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Treasury Secretary Geithner: Lift Debt Limit to Infinity
CNS News ^ | 11/19/12 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 11/19/2012 8:41:48 AM PST by Nachum

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(CNSNews.com) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Friday that Congress should stop placing legal limits on the amount of money the government can borrow and effectively lift the debt limit to infinity.

On Bloomberg TV, “Political Capital” host Al Hunt asked Geithner if he believes “we ought to just eliminate the debt ceiling.”

“Oh, absolutely,” Geithner said.

“You do? Will you propose that?” Hunt asked.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: geithner; infinity; secretary; treasury
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21 posted on 11/19/2012 9:47:13 AM PST by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Son House

Weimar America


22 posted on 11/19/2012 9:48:16 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Nachum

I’m sure that this government would press the infinity ceiling if they had the option.


23 posted on 11/19/2012 9:48:22 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Nachum

Wow Geither practices Buzz Lightyear economics.


24 posted on 11/19/2012 9:49:36 AM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: sf4dubya

Why does there have to be a choice, he could be both. I say he is.


25 posted on 11/19/2012 9:49:36 AM PST by sheana
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To: Nachum

ummm- you did correct him, yes?!?! God help us all if you didn’t.


26 posted on 11/19/2012 9:52:44 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Nachum

I wish I could just tell my credit card company to raise my debt ceiling to infinity.....


27 posted on 11/19/2012 9:54:26 AM PST by NRA1995 (CNN should be PNN (Propaganda, Never News))
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To: Las Vegas Ron

picture: obama watching from a tree branch,shouting ‘forward’ to 53 million dumbass obama lemming voters running over the fiscal cliff. can’t get there fast enough.

this must be how the germans felt being slowly but progressively taken over by hitler in the 30s.


28 posted on 11/19/2012 9:55:53 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Nachum
"Timothy Geithner said....Congress should stop placing legal limits on the amount of money the government can borrow and effectively lift the debt limit to infinity."

Paging Larry Kudlow....

29 posted on 11/19/2012 9:56:57 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Nachum
...Al Hunt asked Geithner if he believes “we ought to just eliminate the debt ceiling.”
“Oh, absolutely,” Geithner said.

Wiemar Germany, Zimbabwe, Argentina...no, we don't have any examples in the 20th century how that works out...

When the crash comes, 49.8% of the people will scream for a tyrant, dictator to come and save them. Bunch of ignorant lemmings.

Check your stores, logistics and commo, it's going to be a bumpy ride...

5.56mm

30 posted on 11/19/2012 10:11:19 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Nachum

You should show him some of the pictures you can find on the web when looking for “Weimar Republic” pictures.

You’ll find one or two where a wheelbarrow full of German Marks are what it takes to buy a loaf of bread.

Back in the 70s, I was stationed in Europe and went TDY to Italy several times. They used to have a 1 Lira coin - aluminum, not worth squat...they got very scarce...it turned out clothing manufacturers found it easier to use them as “button backs” than to go to the trouble of making something else out of some other material...


31 posted on 11/19/2012 10:18:51 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: PowderMonkey

You, your children, your labor, property, everything ....long ago was posted, secured, claimed. That is what the in one tax/federal reserve act la 1913 was about. Previously fedgov had to have gold to back it up. After that it went to using the people and everything g on it, into the unlimited future. In short, fed gov has long since spent and promised all wealth in the nation. We’re at the point were as are having trouble borrowing to service the interest only. This is why fedgov that Hoovers up massive amours of money, yet we can’t repair what we built.( think of the McMansions decaying for lack of borrowing to finance repairs. )
Anyway, you wont be sold, it happened before you were born, and e everyone is now born sold. You, me, us, we exist as resources. To be exploited.


32 posted on 11/19/2012 10:38:53 AM PST by Leisler (A trillion+ dollars a year printing fiat script=2% GDP. What happens when it stops. Or doesn't?)
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To: Secret Agent Man
ummm- you did correct him, yes?!?! God help us all if you didn’t.

I did explain it to him. Was actually surprised he said it.

33 posted on 11/19/2012 10:44:10 AM PST by Nachum (The List was hacked- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

If the Dems take the House it will happen before the end of January, 2015


34 posted on 11/19/2012 10:45:05 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Nachum

Hey, Nachum, just wanted to say thanks for maintaining this list. You flag the stories I’m most interested in.

Keep up the good work.


35 posted on 11/19/2012 10:46:30 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Lee'sGhost

Thanks.

(great minds think alike)


36 posted on 11/19/2012 10:47:44 AM PST by Nachum (The List was hacked- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: sf4dubya
This guy is either a complete moron or the most corrupt bastard on the planet.

There are quite a few competing in that description...

37 posted on 11/19/2012 10:50:37 AM PST by Nachum (The List was hacked- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

No budget. No debt limit. What could possibly go wrong?


38 posted on 11/19/2012 10:56:15 AM PST by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

>>Obama’s trial balloon? Expect it to happen.<<

Well then, so be it!! The faster this thing breaks, the quicker we can begin putting America back on the correct track.


39 posted on 11/19/2012 10:58:40 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: I want the USA back
JM Keynes understood this, and observed in The Economic Consequences of the Peace:

“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become ‘profiteers,’ who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.”

Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”

40 posted on 11/19/2012 11:00:05 AM PST by Skepolitic
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