Exclusive | Geithner: 'I Don't Understand' Why Debt Ceiling Debate Is Back
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Source: PBS
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown during a factory tour Thursday that he couldn't understand why the debate over the federal debt limit is back again.
The visit to Marlin Steel Wire Products, a Baltimore manufacturer of wire baskets that employs 30 workers and exports to some 36 countries around the world, was part of an ongoing effort to get out of Washington to promote the administration's economic agenda.
Geithner made those comments during a wide-ranging interview about the economy that touched on sluggish overall job and economic growth, new turmoil in Europe, JPMorgan's spectacular trading losses that have put a renewed focus on Wall Street regulation plus a new flare-up in Washington over the federal debt limit.
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Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)The debt-ceiling limit is as good as any other reason, and it has the advantage of being about money, something that the conservatives think should be strictly the domain of the r's.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)phantom power
(25,966 posts)Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)Republicans are extortionists.
24601
(3,940 posts)Social Security Taxes.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)People in the public eye should never prepare their taxes and I bet he just looked over his taxes and signed...
cindyperry2010
(846 posts)look behind the curtain look over there. We have done absolutely nothing about jobs look at president obama and how terrible he is
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)why the Rethugs would do something so bad for the country, but he does . . . and we do.
It's a lot of average Independent and Republican voters who don't understand.