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PRESIDENT OBAMA is far too absent of outrage over Wall Street’s continued abuses. As a candidate, he railed against its “greed and irresponsibility.’’ He had more to say in his first month in the White House, after finding out that Wall Street firms were still paying $18.4 billion in bonuses despite bringing America to its financial knees and dropping to their own knees for an unprecedented $700 billion taxpayer bailout.
“That is the height of irresponsibility. It is shameful,’’ Obama said. Calling on Wall Street to share in the recovery out of the “big hole’’ of the economic crisis, Obama said, “There will be time for them to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses – now is not that time.’’
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