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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: DixieBelle on February 29, 2008, 10:02:12 AM
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I have a new story today about Michelle Obama's visit to Zanesville, Ohio, where she met with a group of women at a local day care center. According to the U.S. Census, Muskingum County, where Zanesville is located, had a median household income of $37,192 in 2004, below both the Ohio and national averages. Just 12.2 percent of adults in the county have a bachelor's degree or higher, also well below the state and national averages. About 20 percent don't have a high school degree. Nevertheless, Mrs. Obama urged them to foreswear lucrative professions like corporate law or hedge fund management and go into the helping industry, even if the sacrifice is great:
As she has many times in the past, Mrs. Obama complains about the lasting burden of student loans dating from her days at Princeton and Harvard Law School. She talks about people who end up taking years and years, until middle age, to pay off their debts. “The salaries don’t keep up with the cost of paying off the debt, so you’re in your 40s, still paying off your debt at a time when you have to save for your kids,†she says.
“Barack and I were in that position,†she continues. “The only reason we’re not in that position is that Barack wrote two best-selling books… It was like Jack and his magic beans. But up until a few years ago, we were struggling to figure out how we would save for our kids.†A former attorney with the white-shoe Chicago firm of Sidley & Austin, Obama explains that she and her husband made the choice to give up lucrative jobs in favor of community service. “We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do,†she tells the women. “Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond.†Faced with that reality, she adds, “many of our bright stars are going into corporate law or hedge-fund management.â€
What she doesn’t mention is that the helping industry has treated her pretty well. In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office. And that does not count the money Mrs. Obama receives from serving on corporate boards. She would have been O.K. even without Jack’s magic beans.
Mrs. Obama also bemoaned the amount of money she has to spend — nearly one-third of the median household income in Zanesville — on piano, dance, and other lessons for her two children. But she was grateful for the concern her husband's supporters have shown for her. "Everywhere I go, no matter what, the women in the audience, their first question for me is, 'How on earth are you managing it, how are you keeping it all together?'" she told the women.
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Stupid bitch..... :mental: :bird:
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so she wants people to go into careers they might not want, to make her feel better?
she's such a hypocrit.
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Translation: Don't do what I did, then they'll find out how worthless I am and throw my ass out of my cush do-nothing 300K a year job.
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“Barack and I were in that position,†she continues. “The only reason we’re not in that position is that Barack wrote two best-selling books…
.....of which he sold to a corporation. Damn this bitch is stupid. No, the only reason you're not in the position now is because your husband became a blood-sucking tick. NEWSFLASH lady, this country needs products. It needs consumers. It needs manufacturing. It needs goods. You can't sustain a viable economy on selling pottery and hemp necklaces on Haight-Ashbury.
These people are nuckin' futs.
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for those that dont get to hear Rush much, he had a great point to go along with this article.
Michelle Obama really should be, as a Democrat, riding the coattails of the feminists who told women they could 'do anything' and 'be anything' no matter what. Especially if they wanted to work in corporate America.
Now, Michelle Obama is telling women to 'go be teachers and nurses' ... decidedly UNfeminist isnt it?
Where is NOW and Code Pink and the other feminazi's to shout her down?
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Stupid bitch..... :mental: :bird:
That's an understatement.
I truly think Hussein's wife hates America. She's telling these idiots "don't try to make money, get a crap job as long as it helps people" basically, even though this hypocritical wench made over 300K a year on different corporate advisory boards. :bird:
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Nope--it's "be good little serfs while I make the money".
What an elitist skank. I'd say let's start a his-and-hers thread of stupid shit they'll say between now and Denver, but I don't think any server can hold that much.
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These people are nuckin' futs.
That is an understatement.
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Well maybe Michelle Obama is just giving "the people" fair warning about what an Obama POTUS would do to corporations once in power. I think it's just as likely a sincere gesture and a humanitarian warning. She wants the fewest number of people possible to be hurt when Barak taxes the corporate world into oblivion.
Just my humble opinion. :evillaugh:
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Excellent advice, Michelle. We certainly don't need any moonbats of the sort who would listen to you and follow your advice in positions of responsibility in our society!
Teh Rove's office will mail you a check in the normal amount tomorrow.
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:lmao:
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She's going to be as much fun as Tuh-ray-zuh Heinz-What's-the-Name-of-that-Guy-I-Married
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In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office.
why am I reminded ever so slightly of hillary's cattle deal?
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She's going to be as much fun as Tuh-ray-zuh Heinz-What's-the-Name-of-that-Guy-I-Married
ah, now there was a batty wife that was 100% entertainment. I still remember the DUmmies falling all over themselves because she spoke several languages, including blowjobsformoney.
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What she wants is a 2 tier class, upper and lower. By eliminating the middle class into the lower class by way of higher taxes and more give aways for the lazy, the lower class will be more dependent on government. These Democraps want class warfare; they want one world order; they want the UN to rule us; they want more power given to these unelected bureaucrats.
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What she wants is a 2 tier class, upper and lower. By eliminating the middle class into the lower class by way of higher taxes and more give aways for the lazy, the lower class will be more dependent on government. These Democraps want class warfare; they want one world order; they want the UN to rule us; they want more power given to these unelected bureaucrats.
I would have thought that what they want is an oligarchy where the people in power are the "smart" people.
whatever the case, they are classical levelers (in the non-british sense).