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Geithner: ‘How Well You Do in Life … Depends Too Much on the Color of Your Skin’
Cybercast News Service ^ | May 19, 2014 - 11:44 AM | Melanie Hunter

Posted on 05/19/2014 1:42:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday said how well one does in life “depends too much on the color of your skin and how rich your parent is.”

“How well you do in life today, how good your education is, how good your health care is, depends too much on the color of your skin and how rich your parent is. And that’s something that should worry all Americans,” said Geithner. “Now, those are things government can do things about.”

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: electiontalkingpoint; geitherlies; geithner; racism
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1 posted on 05/19/2014 1:42:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Obama never has appointed anyone who wasn’t a Stalinist.


2 posted on 05/19/2014 1:45:19 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Olog-hai

Shaddup and go wreck another country, Dr. Strangelove........


3 posted on 05/19/2014 1:45:29 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: Olog-hai

Not many Indian immigrants have PhD’s.
Not many bring loads of money.
And 95% of them have brown/dark brown/black skins.

Yet as a group, Indian immigrants earn more than any other ethnic groups in America, including white Americans, Jews, European immigrants, Oriental immigrants...all of them!

Proves once for all, United States is a country where opportunity exists to better your life if you work hard.
It is a matter of family culture and education and hard work, not color of skin any more.


4 posted on 05/19/2014 1:48:48 PM PDT by entropy12 (Some thought Obama would be no worse than Romney. So we have less jobs and more food stamps people.)
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To: Olog-hai

“Geithner: ‘How Well You Do in Life … Depends Too Much on the Color of Your Skin’”

Wow, and all this time I thought how well you do in life depended on how creative you were with TurboTax.


5 posted on 05/19/2014 1:50:43 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Olog-hai

What an a$$hole. It depends on intelligence, hard work, luck, and the help that others give you. It does not depend on the color of your skin.


6 posted on 05/19/2014 1:50:49 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Olog-hai

this country elected a half black man twice for president if im not mistaken. . .
F U T G


7 posted on 05/19/2014 1:51:47 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: Olog-hai

I agree. Mr. Geitner, you should be ashamed of yourself, using your white privilege in such a fashion. To make amends, you must surrender all of your property and financial holdings to me for immediate re-distribution.

There. That oughta doit.


8 posted on 05/19/2014 1:54:03 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Olog-hai

Well considering how a loser like Geithner made it, maybe he has a point.


9 posted on 05/19/2014 1:55:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai
He's not talking about himself, though.

He got there on merit.

It's the rest of us who didn't.

________________

I notice both Geithner's father and his mother's father had connections with the Ford Foundation or Ford Motor Company.

For that matter, he may have gotten the Treasury job because Obama's mother was also involved with the Ford Foundation.

Privileges, connections and advantages like that are something the government isn't going to do anything about.

10 posted on 05/19/2014 1:55:44 PM PDT by x
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To: Olog-hai

...and not enough on how artfully and convincingly you can lie.


11 posted on 05/19/2014 1:57:57 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

I am retiring from the military as an O-5. Oh how I wish I was Black!!!!! Anything but white. I’d be hired immediately.


12 posted on 05/19/2014 2:00:39 PM PDT by ThunderStruck94
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Geithner: ‘How Well You Do in Life … Depends Too Much on the Color of Your Skin’ Your IQ

Fixed it.

13 posted on 05/19/2014 2:01:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t think Geithner’s IQ is all that high. Nor that of the POTUS, or a lot of crony capitalists.


14 posted on 05/19/2014 2:02:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: ßuddaßudd

if Obamugabe were born white skinned he wouldn’t have gotten anywhere in politics.


15 posted on 05/19/2014 2:02:45 PM PDT by Reeses
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Oh how I wish I was Black!!!!!

According to the United States Supreme Court, you are any gender or race that you "feel" that you are.

16 posted on 05/19/2014 2:02:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: entropy12

Very good point.


17 posted on 05/19/2014 2:03:06 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Olog-hai
But they're probably at least 100.

The people he is referring to average 85.

18 posted on 05/19/2014 2:05:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: Olog-hai

Leftist reprobate


19 posted on 05/19/2014 2:06:53 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Hey Tim, tell it Oprah, Ben Carson, Herman Cain, and a whole bunch of others who are successful because of their talents, drive, ambition, attitude, etc. They didn’t run around yellowing, “poor me, I’m a minority.”


20 posted on 05/19/2014 2:11:58 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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