So say their critics. Criticism of Wall Street pay is nothing new.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

"Our bill holds Wall Street accountable and mandates real transparency so that large banks can't gamble our money in the shadows of the financial system."

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

"So,by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, it fell not under a barrage of artillery, but under hammers and bulldozers wielded by people who had lost faith in the ideas,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.03