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President Obama Doesn't Quite Get The Concept Of Stimulus
A Blog For All —
He's busy railing at the payment of $18 billion in bonuses on Wall Street . Apparently he's not familiar with what that $18 billion represents to the economy of New York City, New York State, and New Jersey and Connecticut. It represents a huge hit to the local economies because it's far lower than the bonuses doled out by the financial services companies throughout the region in the past. ...
OK, We'll Give You $250 Billion, But We'll Be Real Surly When We Do It
Open Left - Front Page —
President Obama has issued an angry statement about Wall Street bankers receiving billions in salary bonus last year. He declares that, along with Treasury Secretary Geithner, he will make this point to said bankers in upcoming conversations: ...
Thursday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... today, the first measure to get his signature. * The president ripped Wall Street for $18 billion in bonuses last year in the midst of a market collapse. Obama called it "the height of irresponsibility" and "shameful." * Multiple corporations announced ...
Optics Fail
Balloon Juice —
By the way, I just saw Obama make one of those little political mistakes he normally never makes:
President Barack Obama issued a withering critique Thursday of Wall Street corporate behavior, calling it “the height of irresponsibility” for Wall Street employees to be paid more than $18 billion in bonuses last year while their financial sector was crumbling.
“It is shameful,” Obama said from the Oval Office. “And part of what we’re going to need is for the folks on Wall Street who are asking for help to show ...
GOP '09: The Party Of Bad Faith
DownWithTyranny! —
... Republicans fight for real-- and with knives. Obama better stop throwing flowers. He finally spoke up about the scandal of the banksters who accepted hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars and then doled out $18 billion to themselves and their cronies in bonuses-- all the while passing on alleviating the credit crunch Democrats thought (naively) they would be getting for the unaccounted for billions that they foolishly entrusted to the same Bush Regime that had already ripped off untold billions over the past 8 years-- at home and abroad. ...
Giuliani: CEO Bonuses Are 'Economic Stimulus'
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... yanks a pretty hilarious pull quote from one-time Presidential-hopeful Rudy Giuliani, who has a pretty creative take on the issue of the $18 billion in bonuses claimed by Wall Streeters this year. These were decried by President Barack Obama as "shameful" and "the height of irresponsibility," but ol' Rudy, ...
Giuliani: CEO Bonuses Are 'Economic Stimulus'
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... yanks a pretty hilarious pull quote from one-time Presidential-hopeful Rudy Giuliani, who has a pretty creative take on the issue of the $18 billion in bonuses claimed by Wall Streeters this year. These were decried by President Barack Obama as "shameful" and "the height of irresponsibility," but ol' Rudy, ...
