And here’s an interesting item that is going around the Internet: If July has ides, this is it.

Ever Had A Job?

A chart that showed past presidents and the percentage of each president’s cabinet appointees who had previously worked in the private sector – you know, a real life business, not a government job? Remember what that is? A private business?

-- Roosevelt – 38%
-- Taft – 40%
-- Wilson – 52%
-- Harding – 49%
-- Coolidge – 48%
-- Hoover – 42%
-- FDR – 50%
-- Truman – 50%
-- Eisenhower – 57%
-- Kennedy – 30%
-- LBJ – 47%
-- Nixon – 53%
-- Ford – 42%
-- Carter – 32%
-- Reagan – 56%
-- GHWB – 51%
-- Clinton – 39%
-- GWB – 55%
And the Chicken Dinner Winner is ...

-- Obama – 8%
This is the guy who wants to tell YOU how to run YOUR life!

ONLY ONE IN TWELVE in the Obama Cabinet HAS EVER HAD A JOB.

YEP, EIGHT PERCENT!

And these are the guys holding a “job summit”; going to tell us how to run our businesses, make our decisions for us? Do you want to trust them with every aspect of your life?

Bill Bonner is the President of Agora Publishing. For more on Bill Bonner, visit The Daily Reckoning.