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big_dog

(4,144 posts) Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:14 PM Jun 2014

Obamas Want Daughters To Get Taste Of Life On Minimum Wage

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."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/20/us-usa-obama-family-idUSKBN0EV0BR20140620?feedType=RSS

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Obamas Want Daughters To Get Taste Of Life On Minimum Wage (Original Post) big_dog Jun 2014 OP

Okay. I want my Daughters to get a taste of life Autumn Jun 2014 #1

Uh, no boss will treat the Obama girls like regular minwage workers. valerief Jun 2014 #2

for one, the secret service would still be protecting them big_dog Jun 2014 #4

admirable, but they DO get to go home to a mansion with servants. grasswire Jun 2014 #3

Just a taste, though, to build character. Brickbat Jun 2014 #5

Autumn

(44,986 posts)

1. Okay. I want my Daughters to get a taste of life

Reply to big_dog (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:21 PM

Jun 2014

where they want for nothing and every need or want is met with no stress.

valerief

(53,235 posts)

2. Uh, no boss will treat the Obama girls like regular minwage workers.

Reply to big_dog (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:22 PM

Jun 2014

Also, the Obama girls won't have to depend on their wages.

It can't be done. Sounds good, but it's impossible.

big_dog

(4,144 posts)

4. for one, the secret service would still be protecting them

Reply to valerief (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:32 PM

Jun 2014

thats been true for decades even since Jimmy Carter

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

3. admirable, but they DO get to go home to a mansion with servants.

Reply to big_dog (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:22 PM

Jun 2014

Just sayin' it's not the same as most minimum wage earners who can't possibly pay for rent, housing, and other human needs on that one paycheck (which is likely for a 30-hour week(.

And it will never be like that for the Obama daughters. Lucky girls!

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

5. Just a taste, though, to build character.

Reply to big_dog (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:42 PM

Jun 2014

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