How's about a $200K a year job to help administer Obamacare?

The job is listed here at USAJobs, and it's a sweet career position for any government bureaucrat.

Provides overall scientific leadership and direction to the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) program.  Serves as the Agency's primary contact with the leadership and members of the USPSTF.  Works closely with the Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) supporting the USPSTF.  Implements program changes to improve the timeliness and efficiency of the development and release of USPSTF recommendations.  Manages and mentors team members with responsibility for supporting the efforts of the USPSTF.  Provides scientific insight and expertise while establishing the Agency's prevention-related research agenda and grant initiatives.  Communicates in writing and through presentations with the public and stakeholders about AHRQ's work in prevention and develops collaborative partnerships. Serves as the principal advisor to the Director, AHRQ, the Director, CP3, and other senior Departmental officials on all matters related to the USPSTF.

In English -- these are the gatekeepers that help administer Obamacare.  

So the same guys that are jacking up health care costs for hard working American families are getting paid up to 4x the average earnings of the American worker?

Your tax dollars.  Hard at work.

And so, in a three-day romp across America after what had to be one of the most boring, uninspiring State of the Union Addresses in memory, Obama has decided to bore everyone else by taking the same talking points on tour.

First stop?  The University of Michigan -- home of the Wolverines.

...and of course, what is the University of Michigan asking for?  What else?  More money.

Last month, U-M President Mary Sue Coleman wrote an open letter to Obama describing the affordability of higher education as "a thorny issue that demands a national conversation." She'll be among those on hand for the speech at Al Glick Field House, the school's indoor football practice facility.

"Higher education is a public good currently lacking public support," Coleman wrote. "There is no stronger trigger for rising costs at public universities and colleges than declining state support. The University of Michigan and our state's 14 other public institutions have been ground zero for funding cuts."

Now ignore just for a moment what they might be spending that money on -- perhaps NIH funding priorities like measuring out the male anatomy, or gifting that money to Communist China -- and focus rather on what Obama is doing here.

Obama is going to a constituency of college-age students held hostage by university educators who want more money, and are willing to force students to pay if they don't get their budget requests.  Grateful college students caught between a rock and a hard place will volunteer and vote in droves for the candidate flinging money at their university in lieu of tuition hikes.  

It's a beautiful thing.  For a liberal.

So while Obama emasculates the American military, college professors get all the dough they need.  Oh -- and visits from the President of the United States, of course...

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