Representative Darrell Issa tells FOX Business Network’s Stuart Varney that Secretary Geithner should not keep his job as Treasury Secretary, saying that he “cost us $62 billion that we’re not going to get back.”
Below are excerpts from the interview: Courtesy of Fox Business News
On wanting Secretary Geithner fired:
“Is it true that only Tim Geithner can save America? Is it true that only Bernanke can run the Fed? I think we sell ourselves short thinking that there aren’t lots of viable alternatives, and in this case we can’t not second guess what Tim Geithner did. It cost us $62 billion that we’re not going to get back.”
On what would happen if Secretary Geithner’s job depended on a vote in Congress:
“First of all, a man’s got to know his limitations. If it depended on reconfirmation in the Senate by the Senators that are there today, I don’t think he’d keep his job.”
On the $1.35 trillion deficit:
“This is money that is being spent to prop up the size of government. This deficit is related to government not being willing to make a cutback at a time when Americans are making cutbacks. Americans are working for less. They’re working longer and harder, and they’re trying to figure out how to be competitive in a global world. If government would do even half as much as the private sector is doing we’d already be out of this recession.”
