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Kucinich Hands Kashkari His Own Ass
In Dennis Kucinich, Neel Kashkari, politics, video on November 15, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Background on Kashkari, the most irronically named man in Washington and the evilest-looking Treasury employee since, well…Henry Paulson:
Time

The government’s $700 billion bailout plan is in the hands of this man. Neel Kashkari, a relatively green assistant secretary in the Treasury department, will be responsible for the government’s purchasing of billions of dollars of bad assets from banks and other financial agencies. His career has been a short one.

Personal Life

• Kashkari grew up in Stow, Ohio, an Akron suburb. As a high school student, he was a fan of heavy metal bands like AC/DC, whose lyrics dot his high school yearbook. He is 35 years old.

• He comes from a family of scientists. Father Chaman has a doctorate in engineering, and won a Presidential award for his work in getting water to African villages. Kashkari’s mother, Sheila, is a retired pathologist, and his sister Meera, specializes in infectious diseases.

• Accordingly, Kashkari also studied science, getting his masters in engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• He and his wife Minal live in Silver Spring, Maryland, with their dog Winslow.

Career

• Neel’s first job was as an aerospace engineer at TRW, where he worked on technology for NASA projects such as the Webb Space Telescope, which is due to replace the Hubble.

• He decided to change careers and go to Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. After getting his MBA, Kashkari joined Goldman Sachs in San Francisco, specializing in IT security.

• He followed former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson to the Treasury Department, where he was hired as a senior adviser in 2006. In short order, he was assigned to work on the department’s response to the housing crisis, during which time he grew close to Paulson.

Notable Quotes

“Neel Kashkari is not going to be in Washington much longer if there’s a change in administrations. And that’ll cause some kind of turbulence.”—Madeline Brand, of National Public Radio, on the fact that Kashkari might have to leave after only a few months on the job, Oct. 6, 2008

“When he does anything, if you ask him to make an electric car or ask him to plan an outing to Niagara Falls, he is so meticulous.”—Chaman Kashkari, father, USA Today, October 6, 2008

“I’m a free-market Republican.”—Kashkari, at an American Enterprise Institute conference, Sept. 19, 2008



Oh really? And yet he couldn’t wait for big daddy government to swoop in and stuff his pockets with taxpayer cash when the free market failed. In a rare display of testicles, Congress absolutely tore into Kashkari, but Dennis Kucinich positively MVPed it. Now, if only they would back-up the tough talk with some serious oversight.

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I sooooo love Dennis!

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15 November 2008 at 12pm


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