Tim Geithner Refuses To Tell Chris Wallace What Happens If Debt Ceiling Isn’t Raised

Mediaite ^ | 7/24/11 | Matt Schneider

[Qout]

We are borrowing 45% of our spending. If you add up Social Security, Medicare, interest on the debt, military salaries and government pensions you exceed 55% of government spending. So, which of the above 5 should get partial payments? Geithner won’t say.

[FlingWingFlyer]

[Joe Brower]

Plan? Ain't got no plan!

[chris37]

I don’t really care what happens.

It is time to starve these greedy bastards.

Whatever happens past that, so be it.

[Nachum]

Just remember Timmy... Wherever you go- there you are.

[GBA]

If Chris Wallace really wanted an answer he should have asked TurboTax instead of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Like he would know? Better yet, there are a couple of squirrels in the palm tree outside the window here, maybe he could ask them.

[Yaelle]

Besides the seniors, you forgot to include the seriously disabled, for whom I proudly pay taxes. I think we have a responsibility to the most helpless among us and I want each of them to have the best quality of life possible.

(I am talking cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, serious accident victims and very ill, incapacitated people, not druggies or fakers.)

[x]

Gee - FOUR years ago, way back in 2007, we had a balanced budget.

Not actually true, so far as I've been able to find out, though the deficit was a lot less than it is now.

[x]

Tim Geithner Refuses To Tell Chris Wallace What Happens If Debt Ceiling Isn’t Raised

If it isn't raised he won't pay his taxes?

[wolfcreek]

He’s a friggin weasel and a liar.

[Uri’el-2012]

Every time I see him on TV,
he looks like he just did a line of toot.

[de.rm]

..we could raise all the money we need & more by just havin’ him tour the county fairs this summer in a dunking booth.

[SteamShovel]

Geithner warned Wallace, “we do not have the ability, Chris, to protect the American people from the consequences of Congress not” raising the debt ceiling.

Until only a few years ago, Obama and Geithner were just a.....

.....Terrorist's Friend and a Tax Cheat.

.....Now they are telling us the horrible conseqences of actually balancing the budget and living within the existing tax cashflow?

.....And that taking on more debt is somehow good for us and our credit rating?

We live in Bizarro World these days.

[Iron Munro]

I watched him on FOX this morning.

Just looking at him and hearing his voice makes my skin crawl.

He is a sleazeball scumbag from the word GO!

I bet his first words as a baby were a lie to his own mother.

[Iron Munro]

I watched him on FOX this morning.

Just looking at him and hearing his voice makes my skin crawl.

He is a sleazeball scumbag from the word GO!

I bet his first words as a baby were a lie to his own mother.

[hosepipe]

true

[de.rm]

I saw that movie, too (Rosemary's Baby)

[Realman30]

Did he say Geithner many people say you are a tax cheat, well are you a tax cheat. If he did not, then Wallace is a democrats loving a hole of the first order.

Wallace reserve those tough questions for Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann and other conservatives.

[ronnyquest]

"The end of the world as we know it. Mass starvation and chaos and total anarchy."

Bring it. I double-dog dare them.

[Da Bilge Troll]

I can’t watch him without laughing myself silly over that stupid rug on his head!