Tim Geitner

So Tim Geitner, the man running the treasury department, the watchdog over the economy of the United States of America, during the worst time for our economy in 80 years. Must be a fun job.

And what was his last job that enabled Tim to be promoted to the top economic job in the land, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the supervisory body that watches of Wall Street investment houses and banks.

But wait, wall street crashes and the guy who was supposed to be making sure it didn't crash was not fired, or publicly tarred and feathered but was promoted? Sweet.

But was it really a promotion?

So far he has handed out tax payer money hand over fist to the corrupt banks that broke the law and tanked the economy, in a terrorist fashion. Than he has advised those same terrorist banks that should have been closed and who owe their life to the taxpayer not to share information with the public about what they are doing with the taxpayer money they obtained.

Wonderful. Isn't that like catching Osama Bin Laden and having the CIA advise Osama not to talk to the FBI about what he knows? I am sure that would go over real well.

This new story adds to the fire of last years story where Geitner actively worked to remove sections of a new banking bill that would have placed more restrictions on the terrorist banks to stop participating in economic terrorism and to stop rewarding the leaders of these terrorist banks with hug bonuses.

And with all this gross misconduct Tim Geitner still holds a job. So my thoughts are this, was he given this job because of all the power and prestige? On the outside it looks like a promotion and a reward kind of a job.

Or is this a punishment job. You will not pass go you will not collect 200 dollars, you will not be fired, but you will continue to screw the American public and be the public face of government corruption?

Chris Floyd

The politcal writer Chris Floyd constantly hits home runs on his blog, empire burlesque, mostly about the abuses of the American Empire, this quote from his latest peice;

"I noted the grim irony that this principle of non-personhood had now been reintroduced into the law of the land by our first African-American president. (But this is only to be expected, given the law of opposites that so often governs American politics: only a lifelong Red-baiter like Nixon could make an opening to Communist China; only a supposed liberal like Bill Clinton could gut the federal welfare system. And only an African-American president could reintroduce the principle of slavery and get away with it. No doubt it will be a woman president who finally re-imposes a total ban on abortion."

Israel

An interesting story i just read, about two women in Israel admitted into a psych ward, who used to be Massad agents (Israeli cia) , they had armed guards in the psych ward to insure that during treatment the ex-Mossad agents would not reveal state secrets, hmmm

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1888-insanity-offense-even-the-mad-must-not-speak-the-truth.html

The Economy

two people I have talked to lately about the economy said we had to give the money to wall street or else the whole economy would have crashed and that Obama's economy team did a great job saving the economy. Lets break down these myths.

So maybe the first one is partially right, if we let all the wall street banks fold we might be in big trouble right now, all the jobs lost, all the stocks and retirement funds lost. But its the way we saved them that bothers me. A great headline on huffingtonpost.com today mentions how we let the arsonist (Ben Bernanke) put out the fire and we called him a hero. Ok, so the whole house didnt burn down, but there wouldnt be any freakin fire without Bernanke, Geitner, Paulson and the top executives at the big wall street, Goldman, Bank of America, Citi Group, Chase. They should all be in jail.

When rocky returned from Russia in Rocky 5 to learn his accountant was a crook and burned down his economic castle did Rocky rehire the same account to get his economic house back in order? Oh no, thats right, Rocky fired his ass.

Obama Drug Reimporation

David Sirota talks about Obama's stance on drug importation from foreign countries. He campaigned in support of importing drugs for cheapers costs but recently changed his mind only to change his mind again with a speech this weekend from David Axelrod stating that the President supports cheaper drug reimportation from foreign countries.

Sirota points out how that support means nothing when the President has the power to change the law overnight,

"the president has the statutory authority right now to allow it via a

certification by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius."

So this brings up my favorite quote from John Kerry talking about George W. Bush during the Presidential debates of 2004, just because the President said something, I believe in drug importation from foreign nations, doesnt make is true. Show us through your actions Mr. President.

Oh and a side note, most of our drug manufacturers have their plants overseas, so when you here politicians talking about this issue of posibly allowing the importation of drugs from overseas, number 1 its already happening, "40 percent of medicines on the domestic market right now were manufactured overseas", David Sirota.

And number 2 the drugs Americans want to buy at a cheaper cost from overseas are made by American corporations not third rate pill chop shops. As Americans shouldnt we pay less for drugs made by American corporations and shouldnt the rest of the world pay premium prices?

Like state colleges, if you go to a New York state college but you are from out of state you pay more money in tuition. If that was the opposite and New Yorkers paid more, that would seem silly.

check out sirota;

http://www.openleft.com/diary/16601/white-house-recommits-to-pushing-drug-importation

Texas Pollution

If Texas were a nation it would be in the top ten polluting nations.

Inside view of DC Politics

"Defeating liberals, in as public a way as possible, has long been a central pillar of "moderate" Democratic strategy. Blue Dogs, Conservadems, the DLC and others believe that they must do everything possible to distance themselves from liberal Democrats in order to be successful. If they are viewed as regular old Democrats, and not as a new wave of bi-partisan, moderate Democrat, then they honestly believe they are screwed. Lieberman is just an especially spiteful version of this."

Chris Bowers @open left
http://www.openleft.com/diary/16508/if-progressive-want-to-kill-the-bill-they-should-support-it-as-hard-as-possible