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Obama slams 'fat cat bankers' (Upcoming “60 Minutes”)
AFP ^ | December 12, 2009

Posted on 12/12/2009 10:08:41 AM PST by maggief

WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama has hit out at Wall Street "fat cats", expressing anger that banks bailed out by the government plan huge bonuses while millions of Americans battle poverty and unemployment.

"I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street," Obama said Friday in excerpts of an interview with CBS television to be aired on Sunday.

With unemployment still hovering at around 10 percent, amid a recession triggered in part by the excesses of financial institutions, Obama voiced frustration that "some people on Wall Street still don't get it."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; bailouts; banking; bho44; economy
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1 posted on 12/12/2009 10:08:41 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/09/60minutes/main5954261.shtml

Obama Irked By “Fat Cat Bankers”

President Also Tells 60 Minutes U.S. Needs More Cooperation From Pakistan to Succeed in the War on Terror


2 posted on 12/12/2009 10:10:23 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Obummer, the Marxist now posing as a Fascist, again rears his ugly Marxist head.

There it is for all but the blind to see.


3 posted on 12/12/2009 10:12:11 AM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: maggief

His getting pissed at the ‘fat cat bankers’ is just his way of expressing his displeasure of not being “Hoover-lipped” by them and receiving copious amounts of untraceable cash via surreptitious means.....nothing to see here folks, move along.


4 posted on 12/12/2009 10:12:26 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: maggief

ahaha he is so paid off by them...

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

What is that they say about the pot calling the kettle black?


5 posted on 12/12/2009 10:13:57 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: maggief

Everybody should be poor...that’s equality!


6 posted on 12/12/2009 10:14:02 AM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: maggief

At least TR and FDR used phrases like “malefactors of great wealth” and “the wealthy criminal class”. “Fat Cats” sounds like something a junior-high kid came up with.


7 posted on 12/12/2009 10:14:08 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: maggief

If any political cartoonists are reading this, try doing one with Obama milking a cow. Label the various udders “class warfare”, “race card” etc...


8 posted on 12/12/2009 10:15:00 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: FromLori

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/21/baracks-wall-street-problem-is-now-americas

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2009/12/10/mean-street-the-lost-cause-of-ge-and-jeff-immelt/


9 posted on 12/12/2009 10:15:12 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: FromLori

When will Obama get around to slamming fat cat government workers with huge salaries and more than generous benefit and pension benefits like the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guys, just as an example.


10 posted on 12/12/2009 10:16:55 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: Tublecane

It’s been a staple of Kucinich’s for decades, and it always works around here (N.E. Ohio)


11 posted on 12/12/2009 10:17:53 AM PST by Pessimist (u)
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To: maggief

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

Top Contributors

University of California $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs $994,795
Harvard University $854,747
Microsoft Corp $833,617
Google Inc $803,436
Citigroup Inc $701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132
Time Warner $590,084
Sidley Austin LLP $588,598
Stanford University $586,557
National Amusements Inc $551,683
UBS AG $543,219
Wilmerhale Llp $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al $530,839
IBM Corp $528,822
Columbia University $528,302
Morgan Stanley $514,881
General Electric $499,130
US Government $494,820
Latham & Watkins $493,835


12 posted on 12/12/2009 10:18:17 AM PST by maggief
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To: Ev Reeman

Excellent point did you see those stories yesterday about the five figure salaries of the govt. workers?


13 posted on 12/12/2009 10:19:26 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: maggief
Bankster bonus diversionary tactic.
14 posted on 12/12/2009 10:20:21 AM PST by Need4Truth (All the king's horses and all the king's men could not reprogram the Branch Carbonians.)
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To: maggief

This has to be about the polls.

The Kenyan needs a scapegoat for high unemployment.

The Kenyan is weak now. I hope bankers fire back and remind America that the government required them to issue sub prime loans.


15 posted on 12/12/2009 10:21:21 AM PST by y6162 (uish..)
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To: Dallas59

African/ mideastern/indonesian mentality at work again. This is what BOs mental points of reference are. He aint American.

Whats his beef? They already pay more than their share in taxes.
Every step of the way he is looking to destroy capitalism.

One day his and his people will wake up and the employers are gone. Unemployment is growing exponentially.... and thats where the marxist program takes America to. Its not far away.Flight of capital and jobs has already occurred. He is just exacerbating the problem.


16 posted on 12/12/2009 10:24:33 AM PST by himno hero
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To: FromLori
"I did not run for office to be helping was put in office by Wall Street fat cats to help a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street,"
17 posted on 12/12/2009 10:26:52 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Gee, would these be the same fat cat banksters from which Obowzo gets his marcbing orders???


18 posted on 12/12/2009 10:28:31 AM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
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To: maggief

He’s screwing everyone who stands in the way of his “Power”. 3 more years of this cr**.


19 posted on 12/12/2009 10:29:24 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: maggief

Only Great Leader can give good speech out of both sides of his mouth.


20 posted on 12/12/2009 10:32:16 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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