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Barack Obama: There will be time for them to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses. Now is not that time.

On the recordJanuary 28, 2009
There will be time for them to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses. Now is not that time.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama asserts that the current economic situation does not warrant Wall Street bonuses.

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