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>>>>>>You're known for not making judgments without being able to back it up, so since you made that statement you must know the education, training, and experience of those five and the positions they were given? Could you enlighten us please?
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>>>>>My statement was based on the NY Times article. Quoting from early on about the person appointed to the Agriculture Department, "A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency."
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>>>>This is very logical. Treasury secretary Henry Paulson probably got his job because since early childhood he loved money {g}.
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>>>"I am the man who loves and suffers. I love money, and suffer the lack."
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>>Since you put it in quotes I presume that someone famous said it. Who?
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>Ostap Bender

THE Ostap Bender?

I guess it's a nice change of pace from all quotations being from Shakespeare, Milton, George Bernard Shaw, or the Bible.