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[copperhead]

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Michelle Obama: "Don't Go Into Corporate America" [byron York]

 

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.”

 

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.

 

This REALLY hits a nerve with me. Having grown up in south east OH, in a town VERY similar to Zanesville, I know what its like to deal with having NO decent jobs to even be able to apply for. Next thing you know, theres some cunt from Chicago trying to tell everyone NOT to follow their dreams, NOT to try and make a better life for themself, but rather, its better for ze fatherland that you do public service type jobs?

 

Get the fuck out of our state and mind your own business, we don't need your "help" and "guidance" regardless of how stupid you think we are.

[Casper]

wow

[SpaceGhost]

He is way to liberal to get my vote, and Hillary is the epitome of a WASP. Fuck McCain now, bitch learned to play the game, and Huckabee well he wants to make the bible law. Nader is a nut, I have decided to not vote, stupid yes, but last time I voted, I voted for the lesser evil that got us where?

[Tractor]

I've been hearing about her talk in Zanesville all day, but this is the first I got to get the full story quoted. Wow they are nuts and I really have no clue who to vote for. I guess I'll throw mine at Ron Paul if he's running as libertarian in November.

 

Evan

[Guest Hal]

Hi, my dream is to be a CEO of a fortune 500 company. After reading this, I have decided to take her advice and go be a kindergarten teacher. Nothing wrong with that, but she's right, I shouldn't follow my dreams. Thank you Mrs. Obama for helping me realize that my dreams don't matter in the USA.

[Jimmy Notchback]

Im from wheeling WV. My dad moved here when he was 26 for the simple reason that he was trying to raise a family and there was no good work, I was only 6 years old. Everytime I goto visit my family Im reminded of how much easier it is to find a job and get buy in columbus.

[Adam]

I'd like to hear what she said on the whole visit though, as this seems like something could have been taken out of context with only a few paragraphs worth of a meeting shown

[kirks5oh]

she's a clueless bitch. there are really NO good candidates for president.

[RedRocket1647545505]

she's a clueless bitch. there are really NO good candidates for president.

 

I know. It really does make me sad.

[Buckeye1647545503]

I don't like obama or hillary but I know very little about Mccain some post the FACTS pros and cons on him please

[Flybye]

anybody else keep getting phone calls from people asking if you decided on either hillary or obama?

 

its starting to piss me off......