Posted on 01/13/2009 11:54:52 AM PST by abb
Edited on 01/13/2009 1:59:05 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is raising questions about a housekeeper that worked briefly for Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner without proper immigration papers, and multiple years when Mr. Geithner didn't pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for himself.
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For a second there my hopes were barely raised above zero that a Republican might say something, but it was a Democrat huh?
Chuck’s up from his nap.
I’m glad I don’t have a housekeeper.
They seem to cause MORE trouble for people.
lol
great. Now obama can withdraw his nomination and put Ron Paul up to be treasury secretary. Then the term TARP would return to its traditional definition.
So this is the guy that’s the touted financial genius. Can’t even correctly file his own taxes. Nice. I bet they confirm him anyway, because he paid the taxes once it was “brought to his attention.” I’m also betting we’re going to have at least one senator say something along the lines of “We have to confirm him, regardless of this information. The financial crisis is too great, and we must have his leadership.”
Democratic senators plan to defend Mr. Geithner, saying that the nature of the complaints pale in comparison to the gravity of the crises he has been asked to face, a severe economic recession, turmoil in the financial markets and the collapse of the U.S. auto industry.
“Sen. Charles E. Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is raising questions about a housekeeper that worked briefly for Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner without proper immigration papers, and multiple years when Mr. Geithner didn’t pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for himself.”
Have you noticed the people in charge of our economy, enforcing our laws,etc. care so little that they won’t hire an American or obey our laws....besides being cheap and greedy!
Doesn’t matter - he is a Democrat nominee.
Geithner should have just gotten a sweetheart Countrywide mortgage and paid for a documented housekeeper with the savings. That would not be a problem if Chris Dodd is any example.
Why not simply apply to the Secretary-designate the rules the Department of the Treasury applies to civil servants? Oh, I forgot, that would require the Secretary-designate pack his bags and head home.
Payroll taxes are just for the “little people” you know.
Wall Street and all the other politically connected big wigs approve, therefore he will be confirmed.
Why do the Pubbies tip toe through the tulips? If it was reversed, the Rats would wait till the public hearing, then have a humiliating lynching!
Jeeezzzz...read the first sentence: "Sen. Charles E. Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is raising questions..."
The knee-jerk blame-Republicans-all-the-time crap around here these days is sickening.
An obituary
The American Revolution was an extraordinary event. The idea that freedom was an inherent right, that tyranny could be successfully opposed, that government could serve the people, not the few, was truly revolutionary in 1776—as it is today.
The American Revolution, however, has run its course; and unless resuscitated and given new life, the American dream and the dreams of America’s founding fathers will soon be only a memory. Dreams rarely come to pass and those that do rarely last. The American dream is no exception.
What happened in 1776 has been subverted by the passage of time and the inconstancy of later generations. Those who rule America today have subverted the principles enumerated in the US Constitution; principles the Founding Father hoped would guide those who followed them through the crises yet to come.
The principles were not many, e.g. fiscal prudence, sound money, separation of church and state and a limited military and limited government. But even those few and clearly stated principles succumbed over the years to the imposition of policies that had given rise to the need to revolt in 1776.
Now, in 2008, tyranny and government excesses are again upon America, but this time it is by America’s own hand. The policies of King George III were no more egregious than the policies of President George Bush II.— taxation without real representation, e.g. TARP (80 % Americans opposed), the imposition of policies contrary to the will of the people, e.g. US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan (70 % opposed), and the loss of individual freedoms under the Patriot Act (60 % opposed).
The difference between 1776 and 2008 is that America is now tyrannized not by the King of England but by its own government. Today, the US government does not represent the will of the people. It represents instead the special interests that control the US government through the buying of votes—America is not for sale only because it has already been sold.
The difference between 1776 and 2008 is not only 232 years. It is the difference between the dream of the Founding Fathers and the shadow of that dream in whose increasing darkness Americans now exist.
THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK IS THE REASON FOR AMERICA’S
FALL FROM POWER AND THE SOURCE OF ITS INCREASING PROBLEMS
Thomas Jefferson warned 200 hundred years ago that if private bankers were allowed to issue America’s money, indebtedness, foreclosure and suffering would follow. Yet, in 1913, private bankers gained control over America’s money by the passage of the Federal Reserve Act.
We are now suffering for ignoring Jefferson’s warnings. Jefferson was right in predicting our problems but his words were overridden by those who had other plans for America, plans that would increase their profits at the expense of the nation.
It is no accident America is now an empty shell of the great economic power it once was. Bled dry by debt imposed by those whose sole intent was to profit, the US is now bankrupt at a time it desperately needs the resources it no longer has.
The US Treasury is now empty except for IOUs and only if others continue to buy America’s debts can America continue to go forward. Once we were creditors, now we are debtors. America cannot escape the consequences of what has been done but we can limit our problems if we undo their cause.
The Federal Reserve Act was enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson who later bitterly regretted what he had done to America.
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
Woodrow Wilson, US President
The power of the Federal Reserve System—a system controlled by a small group of dominant men—derives solely from is power to issue debt-based money in the form of US dollars and to charge interest on their issuance. We are paying our jailors for our enslavement and are fools for so doing. Who would have thought—except Jefferson.
The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936&hl=en
Him? Is he still a Republican?
My mother used to clean houses, part time, under the table, after she retired. She worked for a prominent lawyer in the area who evidently had political ambitions.
My mother just wanted a few extra bucks without bother of taxes but this was back when everyone was all over the place with all those nannies and such. The Dems jumped on everyone with a closet Nanny/housekeeper.
So this lawyer turned over all the wages he paid my mother into the gubmint and the poor women like to be run to the poor house. First, her pathetic wages were added on TOP of her husband’s wages. At that time their taxes were high. THEN she had to pay, get this, 15.2% FICA taxes because, remember, my mother was a so-called “independent contractor” and had to pay her own FICA. Also bear in mind that the rate she charged this lawyer was low specifically BECAUSE it was not taxed. After he turned her in she had no choice and essentially worked for LESS than minimum wage.
All this for about $25.00 for four hours cleaning a house, this a 60 year old woman. I swear it caused her to die before she was ready.
But hey, that lawyer was covered and got to run for his precious office, which he never won.
But hey yeah, they killed my poor mother over this big nothing. Give the Democrats hell over it.
This emphasizes what a complete pile of crap the tax code is. If a potential treasury secretary can’t get it right, who can? I don’t think the guy was trying to evade the tax.
We are fools!
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