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TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT OBAMA'S CABINET ....

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Neal Boortz
@ July 23, 2010 8:35 AM Permalink | Comments (50) | TrackBacks (0)

... and you'll understand why this man is the most anti-business and anti-private sector president in our history.

Last year J.P. Morgan thought it might be interesting to look into the private sector experience of Obama's Cabinet. America, after all, was in the middle of an economic disaster and the thought was that the president might actually look to some people with a record of success in the private sector for advice. So a study is done comparing Obama's Cabinet to the cabinets of presidents going back to 1900. secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy and Housing and Urban Development were included. The J.P Morgan study looked at the percentages of cabinet members with prior private sector experience, and the results were amazing.

The presidential cabinet with the highest percentage of private sector experience was that of Dwight Eisenhower at around 58%. The lowest --- until Obama --- was Kennedy at about 28%. The average ran between 35% and 40% ... until, as I said, Obama. Care to guess what percentage of Obama's cabinet has prior private sector experience? Try 7%.

So ... now you might have a better idea why Obama can't quite figure out how to grow jobs in the private sector. He's a big-government president with a bit-government cabinet. When your cabinet is made up almost wholly of people with nothing but government experience with a sprinkling of academia behind them you have to know that the private sector is going to not only get short shrift .. but it's going to be pretty much abused or ignored. To Obama and his advisors the private sector exists to support and fund the federal government ... and little more.

Welcome to the wonderful world of centrally planned economies.

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  • Obama's Cabinet
    I would not hire one of them to rake my yard.
    By Gary @ 07/30/10 07:56:23 AMreport abuse
  • thoughts
    Nothing.
    By bob @ 07/28/10 01:41:20 PMreport abuse
  • Obama's Cabinet
    Neal Boortz and his pals - one word definition, not make that two words: Dumb and Boring.
    By Bob @ 07/28/10 01:39:37 PMreport abuse
  • Obama's Cabinet
    Someone missed the Attorny General's race..... I could be wrong, but AG Holder is of the black persuasion - no slight intended.

    Lastly, Boortz is a BORE! Nothing that hasn't been covered or said before by SOMEONE else. Looks like the man doesn't have an intellectual clue.....
    By Bob @ 07/28/10 01:36:49 PMreport abuse
  • Baseless claims -- bias shows
    Joyce, Sarge, I'm impressed that when you offer criticisms of Obama's cabinet, you don't offer any examples. "Haven't met payroll?" Several have -- a much higher proportion than the public at large, perhaps a much higher proportion than the Tea Party, more than Neal Boortz.

    The claims here against Obama's cabinet are false. There are serious criticisms to be made -- but you miss them when you get tangled up in false claims.

    And Sarge, I figure anyone who will tell fantastic lies that are easily debunked, will lie about anything. Boortz has a bad track record, what with that false Hillary Clinton quote quiz in 2008, and this . . .

    Good citizens don't mislead other citizens like that.

    Results? Shakespeare offered advice on the results one gets from false claims. We all know better.
    By Ed Darrell @ 07/26/10 10:41:27 AMreport abuse
  • Obama's Cabinet
    Just want to point out that none of these people are black. Wasn't it a big deal last presidency when there was not ENOUGH black people?
    By Karen @ 07/25/10 03:48:22 PMreport abuse
  • I guess it's sad, but expected
    After nearly a decade of considering Boortz as a well thought out and intelligent true conservative I guess the times have gotten to him.

    Sorry Neal, but you're nothing more than a reactionary who's primary goal is "slander first", back up 2nd.

    Don't worry, I'm not alone in this thought either. For the last 3 years we played your show at my job (a warehouse). Recently it's pretty much been 100% agreed upon that you're not even worth listening.

