http://newledger.com/2009/01/the-indispensable-mr-geithner-2/ The New Ledger on News, Politics, and Market issues of the day. Welcome to the Know. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:36:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://newledger.com/2009/01/the-indispensable-mr-geithner-2/comment-page-1/#comment-5 ChooseTheHero.com » Blog Archive » “Indispensable/That’s What You Are” Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:00:24 +0000 http://newledger.com/?p=361#comment-5 [...] The New Ledger and am glad to do so; you will see me post some of my longer pieces there. Here is my first column, which was inspired by the decision to confirm Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary. An excerpt: [...] [...] The New Ledger and am glad to do so; you will see me post some of my longer pieces there. Here is my first column, which was inspired by the decision to confirm Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary. An excerpt: [...]

]]> http://newledger.com/2009/01/the-indispensable-mr-geithner-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4 “Indispensable/That’s What You Are” - Pejman_Yousefzadeh’s blog - RedState Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:57:59 +0000 http://newledger.com/?p=361#comment-4 [...] The New Ledger and am glad to do so; you will see me post some of my longer pieces there. Here is my first column, which was inspired by the decision to confirm Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary. An excerpt: [...] [...] The New Ledger and am glad to do so; you will see me post some of my longer pieces there. Here is my first column, which was inspired by the decision to confirm Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary. An excerpt: [...]

]]> http://newledger.com/2009/01/the-indispensable-mr-geithner-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Fun With Timothy Geithner Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:30:10 +0000 http://newledger.com/?p=361#comment-3 [...] Pejman Yousefzadeh, writing at something called The New Ledger, toasts “The Indispensable Mr. Geithner.” In urging Geithner’s confirmation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid offered his entirely nonpartisan opinion that “This powerful economic storm demands strong, decisive and wise leadership,” and that “No one is more qualified or prepared for the task than Tim Geither.” Thus, despite the fact that the Treasury Secretary was ridiculously delinquent in paying over $40,000 in back taxes (plus interest), despite the fact that his delinquency stemmed from his inability to master the supposedly complex machinery of TurboTax and his inability to properly read the rules on self-employment taxes that applied in the two years he worked at the International Monetary Fund–all while collecting IMF reimbursement for the taxes he did not pay–despite all of these mistakes that would have landed an ordinary citizen in hot water with the Internal Revenue Service, Tim Geithner finds himself as the latest successor to Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. [...] [...] Pejman Yousefzadeh, writing at something called The New Ledger, toasts “The Indispensable Mr. Geithner.” In urging Geithner’s confirmation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid offered his entirely nonpartisan opinion that “This powerful economic storm demands strong, decisive and wise leadership,” and that “No one is more qualified or prepared for the task than Tim Geither.” Thus, despite the fact that the Treasury Secretary was ridiculously delinquent in paying over $40,000 in back taxes (plus interest), despite the fact that his delinquency stemmed from his inability to master the supposedly complex machinery of TurboTax and his inability to properly read the rules on self-employment taxes that applied in the two years he worked at the International Monetary Fund–all while collecting IMF reimbursement for the taxes he did not pay–despite all of these mistakes that would have landed an ordinary citizen in hot water with the Internal Revenue Service, Tim Geithner finds himself as the latest successor to Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. [...]

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