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Less than 10 percent of Obama cabinet has private sector experience

By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
11/25/09 5:02 PM EST

Nick Schulz, editor of the American Enterprise Institute's The American magazine, catches this eye-popping graph from a J.P. Morgan research report:

So as Obama wants to turn the economy around, less than ten percent of the cabinet officials he would presumably turn to for advice have ever worked in the private sector. Not encouraging.

Shulz has more over at The EnterpriseBlog.

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markit8dude

Nov 25, 2009

Nothing to see here, folks.

Emperor Obama 'does' have clothes, I reassure you..

Resolute

Nov 25, 2009

The graphs speaks volumes about from this radical Administration is coming from. From where it's members are coming is nowhere near most Americans are --- having to work for a living in the private sector for private businesses and industries that have to make a profit in order to survive and be in a position to hire more employees.

ceodad

Nov 26, 2009

Says it all....a picture is worth a thousand words.

TheConservativeYogi

Nov 26, 2009

That's why they don't work in the private sector. If their ideas or policies worked, they would either own, or be in charge of running a successful business. The only business I know of that "runs without funds" is the government.

Rick Caird

Nov 26, 2009

The real question is how can so many people have made a living without every really contributing to the economy. That is the amazing part.

Rick

Constitution Reloaded

Nov 26, 2009

Amazing - even a third-grader should be able to conclude that there is a lack of know-how and economic experience in the White House. Highlight this chart all over the media when the "Jobs Summit" commences... amazing!

Fred

Nov 26, 2009

This is demonstrably false. Clinton, Locke, Vilsack and Salazar were all lawyers in private practice and Chu was a research scientist and college professor. I'd also consider Geithner's IMF tenure as the equivalent of private sector employment.

m Miller

Nov 26, 2009

Obama is what happens when the media elects a president as oppose to vetting one. We saw the signs of his inexperience. What is the productive nature of a community organizer?

dennisl59

Nov 26, 2009

Speaking of Geithner...How many positions requiring US Senate confirmation are still unfilled at the US Treasury? Could it be that NO ONE wants to work for him and this Corrupt Administration? And suffer the insult of the vetting process?

The Real Hugo Chavez

Nov 26, 2009

Do not be alarmed, kind people of the USA.

In one or two more generations (certainly no longer than that), NO one in America will have worked in the private sector, let alone remember what that arcane phrase once meant... back during the time when America was a World Leader.

My good friend and comrade Barack is simply setting the stage for what is certain to follow.

Resistance is futile; your lands and your economy shall be feudal.

Liberty Head

Nov 26, 2009

Yea, but he makes up for it with his harvard elitists appointees, that probably accounts for the other 90%.

Ed Darrell

Nov 26, 2009

You've been hoaxed. Obama's cabinet? 77% have extensive private sector experience.

The chart says 10%? What other fibs come with the chart?

http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/obamas-well-qualified-cabinet-conservatives-hoaxed-by-j-p-morgan-chart-that-verifies-prejudices/

BifffromBoston

Nov 27, 2009

Obama is a Politically Correct media
fabricated disaster. The New York and Hollywood media executives should be taken out in cuffs and lined against a wall and shot

Borg

Dec 2, 2009

Thank you, Ed Darrell. This is a total fabrication - please, check your facts, people!
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/dec/02/beck-wrong-cabinets-private-sector-experience/

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Dec 10, 2009

For a good read on this, in response to those claiming this is a "hoax",go here http://thedailymush.wordpress.com/in-de-fence-of-obamas-cabinet/

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Dec 30, 2009

Ya get what ya vote for. In this case - a President that spent half of the time in the Senate campaigning for President. Obama has no real demonstrable accomplishments other than working for Acorn and a Community Organizer has now become the leader of the United State and the Commander in Chief of the Armed Services.He appears to have voted safely or not present many times as to provide cover for his future political ambitions. Even as a leader he shows his weakness when making tough decisions allowing committees and czars to direct policy rather then make the tough choices himself. This so reflects the path of the United States and the future. We (not me) continue to reward failure, punish success,seek a lower common denominator and we now witness the beginning of real wealth redistribution.

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Less than 10 percent of Obama cabinet has private sector experience

By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
11/25/09 5:02 PM EST