    Oh, even the owner agrees. A business owner in the private sector sees you as more of a joke than a defender. You should really take that fact to heart.
    By Tracy @ 07/25/10 04:23:16 AMreport abuse
  • Old story
    This is such an old story. Why bring it up again. I remember Glenn BEck covering this last year. Catch up Boortz!
    By Mama Hogan @ 07/24/10 12:51:39 AMreport abuse
  • No Flag
    Did I miss the American Flag in this photo?
    By Joe @ 07/23/10 09:30:34 PMreport abuse
  • Ed- its the results that matter
    I see you're all bent up over this but step back and look at the whole picture. This isn't about Boortz; its about Obama and his gang and what they're doing to our country. The results speak for themselves. They are clueless on the economy, and they're only plan for jobs is hire more gov't workers. Meanwhile, the unemployed ranks are filling up daily and jobs are disappearing. If this cabinet is so qualified, then what is their problem? Maybe they're only qualification is that they are avowed socialists and it shows.
    By Sarge @ 07/23/10 04:13:39 PMreport abuse
  • Ed Darrell
    Sorry Ed but I don't consider working for the CIA, non-profit community organizing gigs or Ford Foundation, etc., as experience in the private sector. We're talking about making budgets for a business, making payroll and filing taxes.

    And overwhelming amount of what you list as private sector experience on your blog (thanks for correcting the link to your earlier post) that is what I would consider legitimate are the positions with legal firms. But they didn't run those law firms in most cases, they just worked there.

    And you have to admit, this cabinet has an unusually high number of socialist/communist leaning, 60's protesting, left wing nuts.

    Maybe the story Neal was using is a joke, but so is this cabinet.
    By Joyce M/Blythe @ 07/23/10 03:58:54 PMreport abuse
  • I bet not a one of these people could even change a flat tire.
    By Jeff @ 07/23/10 03:55:54 PMreport abuse
  • This is false crap, a crude smear. Boortz owes a retration: http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/obamas-cabinet-neil-boortz-spreads-hoax-smear-months-after-debunking/
    Just another blog by some kid living in his mom's basement
    By booger @ 07/23/10 03:36:26 PMreport abuse
  • No AEI study -- just a hoax
    Brownbro, look again: There was no study done by AEI. They based their chart on a dinner-table conversation, and a humorous, unresearched joke in an investment newsletter that followed.

    Methodology: None. Accuracy: None.

    AEI's source retracted it. AEI even missed the joke.

    This is false crap, a crude smear. Boortz owes a retration:
    http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/obamas-cabinet-neil-boortz-spreads-hoax-smear-months-after-debunking/
    By Ed Darrell @ 07/23/10 02:52:32 PMreport abuse
  • Links didn't come through
    C'mon over to my blog, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, and get the facts -- I've gone through the private sector experience listed for each cabinet member.

    Neil Boortz, you owe a retraction.
    By Ed Darrell @ 07/23/10 02:46:49 PMreport abuse
  • Re: Club-a-Liberal's question
    Let us apply logic to the situation - if we blow up building 1,at least in the short run, we remove a large percentage of the Administration Terrorist problem. But, we need to add Pelosi and Reid to the building for optimum results. If we blow up building 2, we only remove a small percentage of the Muslim Terrorist problem. Cost/Benefit analysis says blow up building 1. LOGIC TRIUMPHS AGAIN!
    By The Horse Doctor @ 07/23/10 02:40:57 PMreport abuse
  • man, I just can't stop looking at that picture
    It might be famous one day in a "here's who did us in" context or some other [historical] object of curiosity.
    It's so Addams Family (shudder)
    For now, it would make an excellent team challenge target for Top Shot or new cover pic for the board game Clue.
    By shuttin down @ 07/23/10 01:54:06 PMreport abuse
  • Tip of the iceberg
    And behind each of these wastes of breathing spaces are scores of mini-me's generating tons of waste paper to accomplish the operation of the most dysfuntional federal government in America's history.
    I could live with the redistribution of wealth to this bunch of incompetents and their mini-me's but it's the harm to America their efforts have caused that is most intolerable.
    By Carlos @ 07/23/10 01:38:49 PMreport abuse
  • WOW
    It has just been reported that Presbo's daughters will be allowed to baby sit to earn money. If this is true, they will have more real world business experience than their daddy
    By booger @ 07/23/10 01:32:55 PMreport abuse
  • Good grief
    Do we have to spell out what "private sector" means now?

