Tim Geithner is a joke in China, too
Tax cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is a laughingstock in Congress. A permanent punchline on late-night TV. And he’s a joke in China, too:
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday reassured the Chinese government that its huge holdings of dollar assets are safe and reaffirmed his faith in a strong U.S. currency.
A major goal of Geithner’s maiden visit to China as Treasury chief is to allay concerns that Washington’s bulging budget deficit and ultra-loose monetary policy will fan inflation, undermining both the dollar and U.S. bonds.
China is the biggest foreign owner of U.S. Treasury bonds. U.S. data shows that it held $768 billion in Treasuries as of March, but some analysts believe China’s total U.S. dollar-denominated investments could be twice as high.
“Chinese assets are very safe,” Geithner said in response to a question after a speech at Peking University, where he studied Chinese as a student in the 1980s.
His answer drew loud laughter from his student audience, reflecting scepticism in China about the wisdom of a developing country accumulating a vast stockpile of foreign reserves instead of spending the money to raise living standards at home.
Last week, I recommended these baby kneepads for Geithner as he grovels to the Commie regime to keep America afloat.
Looks like he needs a Thudguard helmet as well.
How do you say “snort-worthy” in Mandarin?
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And these stupid, dangerous socialist clowns actually believe this drivel they spout forth?
The Russians and Chinese are CORRECTLY mocking our lack of capitalistic leadership.
Hellofadeal.
PFffffffffffffTTTTTTTTt!! Snort-worthy indeed.
Thanks, I needed a laugh. What a farce of an Administration.
Lord, I hope we last until grown-ups get back in charge.
You know it is bad when the Chinese are laughing at this dolt and they really have no freedom of expression. Here, the lick spittle media and the yellow belly liberals hang on his every word and believe it.
Obama still owns the ignorant vote, and is working hard to buy them with your money.
1. Your holdings of U.S. Dollar assets are safe.
2. The check’s in the mail.
3. I’ll respect you in the morning.
4. I’m from the government, I’m here to help.
5. No, those pants don’t make your butt look big.
6. ……….
they OWN US
the US is on a fast track to third world status…the whole country will look like detroit, and the rest of the world will laugh at us and rejoice over our stupidity.
and there is no other reason for it..
No they don’t, but believe, or hope their audience will buy their act. For a huge number of our own citizens they are right…at least for now.
zero and his flunkies might have the sheep fooled, but everyone else knows they are dealing with mediocrity and liars. laughing at that which the sheep voted for, the joke and his court.
I was going to suggest kneepads, Michelle, but being the sharp girl that you are you’re well ahead of the power curve.
A saddle would be a nice addition, though, so that after they’re through laughing in his face he can crawl on all fours while ChiComs ride him around like a … jackass.
Finding yourself in the position of having to send relays of high-ranking American government officials to suck up to the Chinese creates a strict-liability case that when it comes to standing up for America, you’ve really screwed the pooch.
He should’ve taken Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman on his stand-up comedy tour with him to help reassure them that “when it comes to inflation, the only thing we have to fear is inflation fear itself“.
Another good laughline is “there’s no hint of inflationary pressures in the economy right now. Consumer prices are lower now than they were a year ago”. Because ” in weird times like the present, when many of the normal rules no longer apply”. (See also “Obama advisors seek to overturn gravity laws”)
/Digression
Trust us, your investment is safe, like that of the bondholders at GM.
Geithner himself would know. His undergrad degree was Asian Studies or some such thing. Econ – what’s that?
I have never been so embarassed as an American. Now on the heals of Nancy Pelosi comes Geithner. No wonder they think we are sheeple. Nancy Pelosi preaching to the chinese about carbon dioxide? Now I am sure they are convinced. Then Geithner saying “Trust Me”. They know cheats when they see one.
Biden telling the world where his “secret hiding place” is. Obama bowing to the Saudi Prince. We have the FIVE stooges representing the US.
Raise your hand if you ever thought the Chinese would teach us about Capitalism.
My wife knows. I’ll ask her.
2012 is a LOOOOONG way away!
If it wasn’t so serious to our Republic, the whole bho and team are ’snort worthy’. The sad part, there are gobs of American’s who think things are just dandy.
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I guess they don’t drink the Obama Kool-Aid at Peking U.
What are the Chinese characters for ROTFL?
I raised my hand because I cut my knuckles when I smashed my fist through the computer screen.
I need Universal Health Care now so I can go get stitches.
don’t get your hopes up….
*If Timmy the Tax Cheat did so as a resident of China, wouldn’t he be missing a kidney by now?; Just asking; 2010 can’t come soon enough for some pushback against P-BO and his Clown Cluster(Timmy and others too numerous to mention).
The Full Faith And Credit Of The United States…
I never thought that term would be a punch line to a dirty joke…
Good for them. The know when someone is full of “Deng”.
You must be one of those redneck racists that married a “person of color” as a cover for your racism.
I hope our grandchildren aren’t still laughing at this joke…
We have you down for an Emergency Room visit on May 19, 2010. Please speak Spanish to the staff.
We are so into debt with China, they can probably direct us to provide air support for their invasion of Taiwan.
