Business in government
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:08 pm
Businessmen in Government
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is a graph that illustrated the percentage of each
> > past president's cabinet who had worked in the private
> > business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.
> > You know what the private business sector is... a real life
> > business and real life consequences, not a government job.
> >
> > Here are the percentages.
> >
> >
> >
> > T. Roosevelt..... 38%
> >
> > Taft......................40%
> >
> > Wilson .............. 52%
> >
> > Harding..............49%
> >
> > Coolidge........... 48%
> >
> > Hoover...............42%
> >
> > F. Roosevelt......50%
> >
> > Truman..............50%
> >
> > Eisenhower.........57%
> >
> > Kennedy............30%
> >
> > Johnson.............47%
> >
> > Nixon.................. 53%
> >
> > Ford................... 42%
> >
> > Carter................ 32%
> >
> > Reagan..............56%
> >
> > GH Bush........... 51%
> >
> > Clinton .............. 39%
> >
> > GW Bush.......... 55%
> >
> > Obama..... 8%
> > Yep! That’s right! Only Eight Percent!.. the least
> > by far of the last 19 presidents. And these people are
> > trying to tell our corporations how to run their
> > businesses? They know what's best for GM...Chrysler...
> > Wall Street... and you and me?
> >
> > How can the president of a major nation and society...the
> > one with the most successful economic system in world
> > history... stand and talk about business when he's never
> > worked for one?.. or about jobs when he has never really had
> > one?
> >
> > And neither has 92% of his senior staff and closest
> > advisers. They've spent most of their time in academia,
> > government and/or non-profit jobs....or as "community
> > organizers" ..when they should have been in an
> > employment line.
> >
> > "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you
> > run out of other people's money."
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is a graph that illustrated the percentage of each
> > past president's cabinet who had worked in the private
> > business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.
> > You know what the private business sector is... a real life
> > business and real life consequences, not a government job.
> >
> > Here are the percentages.
> >
> >
> >
> > T. Roosevelt..... 38%
> >
> > Taft......................40%
> >
> > Wilson .............. 52%
> >
> > Harding..............49%
> >
> > Coolidge........... 48%
> >
> > Hoover...............42%
> >
> > F. Roosevelt......50%
> >
> > Truman..............50%
> >
> > Eisenhower.........57%
> >
> > Kennedy............30%
> >
> > Johnson.............47%
> >
> > Nixon.................. 53%
> >
> > Ford................... 42%
> >
> > Carter................ 32%
> >
> > Reagan..............56%
> >
> > GH Bush........... 51%
> >
> > Clinton .............. 39%
> >
> > GW Bush.......... 55%
> >
> > Obama..... 8%
> > Yep! That’s right! Only Eight Percent!.. the least
> > by far of the last 19 presidents. And these people are
> > trying to tell our corporations how to run their
> > businesses? They know what's best for GM...Chrysler...
> > Wall Street... and you and me?
> >
> > How can the president of a major nation and society...the
> > one with the most successful economic system in world
> > history... stand and talk about business when he's never
> > worked for one?.. or about jobs when he has never really had
> > one?
> >
> > And neither has 92% of his senior staff and closest
> > advisers. They've spent most of their time in academia,
> > government and/or non-profit jobs....or as "community
> > organizers" ..when they should have been in an
> > employment line.
> >
> > "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you
> > run out of other people's money."
