In his latest bid to chip away at our nation’s trillion-dollar deficit, President Obama announced a new proposal Monday to freeze civilian federal employees’ salaries for the next two years, pointing to the need for all Americans to “sacrifice” for the good of the whole — except on Wall Street, apparently.

The Associated Press via YouTube:

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