. That may actually be a good idea, as long as it's applied to everyone... "