
If memory serves, the word “salary” derives from the Latin word for salt and that people used to get paid in salt, so valuable and rare a commodity it was. Clearly, following his “outrageous” and “shameful” remarks about the $18 billion in bonuses paid to Execs in the financial services arena, Mr Obama doesn’t think these guys are “worth their salt.”
UPDATE: Edward Hadas over at Fortune thinks this is a baaaaad idea.