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How NICE he doesn't begrudge them

Tam

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Obama Doesn’t ‘Begrudge’ Bonuses for Blankfein, Dimon
By Julianna Goldman and Ian Katz

Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, noting that some athletes take home more pay.

The president, speaking in an interview, said in response to a question that while $17 million is “an extraordinary amount of money” for Main Street, “there are some baseball players who are making more than that and don’t get to the World Series either, so I’m shocked by that as well.”

“I know both those guys; they are very savvy businessmen,” Obama said in the interview yesterday in the Oval Office with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “I, like most of the American people, don’t begrudge people success or wealth. That is part of the free- market system.”

Obama sought to combat perceptions that his administration is anti-business and trumpeted the influence corporate leaders have had on his economic policies. He plans to reiterate that message when he speaks to the Business Roundtable, which represents the heads of many of the biggest U.S. companies, on Feb. 24 in Washington.

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Obama is “trying to walk a very fine line,” said Mark Borges, a compensation consultant at Compensia Inc. in Corte Madera, California.

“He wants to represent popular anger at the bailout and Wall Street pay, while at the same time trying not to alienate these guys, who he needs if he’s going to get reforms enacted,” Borges said. “Not an easy task.”

Top twenty Obama campaign donors
Goldman Sachs $474,428
Ubs Ag $298,180
JP Morgan Chase & Co $282,387
Lehman Brothers $274,147
National Amusements Inc $265,750
Sidley Austin LLP $251,657
Citigroup Inc $247,436
University of California $239,944
Skadden, Arps et al $228,520
Exelon Corp $226,661
Harvard University $225,891
Jones Day $213,825
Google Inc $192,808
Time Warner $190,091
Morgan Stanley $190,026
Citadel Investment Group $173,950
Kirkland & Ellis $163,126
Latham & Watkins $160,842
WilmerHale LLP $155,788
Jenner & Block $151,447

Dare I say he just woke up to the fact of where his campaign funds really come from, AS in Wall Street Fat Cats. :wink: :roll:
 

hypocritexposer

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How many have caught on to the scam?

They are stealing from the taxpayer. Bailouts for record profits.

I can just see obama with the bank executives in a closed meeting, "okay, we'll say we're going to get tough on executive pay, you guys in?"

"Great, Timmy, get this together, make it look real to the stupid voters"

...and the big banks taking over the world ( New World Order) is a "conspiracy theory" Listen to what they say people. They have told you that this is what is going to happen, believe them.

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