    HAVE THEY EVER HAD TO MEET A PAYROLL???

    We need to quit putting lawyers and college "brains" in politics. You should be able to run a business before you attempt to run this nation. Treat it like a business, a successful one!
    By Joyce M/Blythe @ 07/23/10 01:13:11 PMreport abuse
  • Irresponsible, pseudo-journalism
    Just after Breitbart got stung for his libelous claims about a woman working for government, one might expect that you would be more careful about spreading false tales.

    First, the guy who wrote up the claims you now publicize, last November, did it as a joke. Second, he pulled 'em back when he saw how irresponsible blogs like this one would distort his piece. You slander Obama, his well-qualified cabinet, and J. P. Morgan, who thought better of this stupid claim.

    And third, you're dead wrong, you've been hoaxed:
    Obama's well-qualified cabinet.
    By Ed Darrell @ 07/23/10 01:11:16 PMreport abuse
  • Government Experience
    @cw: using your logic it would seem you would be fine letting a veternarian perform open heart surgery on you then?


    I would rather let a veterinarian operate on me than a lifelong Government bureaucrat.
    By luxomni @ 07/23/10 12:33:49 PMreport abuse
  • What's in the Cabinet?
    One giant collection of dysfunctional misfits. They are all backward thinking elitist, anti-American, anti-business, tax cheats, and some have hired illegal aliens as house servants. And they are calling the shots for the rest of us?
    By BrendaS @ 07/23/10 12:26:17 PMreport abuse
  • Re: HD
    Yup, government experience.
    By Hypocrisy Detector @ 07/23/10 11:48:06 AMreport abuse
  • Re: mikey 'As the fellow said, I'd rather have a dumb ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in charge than a smart one.'
    That's the WORST of both worlds.

    The question still remains as to whether our Neo-Progressive in Chief is simply dumb (to use mikey's word) or doing this on purpose – but the way things are going, it's starting to look like no one could that incompetent.
    By ACE @ 07/23/10 11:30:14 AMreport abuse
  • Re Mikey
    Mikey,

    Maybe you should look again. The Deep Water Horizon permits were issued under the Obama administration, and all the activities and corner cutting and regulatory malfeasance occurred on Obama's watch. So I guess you need to reevaluate that one.

    The Banking Regulations that led to the melt down were mandated by a Democrat Congress and the Democrats in the Senate made it clear that they would filibuster ANY attempts to reverse them even after the problems at Freddie and Fannie were noticed.

    I have no idea what you are referring to on the Gas issue, but bad actors have been found in many industries and usually get shut down by whichever party is running regulations. In other words even Conservatives like to drink water.

    Your whole post sounds like a daily Kos almost article, where the reader gets the idea that there may have been a thought buried in those words somewhere, but he doesn't want the double lobotomy it would take to relate to it.
    By Owen @ 07/23/10 11:21:29 AMreport abuse
  • When It Comes To The Economy, Washington Isn't Feeling Your Pain
    '1. Direction of country. Most Americans believe that the nation is badly off track. The figures are startling — 62% dissatisfied among all Americans, a whopping 70% dissatisfied for the job-sensitive and 54% dissatisfied for non-job sensitive. '

