nypost.com - 1/30/2009
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By CHARLES HURT in Washington and ANDY SOLTIS in New York Last updated: 9:11 am January 30, 2009 Posted: 1:39 am January 30, 2009 President Obama delivered a blistering message to Wall Street yesterday, blasting the big-bucks bonuses doled out to fat-cat execs as "shameful." Obama called ...
msnbc.msn.com - 1/29/2009
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msnbc.msn.com —
President Barack Obama believes the multibillion-dollar bonuses that
Wall Street banks awarded themselves for 2008 are "outrageous",...
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Thursday.
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Obama: big Wall Street bonuses 'outrageous'
ft.com - 1/30/2009
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ft.com —
President Barack Obama lashed out on Thursday at
“shameful” Wall Street executives for claiming billions of dollars...
in bonuses while their stricken institutions asked taxpayers for support. Mr Obama was responding to a report showing that financial ...
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FT.com / US & Canada - Obama slams Wall Street over ...
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... didn't report $83,333 in consulting income in 2007. This is embarrassing. Not only should Daschle not be the HHS Secretary, he should not have a job as the director of the White House's Office of Health Reform. President Obama has been on quite a kick recently, telling corporations that the bonus payments they make should fall under the purview of the federal government, playing the role of the morality police by calling those bonus payments "shameful," and presuming that he has the right to determine the proper "time" for companies to make a profit (how the President has ...
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... This is embarrassing. Not only should Daschle not be the HHS Secretary, he should not have a job as the director of the White House’s Office of Health Reform. President Obama has been on quite a kick recently, telling corporations that the bonus payments they make should fall under the purview of the federal government, playing the role of the morality police by calling those bonus payments “shameful,” and presuming that he has the right to determine the proper “time” for companies to make a profit (how the President has the right to lecture ...
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