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Geithner vows to defend strong US dollar policy
Breitbart ^ | Apr 26 2011 - 09:45 AM | AFP

Posted on 04/26/2011 9:30:05 AM PDT by Hoodat

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner vowed Tuesday that the United States would never follow a strategy to weaken the US dollar.

"Our policy has been and will always be, as long as I will be in office, that a strong dollar is in the interest of the country," Geithner said at a New York conference organized by the Council of Foreign Relations.

"We will never embrace a strategy to weaken the dollar."

It was the first time this year that Geithner had publicly proclaimed a US strong-dollar policy, a mantra of treasury secretaries for more than a decade.

In the year to date, the dollar has lost 6.5 percent of its value compared with a basket of currencies held by its major trade partners.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: federalreserve; geithner; liar; taxcheat
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Truth does not exist in these people. This Administration has weakened the dollar to the point of double-digit inflation, yet they have the effrontery to suggest that they have continually supported a strong dollar?

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
DEMOCRATS ARE PATRIOTS

1 posted on 04/26/2011 9:30:11 AM PDT by Hoodat
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To: Hoodat
Geithner vows to defend strong US dollar policy

Too late.

2 posted on 04/26/2011 9:32:10 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Hoodat
Wow.

Just Wow.

3 posted on 04/26/2011 9:32:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Hoodat

Well said and unfortunately true.


4 posted on 04/26/2011 9:32:11 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: Hoodat
"Geithner vows to defend defund strong US dollar policy"
5 posted on 04/26/2011 9:33:29 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Hoodat

” Look at which company stands to get the most out of this and buy buy buy. “

A year, or even six months ago, I would have suggested that you re-check the source - perhaps you meant to type “ONION”, and “BREITBART” came out....

Now, it’s become commonplace for so much that the Obama Regime says or does to far outstrip anything a satirist, in his most nihilistic moment, could come up with....


6 posted on 04/26/2011 9:34:28 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Hoodat
The barn door is wide open.
The horse is long gone.
Closing the door now is a little late.
7 posted on 04/26/2011 9:34:44 AM PDT by DeaconRed (Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC-9 At night? Joe Ely has)
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To: Hoodat

“”We will never embrace a strategy to weaken the dollar.””

Then what have they been doing for the past 2 years? This Ivy Leaguer is either a moron for letting the dollar weaken over the last two years or he is brilliant in his Marxist strategy of weakening the dollar.


8 posted on 04/26/2011 9:35:04 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Hoodat

REAL PATRIOTISM IS TREASON


9 posted on 04/26/2011 9:36:00 AM PDT by SteamShovel (The RADIATION PIMPS...are RATS)
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To: Hoodat

He’s right. They are not following a strategy to weaken the dollar, they are blazing a trail.


10 posted on 04/26/2011 9:36:10 AM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: Hoodat
Good job, Little Timmy Tax Cheat:


11 posted on 04/26/2011 9:37:08 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0bamanomics: Trickle Up Poverty.)
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To: Hoodat
Well Timmy (or maybe more aptly, Timmah! from South Park), how do you explain the fact the US dollar has been taking it on the cheek for the last several years??? $1 USD is now worth $.95 CDN. 20 years ago, $1 USD was worth $1.25 CDN.

Globally, the US is getting our ass handed to us on a silver platter when it comes to the strength of our currency.
12 posted on 04/26/2011 9:38:19 AM PDT by NWFLConservative
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To: Hoodat

Timmy’s pants must be smokin’.


13 posted on 04/26/2011 9:39:40 AM PDT by Paladin2
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>> “We will never embrace a strategy to weaken the dollar.”

Well, I’ll be. I never figured I’d laugh so hard I’d pee from something *Geithner* said.

These Obama people occupy a surreal world that’s quite removed from my own. How do they do it? Drugs?


14 posted on 04/26/2011 9:40:43 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: Paladin2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8rCy173y7Y


15 posted on 04/26/2011 9:41:47 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Hoodat
"We will never embrace a strategy to weaken the dollar."

Hey Tiny Tim, explain this: In what ways would a strategy to weaken the dollar differ from the policies you currently have in place?

16 posted on 04/26/2011 9:43:15 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Napolean fries the idea powder.)
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"We will never embrace a strategy to weaken the dollar."

Here's a classic textbook case of Liberalism 101. Liberals are moral relativists, and as such, truth and lies are whatever they make it to be as it best serves their purpose at that time. If it's to their advantage, then whatever they say, they will strongly defend it to be the absolute truth (at that time). They have no remorse in looking you square in the eye and without blinking tell you that they mean you no harm, while at the same time be slipping a dagger deep into your back.

17 posted on 04/26/2011 9:44:01 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (Enough with the tornadoes already!)
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18 posted on 04/26/2011 9:47:16 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Hoodat
That confirms it, Tim is Baghdad bobs son.
19 posted on 04/26/2011 9:53:00 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Hoodat

The idiot vowed to raise the debt ceiling the other day so this is all he means really.


20 posted on 04/26/2011 9:54:30 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (If Obama announced his resignation that would probably bring gas to $2.30 within an hour.)
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