1.0 link 162305 <![CDATA[Obama: Wall Street Bonuses "Shameful" (VIDEO)]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/29/obama-18b-in-wall-street_n_162305.html President Barack Obama responded Thursday to a front page story in the New York Times which reported that Wall Street handed out $18.4 billion in bonuses for the year, calling the payments "outrageous"

From the 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 while their crumbling financial sector received a bailout from taxpayers....

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