From Audacity of Hope to "it's going to feel very hard, harder than anything they've experienced

[Karmadillo]

in their lifetime now, for some time to come."

It's good to know the oligarchs may not feel our pain, but they at least are aware it's going to be with us for a long time. Makes one think they might be kind enough to institute a couple of bonus gruel days if we work hard enough.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43672884/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/

Meet the Press transcript for July 10, 2011

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MR. GREGORY: When do you think recovery is actually going to start feeling like recovery ?

SEC'Y GEITHNER: Oh, I think it's going to take a long time still. This is a very tough economy . And I think for a lot of people...

MR. GREGORY: Yeah.

SEC'Y GEITHNER: ...it's going to be -- it's going to feel very hard, harder than anything they've experienced in their lifetime now, for some time to come . And that -- but that is because that is the tragic effects of a crisis this deep and this bad caused by a long period of lost opportunities to do things to make the country stronger.

more...

[villager]

1. The oligarchs will *only* understand general strikes, and people in the streets

...at this point.

Anything else, like tail-wagging excitement over the "two" party choices they laughingly offer us, will continue to earn both their contempt, and their cruelty.

[roguevalley]

13. obama picked and keeps tim geithner who looks like a pinhead

with his empty fish eyed stare. Obama knows what he's doing but he doesn't give a fuck. Not one fuck.

[Autumn]

2. Do away with the wars, end the tax cuts for the rich

that would really help a lot. Otherwise these people can fuck off. I find them to be disgusting.

[onethatcares]

10. you left out

the part about finding that 2.3 trillion dollars of wasted money in the Pentagon budget. Ya know, we could take that back from the contractors that have made a killing on the wars and cut that deficit mor than we realize

[Bragi]

16. That wouldn't just "help out"

End the wars and the tax giveaways to the rich, and the deficit would be gone, the debt would be manageable and payable, and the U.S economy would be on track for at least a generation.

That's a fact. It is also exactly what Obama is NOT doing.

[CleanGreenFuture]

3. And there it is.

[Bluebear]

15. indeed

[canoeist52]

4. ah, the "lost opportunities" of which he bears no responsibility?

[BeyondGeography]

5. The dickheads you're dealing with don't care about "the country"

[Jakes Progress]

6. Notice the word "they" Timmy's not gonna be suffering.

Speaking of lost opportunities. We lost a good one when Obama tapped this Wall Street weasel for this job.

[BlueIris]

11. I always notice that. It's a painful reminder of how out of touch

most members of this Administration are.

[nc4bo]

20. +1. Wish I'd read the comments before posting. nt

[WorseBeforeBetter]

7. January 20, 2009 through today -- the "long period of lost opportunities...

to do things to make the country stronger."

Raise the cap, tax the rich, and end the fucking wars. It's really quite basic, depending on whose side you are on.

[sabrina 1]

8. And he says that with a straight face as if he had nothing to do

with the biggest bank heist in history. And of course, no one dares to question him as to his own and Goldman Sachs role in the corruption and crime that created these problems, which they have the arrogance to pass the bill for, to the American people.

We will have to wait for the toppling of the Murdoch and Moon Empires before, as in Britain, there is a return to real journalism.

Geithner, who felt no pain for evading taxes either, one of his minor by comparison, crimes for which the 'little people' might have been held accountable. He, otoh, after admitting to not only evading taxes, but knowing he was doing so, was appointed to handle the money. Orwell couldn't have predicted the world we live in.

[enough]

9. An incredible quote from one who made (is making) sure that the wealth of our nation

keeps flowing steadily toward those who already have great wealth. The puniness of his understanding is appalling, or the hugeness of his arrogance.

[Karmadillo]

12. To have a government where this guy has so much power suggests just how much trouble we're in.

nt

[StarsInHerHair]

14. a quote below also from the show

"They've also said that you were backpedaling a bit on whether you'd cut entitlement programs like Medicare or Social Security. What's, what's the fact?

SEC'Y GEITHNER: That latter, that latter thing is not true. The president is standing tough, he is willing to do very, very difficult political things.

MR. GREGORY: Like what on Medicare?

SEC'Y GEITHNER: Like getting very substantial savings from the budget across the budget, defense, the rest of the government. Even Medicare, Medicaid, over the long-term, there are things we can do responsibly to save money in those programs. And we have to do that if we're going to bring these deficits under control. But to do that we have to have some shared sacrifice. We have to find a way to avoid shifting more of the burden in the tax system to the middle class."

[WinkyDink]

17. Then work on ALEEVIATING the pain, you EVIL GEITHNER.

[xchrom]

18. Recommend

[nc4bo]

19. I'm digging how he used the word "they" instead of "we".

Sounds so class warish.

What happened to shared pain Timmeh?

[Broderick]

21. I don't have a good feeling about the future of this country

I see it everyday in my neighborhood and in my business. I don't think we are getting the true story as it exists. If it gets worse, we all need to change our ways. People depending on the government will get hurt more. People can't find jobs. People are going to get hungry. I have no solutions to offer, because I only understand my little corner and the block I live on. I think we are being lied to on every turn, about everything and the robber barons talk in nice platitudes.

[CrispyQ]

22. This fucker has no shame. None. At. All.

"...lost opportunities to do things to make the country stronger."

Yeah, like throw your fucking bankster asses in jail & nationalize the worst offenders.