President Obama Says His Daughters Will Soon Be Available for Babysitting

[MidwestTransplant]

Secret Service (and either Malia or Sasha) to babysit your kid for $10/hr. Not a bad deal!
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President Barack Obama is hoping to teach business America some lessons in financial responsibility with the recently passed financial reform bill, but far from Wall Street, he's starting in his own home – with potential babysitting jobs for Malia and Sasha.
Obama says new consumer law is strongest in history.

The president said he's already started explaining the basic concepts of money, savings and interest to his daughters, Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9. He says they're almost old enough where they may be able to "earn some money babysitting," and that they have their own savings accounts.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/ConsumerNews/president-obama-financial-reform-shirley-sherrod-elizabeth-warren/story?id=11232414

[gateley]

1. Ha! You'd get a LOT for that $10 - a charming Obama daughter and scads of

Secret Service agents!

[DrToast]

2. I can't imagine they'd babysit away from the WH

Then people would start running scenarios about how much it costs to pay for the security detail.

They'll probably let friends bring their kids to the WH.

[gateley]

4. Good point. You'd STILL get a lot for your $10! :-) nt

[DrToast]

6. Hell yeah!

Kids will be begging their parents to go out so they can get dropped off at the White House!

[TheWraith]

8. Even better, for $10 an hour your kids get a history lesson and a vacation they'll never forget.

I would do it, but I don't have either spare cash or any kids.

[msongs]

3. lol the economy is so bad that children of millionaires are reduced to babysitting nt

[Jennicut]

9. I babysat throughout my teens and made just as good money as I would have

working at McDonald's or some place like that. And it facilitated my love for children and into me going to school to be a teacher.
As for not making your kids work when you are wealthy...I think it is not a terrible way to make your kids learn to be responsible.

[kimmylavin]

30. So children of millionaires shouldn't work?

Why in the world not?

[valerief]

5. How is babysitting gonna teach them to become hedge fund managers (like Chelsea

Clinton)?

I mean, it's not like they're gonna get regular-people jobs when they grow up anyway. They're gonna get privileged-people jobs, which may or may not be working jobs.

:shrug:

Well, at least $10 is a LOT more than many American minimum wage earners are getting. Too bad they couldn't babysit. Tax-free.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. A hedge fund manager is a 'regular-people job'

One of my friends is a hedge fund manager and he's a regular person. :hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. You forgot the DU rule.

Anyone who is remotely successful is immediately suspect.

[valerief]

15. Oo, a tad defensive, huh? The mean salary of Americans is not the mean

salary of hedge fund managers. Regular-people jobs make the mean salary/wage.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

17. Really? I had no idea!

:eyes:

[valerief]

18. You forgot the DU rule. Have an idea.

:rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

20. Which has never applied to you.

:rofl:

[valerief]

21. Oh, if only you were witty, I might enjoy this. nt

[Starbucks Anarchist]

22. It's hard for you to enjoy anything while being so bitter.

:hi:

[valerief]

23. Please, lovey, stop projecting. It's so unbecoming. nt

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. I don't think that word means what you think it means.

This is bitter, FYI:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=386441&mesg_id=386463

[valerief]

27. Just because you infer it doesn't mean I imply it.

I just realized you're probably young, so sorry. Young egos are fragile.
:hi:

[valerief]

26. Self-delete. Posted to wrong place. nt

[valerief]

14. What I mean is a regular-people job pays a regular-people wage/salary.

I imagine hedge fund managers are out of that ballpark.

[Political Tiger]

25. Rush, is that you?

n/t

[Paladin]

29. Wow, Getting A Jump-Start On Publicly Hating The Obama Girls.

I'm so glad I'm not you......

[JVS]

10. If his kids bill $10/hr, shouldn't any working adult who has to pay for a household get that?

Raise the minimum wage!

[valerief]

16. That's what I said but someone just bashed me for it. nt

[Dulcinea]

11. I'd love that.

But I live in Atlanta.

BTW, $10/hr is pretty much the going rate for sitters these days. That's why we only go out once a month.

[Yavin4]

13. Soon, The Kids Will Be on CNBC Demanding A Tax Cut

Or they will Go Gault.

[madamesilverspurs]

19. $10 an hour...

dang, I was born too early! During high school I babysat for 50 cents an hour, and a lot of sitters got paid less than that. Took me over a year to get my first guitar out of layaway. Yeah, I'm old.


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[livetohike]

28. Me too - 50 cents/hr. and I was glad to get it. I babysat my

siblings for free though :eyes:.

[kimmylavin]

31. Yup. As the oldest, I was known as "free child care."

But I made between $7 - $12/hour babysitting for others, and this was in the 90's.
I'm not sure I could get a job that paid that much NOW!