lorne, It may be an apples and oranges wild guess,
but the reason why President-elect Bush may have given
the Treasury Secretary job to Mr. O'Neill rather than
the rumored expected person of Mr. Lindsey may parallel
the reason why past President Nixon keep Henry Kissinger
away from the title of Secretary of State when in fact
Kissinger was doing that task for Nixon/USA.
During that period Nixon understood of certain conditions
that existed in the world order that he as usa president
could mold into a likeness of greatness for himself if they
could be dealt with in a secret manner between him and foreign
contacts creating a framework where the USA Congree and Senate
had no opportunity to meddle and hurt and question a single
person of the USA making foreign policy in secret.
Bottom line was that the Secretary of State was required
to keep informed and be accountable to questions from those
others Powers that Be in the usa governemnt seperated from
the president. Kissinger did not have that burden and was
able to travel and talk "for" the usa prez nixon and conduct
the business that nixon wanted the secretary of state to do,
but in secret outside the law.
Now maybe prez elect bush was just informed these last days
that the clinSin administration has played fast and loose
with the Treasury and especially the ESF black box.
If so then it might have been concluded by his "handlers",
that his father has in place, that eventhought Mr. Lindsey
was and remains is the man for the treasury job, that the
situation of obscene corruption of huge criminal activity
does need the where-with-all of Mr. Lindsey but he would
be burdened by the secretary job just like Kissinger would
and thusly the same avenue was taken to put another into
that job title and let Mr. Lindsey do his stuff without
those of the pro-clinSin Dem Party getting in his way
to trip him up and prevent him from goings and doings
required to get the goods on the clinSin administration.
Just my guess if father bush just was informed
and got up to speed with the GATA music drums beating
for the Howe/gata lawsuit dance. Lots and lots and extra
lots of lawyers in the pres elect bush crowd.
Friday, January 5, 2001
Lawrence Lindsey Will Have New President's Ear on Tax Policy
WASHINGTON
... Lawrence Lindsey spent the 1990s
warning of an imminent economic crunch.
Consumers were spending far beyond their means...
The nation depended too much on foreign lending...
He saw the stock market as so wildly overvalued...
The Harvard-trained economist,
a former Federal Reserve Board governor...
On Wednesday, however, he looked like a vindicated prophet.
President-elect George W. Bush named Mr. Lindsey, 46,
as his White House economic adviser... role as the incoming
administration's top thinker on economic matters...
In his new post, Mr. Lindsey will have the president's ear
on all matters economic, from tax policy and social security
to the budget and economic relations with Japan
and the European Union...
Mr. Lindsey was once thought of as a potential Treasury secretary,
that position went to Paul O'Neill, the retired chief executive
of Alcoa and a Republican heavyweight who has his own strong views...
Mr. Lindsey has not so far been assigned either of the titles
normally
bestowed on the administration's top economist.
Mr. Bush named him assistant to the president for economic affairs
but has yet to say who will head the Council of Economic Advisers
or the National Economic Council...
Mr. Lindsey developed a close relationship with Alan Greenspan
and wrote a second book,
"Economic Puppetmasters: Lesson From the Hall of Power,"
that included a rare on-the-record interview with the Fed chairman.
... has argued that the International Monetary Fund
needs to be overhauled
and that it,
and the Clinton Treasury Department,
were too quick to provide bailouts
when emerging markets got into trouble.....
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