Obama to Banks: `We Want Our Money Back'

Declaring "We want our money back," President Barack Obama wants to slap a tax on banks to recoup the money that the American public spent on bailing out large financial institutions on the brink of collapse. (Jan. 14)

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[87Avantgarde]

Just because Obama actually works as a president, and touches many difficult subjects, he is being unpopular. This is sad guys.

[pegobuilders]

Barack Obama is quite correct that banks should not take risks with money that is not theirs. Certain merchant banks are at liberty to risk their partners and shareholders funds, but so-called high street banks have no right to use our savings as a stake at a high risk casino

[Gtrplyr1]

ARE YOU GUYS THIS DUMB? Do you not know the very banks he talks about are the ones who put him in office???

Wake up..

Banks who contributed to his 2008 campaign.

Goldman Sachs $1,013,091 (CORRUPT)

JPMorgan Chase & Co $808,799 (CORRUPT)

Citigroup Inc $736,771 (CORRUPT)

Morgan Stanley $512,232 (CORRUPT)

[andrewcarli92]

thats right!

[NETWizzJbirk]

How about the Federal Reserve? Why not start there? They owe the American people a valuable Dollar.

[MadXMax187]

Orwellian Owe-Bomb-a doublespeak. I hope he DOES do the things he promised seeing as how we got robbed but he said A LOT of things that NEVER came true. He's worse than some weather forecasters trying to give Americans false hope and optimism "jobs are coming back" yea part time minimum wage selling Chinese trash type of jobs. Take your 'free' trade elsewhere BRING AMERICAN JOBS BACK WE NEED A SECOND BILL OF RIGHTS + TARIFFS + PENALIZE ALL TRAITOR OUTSOURCING CORPORATE ENTITIES.

[1973mazdarx4coupe]

sorry barack, you get no sympathy from me; you knew well before the bailouts this was going to happen ! youre as complicit as the banks in this !

[xx0ODaveO0xx]

good with words

[fhqwhgadsh]

Why would the government impose fees on financial firms which it owns financial stakes in?!?! That's right - bailout funds were converted into COMMON SHARES. It's like the government imposing fees on itself.... wow........ bizzare

[dopeillusion]

He is a hero.

I wich dutch politicians could stand in his shadow!

[eatingmywheaties]

just a PR stunt, he will bail them out again...

[itsonelouder1]

Why doesn't he whack the banks with interest rates as well to compensate people who've lost everything?