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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama today sharply criticized the pay packages given to the departing chief executives of Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE). Obama told reporters that he wrote letters to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director James Lockhart stating that "it would be unacceptable for executives of these institutions to earn a windfall at a time when U.S. Treasury has taken unprecedented steps to rescue these companies with taxpayer resources," according to CNBC.
He's absolutely right.
Yes, I realize that compared with the fallen CEOs of Wall Street, the pay packages are chump change. Fannie Chief Executive Daniel Mudd is 'only' getting around $9.3 million and his counterpart at Freddie Mac Richard Syron stands to receive $14.1 million. But just because Mudd and Syron are getting less than 10% of the $160 million parting gift awarded to Stan O'Neal for ruining Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) does not make them any less egregious.
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