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Old Jan 23, 2009 | 09:21 AM
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Timothy Geithner says President Barack Obama believes China is "manipulating" its cu

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Great. Just what we need - a pissed off Chinese nation.
Old Jan 23, 2009 | 10:12 AM
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It's just a distraction so he can push threw a bunch of left wing liberal executive orders and have the sheeple totally clueless... that or he truly hates America and is baiting China to kill us all.
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Originally Posted by R-Dub
Read it Here.

Great. Just what we need - a pissed off Chinese nation.
they are. they peg their currency below everyone elses to keep up their trade imbalance
Old Jan 23, 2009 | 11:01 AM
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they are. they peg their currency below everyone elses to keep up their trade imbalance
Oh I am not defending China - but there are ways to diplomatically address this problem other than just throwing out that type of comment.

That and while we owe them trillions of dollars and are involved in 2 wars we do NOT need one of the most powerful nations to hate us MORE.
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Oh I am not defending China - but there are ways to diplomatically address this problem other than just throwing out that type of comment.

That and while we owe them trillions of dollars and are involved in 2 wars we do NOT need one of the most powerful nations to hate us MORE.
they are holding so much of our cash and are so dependent on our trade they wont bring our economy down. they will go down with us.
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they are holding so much of our cash and are so dependent on our trade they wont bring our economy down. they will go down with us.
^^^

This is also my understanding of the situation.
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It's just a distraction so he can push threw a bunch of left wing liberal executive orders and have the sheeple totally clueless... that or he truly hates America and is baiting China to kill us all.
^^^

Nice of you to come back. Fox News must be on a commercial break right now.

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It's just a distraction so he can push threw a bunch of left wing liberal executive orders and have the sheeple totally clueless... that or he truly hates America and is baiting China to kill us all.
Sigh. You have been missed around here.
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Geithner's nomination to be treasury secretary was approved by the Finance Committee on an 18-5 vote on Thursday despite unhappiness on the part of many senators over mistakes Geithner made on his tax returns earlier in the decade

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