Remember last summer, when gas hit $4 a gallon, and Barack Obama actually had the gaul to suggest we could save all the extra money we were paying for gas by getting tune-ups and inflating our tires?
Now, his Treasury secretary, Timothy "Tax Cheat" Geithner, steps in it while talking about Obama's Cap & Trade plan.
From the AP story today on the new law:
But the Treasury secretary acknowledged that consumers could face higher electric bills because Obama would impose fees on greenhouse gas producers, including power plants that burn fossil fuels, by auctioning off carbon pollution permits. The goal is to reduce the emissions blamed for global warming while raising a projected $646 billion over 10 years.
"Now, if people don't change how they use energy, then they will face higher costs for energy," Geithner said.
Change how we use energy? What? Like stop using electricity?
Showing posts with label Timothy Geitner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Timothy Geitner. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
A plea for help
I'm being serious here. No sarcasm. This is a legitimate question that I'd LOVE for anyone and everyone to weigh in on, because honestly, I want to understand.
Criticism of Wall Street and corporate bonuses, which I'm not taking a position on for the purpose of this blog, has reached a crescendo. Everywhere you turn these days, someone ... from the general public to the media to Democrats ... are demonizing any CEO or any company that pays millions (or billions) in bonuses.
Heck, one executive recently was raked over the coals for more than a week over his extravagantly remodeled office.
That's fine and great. If someone ... or everyone ... wants to hold these people to certain standards in these tough economic times, particularly when they're receiving taxpayer-funded government bailouts, more power to them.
More power to the media, too, for expressing its collective outrage.
What I'd like to understand is why then are few in the general public, even fewer in the media, and no one at all on the Left side of the political aisle, expressing similar outrage over some of Barack Obama's Cabinet appointments?
I'd suggest there's a serious double-standard, dare I say a heaping portion of hypocrisy, in what's going on in Washington D.C. when:
A man (Tim Geithner) who failed to pay two years' worth of taxes on hundreds of thousands of dollars can become Secretary of the Treasury ... in other words, the head of the IRS, the person who will oversee you and I paying exorbitant penalties, possibly losing our homes and/or businesses or even going to jail for doing the same thing.
Another man (Tom Daschle), another acknowledged tax cheater (only because he got caught), is nominated as Health Secretary ... a man who has spent his political career bemoaning the "tax gap" in America, in which those who pay the most taxes anyway are allowed tax incentives or tax breaks that prevent them from paying even more ... or criticizing corporations for operating or moving overseas to escape the world's second-largest corporate tax rate.
A woman (Hillary Clinton), who along with her husband, have received hundreds of millions THAT WE KNOW ABOUT from foreign governments in a plethora of dealings ... and many others whose details remain hidden despite Obama's claim of "more transparency in government" ... can become Secretary of State, a job in which she'll play a major role in shaping foreign policy.
A man (Eric Holder), who as deputy attorney general under Bill Clinton, not only played a major role in the pardon of federal fugitive Marc Rich (a huge Democrat donor, by the way), but also the pardons of FALN terrorists despite the objections of the FBI and Justice Department, not to mention pleadings from surviving family members an associates of those murdered by those terrorists, can become Attorney General.
The list goes on and on. And what about all the lobbyist ties these and others in the new administration have, when Obama SPECIFICALLY claimed he'd put an end to such practices, let alone the appointment of such people to his "team"?
I asked earlier "where's the outrage" ... heck, where are the QUESTIONS? Why is no one even talking about this stuff? Why is the media giving this guy a complete pass on EVERYTHING, and, more important, why are WE giving the MEDIA a pass on not doing its job?
If you have any input, I'd truly like to be enlightened.
(Imported from Feb. 2, 2009)
Criticism of Wall Street and corporate bonuses, which I'm not taking a position on for the purpose of this blog, has reached a crescendo. Everywhere you turn these days, someone ... from the general public to the media to Democrats ... are demonizing any CEO or any company that pays millions (or billions) in bonuses.
Heck, one executive recently was raked over the coals for more than a week over his extravagantly remodeled office.
That's fine and great. If someone ... or everyone ... wants to hold these people to certain standards in these tough economic times, particularly when they're receiving taxpayer-funded government bailouts, more power to them.
More power to the media, too, for expressing its collective outrage.
What I'd like to understand is why then are few in the general public, even fewer in the media, and no one at all on the Left side of the political aisle, expressing similar outrage over some of Barack Obama's Cabinet appointments?
