Obama's "Shameful" Ruse

I'm sure everybody knows at this point about President Obama's claim that the fact that "Wall Street" reportedly doled out about $20 billion in bonuses was "shameful." I hadn't paid too much attention to it myself, because I inherently understand that our President is a socialist, and so I fully expect him to make such ludicrously backward statements about the economy. What surprised me greatly, however, was what he said in conjunction with the accusation of shamefulness.

“There will be time for them to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses,” Mr. Obama said during an appearance in the Oval Office with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. “Now’s not that time. And that’s a message that I intend to send directly to them, I expect Secretary Geithner to send to them.”
--Barack Obama

Now, I'm not entirely sure, considering that he's never actually held a real job that required business acumen of any kind, if the President even understands how fantastically stupid this statement was. Just the premise of it is ridiculous. If now is not the time for businesses to be making profits, Mr. President, exactly when is? The economy, the revenue stream of the federal government, is dependent on business' ability to generate profits, which you can tax.

Ahh, but there's the issue. Those bonuses are going to employees who negotiated them as a basis for their compensation, and so that money isn't in the corporate profits pool for you to tax. No doubt, that approximately 10% difference between taxes on corporate profits and personal bonuses is what you're really upset about.

You could care less about the bonuses actually being doled out. You just wanted that $2 billion more your soon-to-be gargantuan government is so desperately going to need as you spend us into oblivion.