[ConservativeMind]

Some food for thought. There are additional resources below the article.

Does anyone else have more on this complicated interrelationship?

What spawned my search was this article from a respected IT website out of England.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1563620/happy-thanksgiving-america

[ConservativeMind]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1563620/happy-thanksgiving-america

[US Navy Vet]

HUH!

[papasmurf]

Honestly, I’m floored by this revelation. I need to do some research of my own now.

Thanks!

[Blogger]

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[devere]

Truly bizarre!

[Hawthorn]

Absolute, total, ridiculous nonsense.

[x]

The appointment of a Secretary of the Treasury is just that, an appointment to a position which is NOT a cabinet position in any administration. The S.o.T. is the [governor] appointed to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF). He is not an officer of the United States, is not a cabinet member and does not represent the interests of the United States. His position is as liaison between the federal government and the IMF. His obligation is to the IMF, not to the United States. The secretary of the Treasury is not sworn into office as cabinet members are, and take no oaths to the United States.

Nonsense. You might as well say our Ambassador to the UN isn't a US official.

For the record, Geithner did have a swearing-in ceremony.

Whether he's going to keep his oath to the Constitution is another matter.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Somebody better tell the Constitution, it’s got the Treasury Secretary 5th in the Presidential line of Succession. :-)

It scares me how ignorant some people are, and how these ignorant people can get a lot of other people to believe what they say.

The Treasury Secretary is a cabinet official, one of the oldest cabinet officials (which is why the position is 5th in succession). Alexander Hamilton was the first Treasury Secretary, under George Washington.

My guess is that Geithner says “your government” because he is just as embarrased as the rest of us about what Obama is doing.

[centurion316]

Alexander Hamilton would be very surprised to hear that this is the case. The Secretary of the Treasury was, in his day, an officer of the United States. Remains true today.

[ßuddaßudd]

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[ConservativeMind]

To add to the confusion, from the US Treasury website, it states the Treasury Secretary does take the same oath other cabinet officials say, and that he is paid from the General Fund.

http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/treasury/officials.shtml#2

[cranked]

Here’s some further food for thought: Permanently get rid of the Treasury Secretary position.

[JasonC]

Lying nonsense, start to finish.

Secretary of the treasury is one of the original cabinet posts and remains so. It dates to George Washington, whose secretary of the treasury was Alexander Hamilton - a century and a half before the world bank (formed after WW I) or the IMF (formed after WW II) existed.

The treasury's funds are deposited at the federal reserve, not the world bank or IMF. The US has a modest SDR account at the IMF and is a creditor to both it and the world bank, but all of the transactions accounts of the treasury are handled by the Fed.

This post is yet another example of the general proposition that populist finance-haters will believe and spread any lie imaginable if it defames the US government and American capitalism. This isn't new. It has been the sport of wild idiotic conspiracy theories for decades, and in some forms dates back to Jackson's presidency - but you will notice democrats have usually been behind peddling it.