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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (262650)	7/21/2010 12:14:29 PM
From: pstuartb	Read Replies (4) of 306849

* Obama - 8%* Interesting stat. I skimmed the wikipedia entries for the 15 cabinet members. Janet Napolitano was a lawyer in private practice at one time, and of course Hillary was too. Steven Chu, the Secretary of Energy, worked at Bell labs at one point and was also a professor at Stanford. Roy LaHood, Secretary of Education, was a teacher in Catholic schools at one point. Don't know if that counts as a "job." Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, also practiced law for a time. Being a partner in a law firm may not qualify you as a reasonable human being, but private law firms are businesses, I guarantee you that. Eric Shineski, Secretary of Veteran's Affairs, is on the boards of Honeywell and a bank and insurance company. Maybe just being a board member doesn't count as a job. So anyway that's at least 5 of the 15 cabinet members who had jobs in the private sector at one point or another, or 33%. Still on the low end of the 20th century presidents, with only Kennedy being lower.

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