Tim Geithner, having completed paying off the taxes he wasn’t going to pay until nominated by Barack Obama, is now in the harness over at Treasury. The folks at The People’s Cube are urging him, as his first act, to revamp our outdated currency with this:
Obama won the election with a rhetoric that skillfully replaced the words “socialist revolution” with the word “change.” Now he is skillfully replacing the word “recession” with “catastrophe.” The next logical step is to keep the economy running by replacing “dollar” with “thank you.”