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Originally Posted by BareBacked
Why do basketball players make more than the president ?
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from the time they are young, talented basketball players are scouted and watched, pitted against each other, and honed into elite athletes. They are chosen as candidates for something better and given special training, sent to camps, stretched, and taught how to make a jump shot. As they get older, they go from being among hundreds of thousands of good players, to being among the few thousand elite players, they then train hard for years while getting a good education before finally being chosen as the best of the best. Kind of like Triple X or the GI Joe's were. they are truly the best at what they do.
Your political parties choose a few dudes who they think will be popular with the people, and watch them argue on TV over who'd wife looks older. Then you chose one to be president and wonder why everything doesn't get fixed overnight.
the mentality of candidates should give it away every time. Basketball players respect and hug their peers from opposing teams before the game, go out and bust their ass, and the one who performs wins.
In politics, in the last few decades at least, people stopped trying to win, they think it is better to make sure the other guy looses by spilling the beans about every bad thing he has ever done, and talking about how stupid he is and how bad of a choice he is, then they just flash an image of themselves holding a baby across the screen and grab a bunch of votes.
It's sad, but most basketball players deserve more than the president. Maybe it won't always be that way.