Obama Decries Wall Street Bonuses

American Voices • Politics • barack obama • ISSUE 45•06 • Feb 2, 2009

Last week, Barack Obama called Wall Street executives who awarded themselves $18.4 billion at the end of 2008 as "shameful." What do you think?

“He was being presidential but I would have been fine with him calling them fucking assholes.”
Jerrod Kissin –
Systems Analyst
“Damn right it's shameful! These guys should hire some people to hang their heads in an act of contrition.”
Gina Ahlquist –
Production Planner
“Unfortunately, as a corporate executive, I don't possess the emotional faculties required to empathize with other humans or to register this feeling you know as 'shame.'”
Jeffrey Brooks –
CEO

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