I'd suggest there's a serious double-standard, dare I say a heaping portion of hypocrisy, in what's going on in Washington D.C. when:
A man (Tim Geithner) who failed to pay two years' worth of taxes on hundreds of thousands of dollars can become Secretary of the Treasury ... in other words, the head of the IRS, the person who will oversee you and I paying exorbitant penalties, possibly losing our homes and/or businesses or even going to jail for doing the same thing.
Another man (Tom Daschle), another acknowledged tax cheater (only because he got caught), is nominated as Health Secretary ... a man who has spent his political career bemoaning the "tax gap" in America, in which those who pay the most taxes anyway are allowed tax incentives or tax breaks that prevent them from paying even more ... or criticizing corporations for operating or moving overseas to escape the world's second-largest corporate tax rate.
A woman (Hillary Clinton), who along with her husband, have received hundreds of millions THAT WE KNOW ABOUT from foreign governments in a plethora of dealings ... and many others whose details remain hidden despite Obama's claim of "more transparency in government" ... can become Secretary of State, a job in which she'll play a major role in shaping foreign policy.
A man (Eric Holder), who as deputy attorney general under Bill Clinton, not only played a major role in the pardon of federal fugitive Marc Rich (a huge Democrat donor, by the way), but also the pardons of FALN terrorists despite the objections of the FBI and Justice Department, not to mention pleadings from surviving family members an associates of those murdered by those terrorists, can become Attorney General.
The list goes on and on. And what about all the lobbyist ties these and others in the new administration have, when Obama SPECIFICALLY claimed he'd put an end to such practices, let alone the appointment of such people to his "team"?
I asked earlier "where's the outrage" ... heck, where are the QUESTIONS? Why is no one even talking about this stuff? Why is the media giving this guy a complete pass on EVERYTHING, and, more important, why are WE giving the MEDIA a pass on not doing its job?
If you have any input, I'd truly like to be enlightened.
(Imported from Feb. 2, 2009)
The times, they are a changin'
I'm going to vomit the next time I hear a Lib (politician or otherwise) talking about how it's time for bipartisanship ... time to work together for the good of the country.
In the last quarter-century, Democrats' desire to "work together" amounts to nothing more than a Republican capitulation away from conservative ideals to a far left socialist agenda. You'll never hear a Democrat talking bipartisanship when a Republican president (and a moderate one at that) is attempting to tackle a problem or issue or when Republican-sponsored legislation is on the table (on the few times such legislation is actually allowed to see the light of day, that is).
A died-in-the-wool socialist colleague at work was ranting the other day about Republicans balking at an Obama agenda item or cabinet nominee or something, bemoaning "the state of our economy" and how "we need to get things done for the good of the country."
I'll grant you that the economy is circling the drain (although ratcheting up the socialist policies that contributed mightily to its current state seems an awful lot to me like pouring gasoline on a fire in an attempt to extinguish said fire).
But since when are Libs concerned with "the good of the country"? I mean, if there ever is a time to "come together" or to work in unison, wouldn't A TIME OF WAR occupy the top of the list? When fanatical jihadists will stop at nothing to kill Americans?
Try as I might, I cannot recall EVEN ONE DEMOCRAT who, during the last seven or eight years, has NOT pushed this country and its men and women in uniform under the bus with everything from tired rhetoric to outright lies where foreign policy and a War On Terror being fought on two fronts is concerned.
And let's not even talk about the constant disclosure of secret information about how we're fighting that war, from ways in which we've attacked terrorists financially to militarily ... disclosures that, at any other point in this nation's history likely would have resulted in charges of treason.
So please, let's not go there any more on "for the good of the country."
*****
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pumped about having a new Secretary of the Treasury (who will be in charge of the IRS) who is an acknowledged tax cheat.
That's right. Obama's nominee, Timothy Geitner, apparently "forgot" to pay federal income taxes for a couple of years a little while back. ANY federal income taxes. On hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Of course, when this bit of information was revealed after the nomination, Libs passed it off as "a simple oversight." (Much like Sandy Berger was merely "sloppy" after being caught stuffing Clinton Administration documents in the National Archives vital to the 9-11 Commission investigation into his pants and socks.)
A simple oversight? Geitner also made "a simple mistake" in trying to write off summer camps for his kids as "Daycare Expenses."
OK, my Liberal Apologist Friends. When filing your taxes this year, report your income a mere $1,000 less than what it actually was. Sign and date your return. And when audited at some point down the road, tell the IRS agent assigned to your case (who will be a Geitner employee) that you made a "simple mistake."
