Posted on 03/24/2009 8:23:22 AM PDT by freespirited
Treasury Sec. Timothy Geithner asked Congress Tuesday to give the White House unprecedented powers to seize large insurers, investment firms and hedge funds, leaping beyond its present authority to seize only banks.
Geithner argued for such authority during the House Financial Services Committee's hearing on the handling of bonuses paid to executives at American International Group...
"The proposed resolution authority would allow the government to provide financial assistance to make loans to an institution, purchase its obligations or assets, assume or guarantee its liabilities and purchase an equity interest," he said.
Geithner called on Congress to grant him new powers to regulate huge financial companies like insurance giant AIG, whose failure would pose a grave danger to the U.S. financial system and the broader economy.
Specifically, Geithner asked for powers similar to those of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which has authority to seize control of banks, take over their bad assets and sell good ones to competitors.
Geithner made it clear he believes the treasury secretary should be granted unprecedented power, after consultation with Federal Reserve Board officials, to take control of a major financial institution and run it....
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Welcome to our national socialist worker’s paradise!
Well if they need to do this it just prooves they think the plans will work out great. I better go out and buy a bunch of stocks right away so I do not miss out on the Obama Boom economy.
And the company you work for is next. Visions of the old USSR come to mind.
Geithner doesn’t need to seek anything. The power has always been there since FDR.
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§ 95b. Ratification of acts of President and Secretary of the Treasury under § 95a
The actions, regulations, rules, licenses, orders and proclamations heretofore or hereafter taken, promulgated, made or issued by the President of the United States or the Secretary of the Treasury since March 4, 1933, pursuant to the authority confered by subsection ( of section 5 of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended [12 USCS § 95a], are hereby approved and confirmed.
(Mar. 9, 1933, c. 1, Title 1, § 1, 48 Stat. 1)
Geithner is the perfect example of what Clinton was famous for. He appointed people clearly unfit to hold office, so he could run roughshod over them at will, no possibility of strong opposing views.
This guy’s name will actually appear on our paper money. If that doesn’t shake confidence in the dollar, nothing will.
I call BS to this whole line of reasoning.
Now we know why Turbo Tim had to come out with a PLAN
as a precursor to this move
Seriously, who would trust this rat weasel-looking Eddie Haskell with their checking account much less omnipotent control over the US economy??
Arbeit macht frei.
That's worthless.
And the company you work for is next. Visions of the old USSR come to mind.”””
Hugo is siezing assets all over Venezuela—NObama is just following his hero.
Give me a break. This is not leadership it is Tyranny
WHAT RIGHT DOES ANY GOVERNMENT HAVE TO COME IN AND DESTROY A SOCIALOGY THAT HAS EXISTED AND THRIVED FOR GENERATIONS????
This has gone far enough, this madness must be stopped.
Guys, the Unite Socialist States of America is no longer tinfoil paranoia.
We're there.
Oh the stock market is going to LOVE this one.
I can see it now:
CAMPAIGN MANAGER: I see your firm only gave $300,000 towards Obama’s reelection.
BUSINESS EXECUTIVE: Yes, we did.
CAMPAIGN MANAGER: We need you to give another $200,000 this month.
BUSINESS EXECUTIVE: We have nearly exhausted our budget for political contributions; we cannot afford more.
CAMPAIGN MANAGER: It sounds like your company is “imperiled”. Does the Administration need to take over and “fix” things?
BUSINESS EXECUTIVE: How much more money did you want?
Not to be crass - but will they at least use a little lube?
Dick Morris was on tv, last night, saying that Obama does not want his plan to succeed, that what he wants is an excuse to nationalize.
This administration has already imperiled the whole country. What more do they want?
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