White house staff

[Abitaman]

Found this article....


From the Canada Free Press :
First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants
July 7, 2009

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.
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 !

SICKENING.........ISN'T IT?

by Dr. Paul L. Williams

[JH'sTXfan]

This is ridiculous, but not surprising. Let her defense begin...

[The_Noble_Cause]

This is ridiculous, but not surprising. Let her defense begin...

No, what's not surprising is that for all the Right's hyperventilating against biased media, they still accept spam chain emails as holy writ. File this one, like most others, as total shit.
How hard is it to Google?
Seriously.

From, Snopes.com...

The 2008 White House Office Staff List, issued during the final year of President George W. Bush's tenure in office, includes sixteen different staffers with the words "First Lady" in their position titles — exactly the same number as that listed for Michelle Obama in 2009. If all staffers listed with "Social Secretary" in their titles are included as part of the First Lady's retinue (as was done with the Michelle Obama example cited above), then Mrs. Bush had at least 18 people working for her in 2008 (not including any of the various personnel listed only as "Staff Assistants," some of whom may also have worked for her directly or indirectly).

In fact, according to Anita McBride, Laura Bush's former Chief of Staff, Mrs. Bush had between 24 and 26 staffers working for her by the end of her husband's second term in office. It's therefore fair to say that the size of Michelle Obama's staff is not "unprecedented," but rather on a par with her immediate predecessor's.

Moreover, according to the Associated Press, several other First Ladies had larger numbers of personnel working for them than Michelle Obama does:
A look at some first ladies and their staff sizes:

Laura Bush: Between 24 and 26 by end of President George W. Bush's term in 2009, according to Anita McBride, Mrs. Bush's chief of staff.

Lady Bird Johnson, whose signature issue was beautifying roadways, had a staff of 30, said Stacy A. Cordery, a history professor at Montmouth College in Illinois who studies first ladies.

Betty Ford had almost the same number.

Jacqueline Kennedy, who made renovating the White House her cause, had about 40 people on staff, Cordery said.
Last updated: 6 October 2009

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

[JH'sTXfan]

This is ridiculous, but not surprising. Let her defense begin...

No, what's not surprising is that for all the Right's hyperventilating against biased media, they still accept spam chain emails as holy writ. File this one, like most others, as total shit.
How hard is it to Google?
Seriously.

Spam, got me there TNC.

[Abitaman]

Looks like it got me too. I usually check on Snopes for off the wall stuff, but never fro something like this.

Oh well...........................................................

[G.I.Jim]

Well, she still LOOKS LIKE A MAN!!!

[Behshad]

Well, she still LOOKS LIKE A MAN!!!

Youre still drinking ??

[The_Noble_Cause]

That number of staffers, by the way, is excessive.
I don't care who you are.

[strangegrey]

You guys are vag flapping about 1.5 million in extravagances?

Are you guys serious?

I mean, pick your fucking battles!!!

Estimated receipts for the fed in 2009 was ~2.7 trillion.

2.7 TRILLION!!!


Hell, I defy any of you guys to find a calculator that even gives you an acurate number. That represents something like a 3-5 billionth share of the 2009 expected budget.....even with a shortfall during this year due to the economy....we're not talking about a figure that's even remotely material.

Put it this way....if the big 4 or any other large auditing firm audited the federal budget.....they wouldn't even look at this number for being so grossly insignificant and immaterial.




Sorry....Im with anyone who's going to find a legitimate reason to gripe about Obama.....but I'm also going to bitch slap anyone who marches in with bullshit like this. No wonder the libbies think that Republicans are dumb. WTF!!!