Condolences In Austin
Last week, tragedy befell public servants in Austin, Texas. Earlier today, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner met with IRS employees in Austin to express his sympathies and support, and he read this note from the President:
To the men and women of the Internal Revenue Service at Austin:
I asked Secretary Geithner to carry this message to you.
It [...]
“You All Took a Stand”
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With Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack in tow, First Lady Michelle Obama traveled to Philadelphia yesterday as part of the Let’s Move! campaign, a nationwide effort to rally the country around one goal, ending the epidemic of childhood obesity.
During her remarks at Fairhill [...]
Geithner on the Hot Seat
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner appeared before the Joint Economic Committee today. One striking feature of Geithner’s testimony was how partisan it was. In keeping with the Obama administration’s mantra, he repeatedly tried to cast blame on the Bush administration while failing to acknowledge that when the financial crisis developed, he was the head [...]
Recovery Through Small Business
Today, I accompanied President Obama to a small business called Metropolitan Archives in Landover, Maryland, which is just outside of Washington, D.C. The business was founded by two long-time friends (Joe Incarnato and Doug Peters) who saw an opportunity to transform an empty warehouse into a full-service records storage center for companies and nonprofit organizations. [...]
Geithner’s got chutzpa
Reuters reports that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was quoted on Wednesday. as saying “Americans have to save more.” This, coming from a guy that pushed the stimulus spending from day one and only 4 days ago said it was too soon to stop spending.
Saying that the American people should save when the federal government [...]
Wall Street Execs Feeling Burned by Obama (And You Should Too)
Wall St. execs are feeling betrayed, and there’s good reason that they - and the rest of us, should be very concerned about Barack Obama “wild-eyed redistribution of wealth and massive programs”:
In the depths of the financial crisis last year, people like Morgan Stanley’s John Mack, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, Greg Fleming (then of Merrill [...]
