Amused and/or alarmed in Kansas.

You can either be amused or alarmed by what's going on, or a healthy dose of both. Kevin Doel, founder of TK Magazine and president of Talon Communications Group, shares the stuff that amuses and alarms him.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The Job Gurus on the Cabinet

Glenn Beck recently rolled off the historical percentages of the number of cabinet office holders with past private sector experience -- those with real-world experience and not just government jobs:

Roosevelt - 38%
Taft - 40%
Wilson - 52%
Harding - 49%
Coolidge - 48%
Hoover - 42%
FDR - 50%
Truman - 50%
Eisenhower - 57%
Kennedy - 30%
LBJ - 47%
Nixon - 53%
Ford - 42%
Carter - 32%
Reagan - 56%
GHWB - 51%
Clinton - 39%
GWB - 55%
Obama - 8%

Only 8% of Obama's cabinet has worked in the private sector, and these are the people coming up with ideas for spurring job growth! Yikes. You think their ideas may be a tad rooted in government intervention and growth of the public sector?

That's a stunning number to me.

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