Saturday, December 12, 2009

Administration Appointments Available: No Experience Necessary

The American posted this interesting graph that examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900. It includes secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy, and Housing & Urban Development, and excludes Postmaster General, Navy, War, Health, Education & Welfare, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security.

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The most noticeable point of the chart is that out of Obama’s 432 cabinet members, fewer than ten percent have any prior experience outside the public sector.

How do they make decisions about such issues as commerce and agriculture when they’ve never owned a business or worked on a farm? Is it any wonder that this president doesn't have a clue how to generate jobs in the private sector?

5 comments:

Trader Rick said...

If this is real, it is very telling...we are really in for it now!!

Mark said...

And look who has the next three lowest. Carter, Clinton, and Kennedy.

Joe said...

In their eyes, the decisions they make become right BECAUSE they make them, quite independent of whether they actually are or are not right. Experience has nothing to do with it.

Jean said...

You took the words right out of my mouth.

Justin said...

Oh, he has a clue, that's why he has done what he has done. He does not want to outcome you and I want....