google.com - 2/3/2009
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Jan 30, 2009 NEW YORK (AP) To President Barack Obama, Wall Street's $18.4 billion in bonuses is "shameful." To thousands of bank employees who don't sit in corner offices, that money helps pay the bills. Outrage over the bonuses reached as high as the White House this week following news that ...
msnbc.msn.com - 1/29/2009
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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'
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Money for nothing
SteveAudio —
... that are kicking sand in the face of the American taxpayer," an enraged McCaskill said on the floor of the Senate. "They don't get it. These people are idiots. You can't use taxpayer money to pay out $18 billion in bonuses."I agree with the Senator on most counts, but I'm thinking she isn't allowed to call them greedy bastards from the Senate floor. And then there's the justification from the greedy bastards (faithfully scribed by AP mediawhores): Bonuses no luxury for some Wall Street workers [...] While Wall Street investment ...
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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... I'm having a real hard time seeing the downside to that, not being a Wall Street executive (I concede that they might see it differently). ...
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