GOODY TWO SHOES: Let Them Eat Steak!
Barack Obama wants us to shiver in our homes – even as we foot the bill to keep the Oval Office sweltering just the way he likes it - and has suggested that the rest of us ought to cut back on how much we eat – even as he’s been eating pretty high on the hog lately. Last week, he invited a couple of dozen lawmakers to a cocktail reception at which he served a variety of pricy Kobe steak known as Wagyu. And he dined on lobster at the annual Alfalfa Club dinner, held on the last Saturday in January, to celebrate the birthday of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, “embracing a long-standing rite of the Washington and Wall Street elite,” reports The Washington Post. One wonders how he had the stomach for it, considering that he took the Wall Street types with whom he was breaking bread to task for “shameful” bonuses, reports The Associated Press:
The president's ire was sparked when he read a newspaper article detailing the 18.4 billion dollars in bonuses racked up by Wall Street firms last year, even as stock markets plunged and the economy slumped towards a recession.
"That is the height of irresponsibility. It is shameful, and part of what we are going to need is for the folks on Wall Street who are asking for help to show some restraint and show some discipline and show some sense of responsibility," Obama told reporters in the Oval Office.
"The American people understand that we have got a big hole we have got to dig ourselves out of but they don't like the idea that people are digging a bigger hole as they are being asked to fill it up." …
He also brought up the case of Citibank, which has taken funds under a separate 700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout, and reportedly nixed plans to buy a 42 million dollar corporate jet after the Treasury Department complained. …
White House aides said the massive bonus figures … undercut Obama's appeal for all Americans to share in a new spirit of responsibility.
Obama himself is undercutting his message by asking us to sacrifice while he and his elite pals whoop it up.
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