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Obamas want daughters to get taste of life on minimum wage
Reuters ^ | June 20, 2014 | ROBERTA RAMPTON

Posted on 06/20/2014 8:21:56 AM PDT by rickmichaels

President Barack Obama and wife Michelle both worked minimum-wage jobs before they got law degrees: a character-building experience they said they also want their teenage daughters to share.

The president scooped ice cream at Baskin-Robbins, waited tables at an assisted-living facility for seniors and also worked as a painter. The first lady worked at a book binding shop.

"I think every kid needs to get a taste of what it's like to do that real hard work," Michelle Obama said in an interview with Parade magazine, slated to run on Sunday.

"We are looking for opportunities for them to feel as if going to work and getting a paycheck is not always fun, not always stimulating, not always fair," the president said. "But that's what most folks go through every single day."

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1 posted on 06/20/2014 8:21:56 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

With a safety net the size of Fort Knox


2 posted on 06/20/2014 8:23:25 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: rickmichaels

Let them pay their own rent and tuition if you really want to give them a “taste”. Anything else is just more “Bear is loose and gettin’ down with the common class” rhetoric.


3 posted on 06/20/2014 8:23:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: rickmichaels

I see. He doesn’t want them punished with a baby. But being punished with a McJob?

Thats OK.


4 posted on 06/20/2014 8:24:30 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: rickmichaels

They work for minimum wage and daddy buys them a Mazda....That’ll teach them.


5 posted on 06/20/2014 8:24:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: rickmichaels

WOW ! Barry and Michelle had jobs


6 posted on 06/20/2014 8:24:40 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: rickmichaels

Oh, isn’t that touching! Their Highnesses want the princesses to learn all about how the scum live.

We used to call that “slumming.”


7 posted on 06/20/2014 8:24:59 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: rickmichaels

Obama’s daughters will never have a “taste” of what it will be like to be common folk, and to suggest they will is idiocy aimed at discouraging Americans from thinking of the Obamas as part of the 1%


8 posted on 06/20/2014 8:25:25 AM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: rickmichaels

1. Scooping ice cream is not “real hard work”. Roofing is real hard work.

2. Nice to know that the Obama’s acknowledge that they’ve never done real hard work, besides that stint scooping ice cream.


9 posted on 06/20/2014 8:27:08 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: rickmichaels

Just have them call Chelsea Clinton.
She got by making $26,000 an Hour “WORKING” at NBC.


10 posted on 06/20/2014 8:28:33 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Proud Antiobamunist since 2008...)
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To: rickmichaels

Hopefully they’ll never have to do what their father did to score mountains of pot and other drugs from a gay adult dope dealer.


11 posted on 06/20/2014 8:28:38 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: rickmichaels

So the daughters are getting paid minimum wage - to work as a production assistant on the set of Steven Spielberg’s new Sci Fi flic with Halle Berry.

Now that’ starting at the bottom /s


12 posted on 06/20/2014 8:31:44 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: rickmichaels

he worked as a painter?

Goodwin’s law prevents me from making a comparison to another fascist tyrant who also worked as a painter.

:-)


13 posted on 06/20/2014 8:31:50 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: longfellowsmuse

I won’t buy it til they’re flipping burgers on the midnight shift at the Rhode Island Ave. McDonalds.


14 posted on 06/20/2014 8:32:43 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: rickmichaels

What a bunch of bull! sure they will let their girls work at a minimum wage place. Yeah......sure. Riiiiiight!


15 posted on 06/20/2014 8:33:30 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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To: rickmichaels

How about send them to public schools in DC.


16 posted on 06/20/2014 8:33:54 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: rickmichaels

Easy to do on Vacations all over the world.


17 posted on 06/20/2014 8:34:04 AM PDT by billhilly (Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

On the upside it would instantly turn one of the most dangerous McD’s in the country into the safest ...


18 posted on 06/20/2014 8:35:13 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: rickmichaels

I wonder what Socialist Security number Bonnie Prince Barry used when he scooped ice cream?


19 posted on 06/20/2014 8:37:44 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: rickmichaels

Sure let the Obama tykes get jobs at McDonalds or stocking shelves at WalMart. They will grow up like Chelsea Clinton, getting 6 figure jobs for which they are not qualified and doing them poorly.


20 posted on 06/20/2014 8:39:25 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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