See if Mr. or Mrs. IRS Agent will simply smile, pat you on the head and request that you be more careful next time.
*****
I noticed a story on Drudge last week that I didn't hear mentioned in the mainstream media about a sudden outbreak of Bubonic Plague in a terrorist training camp somewhere in Africa that killed 40-some jihadists.
That the media has no apparent interest in dead terrorists isn't unusual. (Unless, of course, they somehow can tie in a "controversial" Bush policy or also report that a number of "civilians" in the school or mosque where said terrorists were operating were also killed.)
I just hope that in its zeal to release captured terrorists or to eliminate means that for seven-plus years have kept this country safe, SOMEONE in the Obama Administration is asking whether this was an traditional, rat-generated strain of Bubonic Plague or whether some careless jihadist dropped a test tube while fashioning a crude biological weapon out in the desert.
Oh wait. Silly me. I went and forgot that it's the Liberal position that we wait and PROSECUTE Mohammad AFTER he visits a plague upon one of our cities.
*****
Speaking of shutting down prisons, you had to love the "press briefing" last week when it was announced that Obama had signed the Executive Order to close Guantanamo Bay's prison.
Reporter: "What are you going to do with the prisoners there?"
Press secretary: "We still have to talk about that."
I do believe this qualifies, 100 percent, as an example of The Cart Before The Horse.
A couple of days later, some Very Smart Lib offered that the Very Bad Terrorists held at Gitmo (as opposed to the Only Slightly As Bad Terrorists, who we will release so that they can exercise their rights to rejoin the effort to kill Very Evil Americans) could be sent to a maximum security facility near Denver, where they would be kept in isolation (until, of course, ACLU attorneys can win their freedom so that they, too, can exercise their rights to rejoin the effort to kill Very Evil Americans).
Prediction: If such a transfer does occur, it will be less than a month before the New York Times or Washington Post begins reporting on the terrible conditions the Very Bad Terrorists are having to endure in solitary confinement at a prison not equipped to bestow upon them the many "rights" offered at Gitmo.
That or there will be riots among all the other inmates over the preferential treatment given the Very Bad Terrorists.
*****
Another Drudge headline I saw last night fell immediately into the category of I HAVE To Read This!
"Pelosi says birth control will help economy"
I had heard reports that hundreds of millions in the Libs' trillion-dollar economic stimulus plan was earmarked for condoms. My hunch then was right on that those hundreds of millions would go to Lib friends in Planned Parenthood. The Abortion On Demand crowd, after all, helps elect Democrats every two years.
Pelosi told some Sunday Morning "News" Show Talking Head: "Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those, one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."
Libs often scoff (angrily, I might add) when I and other conservatives utter the word "Socialist".
But I'll point out that China (which is a communist country for those not much into politics or world affairs) also has such a program because of a dire need to "reduce costs" to The State.
Theirs features a government-imposed limit on the size of families. They, too, teach Condoms 101 in an effort to "help" couples avoid exceeding the limit. Of course, there are many who just can't seem to get with the program. And so, Abortion On Demand has become Abortion Required.
I'd suggest to Madam Speaker that we could save a TON of money with simple surgical procedures on every woman immediately following the birth of her second child. You know. As part of our national health care. It would be free!
Now THAT would be Change You Can Believe In.
(Imported from Jan. 26, 2008)
In the last quarter-century, Democrats' desire to "work together" amounts to nothing more than a Republican capitulation away from conservative ideals to a far left socialist agenda. You'll never hear a Democrat talking bipartisanship when a Republican president (and a moderate one at that) is attempting to tackle a problem or issue or when Republican-sponsored legislation is on the table (on the few times such legislation is actually allowed to see the light of day, that is).
A died-in-the-wool socialist colleague at work was ranting the other day about Republicans balking at an Obama agenda item or cabinet nominee or something, bemoaning "the state of our economy" and how "we need to get things done for the good of the country."
I'll grant you that the economy is circling the drain (although ratcheting up the socialist policies that contributed mightily to its current state seems an awful lot to me like pouring gasoline on a fire in an attempt to extinguish said fire).
But since when are Libs concerned with "the good of the country"? I mean, if there ever is a time to "come together" or to work in unison, wouldn't A TIME OF WAR occupy the top of the list? When fanatical jihadists will stop at nothing to kill Americans?
Try as I might, I cannot recall EVEN ONE DEMOCRAT who, during the last seven or eight years, has NOT pushed this country and its men and women in uniform under the bus with everything from tired rhetoric to outright lies where foreign policy and a War On Terror being fought on two fronts is concerned.
