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[RIJIMMY]

Give him more time?
I couldnt find the youtube, but here is the transcript - look at what the HArvard Law professor had to say about salaries-

STEVE KROFT:

And now I think there are a lot of people say, "Look, we're not going to be able to keep our best people. They're not going to stay and work here for $250,000 a year when they can go work for a hedge fund, if they can find one that's still (LAUGHTER) working—

BARACK OBAMA:
I've told them directly. 'Cause I've heard some of this. they need to spend a little time outside of New York. Because— you know, if you go to North Dakota, or you go to Iowa, or you go to Arkansas, where folks would be thrilled to be making $75,000 a year— without a bonus, then I think they'd get a sense of why people are frustrated.

Huh? The President of the United STates is comparing the salaries of New York, Boston and San Francisco and saying, well you shold see what the make in ARKANSAS, IOWA and NORTH DAKOTA???????
That because MORON, the people who can do the job and get paid more money MOVE OUT OF AKANSAS, IOWA and NORTH DAKOTA!!! The market drives salaries. Whats the cost of living in Manhattan vs. ANYWHERE in North Dakota? I dont think I ever heard a more ignorant comment by a presidnet in my life.

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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

Huh? The President of the United STates is comparing the salaries of New York, Boston and San Francisco and saying, well you shold see what the make in ARKANSAS, IOWA and NORTH DAKOTA???????
That because MORON, the people who can do the job and get paid more money MOVE OUT OF AKANSAS, IOWA and NORTH DAKOTA!!! The market drives salaries. Whats the cost of living in Manhattan vs. ANYWHERE in North Dakota? I dont think I ever heard a more ignorant comment by a presidnet in my life.

Good lord, have you hit the bottle already this morning?

Obama is simply stating that a big reason for the populist rage is precisely because the economies of scale on pay are so different.

People leave Iowa not necessarily to make more money, but because if you want to work in finance there are very few jobs to begin with.

It's like you're not even thinking about this stuff before you post it.

-spence

[striperman36]

No wheaties were eaten at Jimmie's this morning.

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Originally Posted by striperman36

No wheaties were eaten at Jimmie's this morning.

You should never drink on an empty stomach.

-spence

[RIJIMMY]

Originally Posted by spence

Good lord, have you hit the bottle already this morning?

Obama is simply stating that a big reason for the populist rage is precisely because the economies of scale on pay are so different.

People leave Iowa not necessarily to make more money, but because if you want to work in finance there are very few jobs to begin with.

It's like you're not even thinking about this stuff before you post it.

-spence

Spence, you're getting to the point of not even warranting a reply.
Yep, Obamas is right, them there city slickers should get out in the countree and see howz us simple folks live! I reckon 75 thousands dollars would be me one of them big ole screen teevees, I reckon. Good thing I got mee guns and mee religion to cling too, yes suh!

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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

Spence, you're getting to the point of not even warranting a reply.
Yep, Obamas is right, them there city slickers should get out in the countree and see howz us simple folks live! I reckon 75 thousands dollars would be me one of them big ole screen teevees, I reckon. Good thing I got mee guns and mee religion to cling too, yes suh!

Wow, that brings up memories growing up in Iowa.

My father (who designed one of the first avionics computers before he became an aerospace executive) used to come home from work and count my teeth. If I didn't loose more than one that day I got to keep my rock candy from the pharmacy we'd visit once a month.

Even highly skilled white collar jobs in some states don't earn a lot of money. When I started out of college in 1994 I was doing 3D computer animation for very profitable litigation cases and earned $20,000 a year. Even today $75 grand with a low cost of living is a lot of money and more than most people in the Mid-west outside of cities earn. When you live in Manhatten there is so much money around you the notion of earning millions, or tens of millions seems commonplace.

In Iowa, it's like you're on another planet.

-spence