CABINET: Real-life work not needed

The R. Clough Foundation listed a very interesting set of statistics on the percentage of past presidents' cabinets who had worked in the private business sector (a real-life job outside of government) prior to being appointed to the cabinet.

Twelve presidents since World War II (six of each party):

Truman (D) 50 percent

Eisenhower (R) 67 percent

Kennedy (D) 30 percent

Johnson (D) 47 percent

Nixon (R) 53 percent

Ford (R) 42 percent

Carter (D) 32 percent

Reagan (R) 56 percent

G. H. Bush (R) 51 percent

Clinton (D) 39 percent

G. W. Bush (R) 55 percent

Obama (D) 8 percent

Out of all the presidents since World War II, we have an existing president placing people into positions putting this country in the largest indebtedness since the Great Depression, trying to tell our businesses how to conduct their operations and urging Congress to pass corporate laws, yet have absolutely NO CLUE and no experience whatsoever of their own. We are in a spiraling disaster. How do you like your great CHANGE?

MIKE SCHMIDT

Spirit Lake