The president, speaking in an interview, said in response to a question that while $17 million is "an extraordinary amount of money" for Main Street, "there are some baseball players who are making more than that and don't get to the World Series either, so I'm shocked by that as well."
But certainly not shocked enough to do anything about.
"I know both those guys; they are very savvy businessmen," Obama said in the interview yesterday in the Oval Office with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. "I, like most of the American people, don't begrudge people success or wealth. That is part of the free- market system."
All of which has nothing to do with the issue at hand. Instead we've gotten bloated salaries and bonuses for bailed-out banks that would would probably be declared insolvent if not for the federal government allowing them to mark their assets to fantasy, not reality.
Bloomberg then follows with this head-scratcher.
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