Arithmetic
Great, just fabulous… the Chinese are laughing and the Russians are calling us Marxists.
Yeah, were screwed.
Tim Geithner has less credibility than a Chinese gold farmer in World Of Warcraft!
You can say it like ” ^_______^ ” but I think that might be more Korean in internet-origin
Did I see something elsewhere that Obama is thinking of selling blueprints of the B2 stealth bomber to China in exchange for some debt?
Wow! When the Chinese laugh at us and the Russians are running opinion pieces in their newspaper about fast move to Marxism in the USA, what does that say about our future? Getting scared here. Where is our dark horse for 2012? Who are our dark ponies for 2010?
Just read all comments. I’m with Jasetaro.
This whole administration is a joke — Not a funny, Ha Ha one though……….
Hey, Mr. Geithner:
滚动 地板 嘻
值得的噴鼻息
How do you say “Snort worthy” in Mandarin?
According to Babel Fish. Regular Chinese.
Now, THERE’S a real knee-slapper…!!!
The main reason Geithner is on an emergency trip to China is because the Treasury yield curve steepened sharply last Wednesday after the completion of the 7-year auction despite the Feds efforts to contain the impact of the various Treasury auctions.
It was strongly suspected that China was selling its longer maturities in the open market after having bought the shorter maturities at auction. China is also suspected of hedging its longer bonds as well.
China had also been caught buying the gold the IMF countries were selling to contain gold prices in hopes of protecting their currencies. China is also hoarding copper, steel and other commodities for industrial reasons as well as a hedge against the dollar which is again in steep decline.
It is no laughing matter that a creditor country with a per capita income of $2,000 has a debtor country with a per capita income of over $43,000 over a barrel. Our world economic power has been greatly diminished.
If we don’t stop printing money to finance our government’s efforts to borrow its way out of debt, we will eventually become a third-world economy.
if the online translators were correct:
(http://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.html) (http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddictbasic&wdqb=worthy&wdrst=0&wddmtm=1&wdeac=1)
zuò hēng shēng xián liáng
ANOTHER comedian hits the Obama Comedy Tour stage…
“A little scary…” The guy is just cracking me up…
My wife is Chinese, and if I called her a person of color, she would bash me on the side of my head.
Remember when we were told this idiot was too important to not confirm?
That is what was snort worthy.
They’re laughing in his face, which, unfortunately means they’re laughing at us.
We.Are.Doomed.
值得的噴鼻息
xlates to:
Is worth spurting the breath
Not a bad literal translation I guess.
I don’t find anything about this administration funny anymore. They really make me sick and very afraid. I can’t remember a time in our history that has worried me this much and I’m a gramma. I can’t imagine how much worse it will be by 2010, I fear it will be too late.
And, in other news today, Geithner told GM investors, “Your assets are safe in the hands of the Union.” When asked if by “Union” he meant the Country or the UAW, he said “yes” and declined any futher comment.
/sarc off
Geithner is a fool on three Continents.
Obama is a fool on all of them.
America is a damn Global Laughing Stock for electing that Idiot. Thanks for voting Stupid America!
A friend of mine who is the head of the Poli-Sci department at a local Catholic University and who spends a great deal of time in China informs me that it is pronounced:
da han zhi de
Incredibly, liberals believe that the rest of the world is a ignorant as the nincompoops that voted for them and continue to worship at the feet of “the One” (and don’t know why).
It’s a good thing the little fret face tax cheat doesn’t have the same issue Pinocchio had when telling his lies. His nose would be able to circle the planet at the rate the lies keep coming out of his pie whole. The second coming of the Weimar Republic is just around the corner get your wheel barrels tuned up you are going to need them to buy a loaf of bread soon at the rate this idiot keeps printing worthless paper.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
“His answer drew loud laughter from his student audience, reflecting scepticism in China about the wisdom of a developing country accumulating a vast stockpile of foreign reserves instead of spending the money to raise living standards at home.”
They can laugh all they want but without our Chinese imports, they’d be just another third world country. All they’re doing is lending us our own money which begs the question…who’s the biggest idiots?
Errah, little timmy’s in over his head, someone please make sure he’s wearing his floaties!
Errah and Drudge has a report on a 31 year old lawyer wannabe that’s basically the point person for the auto bailouts. I’m laughing so hard I just peed myself. Thank god for Depends.
This whole thing started long before Obama took office. TARP was a Bush plan. The GM bailout was Bush. Special deals with China go back to Nixon.
The only thing Obama accomplished so far is getting his budget passed (full of McCain-inspired big spending) and getting his tax-cheat appointees confirmed without any opposition from the GOP.
And today, Russia was negotiating for a significant equity share in the new GM.
You should expand your omplaining to address our entire corrupt one-party one-worlder government, not just the latest crew to occupy the White House.
What is happening is a direct result our government abandoning any pretense to defending our Constitution, our borders and even our national interests.
Rags – A lot of terms that used to mean something good about the USA have become laughable, thanks to the morons in office and the idiots that voted for them.
Errah, tip O’ the hat to Rags who saw it first!
