The Pros And Cons Of Professional Athletes

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What is wrong with this picture? Are our priorities so mixed up? In today’s society, I feel that common hard working citizens such as firefighters, police, and teachers are being cheated out of the pay they are due, while actors and professional athletes only work half as hard, and get paid way more than them. It is important, in examining this issue, to consider the salaries, training, and dangers.
Salaries for well-known professional athletes are among the highest received in the United States. For example, in 2006-2007 Lebron James, a professional basketball player, earned $5,828,090 and a seven year shoe deal with Nike worth more $90 million. Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees has a contract guaranteeing him $252 million over ten years. In contrast, the average …show more content…

Exposure to heat can be very dangerous to male and female firefighters. Women firefighters are more likely to be at risk of bladder and prostate cancer from being exposed to fire and smoke everyday. Males tend to contract lung cancer. That is another reason I think actors and professional athletes shouldn’t be paid more than a firefighter. Firefighters work longer hours and they do it for a better reason than athletes and actors. That’s why I am reasoning that firefighters should be paid more. Police officers enforce the statutes, laws, and regulations that are created by government to protect life and property. A police officer’s job is to respond to crimes in progress, patroling assigned areas to maintain public safety, interviewing witnesses and suspects, apprehending fugitives, collecting evidence, writing reports, and providing testimony in court. A police make about $27,400. My second reason why I say actors and professional athletes are being paid too much is because police are responsible for all these things, while risking their life. Actors just act on stage and become

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