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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: Unemployment Could Go Up Before It Comes Down
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Posted on 08/03/2010 5:06:41 AM PDT by MindBender26

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledged that it is still a "tough economy" for most Americans, and warned it's possible the unemployment rate will go up for a couple of months before it comes down as more people enter the labor force.

When they see a little hope that there may be jobs out there, they start to come back in again. And that can cause the measured unemployment rate to go up — temporarily," Geithner told "Good Morning America's" George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview. "But what we expect to see, and I think most forecasters expect this…is an economy that's gradually healing, gradually strengthening, businesses starting to add people back."

The economy is not rebounding as quickly as Geithner and the Obama administration would like, he said. Last week's economic report card showed the Gross Domestic Product grew at a rate of 2.4 percent, slower than it had earlier this year.

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To: Lazamataz
Unemployment will sink as they start killing people.

Why not? It worked so well for Stalin & Mao.

21 posted on 08/03/2010 5:53:58 AM PDT by Nevermore (...just a typical cracker, clinging to my Constitutional rights...)
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To: Magnatron
Real unemployment number is closer to 25 to 30 percent.

33 percent of my brothers and sisters, adults in my family, are now unemployed. One of them for a year.

My daughter has just graduated from college a year ago, a 100,000 dollar adventure, and has been working at a restaurant as a waitress since then. This kid was in the top 95 percentile in the country. She now takes lunch orders.

We are now in a depression, and they just can't admit it. Obama and Pelosi have turned a recession into a depression.

22 posted on 08/03/2010 5:55:51 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: All

People there is no money in truly fixing things. These people running the show are all crooks and don’t share the interests of We The People. They are paid to decieve us and with our money no less.

Now...was this Unexpected?


23 posted on 08/03/2010 5:56:15 AM PDT by Gasshog (going to get what all those libs asked for, but its not what they expected.)
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To: MindBender26

It will get worse when all those new illegal aliens flooding across the border now that that idiot clinton judge has made her ruling. And 0 has said that ICE will look the other way.


24 posted on 08/03/2010 5:59:57 AM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: MindBender26
Timothy Geithner: Unemployment Could Go Up Before It Comes Down.

That's why he gets the big bucks and doesn't even have to pay taxes on it!

25 posted on 08/03/2010 6:05:28 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: OpusatFR

Yes.


26 posted on 08/03/2010 6:05:41 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: OpusatFR

It would be funny if it did not affect people lives.


27 posted on 08/03/2010 6:07:44 AM PDT by Perdogg (Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
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To: GailA
They pour across the border, knowing that Amnesty is just around the corner. That is why they need to get here ASAP. Just being here is all it will take.

Then, they get full citizenship, medical, housing, Food Stamps, jobs, transportation and what ever else the Democrats can think of to attract them into their dynasty.

You can bet that they are already plotting on how to create Amnesty by Executive Order. But rest assured, even if the Dems lose in November, they will pass Amnesty under a Lame Duck session of Congress and the Senate. Then, their Socialist conversion of Amerika will be complete.

28 posted on 08/03/2010 6:11:34 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP ( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
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To: OpusatFR

that fills me with confidence that any reasonably well-educated seventh grader could do a better job of running Treasury than this clown


29 posted on 08/03/2010 6:11:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jersey117

Yep and they know we will collapse soon and they can get richer ushering in global communism with the failures at the U.N.

OH AND THIS JUST IN-— Record hot temps throughout the United States PROVE Gore’s Global Warming ponzi scheme

The sky is falling down

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_credit


30 posted on 08/03/2010 6:13:04 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: MindBender26

“Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: Unemployment Could Go Up Before It Comes Down”

IOW, Unemployment is about to go through the roof because neither I nor my idiot boss have ANY idea WTF we are doing.

If I tell you a lie and say that it is only going to be short term, will you still vote for our party in November?


31 posted on 08/03/2010 6:15:23 AM PDT by Grunthor (My coffee creamer is fat free because I am not.)
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To: OpusatFR

I am sure Timmy already knows what will be in the BLS report on Friday. It remains to be seen if he is trying to tamp down a report that will show increased unemployment or that he can crow about a report that shows lower unemployment. Last month, all of the pundits predicted increased unemployment and it came out as no-change.


32 posted on 08/03/2010 6:16:51 AM PDT by kabar
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To: MindBender26
EPIC FAIL.
33 posted on 08/03/2010 6:21:21 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

It’s been the coolest July in nearly 100 years here in San Diego.


34 posted on 08/03/2010 6:23:30 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: kabar
:::BREAKING NEWS THIS JUST IN FROM CNN:::

Timothy Geithner and Obama just announced all airplanes must go up before they go down.

The very sad thing is the Alinsky progressive communistic, machine bashed Bush so badly that he was the devil incarnate straight from hell-

So well...

That idiotic Americans fell for this...

“A light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Barack.”

-- Barack Obama:

http://deathby1000papercuts.blogspot.com/2008/10/barack-obama-and-saul-alinsky-godfather.html

35 posted on 08/03/2010 6:24:07 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: MindBender26

With a crook like tax cheat Geithner running Treasury, unemployment may never go down.


36 posted on 08/03/2010 6:24:11 AM PDT by freedomfiter2
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To: MindBender26
Treasury Secretary Timothy ZeitGeistner:

Balloons Could Go Up Before They Come Down

37 posted on 08/03/2010 6:28:15 AM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: ecomcon

I guess they turned the HAARP machine on BARRY BARRY HOT in the Eastern U.S. only
< / sarcasm >


38 posted on 08/03/2010 6:30:02 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: bunkerhill7

39 posted on 08/03/2010 6:30:40 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: MindBender26

40 posted on 08/03/2010 6:32:23 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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