Obamagang crosses the line going after ‘Best of Apopka’

        By Richard Corbeil – The Apopka Chief – Founded in 1923
        MAY 18  -- Alright! That’s it! The Obamagang has gone way over the line with U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner calling Glenn Hubbard a hack!
        This is Glenn Hubbard, Apopka High class of 1976, a Blue Darter, son of legendary AHS English Literature teacher Myrt Hubbard, now retired. He is a native of Apopka, my adopted town since 1984, and now being castigated and smeared by a “Hussein Hustler” and one of the leading cover-uppers of what will be the demise of the greatest economy in world history.
        One of the leading syndicated financial columnists and experts, Larry Kudlow, reported in a recent column that Geithner is becoming the most politically partisan treasury secretary in history. And, if he is not following orders from President Hussein Obama, my name is Nancy Pelosi.
        Kudlow reported that, “Responding to a Hubbard op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, which calculated that the president’s spending plans would require an 11 percent increase on people earning less than $200,000 a year  - Geithner said, ’that’s a completely made-up, remarkably hackish observation for an economist,’”       
        “Hubbard, a hack!?” wrote Kudlow in astonishment.
        In case you didn’t know, Hubbard is presently dean of the Columbia University Business School and was the Chairman of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors 2001-2003. He earned his PhD in economics from Harvard.
        In order to give you a complete understanding of how desperate the Obamagang is to keep Americans in the dark while we are tottering on the brink of falling into “Gulagsville”, I’m going to give you a little background on Professor Hubbard, the man the Hussein Hucksters are slurring as a hack.
        A Columbia Business School faculty member since 1988, he became dean in 2004. He is also the Russell L. Carlson Professor of Finance and Economics. After leaving Apopka High, Hubbard received his B.A. and B.S. degrees summa cum laude from the University of Central Florida where he received the National Society of Professional Engineers Award.
        He holds M.A. and PhD degrees from Harvard, where he received national fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School, as well as the University of Chicago.
        He was senior vice dean of the Columbia Business School from 1994 to 1997, and coordinator of the Entrepreneurship Program from 1998 to 2004. His research spans tax policy, monetary economics, corporate finance and international finance.
        In addition to writing more than 100 scholarly articles in economics and finance, Professor Hubbard is the author of two leading textbooks on money and financial markets and principles of economics, as well as being co-author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty and Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System.
        His commentaries appear frequently in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, Nikkei, and the Daily Yomiuri, PBS’s Nightly Business Report and radio’s NPR’s Marketplace.         
        In government Professor Hubbard served as deputy assistant secretary of the U.S Treasury Department of Tax Policy 1991-1993 and, while serving as CEA chairman under Bush II, he also chaired the Economic Policy Committee of the Office of Economic Development.
        In the corporate sector, Professor Hubbard is currently director of ADP, Black Rock Closed End Funds, KKR Financial Corporation and Met Life. He has also served on the advisory boards of several organizations, including the Council on Competiveness, the American Council on Capital Formation, the Tax Foundation and the Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse.
        He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Co-Chairman of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation and the Study Group on Corporate Boards. And, he is past Chairman of the Economics Club of New York.
        Now Tim, in view of the above, if you’re searching for financial hacks, try the Oval Office where you get your instructions, or looking in the mirror.
        Kudlow wrote further on Geithner’s name-calling: “While I disagree with him on many issues, we have good relations. But, treasury secretaries are not supposed to be political partisans. That does not come with the territory.
        “THE STATESMEN-LIKE high office Cabinet departments like defense, state and treasury are typically managed in relatively non-partisan ways simply because the nation’s finances and security require bipartisan efforts. Policy disagreements? Yes. Name-calling? No.”
        Professor Glenn Hubbard is the product of the unique town of Apopka. The influence and example of special people like his educator parents, the late AHS Principal Roger A. Williams, Mayor John Land and hundreds of others in a caring, giving Christian community, definitely shaped the wisdom and desire to be a valuable asset to our nation and its people.

“He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: Keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline the words of my mouth.” Proverbs 4:4 and 5.   
          Columnist note: The bulk of the biographical information on Hubbard supplied through Quest line of Orange County Public Library System.