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The U.S. is following Canada's footsteps regarding the production of pennies and nickels. According to U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Giethner, our U.S. Mint intends to remove the penny and nickel coins from circulation beginning early in January 2013.

Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) of Nevada announced Thursday he will hold a crucial procedural vote on financial reform Monday, even before an agreement is reached on the legislation. Some Republicans, such as the moderate Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, expressed concern that by scheduling a vote before there is a bipartisan accord and before Senator Reid knows that he has the 60 votes needed to halt a filibuster, the majority leader is risking the progress the parties are making. But Reid said on Thursday that he’s “not going to waste any more time of the American people while...

Current economic policies are not sustainable and the world faces doom because "the governments are taking over", said Marc Faber, editor & publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report. "They will all bankrupt us and expropriate us, but it may not happen tomorrow. They'll give us something to play with, until the whole system breaks down...they'll just print money and print more money," he said on CNBC Thursday.

http://216.221.102.26/blogger/post/Obamas-mother-Stanley-A-Dunham-w... Obama's mother, Stanley A. Dunham, worked for Tim Giether's Father Peter Geither at the Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation is partnered with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. by DefendUSx March 21, 2009 16:32 Peter F. Geithner, Treasury Secretary Geithner's father, worked for the Ford Foundation. No surprise here though, really. Obama and family are highly connected to the East Coast banking crime syndicate (Rockefellers, Soros, Ford Foundation etc.). In other words, Obama and family are highly connected to (Council on Foreign Relations) CFR banking family members, or better known as the Federal Reserve conglomerate. The fairy-tale story that Obama delivered...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledged Thursday that his department "expressed concern" to Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) that a provision concerning bonuses in the stimulus bill could prompt lawsuits from workers at bailed-out companies—a measure at the heart of this week’s AIG bonus controversy. Already under fire for his handling of the issue, Geithner said Treasury officials spoke with Dodd about the measure. The language that was then substituted in the bill allowed the controversial AIG bonuses to go forward. “But we also worked with him to strengthen the overall framework,” Geithner said. “And his bill has this very important provision...

Slamming through $825 Billion package with $525 Billion in New spending which will include payoffs to Planned Parenthood in the amount of $750 million must be examined. This entire bill should be read before it is passed to avoid insertion of fairness doctrine, card check, fixing poorly run states budgets, or any other left wing specials.