And let's not even talk about the constant disclosure of secret information about how we're fighting that war, from ways in which we've attacked terrorists financially to militarily ... disclosures that, at any other point in this nation's history likely would have resulted in charges of treason.
So please, let's not go there any more on "for the good of the country."
*****
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pumped about having a new Secretary of the Treasury (who will be in charge of the IRS) who is an acknowledged tax cheat.
That's right. Obama's nominee, Timothy Geitner, apparently "forgot" to pay federal income taxes for a couple of years a little while back. ANY federal income taxes. On hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Of course, when this bit of information was revealed after the nomination, Libs passed it off as "a simple oversight." (Much like Sandy Berger was merely "sloppy" after being caught stuffing Clinton Administration documents in the National Archives vital to the 9-11 Commission investigation into his pants and socks.)
A simple oversight? Geitner also made "a simple mistake" in trying to write off summer camps for his kids as "Daycare Expenses."
OK, my Liberal Apologist Friends. When filing your taxes this year, report your income a mere $1,000 less than what it actually was. Sign and date your return. And when audited at some point down the road, tell the IRS agent assigned to your case (who will be a Geitner employee) that you made a "simple mistake."
See if Mr. or Mrs. IRS Agent will simply smile, pat you on the head and request that you be more careful next time.
*****
I noticed a story on Drudge last week that I didn't hear mentioned in the mainstream media about a sudden outbreak of Bubonic Plague in a terrorist training camp somewhere in Africa that killed 40-some jihadists.
That the media has no apparent interest in dead terrorists isn't unusual. (Unless, of course, they somehow can tie in a "controversial" Bush policy or also report that a number of "civilians" in the school or mosque where said terrorists were operating were also killed.)
I just hope that in its zeal to release captured terrorists or to eliminate means that for seven-plus years have kept this country safe, SOMEONE in the Obama Administration is asking whether this was an traditional, rat-generated strain of Bubonic Plague or whether some careless jihadist dropped a test tube while fashioning a crude biological weapon out in the desert.
Oh wait. Silly me. I went and forgot that it's the Liberal position that we wait and PROSECUTE Mohammad AFTER he visits a plague upon one of our cities.
*****
Speaking of shutting down prisons, you had to love the "press briefing" last week when it was announced that Obama had signed the Executive Order to close Guantanamo Bay's prison.
Reporter: "What are you going to do with the prisoners there?"
Press secretary: "We still have to talk about that."
I do believe this qualifies, 100 percent, as an example of The Cart Before The Horse.
A couple of days later, some Very Smart Lib offered that the Very Bad Terrorists held at Gitmo (as opposed to the Only Slightly As Bad Terrorists, who we will release so that they can exercise their rights to rejoin the effort to kill Very Evil Americans) could be sent to a maximum security facility near Denver, where they would be kept in isolation (until, of course, ACLU attorneys can win their freedom so that they, too, can exercise their rights to rejoin the effort to kill Very Evil Americans).
Prediction: If such a transfer does occur, it will be less than a month before the New York Times or Washington Post begins reporting on the terrible conditions the Very Bad Terrorists are having to endure in solitary confinement at a prison not equipped to bestow upon them the many "rights" offered at Gitmo.
That or there will be riots among all the other inmates over the preferential treatment given the Very Bad Terrorists.
*****
Another Drudge headline I saw last night fell immediately into the category of I HAVE To Read This!
"Pelosi says birth control will help economy"
I had heard reports that hundreds of millions in the Libs' trillion-dollar economic stimulus plan was earmarked for condoms. My hunch then was right on that those hundreds of millions would go to Lib friends in Planned Parenthood. The Abortion On Demand crowd, after all, helps elect Democrats every two years.
Pelosi told some Sunday Morning "News" Show Talking Head: "Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those, one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."
Libs often scoff (angrily, I might add) when I and other conservatives utter the word "Socialist".
But I'll point out that China (which is a communist country for those not much into politics or world affairs) also has such a program because of a dire need to "reduce costs" to The State.
Theirs features a government-imposed limit on the size of families. They, too, teach Condoms 101 in an effort to "help" couples avoid exceeding the limit. Of course, there are many who just can't seem to get with the program. And so, Abortion On Demand has become Abortion Required.
I'd suggest to Madam Speaker that we could save a TON of money with simple surgical procedures on every woman immediately following the birth of her second child. You know. As part of our national health care. It would be free!
Now THAT would be Change You Can Believe In.
(Imported from Jan. 26, 2008)
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