Does she do it because she can?

Normally..I mostly try to stay as far away from politics as possible. It's not that I don't have an opinion, I just choose to keep it to myself. This blurb caught my interest and I thought I would share.


Written by Dr. Paul L. Williams


"In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much," she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, "... Michelle Obama

No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn't perform any official duties. But this hasn't deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession. Talk about arrogance!

Just think, Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary from her husband's salary.






Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:


Mamie Eisenhower : 1 paid for personally out of President's salary


Jackie Kennedy: 1


Roseline Carter: 1


Barbara Bush: 1


Hilary Clinton: 3

Laura Bush: 1

Michele Obama: 22


How things have changed! If you're one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Ms Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU, John Q. Public:

Michele Obama's personal staff:
1... $172,200 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E.. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 - Lel yveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
(total = $1,591,200 in annual salaries)


There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life.. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.

Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe ..

Copyright 2009 Canada Free Press.Com
canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652

Yes, I know, The Canadian Free Press had to publish this perhaps because America no longer has a free press and the USA media is too scared that they might be considered racist or suffer at the hands of Obama.

Sorry America!
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Interesting, and inexecusably disgusting, if true. The web site seems a bit, um, reactionary. I may have to email the white house and ask.

Thanks LG...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/firstlady.asp
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Re: Thanks LG...

bleu wrote:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/firstlady.asp

I was considering posting this link, but it still doesn't change the fact taxpayers are still paying $1.6 million/year for First Lady duties. In fact, that link may be more frustrating as it means we've been paying this amount, more or less, for years, and not paying it towards the national debt. (The debt ceiling has just been raised to $14.3 trillion.)

Though, on the other hand, $1.6 mil divided by, say, 60 million taxpayers, taxed at a flat rate, amounts to roughly 2.7 cents/taxpayer. And it's not like First Ladies aren't helping to raise awareness for social causes. ::shrug::



ETA: moved decimal point. Originally wrote "roughly .027 cents/taxpayer." Technically, that's 3 hundredths of a penny. A small point, but shit like that keeps me from sleeping at night :)
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Last edited by Watching The Wheels on Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:26 pm; edited 1 time in total

WTW, ya thinking about a career change?
I mean, since you're already in the neighborhood, why not?

zendao42 wrote:

WTW, ya thinking about a career change?

All the time.


But I'm not sure which party would take me.
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The Obamas are a couple of cynical Chicago politicians who hitched their waagon to the star called "change".

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss . . .

I suppose that there are 22 people employed is a pretty big deal.

Where do I post the salaries of independent contractors hired in Iraq? I mean, since we're getting down to the line item on the budget. You know, outrageous waste and whatnot. Because those guys don't pay income tax if they're out of the country for the entire year, which most are.

Someone look that shit up.

Or are we just trolling for new reasons to hate the Obamas?

Hey. She needs someone to brush her teeth and comb her hair.

Come on.
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Ya kno, a line by line breakdown is EXACTLY what needs to be done for the budget of this nation.
Asses need boots in 'em for allowing things to get this far in the first place.
And if that means diggin someone up to put the boot in, then so be it.
I've said it before and I'm sayin it again.
A C C O U N T A B I L I T Y, people, there isn't ANY.
I can steal billions and get fined millions.
Why stop? What needs to be done is.
Take EVERYTHING that motherfucker has!
Leave him in the poor house see how that son of a bitch likes it.
Meh, pews are empty and the choir is sleeping....
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chris wrote:

Or are we just trolling for new reasons to hate the Obamas?

This is nothing. You should've seen what this place was like back in the Bush days. Wait . . .

Tito wrote:

chris wrote: Or are we just trolling for new reasons to hate the Obamas? This is nothing. You should've seen what this place was like back in the Bush days. Wait . . .

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But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there." Dana Gould

chris wrote:

... Or are we just trolling for new reasons to hate the Obamas?

They're politicians. I say troll to a fare-thee-well.
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