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President Obama Expected to Announce New Treasury Secretary — Is This Him & Is This Really His Signature?

Jan. 9, 2013 11:23am Becket Adams

Will White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew Be the New Treasury Secretary?

President Obama walks with White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew on March 2 on the South Lawn of the White House. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

White House chief of staff Jack Lew is President Barack Obama’s expected pick to lead the Treasury Department, with an announcement possible before the end of the week.

White House officials would not confirm that a final decision has been made. But aides did not dispute that Lew is emerging as the consensus choice. Sources familiar with the process say Obama is choosing Lew because of his “wide variety of government and private sector experience.”

Lew previously led the Office of Management and Budget and oversaw international economic issues at the State Department. He has played a key role in numerous financial negotiations between the White House and Capitol Hill.

The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss the expected nomination ahead of the president.

However, although it’s still not official, opposition to President Obama’s likely choice has already begun. First, from CNBC’s Larry Kudlow:

bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-0……. Not personal, but Lew bad choice at Treasury. No financial experience,too far to left,no trust from GOP leaders.

— Larry Kudlow (@larry_kudlow) January 9, 2013

And then there’s this from RedState co-founder Ben Domenech:

Jack Lew is one of the most partisan, most ideological members of the Obama team. Represents escalation of acrimony.

— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) January 9, 2013

Over at the Media Research Center, Stephen Gutowski reminds us that Lew said in 2011 that ”there is no need to deal with social security” because it is “solidly funded through 2037″:

Of course, as noted earlier on TheBlaze, Social Security is anything but sustainable.

“[T]he Social Security Administration underestimates how long Americans will live and how much the trust funds will need to pay out — to the tune of $800 billion by 2031, more than the current annual defense budget — and that the trust funds will run out, if nothing is done, two years earlier than the government has predicted [emphasis added],” the New York Times reports.

However, if Twitter serves as an accurate cultural zeitgeist, which is debatable, it appears people are more concerned with Lew’s squiggly signature than they are with his political worldview:

Maybe he’s into modern art.RT @ryanlizza Good time to remind people that this is Jack Lew’s signature: twitter.yfrog.com/nuuryjrj

— DAVID FABER (@DavidFaberCNBC) January 9, 2013

Can’t wait to see what Jack Lew’s scrawled signature will look like when rendered in trillion-dollar platinum. nymag.com/daily/intellig…

— John Hayward (@Doc_0) January 9, 2013

Re: Jack Lew’s slinky signature, remember that Geithner upgraded his chicken scratch> marketplace.org/topics/economy…

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 9, 2013

As a bunch of people just pointed out to me, that signature will appear on our currency. Take that, people who think America is in decline!

— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) January 9, 2013

In case you’re wondering what they’re talking about, this is Jack Lew’s actual signature:

And this is what it would look like on U.S. currency:

Courtesy New York magazine.

Yes, that’s really his signature.

Lew’s signature on our bills would give the appearance gov’t is run by children–wouldn’t be all that wrong, I suppose nymag.com/daily/intellig…

— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) January 9, 2013

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Comments (59)

The-Monk
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 4:04pm
I can explain this…..

He likes to add zeros (lots of 000,000,000′s) to everything. : (

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- DadRocked
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:24pm
  Good one and so much on point Monk !
  
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Epic Fail
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 3:15pm
Looks like my 3 year olds signature.

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- boss_ross
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 4:35pm
  I was just gonna ask if this is the signature of a child.
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 3:00pm
The little socialist was trying to write his name but a naked obama came up from behind and goosed him…..

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- sheik
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 3:14am
  That looks just like the ‘signature’ on Obama’s birth certificate.
  
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hauschild
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 1:46pm
This is part and parcel for this regime; square pegs into round holes.

This is one of the most destructive traits of a leftist; not understanding their own (and others’) limitations. They have this absurd notion that just because one is “educated”, that makes him qualified for ANY job – and this is a prime example.

Law degree, 8 years as “policy adviser” to Tip O’Neil, director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1998 until 2001, worked for Citigroup and New York University after leaving the Clinton administration – pretty much one of the “types” responsible for the situation American finds itself in. So, he’s the perfect fit for this regime. He can build on his destruction.

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- Mil Mom
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 8:52pm
  Sounds to me like a Pay-Off for all the good reviews OMB has given the leftists projects through the years. Maybe little timmy’s briefcase has worn out from all those stuffed $’s now it’s his turn.
  
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 1:32pm
Looks like an uneducated twits signature! Are we sure he can read, cause we know he cannot write!

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- @leftfighter
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 2:24pm
  I don;t see anything that remotely resembles his name in there.
  
  Maybe that first letter could be a J, maybe the second is an A (being generous here), but the rest is nothing like the letters in his name.
  
  I can’t say I’m surprised someone in this Administration is too lazy to even write his own name.
  
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fgarvin
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 1:02pm
WOW another failure at the Treasury Dept. Big surprise! And you were expecting competence from Dumbo!

