Daily Archives: 8 April 2009

Obama Administration Seeks to Help Wall Street Circumvent the Executive Pay Restrictions

Well, that didn’t take long at all.

Yesterday: “Pledging to take ‘the air out of golden parachutes,’ President Obama announced Wednesday that executives of companies receiving federal bailout money will have their pay capped at $500,000 under a revised financial compensation plan.”

Today: “The Obama administration is engineering its new bailout initiatives in a way that it believes will allow firms benefiting from the programs to avoid restrictions imposed by Congress, including limits on lavish executive pay, according to government officials.”

(Read more from propagandadetox.blogspot.com)

What do you say to that, Obamaniacs?

Netanyahu: “The American president must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons”

“In an interview conducted shortly before he was sworn in today as prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu laid down a challenge for Barack Obama. The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons�and quickly�or an imperiled Israel may be forced to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities itself.

‘The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons,’ Netanyahu told me. He said the Iranian nuclear challenge represents a ‘hinge of history’ and added that ‘Western civilization’ will have failed if Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons.” (Read more from theatlantic.com)

Am I the only one who doesn’t like the idea of a foreign leader telling my president what his mission is?

See Also:
Benjamin Netanyahu takes office with a warning to Iran
Petraeus Says Israel Might Choose to Attack Iran
Iran Photos