[dissident]

From the perspective of the deciders a jobless recovery is not such a bad thing. All of the lost jobs in America will be moved to cheaper wage markets such as China and India. Loss of purchasing power by US consumers will be offset by growing middle classes abroad. Welcome to the globalist utopia.

[efarmer]

We burnt up all the money our ruling class could steal to loan us, what should we expect?
Our poor gentry were forced to liquidate a big chunk of our retirement and savings to keep their institutions and estates intact.

They need to find a place with new consumers, where they can't possibly control the government and banks and screw themselves out of customers again.

Now they just need their corporate proxy government to provide them adequate protection from the American peasant, and if the income from China and India is good enough, they may allow themselves to be taxed if it is certain to be applied to protecting them from the great masses of American losers.

[MarkJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')eithner told "Good Morning America's" George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview. "But what we expect to see, and I think most forecasters expect this…is an economy that's gradually healing, gradually strengthening, businesses starting to add people back."

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n the midst of debates on financial regulation and China’s currency in April, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner sat down to discuss the U.S. economy -- with comedian Jon Stewart.

Geithner and Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” held an off-the-record meeting at Stewart’s office in New York on April 2, according to Geithner’s appointments calendar, updated through August on Treasury’s website.

Geithner didn’t stay for a television interview with Stewart although other administration officials -- most notably President Barack Obama last week -- have turned up for on-camera chats.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')AN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned that the U.S. government may have to take control of major financial institutions again if there’s a crisis as big as the last one, according to a report released Thursday by a group overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

“We may have to do exceptional things again if we face a shock that large,” Geithner told the Office of the Special Inspector General for TARP in December.

(snip) SIGTARP commended Geithner for his candor, but the group also said the Treasury secretary’s comments highlight that TARP has left a legacy of “moral hazard associated with the continued existence of institutions that. remain ‘too big to fail.’”

“It also serves as a reminder that the ultimate cost of bailing out Citigroup and the other ‘too big to fail’ institutions will remain unknown until the next financial crisis occurs,” SIGTARP added in its report.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/geithner-warns-of-future-bailouts-2011-01-13

[SeaGypsy]

In the not too distant future, that will start looking not too bad.

[Timo]

NO!!!! We can't let evolution dictate who does and who does not survive on this planet!!! Capitalism, Schmapitalism! Wall Street controls the whole history of evolution! Eff Darwin!

[pup55]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')reasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned that the U.S. government may have to take control of major financial institutions again if there’s a crisis as big as the last one

[Timo]

Just wait until the rest of the world abandons the dollar as the standard currency for international trade. Dollars will become worthless, and the Treasury is currently printing trillions of worthless dollars as we read this crap. We're the only country on earth that can print as much of the international currency as we want. It won't be too long before the end of our reign as the world market leader is turned on its head.

As i've said before, i'm not religious at all, even though my dad was a minister. That said, i actually think living on a kibbutz (sp?) sounds entirely worthwhile.