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red states rule
02-10-2010, 02:30 PM
All that matters to Obama is which way the wind is blowing, or how low his poll numbers go

This flip flop has even pissed off Paul Krugmen




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.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKGZkktzkAlA

Gaffer
02-10-2010, 02:42 PM
He doesn't begrudge them getting that big money, he just wants to take it away from them as soon as he can.

red states rule
02-10-2010, 02:45 PM
He doesn't begrudge them getting that big money, he just wants to take it away from them as soon as he can.

Obama giveth and he taketh away.