    'It's time Washington came up with true job-creation incentives for the private sector. The midterm elections would serve as a venue for the job-sensitive households to vent their frustration. '
    By TruthSeeker @ 07/23/10 11:09:38 AMreport abuse
  • Ike no experience???
    Planning and executing Operation Torch (africa invasion), Operation Overlord (D-Day), Dealing with Monty, and Churchill on a regular basis provides a basis that is close to private sector experience. Don't forget his political experience in the Phillipines under Mc Arthur. There is also the training from West Point & the War College. Then you forget his 2 stints as head of Columbia College.
    By @ HD @ 07/23/10 10:54:57 AMreport abuse
  • @mikey
    I read your whole post shacking my head... IT HAS BEEN A DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED HOUSE FOR YEARS!!!! Wake up Peter Pan... ALL politicians, Repub and Dems, suck. However, that is not the debate. Can you balance your checkbook? You are a moron if you believe that.
    By tominVA @ 07/23/10 10:54:37 AMreport abuse
  • Debunked
    Moocher is comparing apples to oranges.

    The AEI study specifically included only the secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy and Housing and Urban Development (and SECSTATE is a stretch). The so-called debunking article includes several cabinet secretaries including Defense, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, etc. who are not directly involved in economic affairs. The debunker also includes several lesser posts including White House Chief of Staff, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, OMB Director, U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador to the United Nations, and Council of Economic Advisors Chair who have "cabinet rank" in order to build up the percentage.

    The debunker also takes great liberties with the term "private sector experience," including work such as college professor or administrator, attorney, or lobbyist. Even a position as a corporate board member is suspect as many directors are chosen for their contacts, not for their business acumen.

    You can argue about the criteria behind the chart, but you can't claim the chart is a "hoax" when you don't evaluate the data using the same standards.
    By brownro @ 07/23/10 10:54:15 AMreport abuse
  • Cabinet
    But all they are doing now looked real good on the papers they did in college.
    Even if what we are doing now contradicts my papers (Rohmer & Summers). Real world experience, I don't need no stinking real world experience!
    By that Maintance Guy @ 07/23/10 10:47:37 AMreport abuse
  • Well Mikey
    using your logic it would seem you would be fine letting a veternarian perform open heart surgery on you then?
    By cw @ 07/23/10 10:31:51 AMreport abuse
  • Ha
    I wonder if conservatives were complaining about Eisenhower since he had no private sector experience. Experience is experience. President Obama worked in both the public sector and the private sector. I am sure all of these cabinet officials, like President Obama are well educated and can do their job just as well as they have been
    By Hypocrisy Detector @ 07/23/10 10:31:33 AMreport abuse
  • so, let's see...
    So, we need more people in government that are actually from the fields they manage? That's how the republicans do it, right?

    Isn't that how we got oil companies who spew millions of gallons of oil into the gulf as a result of no oversight? was the previous group of minerals industry overseers not caught in bed with the very people they were supposed to control, literally snorting coke off each others tits?

    Isn't that how we got natural gas companies that pump hundreds of different kinds of non-biodegradable poisons into the water table?

    Isn't that how we got a banking/investing industry that shattered our economy?

    I'll take the people who don't know how to do anything over the people that only know how to destroy the world any day of the week.

    Whenever we let industry regulate itself we see consequences that Upton Sinclair could not even dream of. I'd rather cast my lot with the idiots than the villains, thanks.

    As the fellow said, I'd rather have a dumb nazi in charge than a smart one.
    By mikey @ 07/23/10 10:10:36 AMreport abuse
  • @Club a Liberal......Sorry, I cheated.....
    I told the towelheads where to find the cabinet clowns. Once they were all having a wonderful party together, well, things kinda got loud.
    By SFCRet @ 07/23/10 10:09:06 AMreport abuse
  • Club's game
    Too easy Club.
    Building 1 of course. We need penicillin, not a gob of makeup on the chancre sore.
    By shuttin down @ 07/23/10 10:04:15 AMreport abuse
  • shuttin down...
    that pose is their desire of where they want to grab the taxpayers!
    By the way @ 07/23/10 09:57:22 AMreport abuse
  • debunked
    Sorry, being a lawyer or lobbyist is not private business experience like running or starting a business, meeting a payroll or putting up with all of the government over regulation in order to make a profit. Your source is just another Soros paid blogger living in his mom's basement
    By booger @ 07/23/10 09:46:50 AMreport abuse
  • Send in the Clowns....
    Doesnt leave one with a warm fuzzy feeling does it?
    By Steve A. @ 07/23/10 09:42:04 AMreport abuse
  • God, Your'e stupid
    Hugo. At first I thought this was addressed to Pres. Obama. It was congress that lead to the melt down, with their partner Fannie and Freddy.
    By Norm814 @ 07/23/10 09:27:49 AMreport abuse
  • @hugo
    Those banks went into crises because they were forced under penalty of law to lend to people that should not have gotten loans.

