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To: Red in Blue PA

Will professional athletes be included? My state pays dearly to keep a football team from leaving. So in a way, we have been bailing them out since 1984. Being that this is the case, why should an athlete on that team make more than the president?


122 posted on 01/30/2009 12:38:27 PM PST by mysterio
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To: mysterio

“Being that this is the case, why should an athlete on that team make more than the president?”

That reminds me of the story about Babe Ruth. In 1931 a reporter asked him if it embarrassed him to be earning more than the President of the United States, and the Babe replied “No, I had a much better year than he did”.


136 posted on 01/30/2009 12:45:05 PM PST by devere
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