Is Geithner the best Obama can get for Treasury?

[Ardent15]

He is very knowledgeable and is competent, but is he really the best man for the job? His tax issues have provided ammunition for the GOP and made the vetting process at Treasury more intense, so it's harder to find good people. He doesn't seem to inspire confidence in many people.

I trust him with the job, overall, but I'm still apprehensive and skeptical. I guess we all are.

[FreakinDJ]

1. GOP bet the Farm on Economic Down turn

all you are going to hear from them is "How Bad of a Job Geithner is doing"

My question is this - How much is Geithner and Obama's administration going to force Banks to open their books to Federal Regulators.

Just how scared is Wall St. of having Regulations legislated upon them

The RATpubliCONs allowed Wall St. and the Banking Industry an unfettered Deregulated rampage on America. The last thing they want is to be realed in before they have stolen every last dime from the American working Class

[MannyGoldstein]

2. It Would Be Better To Have A Democrat Instead

Geithner is a "former" Republican who claims to have switched party affiliation - however, looking at his actions, he is just another of the crypto-Republican Clinton posse.

We need Democrats in Treasury, and we need them promptly.

[Ardent15]

3. Leon Panetta should go to Treasury

That would be a good start. What is he doing at CIA?

[FrenchieCat]

4. I think Geithner is fine.......

He doesn't seem to inspire confidence, because many of those who complain about him don't want confidence instilled, period.

[Ardent15]

5. Maybe

[KittyWampus]

13. Bullshit. At this point he's incompetent. AIG just told him "fuck you".

[FrenchieCat]

20. Why don't you explain AIG to me......

And tell me what it is that Geithner should have "done"?
Or are you trying to say that Geithner is responsible for AIG?

Please provide some facts.

Cause Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright want to know.

[Idealism]

6. I would have preferred Stiglitz or Krugman, personally

but I think the Geithner is doing as much as he is allowed to do.

[Davis_X_Machina]

16. Neither wants the job, or similar.

Both have turned down jobs in earlier administrations.

[Connie_Corleone]

7. I saw him on Charlie Rose last week. A very informative interview

Geithner seems to do his best in longer interviews. I don't think he's the speechifying type. As long as he does his job, I don't have a problem with him.

[FrenchieCat]

8. I saw that too.

More should see it.

Here's the link for those interested ---> http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10137

Unfortunately, I find that more folks are interested in running their mouths about this man,
when in reality, few have actually listened to what he truly has to say.

[Ardent15]

9. Thanks for the link. I don;t doubt his knowledge and wisdom...

....I was just wondering if he really was the best man for the job.

[FrenchieCat]

10. The best man for the Job is Barack Obama.

Everything else flows from there.

In fact, I prefer the fact that when the media and those who believe the media say "hurry up", the Obama Admin responds...."Fuck you, it will take more time, but thanks for asking".

That's actually a very good sign.

[Ardent15]

14. Good point

Obama himself is clearly in command of his agenda.

[sendero]

11. I think he's..

.... just another wall street insider who is more interested in bailing out wall street than in doing what is best for America.

I was very disappointed that Obama chose this guy. He certainly does not represent "change".

[FrenchieCat]

17. He never worked on Wall Street...so he's not an insider.

He's worked for the Government most if not all of his career, and has a international view of economics which is what our economy has become.

His father, Peter F. Geithner, is the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York. During the early 1980s, Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation's microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by Ann Dunham-Soetoro, President Barack Obama's mother, and they met in person at least once. Timothy Geithner's mother, Deborah Moore Geithner, is a pianist and piano teacher in Larchmont, New York where his parents currently reside.

He spent most of his childhood living outside the United States, including present-day Zimbabwe, India and Thailand, where he completed high school at International School Bangkok. He then attended Dartmouth College, graduating with an A.B. in government and Asian studies in 1983. He earned an M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in 1985. He has studied Chinese and Japanese.

I think he has the knowledge, and the experience, and obviously the understanding that he needs to do what President Obama believes is the right course of action. Geithner represents Change as much as he doesn't.

[sendero]

18. He merely...

.. has been involved with the regulatory bodies that FAILED to prevent this mess, i.e. the NY Fed, as well as the widely disliked IMF.

He didn't work for wall street per se, he just participated in the fiasco the way so many have - by standing on the sidelines and watching the disaster unfold.

Not impressed.

[FrenchieCat]

19. He is one person......

and what you are doing is worse than blaming Bill Clinton for 9/11.

In fact, we should just blame Bill Clinton for the whole economic mess,
and be done with it. After all, he had wayyyyy more say than Geithner
ever had.

[sendero]

22. No, what I am doing..

... is pointing out that Obama has taken on people who are part of the problem and cannot be part of the solution.

We have funneled untold billions into this and that is the only solution these wizards can come up with. It is the only solution they can come up with because they are working for Wall Street, not America.

[katandmoon]

12. No, and if Obama thinks he is, what does that say about Obama?

[FrenchieCat]

15. It says that there is a good possibility that Obama is right with his choice,

and that maybe you aren't?
After all, folks voted for Barack Obama....
you, not so much.

I will say that I'm amazed on how many folks have the balls to believe that they have the answer,
without any hard evidence of such.

[JimGinPA]

21. LOL

:rofl:

Don't candy-coat it!


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