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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;funkee, post: 1611749, member: 37925&quot;][ATTACH]228122.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(Photoshopped)<p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Georgia"><i>Jack Lew, President Obama&#039;s <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-09/obama-said-to-name-lew-tomorrow-as-choice-to-replace-geithner.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-09/obama-said-to-name-lew-tomorrow-as-choice-to-replace-geithner.html" rel="nofollow">reported pick</a> to replace outgoing Treasury secretary Tim Geithner, is known as a no-nonsense backroom negotiator with wonkish tendencies, who is admired on the left and <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/treasury-nominee-jack-lew-linked-to-barack-obama.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/treasury-nominee-jack-lew-linked-to-barack-obama.html" rel="nofollow">grumbled about</a> on the right.</i></font></span><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Georgia"><i>A lesser-known but extremely pertinent fact about Lew is that he has the world&#039;s worst signature. And pretty soon, that signature could be on every single one of your dollar bills.</i></font></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Georgia"><i>If Lew is confirmed as Treasury secretary, his signature will occupy the lower-right-hand spot on U.S. paper currency. And that signature, which was <a href="http://main.aol.com/2011/09/22/jack-lews-signature_n_976729.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://main.aol.com/2011/09/22/jack-lews-signature_n_976729.html" rel="nofollow">widely mocked</a> when it surfaced on a September 2011 memorandum, is legitimately crazy.</i></font></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Georgia"><i>Here are some things it reminds us of:</i></font></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Georgia"><i>– a Slinky that has lost its spring</i></font></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Georgia"><i>– one of those Crazy Straws you get at Six Flags</i></font></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Georgia"><i>– <a href="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTUzODE3NDczMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDczMjY0NA@@._V1._SX640_SY432_.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTUzODE3NDczMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDczMjY0NA@@._V1._SX640_SY432_.jpg" rel="nofollow">Sally Brown&#039;s hair</a> in Peanuts</i></font></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Georgia"><i>– a slip of paper in Office Max that people use to try out new pens</i></font></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Georgia"><i>Clearly, Lew will need to upgrade his penmanship, <a href="http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/geithner-interviews/timothy-geithners-signature-not-fit-print" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/geithner-interviews/timothy-geithners-signature-not-fit-print" rel="nofollow">à la Geithner</a>, before he even thinks about touching the dollar bill. Minting a trillion-dollar coin seems absolutely reasonable, as fiscal policy plans go, compared to having this childish loop-de-loop plastered all over the legal tender of the United States.</i></font></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></font></span></p><p><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/jack-lews-terrible-signature-may-grace-bills.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/jack-lews-terrible-signature-may-grace-bills.html" rel="nofollow">http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/jack-lews-terrible-signature-may-grace-bills.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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