    Whenever you see a massive failure of the free market, you will always find that it is the result of government action.

    What is truly amazing is that this ship of fools thinks statically but the free market acts dynamically. These fools think that businesses are going to continue hiring and investing regardless of their mandates, regulations, and tormenting.
    By esorcire @ 07/23/10 09:27:07 AMreport abuse
  • debunked
    looks like that study has been debunked. is that why you didn't link to it? too bad you don't have a researcher or the google or you'd know that.

    http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/obamas-well-qualified-cabinet-conservatives-hoaxed-by-j-p-morgan-chart-that-verifies-prejudices/
    By moochers, who claim your product by tears @ 07/23/10 09:24:40 AMreport abuse
  • Let's Play a Game
    OK, I have a "What would you do?" game for you all. (First off, let me just put a dislaimer out for the hypersensitive bedwetting libtards on this board, this is just a game, you idiots, spare me your alligator tears about how crazy and insensitive it is)

    MISSION: Save the Future of America

    SCENARIO: There are two buildings. In Buidling #1, you have all the Cabinet Cretins pictured above sipping their lattes. In Building #2, you have the equal amount of towelheaded Muzzie terrorists sipping and eating on whatever garbage they sip and eat.

    RULES: You have one missile that you HAVE to launch at one of the buildings. No way out of it. You HAVE to hit one of the buildings........Think about your Mission. Which building do you hit?
    By Club-a-Liberal @ 07/23/10 09:15:56 AMreport abuse
  • Link?
    where's the link to the article?
    By cw @ 07/23/10 09:15:19 AMreport abuse
  • guilty demeanor
    Note the preponderance of the classic "fig leaf" pose. It's much more than subconscious modesty of their private areas, folks.
    God Almighty- it's like looking at a gallery of Dick Tracy villains.
    By shuttin down @ 07/23/10 09:10:21 AMreport abuse
  • POLITICS=the last refuge for those who can't cut it in business
    The first,of course,is teaching at college level...we've come a long way down from being lead by "the best and brightest" to"greedy second rate hacks and incompetent fools"
    By damifino @ 07/23/10 09:02:34 AMreport abuse
  • Cabinet
    If fifty percent of the population is women, why are they so under represented at about 25%.

    Unless some of the suit and ties are cross dressers...
    By Norm814 @ 07/23/10 09:02:04 AMreport abuse
  • God, you're stupid
    I suppose I could go track down a link or something that probably shows you that's just some junk from a chain e-mail (I mean, really? A study from JP Morgan? They're a bank, not a think tank). But what does it matter where the cabinet got their experience? It was the freaking private banks that almost collapsed our economy! So whatever, Neal-as you slide into irrelevance, you can keep grasping at those straws trying to fire up your few remaining listeners. Because every day that passes is a day that you matter less.
    By Hugo's ghost @ 07/23/10 08:58:58 AMreport abuse
  • Maobama's cabinet
    looks like the bar scene in Star Wars.

    Oh and Secretary of State is getting a nice Secretary-spread for sure. I guess they dont have a treadmill at the department of state.
    By esorcire @ 07/23/10 08:55:22 AMreport abuse
  • White House Backs Bill to Collect Employee Pay Information from Businesses
    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/69746
    By TruthSeeker @ 07/23/10 08:48:40 AMreport abuse
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