Sir;....Thank you for this article, Mr. Shields...How much public honor can we expect from one who has proved to have no private honor??? One must presume that Mr. Geithner is Jewish, and as such was born with an instinctual, or innate understanding of Captialist economics....Look at how often these people have been done in by history with all affairs tossed into to the air, and yet they always land on their feet like so many cats... It must be instinct that makes their minds so nimble and quick.... So what does it tell you if this farsee of the economy does not want to put his money into social security or medicare??? Smart people put their money in the bank, or invest it; and others flush theirs down a social toilet where it will never be seen again...Social security has never been funded as it should have been...When the government borrowed against SS they paid not even the minimum of interest...Now; you are likely to see these money men means test social security until it is seen as only another public funded welfare program.... Could the truth be that to avert revolution and give people hope in the future of capitalism that the powerful and rich  made promises not one of them intented to keep???Could it be that so soon as the program was accepted they went about cutting the guts out of it, not funding it; and not making it certain, but instead kept the price low to inflate profits ??? That is what I think...Just another pap lie to tell the people... Another Ponzi...I don't want it means tested... The income tax was means tested...It was made to soak only the rich, and accepted because it justly soaked the rich;  but it has been used to pauperize the middle class... Certainly the rich don't need it...No one understands that fact better than they; so they have always resisted it... But if this country will make promises, it should keep them... Having paid my share dutifully; I can see that this was money out of my budget that I worked hard for... The amount my father paid was money taken from my generation, just as money I paid was taken from my children...Some of us should get it, sooner or later, with interest... You have to be able to see through their nonsense... If they say two people are supporting one on social security; so what??? One person can produce more than ten could only a few short years ago; and the price of that progress has always been denied to those who sweated it...And they knew that people were changing their behavior, having less children, and living longer...They could have adapted the program to meet the changes...That is a legitmate obligation of government....They did not do their jobs...They put the problems of tomorrow off for another day...And now it is here, and they want us to bear the cost... Timothy Geithner better be Merlin in a crash helmet... He better have a few Jewish brains cells in his head, or he may find he is secretary of a house of cards... Thanks...Sweeney

Ah yes, the Jellocrats. I know that party well. That quivering mound that looks from some angles like a mountain after the Republicans have practically dug themselves down to China. Let's hope to God we don't see too many more Geithners, and next time that idiot Harry Reid offers an august opposition to THE WRONG WAY TO DO THINGS like he did to Blagojevich's Roland Burris, it will be time to bet big money on the absence of everything but jello in his spine.