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Ali Velshi
CNN Chief Business Correspondent
Treasury Secretary Nominee Timothy Geithner appears before the Senate Finance Committee this morning for his confirmation hearings. The hearings were delayed a week due to some questions about his failure to pay $34,023 in taxes between 2001 and 2004. Seems to have been a mistake on his part.
Excusable, perhaps, but no one wants him making mistakes on his new watch. And they'll want to know if letting Lehman Brothers fail while he was President of the Federal Reserve of NY was a mistake, particularly after he was involved in the deal to (sort of) save Bear Stearns from outright collapse.
And more than that, how will he deal with oversight of TARP, and of any money attached to the new economic stimulus bill? How will he address questions of accountability and of potential conflict of interest in the way the first $350 BILLION was handled? Does he support President Obama's view that banks receiving public money need to lend that money out? And does he think that banks should have to disclose what they've done or are planning to do with taxpayer money they receive.
Separately, President Obama is meeting with economic advisers, working toward a stimulus bill.
And by the way, the Dow tanked yesterday. Big Time.
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Teresa in Ohio it would be the same. Unless
it is tax evasion and other offenses you do
not face jail time. I was CNN would clarify
the matter .
This is the time to TRUST President Obama's Choice. He certainly has made good decisions on all his other appointments and several well respected public figures including the Top echelon of US Economists and Treasury CEO's gave him their seal of approval. The Douting Thomases need to see the reality of this situation. America doesn't have the time or the money to build another Ark! LET IT BE
If he is such a wizard on finances, then why didnt the congress and senate listen to him back in 2006, I listened to the hearings a bit this morning, and they spoke about all the insite he gave several years ago, and no one listened, so I am sure nothing will change now either if he is sworn in, they all take care of themselves first, and not the american public and tax payers and investors that put their small amounts of money in the banks and markets, to later be stollen by someone and shipped to a country that protects them and the money.
@ TERESA, OH....... HE DID PAY THE TAXES HE OWED....... GET IT?
Any one can make a mistake! The IMPORTANT thing is that HE PAID HIS TAXES.
We can not play games, Geithner has a HUGE mountain of problems to solve....... beginning with the BUSH DISASTER ( America's bankrupt, thanks W.).
HOPE TRUMPS FEAR, LIES, HATE & DIVISION!
Approving this guy is a mistake. $34,000 between 3-4 yrs. of taxes is someone trying to get away with something, not a one time mistake.
I wonder what my punishment would have been if I had forgotten to pay that "minute" amount of money on my taxes?
Approve the dude already. I visited Geithner's wiki page.
He is perfect for the job.I know organizations and people
who work with international firms. Even churches are
confused about payroll taxes if they pay people to come
in an watch the kids during church events. The reason why
his profile impresses me is my feeling that he understands
the world wide economy. China is now the world's 3rd largest
economy.We can not afford to wait.It is my hope that the Obama
administration will make the banks account for every single dime
and make the information available to the public on the new
government website.
I have a fix for the bank credit freeze.
New lending under government approved guidlines and the US government will insure all the new loans, none of the old ones.
Government won't be insuring and sub-primes or high risk loans. Banks will quickly start lending.