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IT'S OFFICIAL: We've Hit The Debt Ceiling, Geithner Implements Emergency Measures
Business Insider ^ | 05/16/2011

Posted on 05/16/2011 7:13:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/16/2011 7:14:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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OK folks, John Maynard Keynes used to say in response to criticisms of his proposals regarding how it will affect the nation’s economy in the long run... “In the long run, we are all dead”.

Well, he was wrong. The long run has arrived and we’re all alive to see it.

READ Geithner’s plans....

First up, a raiding of government retirement funds!!


2 posted on 05/16/2011 7:17:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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Uh-oh. The game of hardball has begun.

Time to put away the popcorn.


3 posted on 05/16/2011 7:18:39 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Great children's books - http://www.UsborneBooksGA.com)
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Geithner Implements Emergency Measures


Does that mean he resigned?


4 posted on 05/16/2011 7:18:47 AM PDT by PaleoBob
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RE: Does that mean he resigned?

We can only wish...


5 posted on 05/16/2011 7:22:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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First up, a raiding of government retirement funds!!

I vote Congress and presidential pension funds go first

6 posted on 05/16/2011 7:24:55 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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Cut Congressional (reps, senators, and staffers) salaries by 5% every day until the Senate passes Paul Ryan’s budget. Immediately suspend all congressional taxpayer-paid travel. Withhold payment to the U.N. Suspend all funding for Obamacare. I can think of more, but this would be a good start.


7 posted on 05/16/2011 7:26:46 AM PDT by American Quilter (DEFUND OBAMACARE.)
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They are quickly shuffling this to make it look like those dirty Republicans fault.

What Geithner is doing will have a serious impact on the markets and consumer spending. (By design)


8 posted on 05/16/2011 7:30:06 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Always Remember You're Unique.......(Just Like everyone Else.))
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Well, well, we are broke, now we can’t send 5-10 billion here and there at every world event. /yeahright


9 posted on 05/16/2011 7:37:05 AM PDT by rokkitapps
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First up, a raiding of government retirement funds!!

IRA's and 401k's, fixed it.

10 posted on 05/16/2011 7:38:25 AM PDT by CommieCutter (Promote Liberal Extinction: Support gay marriage and abortion!)
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"Geithner Implements Emergency Measures"

That means he won't be using TURBO TAX

11 posted on 05/16/2011 7:38:59 AM PDT by DeaconRed (ZERO: Name all 57 States. You can cheat.)
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12 posted on 05/16/2011 7:41:47 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Always Remember You're Unique.......(Just Like everyone Else.))
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RE: IRA’s and 401k’s, fixed it.

Only if cowardly Americans let them. For me, it’s over my dead body.


13 posted on 05/16/2011 7:42:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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Agreed.


14 posted on 05/16/2011 7:43:59 AM PDT by CommieCutter (Promote Liberal Extinction: Support gay marriage and abortion!)
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I think I can just make out Geithner up there re-arranging the deck chairs.


15 posted on 05/16/2011 7:44:09 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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IT'S OFFICIAL: We've Hit The Debt Ceiling, Geithner Implements Emergency Measures

They said this might happen someday, I just didn't think it would be today! Cut spending NOW!

16 posted on 05/16/2011 7:44:11 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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I hope there is still a little bit of money to fund John F'n Kerry's bill to combat LGBT youth homelessness. /s
17 posted on 05/16/2011 7:46:11 AM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
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Wasn’t it just two weeks ago that he said, due to the influx of tax money, we wouldn’t hit the ceiling until sometime in August? Hmmmmmmm.


18 posted on 05/16/2011 7:49:06 AM PDT by Mashood
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If they raid the 401k and IRA do they have to pay the 33% tax on early withdrawl?


19 posted on 05/16/2011 7:51:07 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (I like it that FR still spell checks "obama")
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No need for your demise; it’d be done electronically with little or no warning, probably at 2 a.m., or as Frank Zappa once put it, .....”while your children are sleepin, and yer puppy is crappin”.


20 posted on 05/16/2011 8:02:41 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad
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