It is the year 2030. Tim Geithner, former Secretary of the Treasury under Barack Obama, is now living quietly in retirement in New York City. On the wall are mementos of a long financial career that goes back to the International School in Bangkok, Thailand in the late 1970s, where most of his schoolmates thought he was a colossal jerk. (Yeah, I know about that too, Timmy.)
As Tim sits in his study, he thinks about his accomplishments as Secretary of Treasury, the bank bailouts, the takeover of the auto industry, the troubled Troubled Assets Relief Program, the AIG bonuses, the record deficits, the record debt ceilings, the successful raising of said debt ceilings, and fighting back efforts by the counter-revolutionaries to cut taxes.
Now it is all in the past. Tim lives off his family fortune, investments, his government pension, and royalties from his commercials for Turbo Tax. He likes to listen to music, especially Fernando by Abba. He also enjoys watching his twin sister, Rachel Maddow (at least she looks like his twin sister), who has her own show on MSNBC (now the only TV station in the land ) as she rails on and on about the history of the long-outlawed Republican party. Every now and then he gets an invitation from one of his high-level friends in China-now the world's only economic powerhouse- inviting him to visit or perhaps even spend his final years living there. Times are hard in America these days, but Tim is above it all. He comes from old money and has no worries. He chooses to remain in the America he helped to create-for better or worse.
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