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john vincent
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 1:01pm
If that is a genuine signature, (history of proven ink to paper) clearly this man has brain damage

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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 2:24pm
  Maybe he’s just a ghost?
  
  OooOoooOooOoo
  
  call Scooby Doo to confirm
  
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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:35pm
“However, if Twitter serves as an accurate cultural zeitgeist, which is debatable, it appears people are more concerned with Lew’s squiggly signature than they are with his political worldview:”……………
……………I would almost guarantee this to be true. Too many ignorant Amerikans more concerned about Lew’s signature than his ability to help the Fuhrer destroy Amerika, not only through Communism, but also through lack of skill and over abundance of ignorance.
How are those “free” Phones working out for you ? Still worth that Vote ?

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- ranepowel
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:51pm
  I work for Hollywood and make a good living (thanks to my union). Totally worth the vote. Didn’t you just see, my industry got a HUGE tax break as part of the fiscal cliff deal, basically ensuring that we’re going to have enough funding to make all the propaganda films we want for the next ten years at least. And we broke box office records AGAIN this year. TV viewing is up in ALL demographics.
  
  You people just can’t stop giving me money, and I love it! :)
  
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- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 1:35pm
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:51pm
  I work for Hollywood and make a good living (thanks to my union).
  
  I’ve heard the Gay porn Industry was doing very well. Thanks for sharing, Brokeback Mountain.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 8:22pm
  Here’s why, and it should not be any surprise. Just ask Joel.
  
  http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/19/opinion/oe-stein19
  
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jessieH
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:33pm
Well, from the signature, I would say he’s a college graduate.

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- ranepowel
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:49pm
  Yeah, if we was just a high school graduate it’d just be an “X” and maybe a doodle of something.
  
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DZ-015
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:31pm
How appropriate; appoint Jack Lew to help flush America down the loo.

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The_Jerk
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:29pm
Of course it’s Jack Lew. He’s Jewish.

Look, Jack Lew replaced Peter Orszag as Director of OMB. Orszag, of course, is now Vice Chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup. Both are Jewish.

When Lew had to leave as OMB Director, in order to become Obama’s Chief of Staff, he was replaced with Jeff Zients, who also Jewish.

I know it takes great insight… not… but, “Does anyone see a pattern?”
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 2:57pm
  Hmmmmmm!
  
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zoro51
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:25pm
my drs signature is more readible that this.. WHAT A FRACKING JOKE.. impeach this LOSER obama now end the reign of american hatred n BUFFOONERY… clearly obama HANST GOT LOGIC in his brain…

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- YourArgumentIsInvalid
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 1:04pm
  seriously zoro51, you are a doctor? As in a practicing one? Jeeze… Don’t know why a man’s signature is grounds for another man’s impeachment, but before you get in a tizzy:
  
  http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/geithner-interviews/timothy-geithners-signature-not-fit-print
  
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ginger100
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:21pm
that signature looks like it says glad trash bag but i could be wrong

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IndyGuy
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:09pm
What’s say we have a look into Timmy’s personal books and bank accounts and see how well he fared since having this job….

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:08pm
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Another POS. Does Obama just cop-a-squat out on the south lawn to find these people?……….

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- ResistSocialism
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 3:13pm
  No Obama puts much thought into his decisions. Only problem Obama is a Psychopath!
  
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65Mustang
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:59am
Another Obama boot-licker…not intelligent enough to do what is good for the country, massive spending cuts.

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- ranepowel
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:53pm
  We don’t need massive spending cuts. We need to SPEND more. More investment in infrastructure. Any moron who thinks we need to cut hundreds of thousands of jobs by eliminating federal agencies and the like isn’t worth listening to, as they don’t have a working brain cell in their head.
  
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- bigdawg96
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 1:51pm
  @RANEPOWEL… You are the one lacking a single brain cell if you don’t understand that those thousands of government agency jobs are paid for by private sector tax payers and those agency jobs only cost money they do not create a single penny. Cutting federal jobs reduces the federal deficit and gets the monkey off the backs of the hard working companies out there so they can hire these people to actually do something productive with their lives instead of dragging down the achievers.
  
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Think_4_yourself
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:59am
And I thought he was going to pick Donald Trump (sarcasism off)

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:55am
I’ve been losing a lot of sleep wondering who the next Fuhrer appointed Communist to help destroy AmeriKa will be.

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- techengineer11
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:25pm
  Guaranteed to be Jewish.
  
  Don’t hate the messenger.. Just trying to get the truth out..
  
  People don’t understand what has happened to their country.. I’m very sorry to be the bearer of bad news but your country has been hijacked and it’s under occupation.
  
  One does not have to be very smart to see and undertand this fact but you do have to be willing to open your eyes.
  
  No one not anyone on the Blaze will debate me. No one will challenge my assertions because they know they will lose and they can’t face the truth..
  
