Geithner's appointment has resulted in the Geithner Paradigm, the "Change!" we can believe in by virtue of the powerful implementing a double standard for their powerful friends, in terms of appointments and payoffs (aka The Generational Indebtedness Act, aka the Spendilus Program, aka the Not Stimulus, aka Obama's Folly, aka the stimulus ripoff package.)
President Obama has gone on to tell us:
But I think that, look, ultimately, I campaigned on changing Washington and bottom-up politics. And I don't want to send a message to the American people that there are two sets of standards, one for powerful people, and one for ordinary folks who are working every day and paying their taxes.President Obama's insistence in appointing a man who criminally violated our laws and the laws of the organization he now controls. Yet, he now expects us to forget the implementation of a double standard that he, Obama, implemented as a matter of policy.
I think it’s time for a comeback for civil disobedience. The only thing that angers me more than the rampant elitism and corruption in our government is that apparent tolerance for it that was demonstrated most recently with the appointment of
what is almost certainly a tax cheat as the Treasury Secretary. Surely I am not alone in wondering why I am a big enough sap to pay tens of thousands of dollars in Federal taxes each and every year, while our Washington bureaucrats seem to get away consequence free with a pattern of cheating and fraud.
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