So who will they put in charge of health care….
a nursing student who volunteered for THE ONE’s campaign?
Errah, no it’ll be a Canadian Cancer Patient with 6 mos to live, max
Errah, at least the Weimar Republic got a decent army out of the deal. What’ll we get?? more happy meal toys and posionous baby formula if we’re lucky!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
fify
So…
we are left with a real poser.
Do you laugh or cry?
Or…
Do we laugh UNTIL we cry, or cry until we become hysterical?
Myself, I will follow the Pink Floyd option…
I will become comfortably numb.
And plot my insurrection.
yes that magic slate comes so easy to the young, that’s why timmy and the almost graduated lawyer accepted the positions. the chinese were saying to timmy, show us on your slate how you intend to spend your way out of debt, and the almost lawyer is committing 30 billion dollars to buy a 700 million dollar company. sounds like he didn’t take business 101, but stuck to the polysci courses of ass kissing and back stabbing. it is going to be a long couple of years. but we can all feel good that the pres is going out on date night and continuing his weekly party schedule. let’s see, another couple mill down the drain
Yes it’s all the fault of the GOP. [roll eyes]
The Bush budget would not have had 1 trillion deficits for the next 10 years bumping our debt burdens into the 80% range. Just because he spent more than fiscal conservatives liked, and rang up deficits (due to the lowest tax burdens since the 1950s) does not mean it was anywhere near the level the Obama administration is planning to spend and run up deficits. That’s the issue.
That’s why the Chinese and everyone else is laughing. The Obama administration has no answer, they just keep pimping more government spending programs and “we’ll tax the rich”.
The fools who believed that Bush was fiscally irresponsible will eventually see that it was peanuts (or more accurately..wrong) compared to the alternative we have now. Brace yourself.
If you’re going to make silly remarks defending the GOP, you might at least make your comments in the same context that I made mine. Maybe you have a soft spot for Vichy Republicans but I find them even more detestable than the Dems and won’t allow myself to be blinded by what the current admin is doing. This never would have happened without Team Bush and the Vichy Republicans.
And where are they now? Never a peep unless it is to war against conservatives.
Would you like to rephrase your response more honestly?
PP, some of us are old enough to remember that Reagan bailed out Harley-Davidson.
There is a MATERIAL difference between the feds LENDING money or GUARANTEEING loans and TAKING ownership of capital and control of a business.
Please, don’t PRETEND there isn’t. Bush was WRONG, as we all agree.
THE ONE is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE different and MORE WRONG than any predecessor.
IF YOU DISAGREE WITH THAT, STATE YOUR REASONS.
Our government is full of jokes with power. Urkel is the biggest joke. We cannot undue the damage he is causing and its only going to get worse.
If you don’t believe the above….you are a joke.
Because REAL Commies know when they see wannabe Commies.
Rags: I agree completely. Obama is much worse but it was Bush who opened the flood gates and the current Vichy Republicans refuse to fight because they don’t have the votes. Maybe they could find the votes if they at least mouthed the words and took the fight to wherever they need to take it.
At the moment, we are fighting a one-party government and should couch our arguments accordingly. Not that Michelle makes a clear distinction between conservatives and Republicans. It is a very important point.
The GOP feels entitled top our votes. We don’t need them. They should be crawling on their yellow bellies begging us to come back. Instead, they make waging war against us a first priority.
ANOTHER variation on the dirty joke…
In a few days, the Congress will pass a bill giving Federal employees FOUR FREAKING WEEKS of PAID vacation a year.
Two notes:
Hugh Hewitt has unconditionally called the GM take-over socialism, and advocates that NOBODY buy a GM product.
Mitt Romney has said that stock in GM held by THE ONE should be distributed to the American people. Of course, that would NOT rectify the sins of THE ONE, but it would at least make some sense in a capitalist framework, as opposed to what we now have.
Would 6 be “I won’t come in your mouth?”
Please… #75
geezzze.
Agreed. Neither party gives a rat’s patoot about OUR liberty. The question is, do we?
But they like us now.
#76
Just asking…………
The “Special Nurse” in CA who makes $350,000 a year.
Geithner should carry a jar of vaseline.
It’s like a kid with a “washable tattoo” thinking he’s tough.
A little late but I absolutely MUST make a correction from my comment #72:
NotNOTE that Michelle makes a clear distinction between conservatives and Republicans. It is a very important point.Marie,
In genteel company, one would say “This won’t get you pregnant, and I will respect you in the morning…..”
I dunno…I’ll have to consult my girlfriend who just spent a year in mainland China studying Mandarin-she might know…
and wear one of Hilldebeasts pantsuits.
…Because everything said by this administration is accepted lock, stock, and barrel by the MSM, Geither assumed that his pronouncements would be accepted in China, also.
Obama’s administration has bought into their own fairy tale.
Conservatives haven’t.
He studied in Peking in the 1980’s??
Wow. That one, I didn’t know. Another Maoist on the payroll..
At that point in his presentation, Tim showed his audience his tax returns . . .
Obama said yesterday that the Federal involvement with GM was going to be a quick in and out…
I hope Detroit has plenty of K-Y lube.