Height of Irresponsibility?

Today Barack Obama said:

"When I saw an article today that indicates that Wall Street bankers had given themselves $20 billion worth of bonuses, the same amount of bonuses as they gave themselves in 2004, at a time when most of these institutions are teetering on collapse and they are asking for taxpayers to help sustain them, and when taxpayers find themselves in the difficult position that if they don't provide help then the entire system could come down on top of our heads, that is the height of irresponsibility."

What, you might wonder, could be more irresponsible than that? Our government giving the money to the bankers! Now that's irresponsible.