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- BenzinVasser
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 5:20pm
  to Techenginerr11, …What I have come to think is the American Jew hates, not just dislikes, the middle eastern Jew, they seem to be two separate form of Judaism. It appears they do everything against Israel and are all liberals that destroy morals in the USA through what they spew out of Hollywood. I really don’t think the Europeans Jews want to have anything to do with the real Jews. The American Jew for the majority has no morals, only conducts daily life under the love of money. Now, I’m not saying “All”, but it appears to me the ones with authority are this way in the USA.
  
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oxycontinxx
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:55am
you know what……….in the school of corporate america, there was a message……….always hire people smarter than you are and turn them loose to get the job done. every now and then do a status check to make sure the team is working off the same page, but if necessary true things up as needed.

obammy’s problem…………….he doesnt act very smart and the people he picks for various positions are duds.

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UNALIEN
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:54am
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=88866&page=1#.UO2fWI4vEyg

“The booming economy also will allow the country to pay off the debt by 2009 if it dedicates its entire budget surplus to debt reduction, White House budget director Jack Lew said. “America is on track to becoming debt-free,” Lew said.

“Over that same 10-year period, the surplus for Social Security is expected to grow to $2.5 trillion while the Medicare surplus is expected to grow to $532 billion”, Lew said.

From 2001.. Jack Lew

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- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:59am
  This is even worse than i thought it could ever be. Lew is the perfect pick for the Fuhrer. This will be the final nail in AmeriKa’s future.The SS Trust fund “balances” are nothing more than a “bookkeeping” device. They do not consist of real economic assets that can be drawn down in the future to fund benefits.
  When your FICA tax is taken out of your paycheck, it does not get squirreled away in a lockbox in West Virginia where it’s kept until you retire. Most goes out immediately to pay current retirees, and the rest ( say $100 ) goes to the U.S. Treasury—and is spent. On roads, bridges, national defense, Public Television, whatever—-gone, spent.
  In return for that $100, the Treasury sends the SS Administration a piece of paper that says : IOU $100. There are countless such pieces of paper in the lockbox. They are called “special issue” Bonds. Special they are : They are worthless. They are nothing more than “claims on the Treasury” ( ie., promises ) that, when redeemed ( when you retire and are waiting for your check ), will have to be financed by raising Taxes, borrowing from the Public, or reducing benefits or other expenditures.
  “The existence of a large trust fund balance, therefore, does not, by itself, have any impact on the Governments ability to pay benefits. The lockbox with the little pieces of paper mean nothing.
  Social Secutiry is Doomed and so are we.
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:19pm
  yes, a Progressive Propagandist shill for ponzifinance aka NeoKeynesianism…
  
  Lew is WORSE than TIMMY,, unbelievable
  
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Chromo200
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:54am
Who cares .. I don’t . The czars and Valerie run the show. when you know you are going down the toilet, you start fending for yourself. Let the Obamazombies figure it out when they are down the sewer eating grass and plaster.

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- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:26pm
  “They” already have it figured out. If you can get by without SS, your one of the rare ones, and fortunate ones. Most people rely heavily on SS, as they have paid into it their entire lives and it makes up most of what they will need to live on. SS was never created as a “retirement” account, BUT, over the decades this Government has allowed it to become just that. This is not OUR fault. This is 100% the Governments fault, especially since they steal from the “Fund” all the time.
  I wish i could afford to “not care”.
  
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- ranepowel
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:56pm
  Your fault you didn’t save up for YOUR retirement.
  
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- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 1:32pm
  Tick Tock Troll, Tick Tock.
  
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Lotus503
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:52am
“No financial experience, too far to left, no trust from GOP leaders.” He’s a shoe-in to be approved by the GOP Congress.

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huey6367
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:51am
I’m gonna miss Timmy (sarcasm).

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kickagrandma
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:39am
Whomever he chooses, it will be someone else against GOD, AMERICA, GUNS and FREEDOM. Count on it.

Looking up all BIBLE verses I can find about these folks and end times. Suggest you do the same.
The GOOD NEWS IS OUR GOD WINS IT ALL.
I’d like for HIM to recognize me coming through that door.
Some of you might want to get in touch with HIM for the first time or renew that old acquaintance real quick now. We are running out of time.

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- kalli
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:21pm
  Amen, Kick. Just reading a couple of headlines today should tell us His wrath is upon us….a murder was committed every 94 seconds last year with record dollars made at planned no-parenthood; norovirus spreading across the globe; National Cathedral to perform same-sex marriages…just to name a few. Good has become evil, and evil is good. Prayer and repentance are missing today as Americans have turned to bowing to the obamanator instead of our Creator.
  
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ResistSocialism
Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:28am
Does it really matter who Obama picks?

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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 11:57am
  At this point! Not really.
  
  Game is over, the players just don’t realize it yet.
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 9, 2013 at 12:02pm
  Nope…Anybody Obama picks will be a Marxist ideologue…
  
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