google.com - 1/31/2009
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Obama calls $18B in Wall St. bonuses 'shameful' By BEN FELLER 1 day ago WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama issued a withering critique Thursday of Wall Street corporate behavior, calling it "the height of irresponsibility" for employees to be paid more than $18 billion in bonuses last year ...
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'
bloomberg.com - 1/30/2009
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Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama fed
a swelling populist revolt against Wall Street bonuses, calling...
it “shameful” that banks doled out $18.4 billion as taxpayers bail out companies and the U.S. remains mired in a recession. The bonuses ...
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Obama Calls Bonuses ‘Shameful’ as Dodd Vows to Reclaim ...
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And Another Obama Appointee Who Didn't Pay His "Fair Share"
Ace of Spades HQ —
... preparation for his confirmation and filed amended tax returns with the proper payment and interest. Of course since Daschle is a former Senator and more importantly a registered Democrat, none of this will matter. It's almost laughable the idea that Obama is putting together this incredible all star team to run the government when a bunch of them can't quite seem to manage their own finances. Yesterday VP Joe Biden (D-SCRANTON!!11!!) said this about execs who recieved bonuses he found excessive. Vice President Joe Biden also chimed in, saying the level of bonuses ...
Priceless.
The Discerning Texan —
... and filed amended tax returns with the proper payment and interest. Of course since Daschle is a former Senator and more importantly a registered Democrat, none of this will matter. It's almost laughable the idea that Obama is putting together this incredible all star team to run the government when a bunch of them can't quite seem to manage their own finances. Yesterday VP Joe Biden (D-SCRANTON!!11!!) said this about execs who recieved bonuses he found excessive. Vice President Joe Biden also chimed in, saying the ...
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huffingtonpost.com 2/4/2009 — WASHINGTON — "Outrageous."
That's President Barack Obama's one-word reaction to a report that Wall Street employees got more than $18 billion in bonuses last year.
Obama will have more to say about the payments after an Oval Office ...
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whitehouse.gov 1/30/2009 — President Obama today said it was "the height of irresponsibility" for financial corporations to have doled out $18 billion in bonuses to their employees in a year when many banks shed jobs and turned to the government for funds.
FT.com / US & Canada - Obama slams Wall Street over bonuses
ft.com 1/30/2009 — 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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washingtonmonthly.com 3/24/2009 — Shameful Via TPM, a Wall Street Journal article that says, basically, that at first the Obama administration did not particularly seek out Wall Street's advice: "In late January, as Treasury Secretary Geithner prepared his proposal for handling the ...
The Associated Press: Bonuses no luxury for some Wall Street workers
google.com 2/3/2009 — 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 ...
Shameful
obsidianwings.blogs.com 3/24/2009 — by hilzoy Via TPM , a Wall Street Journal article that says, basically, that at first the Obama administration did not particularly seek out Wall Street's advice: "In late January, as Treasury Secretary Geithner prepared his proposal for ...
Shameful Meets Shameless
corner.nationalreview.com 1/31/2009 — Bloomberg:
Obama Calls Bonuses 'Shameful' as Dodd Vows to Reclaim Money
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama fed a swelling populist revolt against Wall Street bonuses, calling it "shameful" that banks doled out $18.4 billion as ...
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